When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are. ”
― Laurie Anderson
Category Archives: SELF KNOWLEDGE
a monkey on somebody’s back – a serious problem that will not go away
Monkey mus’ know
weh ‘im gwine put ‘im tail,
before ‘im order trousiz.
One must know
one’s self before doing what
others are doing.
“The sound of the sea helps me get back to me.
http://www.tranquilwaters.uk.com/water.html
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.”
Loren Eiseley
One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.
Sent by Benedict Zeman, Exeter, United Kingdom
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18930368
A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.
Frances Ward Weller
“Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.”
“Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.”
If a bull frog had a square asshole he’d shit bricks
[Harry Jackson from Joe Neble, a Negro itinerant, Aug. 1965].
They asked a bullfrog, They asked a bullfrog, “Why do you croak all the time?” He replied, “I’m enchanted with my voice.”
ARMENIAN
Reality has teeth and claws. It’s rarely pretty and never fair. Haven’t you figured that out yet?”
― Kaitlin Bevis, Persephone
“Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we’d done unclenched the clawed palm of what we’d become.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. ― Rumi
“This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings. ― Asa Don Brown
“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgement.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. ― Steve Maraboli
“While spirituality provides an efficient and endless fuel for your mind and body, you must burn that fuel with human action towards your goals, dreams, and desires.”
― Steve Maraboli
Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
Ursula K. Le Guin
“Rose, I’m an addict with no work ethic who is likely going to go insane. I’m not like you. I’m not a super-hero."
"Not yet," I said.”
Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.”
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.”
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY 