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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY
A quote written down in 1993 by my sister, found again June 19 2008 - by Marc Chagall
"If I create with my heart, almost all of my original purpose remains. If it is with my head, hardly anything is left. One should not be afraid of being oneself, of expressing only oneself. If you are absolutely sincere, whatever you do or say will please others."
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Some time December 2007
"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent." W Somerset Maugham "Of Human Bondage"
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Some time December 2006
"First you're ignored, then you're attacked and then you win." Anon
"The pursuit of what is elusive but attainable." Anon
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27 May 2006
"Enjoy the bad times. They won't last forever." ECS
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10 March 2006
"Economists have always failed to take the environment seriously." Seri Turtles @ hotmail.com
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20 October 2005 -
"You can only TRY to cage the tiger." - Old Chinese Proverb
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10 October 2005 -
'It's not that happiness is impossible.. it's just for high achievers..'
Quote written on a scrap of paper from Vegas trip July 2003 .
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14 September 2005 - Haiku Tryptych by Fiona Jackson
What is man made of / Performance regulators / Scoring one to ten.
What do women do? / Continuous appraisal / Scoring themselves low
Mothers are destined / To nurture the protectors / Sons will soon become
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29 August 2005
"There is no dictatorship so grim as that of the prevailing orthodoxies." Dr Johnson (courtesy of George Galloway)
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6 April 2005
"Forget safety./ Live where you fear to live./ Destroy your reputation./ Be notorious./ I have tried prudent planning/ long enough./ From now on, I'll be mad." Rumi
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16 October 2004 -
"He who speaks the truth should have one foot in the stirrup." Hebrew proverb
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13 October 2004 -
"..'shallow is the new 'deep'.." - Fiona Jackson
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21 September 04 - International Peace Day
"Not every end is the goal." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1844-1900
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15 September 04
"The consequences of our actions are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
T H Huxley
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28 August 04
"He does not waste his time listening to provocations; he has a destiny to fulfil."
Paulo Coelho "Manual of The Warrior Of Light"
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4 August 04
"He knows he can plan all he likes, but one day he must JUMP or all is lost."
Paulo Coelho "Manual of The Warrior Of Light"
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1 July 04
"To assume makes an ass of U and Me." origins unknown.
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30 June 04
"If you can't join 'em, f*ck'em." ECS
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27 June 04
"Action is a highroad to self-esteem and confidence." Bruce Lee, 'Tao of Jeet Kun Do'
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26 June 04
"Beauty cannot be constructed." Origins unknown, but source Fiona Jackson.
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25 June 04
"'Success' is sometimes little more than the ability to fit into other people's agendas." me
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24 June 04
"Less and less do you need to force things, until you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone." Tao
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19 June 04
"It's the people who are not seen who change art and culture and fashion and music. It's the people who are constantly pushed away who change the world." - Morrissey
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18 June 04
"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards. They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do in order to have what you want." Shakti Gawain
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16 June 04
"There is no business like BUSINESS. You must define the business relationship so that everyone is clear on the responsibilities they have to each other and the project. So there are no questions about why you are doing what you are doing and what you are going to get for what you are doing. Going into something blind, hoping for the best is no way to win, or run a railroad, or get sweet FA." Advice from Andy Murray, when he was Marketing Director for Warners Int'l and the Eva Luna project was in negotiations with LINN Records.
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13 June 04
”Fix your priorities and everything will take care of itself. The problems we have come when our priorities aren’t straight.” Jonathan Cainer.
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12 June 04
"He's smart enough to know even justifiable anger is corrosive." Catherine Deveney
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8 June 2004 - VENUS TRANSIT
First transit of Venus across the surface of the Sun since 1882. Sky watchers across Europe, Africa and Asia will be perfectly situated to watch the transit as it happens during the day. Venus' first contact begins on June 8 at 0513 UTC (1:13 am EDT) and completes approximately six hours later. You can watch the transit if you've got the right equipment (a properly set up telescope with a solar filter), but it can be extremely dangerous to watch with the unprotected eye. The Americas won't have a good view this time around, but don't worry, there's another coming in 8 years.
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5 June 04
"Most people won't enter into new enterprises because they focus on the risks. If they focused on the rewards they'd be moving..." Tony Robbins
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22 April 04
"Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic." source unknown
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17 April 04
"What do you want to say to
yourself at the end of the day? "What if?" or 'By
God I did it! Every inch given, is one less for me." V.
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15 April 2004
"I think the point here, besides the obvious metaphor (or pun, if you prefer), that you probably won't get unless you get out your dictionary, is that what may seem to be the perfect path for a single individual may prove to be impossible or even destructive when a second person is involved."
- from short story "Deasil and Widdershins - The Path Both Taken" by Michael Muldoon Elder
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28 March 2004 -
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
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21 March 2004
"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough." William Blake (and he should know)
2nd Quote of the Day: "The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it." Marcus Aurelius (and he should know)
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20 March 2004
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. – Thomas Edison
Marketing Mantra
Stir Passion
Spark Creativity
Declare Independence
Deliver Experience
Get Smart
Nurture Nature
Build Community
Surf to the Edge
Think Global
Mine the Past
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16 Feb 2004
"" Life is chaotic. I was walking along today looking at all the people, all the patterns, all the gays and straights lined up around City Hall getting married, with horns honking and lots of hooting and hollering. I realized that life is really a crazy quilt and what keeps us grounded; an address to return to, people we know, memories, our senses at play. Its so easy to get disoriented. Where is our compass? Humor and music are life savers."" V
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10 Feb 2004
For those of you who worship 'Bling'! Maybe you should read more:
Fortune.com - Technology - The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,582584,00.html
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"I disagree with your cynicism. Love is not disappointing. Real love exposes you beyond your wildest imaginings. The sense of vulnerability is what terrifies and ultimately can lead to painful disappointments. The fact that your 'persona' falls away as readily as your kecks when you fall in love. If the other person doesn't care enough to protect that nakedness... then you're in trouble 'cause they're not in love." ECS.
from email to Suzy 6 Feb 2004
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"When he strayed from the straight and narrow path of his peculiar honesty...."
from "Lord Jim" by Joseph Conrad
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"When she went to meet her lover, she believed she was being saved...."
-intro to 'Siloso Beach - Do Expats Dream' by the Ubiquitous Ms E, remembered on 4 Feb 04
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"Oftimes, as an artist, all you want is anonymity; the space to be creative in a bubble without reminders of people or things. Sometimes, you get that lovely freedom for a while, then the past starts bubbling up from behind.. reminding you of what you thought was out of sight and out of mind....." ECS. 31 Jan 04
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20 Ways to Live Longer:
6. Put your emotions on paper.
"Take three minutes to write in your journal, craft a love letter, or drop a note to a friend," says Pamela Peeke, M.D., assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and author of Fight Fat After 40 (Viking, 2000). "Especially when you're in a stressful situation, writing your emotions out is a catharsis." Indeed, researchers at State University of New York at Stony Brook found that 47 of the more than 100 asthma and rheumatoid arthritis sufferers in a study had a reduction in frequency and severity of their symptoms four months after writing about the most stressful event of their lives. They wrote for at least 20 minutes each day on three consecutive days. None of those who wrote about nonemotional topics saw significant improvement, reported researchers in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year. So dig deep for inspiration—and better health.""
(Sorry kids.. but this means my emails are going to get even longer. E, Jan 04)
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26 December 2003 - from email to Suzy
"I have the feeling I'm going to get through New Year's only to think, 'What was that all about??' meaning the last 40 years." ECS.
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17 December 2003
"You have got to go out Rising on the Planes ever day of your life, year after year. You are not to be disheartened by failures, or too much encouraged by success, in any one practice or set of practices. What you are doing is what will be of real value to you in the end; and that is, developing a character, creating a Karma, which will give you the power to do your Will." Magick, AC
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15 December 2003 - email from V to ECS.
"There are many things I want to accomplish and I have a limited time to do them in. First and foremost I want to find peace and enjoyment with myself. In those moments there is no age, there is no social or cultural prejudice, there is no worry about what I have and don't have. Its just the pure pleasure of living in my body and in my mind. I need more of those moments. I've squandered too many of them already worrying about what others think of me and trying to be some impossible thing I was never meant to be.
I know there are ways to reach an alternative reality because I have been there and that is when I am totally engaged in what I love to do. I know it is in the doing that we find ourselves and our richest experiences. I want more and more of that. " V
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12 December 2003
"10% is what is done to you. 90% is how you react to it."
Overheard on a MUNI bus in San Francisco
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12 December 2003
"My career is my life. My life is my hobby." ECS
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9 December 2003
"You have to paint pictures in your mind that seem totally crazy and irrelevant and practice going to new places where everything is perfect and fine. I realized how hard that is to do in the face of realities that are less than pure." V
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3 December 2003
"It's a ferociously competitive world out there, so sometimes it's best to keep your head down and pretend you want absolutely nothing but another kick in the pants." ECS
"I should take the whole website down and leave nothing but blank pages. Why tell people anything?" E in an email to AW
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27 November 2003
"So I guess my message for 2004 is to lighten up, stay fluid and changeable and flexible and unidentifiable and envelope yourself in those things that interest and excite and amuse you and forget about pleasing people or being anything to anyone." V
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23 November 2003
"You have to be grateful when people let go. You don't need that baggage." V.
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""7. The Order of The R.C. The Grade of the Babe of the Abyss is not a Grade in the proper sense, being rather a passage between the two Orders. Its characteristics are wholly negative, as it is attained by the resolve of the Adeptus Exemptus to surrender all that he has and is for ever. It is an annihilation of all the bonds that compose the self or constitute the Cosmos, a resolution of all complexities into their elements, and these thereby cease to manifest, since things are only knowable in respect of their relation to and reaction on other things."" Aleister C.
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20 November 2003
"The truth is always in front of you." V
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14 November 2003
"These people on Pop Idol and Fame Academy, they love the fame. They don't love the music. They would do anything to be famous." J Miller
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4 November 2003
"All it means is you need NEW contacts. Clearly what was in the past is not responsive to your advancement nor do they support it, so get NEW people and lots of them." V
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2 November 2003
"There is always a bigger picture." The Kabbalah Readings
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1 November 2003
"It's now or never!" - well.. actually.. it's now or tomorrow." ECS
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31 October 2003
"Hope is not a method." Book of Worldly Wisdom
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26 October 2003
"Courage appears as we open ourselves to the natural alchemy of personal transformation, not when we close ourselves by making the changes we think are best." Thomas Moore.
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22 October 2003
"You have to believe. No one else is going to do that for you." V
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"The fishermen
know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found
these dangers sufficient reasons for remaining ashore."
- Vincent Van Gogh
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17 September 2003
""You write a list of everything
that is important to you, what you want and how you would like it to be i.e., I
will build a home in Borneo by the sea and drink Black Russians and play chess
with my friends till dawn. Things that ignite your imagination,
philosophical things, or things about your health, money and how you want to
live and love. I would keep it kind of simple because you have to read it
to yourself when you wake up and when you go to sleep. You will find
yourself changing things as you go along, adding, subtracting or editing items.
I just went to the park and sat on a rock and wrote out a list. At
first it seemed strange, but now it seems perfectly natural. Carnegie says
it was the secret to his success and that all his wishes and dreams materialized
for him. I think it does start changing you in ways you can't predict.
And strange things start popping into your head, as simple as "I will have
a pair of silver kid shoes with stitching all around the edge." It
can seem nonsensical but after awhile you begin to realize you are thinking
differently about yourself and your life, you are more optimistic and less
tolerant to people that are obstructing or harming you. You come to your
own defense more readily and you actually seek out ways to reach your goals more
aggressively and with less questioning of yourself. In the words of Vartas
Gregorian (President of the Carnegie Corporation, founded by Andrew Carnegie)
"Forces have their own logic." That may be a better way of
putting it that once you tap into your forces in a productive manner they create
their own logic and carry you forward to your goals in ways you couldn't have
planned or predicted. You start to develop a faith in yourself because you
are building it on a foundation of what is important to you and nobody else.
I also have noticed that there are elements in my life today, which are actually
part of my dreams but I didn't recognize them as such and that is very
comforting to realize. You just make it what you want it to be. Good
luck!"" V.
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5 September 2003 -
"Why is it not enough 'to' love? Why must one 'be' loved?" E
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29 August 2003 -
"Money doesn't care who owns it." E
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"Time is the greatest teacher. Unfortunately, it
kills all it's pupils." -Hector Berlioz
So.. carpe diem.
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"Saints are sinners who kept going."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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