Interestingly, I've found that my blog now acts only as a quote storage medium... true, most of the quotes selected and posted as I identify with its meaning... but many times I've visited blogger.com wanting to write something which cannot be described by quotes alone... but I hesitate... not due to a lack of communication skills... but due to a fear of what I may write... and who may read it & what they may think... historically I prefer the cryptic...

nothing ventured, nothing gained...

lets try something different today...

I have very high expectation for myself and others... which is why I get highly disappointed in myself and in others when we fall short of expectations... I know, rationally, its silly to expect such standards from such flawed creatures... which is why I almost never express my disappointment... I wear a merry mask of contentment at most times.. on occasion I even fool myself ... but sometimes, the facade slips... to those who have caught sight, I apologize... I'm better now though... I'm more tolerant towards transgressions committed by myself & others... but I still take it hard... my consolation is that from every mistake I commit, I learn... and I get one step closer to being the person I want to be... but what of others? am I doomed to live a lie? I don't think so... I have seen small pieces of perfection, and this.. gives me hope...

David Foster Wallace

"the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about"

"The freedom all to be lords of our tiny skull-sized kingdoms"

"Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they're evil or sinful, it's that they're unconscious. They are default settings."

I used to restrain my first impulse; hiding away my true self and instead assuming an empty facade of politeness & political correctness. Then I learnt nothing and no one on this plane who fails to accept me for who I am is worth me living a life of lie.

"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable." - Joyce Brothers

"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them." - Evelyn Waugh

“Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.” - Stevie Wonder

ROMEO
Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.
JULIET
Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
ROMEO
Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.

"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!" - Randy Pausch from The Last Lecture

A friends fav quotes:

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Care more than others think wise, risk more than others think safe, dream more than others think practical, expect more than others think possible.

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

Chuck Bass: My father is someone who goes after what he wants and Lily van der Wooden was no exception. A typical Bass man fashion, his pursuit was direct and at times, not exactly subtle. One thing I've learned through my father's courtship of Lily is the importance of perseverance, that in the face of true love you don't just give up - even if the object of your affection is begging you to. And one thing I've learned from Lily, is the importance of forgiveness. She gave my father the gift of a second chance and in kind I've watched them become someone actually worthy of that gift. And one day I hope I'll be lucky enough to find someone who'll do the same for me. To the happy couple!

"Yes. He said it, 'I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until I became that person. Or he became me.' In the end, a man turns into what he thinks he is, however large or small. It is the reason why certain people are prone to colds and catastrophe. And why others can dance on water." - Cary Grant & Archibald Leach

With mystery comes power... - unknown

i miss the girl i was hoping she was - tru calling

The difference between the possible and the impossible, lies in determination - unknown

'a perfect lie' by the engine room:
"Make me beautiful....
Make me........
Perfect soul
Perfect mind
Perfect face
A perfect life"

Uncle Teddy: What you do defines who you are.
Max: "No...." "...Who you are defines what you do." - Across the Universe

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none - Benjamin Franklin

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. - Benjamin Franklin



If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

If - Rudyard Kipling