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[Tracey Neal]

I ran across this quote this morning which I liked:

"Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination."

~Robert Fulghum

I never saw that quote before, but I love it. It's funny and wise.

Erasmus I love it too, that would be wonderful would it not?? It is very colorful! I love crayons! I have an artistic quote also!

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
~Danny Kaye Crayons too

[sleepydumpling]

Erasmus, that is a brilliant quote! And I love that they plan isn't to be stingy with the crayons too!

[Erasmus_Folly]

Thanks All! The funny thing is I also just found out that the author of the quote, Robert Fulghum, lives in Edmond, Washington. No more than 10 miles from where I live!

[Erasmus_Folly]

From Oscar Wilde:

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”

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Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?'

Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn'

[blue_diamond21]

The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n - John Milton

[spring]

"People generally, and women especially, fancy that the so-called
Platonic love is a peculiar species of love, very rare and very noble.
It is simply a confusion of ideas. There may be such a thing as
Platonic relations, but Platonic love is as much nonsense as dark
light. Even love for the dead consists of a longing after their bodily
presence as well as their souls. Among the living this feeling is
called resignation."

Without Dogma /Henryk Sienkiewicz

[CassieXO]

"Never compromise yourself, you are all you have."
-Cosmopolitan Magazine

[Erasmus_Folly]

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

During the life of any heart this line keeps changing place; sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish. One and the same human being is, at various ages, under various circumstances, a totally different human being. At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name doesn't change, and to that name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil.

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[jose43]

New Year GIFT, a Free Book Reading Portal is being launched! I am talking about Great Rare Books available for free reading at http://www.GreatRareBooks.com and they claim to have over 100,000 Rare Books ready to post! They are uploading books on priority you demand them to load first!

Guys, I think we should encourage them…Lets have a look at it

Chris

[DreamWeaver121]

God made pot. Man made beer. Who do u trust?

lol just kidding my favorite quote would be...

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out into your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout about your coming when you return from your daily victory or defeat.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

[filipino showbiz]

i can't remember when and where did i read this but its like:

"Silence is the greatest art of converstaion."

it gave an huge impact to me..

[BowlOfCherries]

"I am not a number, I am a free man. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." [Number Six, "The Prisoner"]

[Oryx Crake]

“We are not formed for enjoyment, and, however we may be attuned to the reception of pleasurable emotion, disappointment is the never- failing pilot of our life’s bark and ruthlessly carries us on to the shoals”

The Last Man - Mary Shelley

I love Mary Shelley's use of language.

[Oryx Crake]

I also love, "The single greatest fear that America faces today is that its military forces no longer tolerate the continuing incompetence of its civilian leadership"

Area 7 -Matthew Reilly

[mayank]

"The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death."
From Italo Calvino's "If On A Winter's Night A Traveller".