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“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
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Karl Cameron-Jackson and Mike Hopkins | 05 March 2012
The feral cat
Fresh blood dripping from your snarling mouth
your shoulders bunched, spine high-arched
you glared angrily at me as I drove past in my car.
Icon of primeval hunter, you crouched by the roadside
teeth burgeoning in crushing, crunching jaws
tearing flesh from a fresh-killed victim with razor claws.
Boldness imaged your new freedom
in an expanding heart that lusted
solely to hunt … stalk … kill prey.
You are growing wiser
stronger … faster … wilder.
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“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
RUSKIN
“Don’t allow your pride to push you away from those who truly care for you just because you are going through a rough patch in life. That’s exactly when you need them with you the most.”
― Ramona Matta
“A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
http://www.rodneyohebsion.com/quotes-proverbs.htm
“Let’s just call things what they are. When a man’s love of finery clouds his moral judgement, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.”
― Matthew Scully.
― Ellen Hopkins
We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
Erma Bombeck
― Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont
“He grinned. “I was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day,” he said. “Greed,envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry…”
“I’m pretty sure irony isn’t a deadly sin.”
“I’m pretty sure it is.”
“Lust,” she said. “Lust is a deadly sin.”
“And spanking.”
“I think that falls under lust.”
“I think it should have its own category,” said Jace. “Greed, envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry, lust, and spanking.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
― Janwillem Van de Wetering
“Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed”
― Bhagavad Gita
― Jonathan Franzen, The Discomfort Zone: A Personal Journey
We, too, ‘ve been waylaid by Time’s robber band,
And yet, the Poet’s rhyme it cannot thieve,
Nor can it plunder what we both believe,
As long as we two travel hand in hand.
Nin is waalaba waabiyaa hela
The aggressive man ultimately encounters a more aggressive man
― Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
No tears, Celia, now shall win
My resolv’d heart to return;
I have search’d thy soul within,
And find nought, but pride, and scorn;
I have learn’d thy arts, and now
Can disdain as much as thou.
Some power, in my revenge, convey
That love to her I cast away.
BY THOMAS CAREW
—Zarost” ― Greg Hamerton, The Riddler’s Gift
“Fates are woven not by gods, but by the choices of humans–their greed and jealousies, their loves and courage…Fate is but one moment the gods extend to us, a test for us, but it is the choices we make that take us to that fate, or away. And so I will forge my own life!”
― Jules Watson, The Swan Maiden
‘PROCRASTINATION’ is an art, a trade, a goal, a calling.
Not a pit of failure into which the world is falling.
This year, we should declare, a year of celebration,
For that once decried achievement, and that’s ‘PROCRASTINATION’.
Everyone has practised it from childhood to old age,
Some have done it quietly. Some reached centre stage.
It’s been written into history as a reputation earned —
You remember Nero? He fiddled, while Rome burned.
It that’s not ‘PROCRASTINATION’, then I don’t know what is.
Nero’s ‘fiddling’ made him a ‘PROCRASTINATION’ whiz.
He should have been revered for this. Was this true? I doubt it.
He committed suicide, but he took his time about it.
BLUE – the shearer (copyright col wilson)
http://www.tastecanowindra.com.au/home/blue-the-shearers-poem
What do you want from me?" he asks.
What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him.
More.”Melina Marchetta, Jellicoe Road
“Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues. Such people are convinced that the doors of heaven will be opened only to poor wretches like themselves who go through life without leaving any trace but their threadbare attempts to belittle others and to exclude – and destroy if possible – those who, by the simple fact of their existence, show up their own poorness of spirit, mind, and guts. Blessed be the one at whom the fools bark, because his soul will never belong to them.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel’s Game
The story is told in the Panchatantra. A certain tiger grew too old to hunt
and was dying of hunger, when he thought of a device for securing a meal,
and wove a bracelet of yellow grass round his paw. A Brahman who
came that way saw the bracelet and believing it to be gold, coveted it.
The tiger, who professed intense penitence for all his former sins, declared that he would give the bracelet to the Brahman, if he would take it.
The Brahman led by his avarice approached to take the gift, and was
killed and eaten by the tiger.
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James Whitcomb Riley 1849-1916
The marks of the sluggard or idler are
(1) Loves not difficulties : will not plough by reason of cold, Prov. 20. 4 ;
(2) loves not disturbance, though death’s handwriting may be on the wall;
(3) enjoys not the good in hand ; roasts not what was taken in hunting, Prov. 12. 27 ;
(4) his way hedged with thorns, Prov. 15. 19 ; such were the ten tribes — too lazy to go up to Jerusalem, i Kings 12.28;. so with the servant in the parable of the talents;
(5) allows weeds on his fields, Prov. 24. 30 ;
(6) desires onlybut makes no efforts ; so Balaam wished the death of the righteous, but led not the life of the righteous, Nimi. 23. 10;
(7) makes no progress, turns as a door on the hinges. Prov. 26. 14 ;
(8) makes excuses ; there is a lion in the way, Prov. 22. 13.
"Eastern Proverbs and Emblems Illustrating Old Truths"
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A man should avoid these six evils: lust, anger, avarice, pleasure, pride, and rashness, for free of these he may be happy. Sanskrit.
"Curiosities in Proverbs: A Collection of Unusual Adages, Maxims, Aphorisms, Phrases and Other …"
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What a wonderful beast in the pelican,
Whose bill can hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week-
And I’m damned
If I know
How the helican.
foto – pelicans in urunga 2010
John Donne: 1572-1631
Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.
Scottish
http://www.memorablequotations.com/proverb.html
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"A classified collection of Tamil proverbs"
A dishonest woman cannot be kept in and an honest one will not.
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Shakespeare.
"Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and Arranged Alphabetically"
“ One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty. ”
Prov. 11:24
foto – shellbound at the wide river cafe ulmarra 2010.
Heat in a Room
Jill Jones
And days draft me, breathing extinction
my skin a chassis of orangeAs for the car, it shimmers into the raging sunset
then sort of erupts(a kind of persistent hope that nobody gets caught)
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Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.
"The Cyclopaedia of Practical Quotations, English and Latin: With an Appendix Containing Proverbs …"
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A mom, wife and professional's journey on recovering from addiction
ACoA Recovery Issues (adult-children of alcoholics & other narcissists)
WHERE TO START WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START
biographical, non-fiction
Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings in Mountain City, Tennessee
Emotional musings
Expedition website
ever seeking a right-fit life
Simple Thoughts on Life
Shortness of Breadth
Because we’re all recovering from something.
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