Daily Thoughts, Random Thoughts, Venting Area

[Linville]

[Back2Good]

I love this one Linville...While I don't have the patience or natural bent for philosophy, I'm a huge collector of quotes (which come in handily when replying to a customer or manager's emails making unreasonable demands...quoting someone else has probably saved me from being fired on innumerable occasions, as without the quotes to rely on, my temper would probably lead me to write a lengthy and impolite response).  Of course, when I find a quote that I decide is a keeper, I have to know who it came from (my sig line was the epitaph on Sulla's (now long gone) tomb, and it's now changed to David Crockett's famous speech to his constituents when he failed to win re-election to Congress - Fits in with my wife and my plans to retire home to Texas when retirement time comes around), and this one is a real bear to track down.  It is most often attributed to Heraclitus, but what Heraclitus actually said was that “Life is Flux” (Panta Rhei in Greek, meaning everything or all things change).  So someone had to put together the much more easy to understand "the only constant in life is change" formulation, and whoever it was, they were one smart cookie, so of course I'd like to see if that person has any other quotes I might want to add to my mental collection.  Ah well.  Some day I'll find the time to consult the great Google and figure it out.

Thanks for posting this - It can be adapted to be a great wallpaper for my PC desktop on Mondays!

[Revolution]

Always a lot to ponder at this thread. That rain really did relax me. This is for anyone needing a friend. My pledge is, I am here for you.

[Linville]

That is so very kind of you Revolution to off your friendship to someone in need of a friend..........is what I am thinking.

You even did it unconditionally ....a Good thing to do. and I am not joking.

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Did you happen to read this; I think I need to again and again.

[Back2Good]

For some reason it always makes me giggle when I go to clear out my spam folder and see that "l" have emailed myself and can get myself great deals on meds. Especially Viagra!

Yes, the array of goods and services I'm able to provide myself seem to be endless!  Junk mail "spoofing" of my own email address used to concern me ("Uh-oh - How many other people got this message from "me"?"), then I figured out that no one else was getting it from my address, they would be getting it from their own address.

Then there was the morning after I first took Zolpidem...I opened the shower curtain and saw my wallet and keys on the floor of the tub, with no idea how they got there, then went to check email, only to see on my screen that I had apparently opened Notepad and written a horribly misspelled few sentences about how awful it was that there was no beer in the house.  I checked my "sent items" folder in horror to see if I had emailed anyone, thank goodness I had not.   It was almost enough to scare me into not taking it the next night, but I did, and no further scary sleepwalking or sleep writing ensued.

[Revolution]

Linville, I missed the one about leaving important words unsaid.

Very true. I will think about that one today.

[Linville]

Got this off a web site called , "AUDREYLOVESPARIS."




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[Back2Good]

Lol Back2Good at the 'endless array of services' you are able to provide to yourself.  You ans Audrey made me smile so YAY for that.

Here's a thought/idea my high school debate coach, lovely woman, shared with me.

'If you want to be a certain way (say kind, considerate for example), pretend to be that way long enough and you will eventually become that.

Not quite as well phrased as I would like it to be. Early need more coffee.

Hey Back2Good, is that sentiment/idea expressed more eloquently anywhere in your collection of quotes?

Hm, my list of quotes is stored entirely in my head, and I can't think of a single one related to that FirePlaces...Although maybe "Practice makes perfect" would apply?  After all, pretending to be kind, or considerate, or patient, or polite probably wouldn't stick, where practicing kindness, considerateness, patience, and politeness, regardless of how hard it is at first, might grow on one.

Oh, I probably have no authority to write on this subject.  We Texans are born near perfect and whipped the rest of the way into perfection by our parents .

[Charon]

they will rue the day, indeed.

get it all out, miss hepburn. take vengence when the time is right. muahhhhhha.

u feel better u told us yet?

[Charon]

glad to hear it, my friend. i feel better now, too. (however, am a bit distracted by the Gold Rush show!!)