tragically unhip | quotes

"there is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse. as i have found when traveling in a stagecoach, it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place." {washington irving}

"the only man i know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. the rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them." {george bernard shaw}

"it's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: am i proud of me? i gave my life to become the person i am right now. was it worth what i paid?" {richard bach}

"it's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy." {lucille ball}

"no trumpets sound when the important decisions of our lives are made. destiny is made known silently." {agnes de mille}

"too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like." {will smith}

"they sentenced me to twenty years of boredom for trying to change the system from within." {leonard cohen}

"the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." {eleanor roosevelt}

"A community can represent many things and be directed toward a definite goal, but community itself is the focus of a spiritual science that inspires universality. Day-to-day living in a community fosters a very practical concept of existence. Community life represents the frontier between the macro and micro in terms of human organization, making it possible to experience all levels of human existence. The community is, therefore, a vast landscape for a material realization whenever each person enters into contract with the gifts, virtues, and shortcomings of its members. It is also the immense spiritual and psychic laboratory that enables our spirits to develop." {Alex Polari de Alverga in Forest of Vision: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Spirituality and the Santa Daime Tradition}

"the shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values." {Goethe, Faust , part two}

"out of man's recogition in fear and awe that there is an Unkowable comes all that is best in the explorations of his mind, --even though that recognition is often misled into superstition, enslavement, and overconfidence." {Gloss}

"it is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence to practice neither." {Mark Twain}

"so rise up above it now, oh because you'll stand up somehow if you see... that this boy fell down, and now he's upstanding oh...this boy broke down and now he's got himself going 'cause we all fall down, yeah we all fall down, and we all stand up somehow...you too!" { this boy , tom baxter}