All posts tagged practical jokes

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. — Zen

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. — Amelia Barr

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

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. — Attributed to Howard Thurman


I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. — Oscar Wilde

I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you.
 — Rumi

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. — Terry Josephson


All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! — Gail Sheehy

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. — John Burroughs

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. — George Bernard Shaw

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. — Sara Teasdale, "The Philosopher"

I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation. — Robert Brault

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. — Frederick Buechner

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. — Roger Miller


By daily dying I have come to be. — Theodore Roethke

We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.
~ — W.H. Auden

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. — Amiel, Journal, 17 December 1856

Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night. — Terri Guillemets

True friends stab you in the front. — Oscar Wilde

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. — Aleister Crowley, Book of Lies

Open your eyes. Open your mind. Open your heart. — Stacy Hess

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed? — Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Great Doubt, Great Awakening,
Little Doubt, Little Awakening,
No Doubt, No Awakening.


You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. — Albert Camus

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. — Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become. — Charles DuBois


Do Be Do Be Do — Amit Goswami (and Frank Sinatra)

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer. — Jim Carrey

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. — Baba Ram Dass

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. — Andre Gide

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. — Havelock Ellis