quotes related to the theme

[stargirl]

"Let not the shining thread of hope become so enmeshed in the web of circumstances that we lose sight of it."
~Charles W. Chesnutt 1858-1932
novelist

"When I dare... to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."
~Audre Lorde 1934-1992
writer

[Chai Guy]

"We want to enclose the universe in a work of art, individual objects do not exist any more."
-Gino Severini
Futurist Manifesto, 1913

"What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
Distill’d from limbecks foul as hell within,
Applying fears to hopes & hopes to fears,
Still losing when I saw myself to win!"
- William Shakespeare - Sonnets

“Come to the edge,” he said.
They said, “We are afraid.”
“Come to the edge,” he said.
They came. He pushed them…& they flew.
-Guillaume Apollinaire

"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
-Nelson Mandella

[Isotopia]

"What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
Distill’d from limbecks foul as hell within,
Applying fears to hopes & hopes to fears,
Still losing when I saw myself to win!"
- William Shakespeare - Sonnets

<swoon....>

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)

[CLARKcon]

"Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. I loved her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutily believed her to be human perfection..."
---------------------------------------------------------- Charles Dickens
from the book "Great Expectations."

[Eric]

"There'll be time enough for sleeping
when we're dead
You will have a velvet pillow for your head
but tonight I think
I'd rather just go dancing
There'll be time enough for sleeping
when we're dead"

Stephin Merritt

[DVD Burner]

“Beyond exellence, beyond the supreme....Strive for the ultimate.......”= "Hope and Fear: The Future"

[Mister Jellyfish Mister]

"The end of the world will be better next year."

-Dragonfly Jafe / Robotland

[robotland]

Interesting....I Googled "Future Hope Fear", and the top result was....US.

[Lorgasm]

"Buy the ticket. Take the Ride." HST

[Zoom]

i want the ride but i am compelled here

[robotland]

"Reality is a sandwich that I did not order." -Zippy

[Zoom]

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises
(Samuel Butler 1612-1680)

[Lady V]

http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/calvino/callast.html

=BM ;)

(from Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino)

[StackerSteve]

Once there lived a
villiage along the bottom of a great crystal river.

"The current of the river swept silently over them
all - young and old, rich and poor, good and evil,
the current going its own way, knowing its own
crystal self.

"Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to
the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging
was their way of life, and resisting the current
what each had learned from birth.

"But one creature said at last, 'I am tired of
clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I
trust that the current knows where it is going. I
shall let go and let it take me where it will.
Clinging, I shall die of boredom.'

"The other creatures laughed and said, 'Fool! Let
go, and that current that you worship will throw
you tumbled and smashed across the rocks, and you
will die quicker than boredom!'

"But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath
did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by
the current across the rocks.

"Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again,
the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he
was bruised and hurt no more.

"And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a
stranger, cried, 'See a miracle! A creature like
ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah, come to
save us all!'

"And the one carried in the current said, 'I am no
more Messiah than you. The river delights to lift
us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is
this voyage, this adventure.'

"But they cried the more, 'Savior!' all the while
clinging to the rocks, and when they looked again
he was gone, and they were left alone making legends
of a Savior."

[moonbelly]

[i]once we realize the universe is matter expanding and contracting, then wearing stripes with plaid comes easily.[/i][quote][/quote]

[rob easy]

Chorazon: "I am a dire wolf prey-stalking, lethal prowler"
Dream: "I am a hunter horse mounted wolf stabbing"
Chorazon: "I am a horse fly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing"
Dream: "I am a spider, fly consuming, eight legged"
Chorazon: "I am a snake, spider devouring, poison toothed"
Dream: "I am an ox, snake crushing, heavy footed"
Chorazon: "I am an anthrax, butcher bacterium, warm-life destroying"
Dream: "I am a world, space-floating, life nurturing"
Chorazon: "I am a nova all-exploding, planet cremating"
Dream: "I am the universe, all things encompassing, all life embracing"
Chorazon: "I am anti-life, the beast of judgement. I am the dark at the end of the everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds . . of everything"
.
.
.
.
Dream: "I am hope"

[Zoom]

Minds are like parachutes. they only function when they are open.
Sir James Dewar,scientist 1877-1925

[Lorgasm]

"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."

Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792-1822)

[Ugly Dougly]

Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope.

-Leia (princess)

[Zoom]

i can't understand why people are frightened about new ideas, i am frightened of old ones
John Cage

[Ugly Dougly]

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

[Ugly Dougly]

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.

[Ugly Dougly]

Let me fall,
Let me climb,
There’s a moment when fear and dreams must collide...

[HughMungus]

"...there is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some never leave the country... Life is unfair."

John F. Kennedy

"Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters."

-- M. Scott Peck

[Ugly Dougly]

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph

[phoenix from the playa]

"I am kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy." - J. D. Salinger

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." - Alexander Pope

"If you think you're free, there's no escape possible."
Ram Dass

"Life is only a outer layer, for reality is only realized by the insane." - Valleix Herard

“When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.” – Ram Dass

"When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." ~Friedrich Nietzche

"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth." -Ludwig Börne

"Never fear shadows.... that always means there is a light shining somewhere." - Jonathan Santos

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. – Nelson Mandela

“Always do what you are afraid to do” - R.W.Emerson

"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?" ~Maurice Freehill

"Knowing what must be done does away with fear." – Rosa Parks

"When you get there, there you are!" Mrs. Bunker

"Fear is the other side of Why Not?
Why Not is another side of Hope."
Get stoned. The author

[Rockdad]

The psychotic at least provides the community a few laughs and occasionally a little excitement to spruce up the daily grind, while the controlling neurotic is the daily grind.

[Shadow]

" Pirate! " - Captain Jack Sparrow

[AntiM]

"The future is today, worry about it tomorrow!" WWPA

[Ugly Dougly]

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