To Live ...

To live is to feel oneself lost.
-José Ortega y Gasset


We are the sons and daughters of a revolution,
Revolutionaries walking us out of opression
and into a no-low promise land.
and this is leaves us with a great sense of sadness dwelling inside our soul.
no one can explain where it's coming from
or where its taking us.
we just know that something is lost,
but somehow we are lost ... lost
and this my friend, is the great depression ...
-Christian Lindskog (Blindside)

Vengence

All the while thou studiest revenge, thou art tearing thy own wound open.
-Thomas Fuller

Death

While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
-Leonardo da Vinci


No man should be afraid to die, who hath understood what it is to live.
-Thomas Fuller


He lay still, his Mother kissed him goodbye ...
said Comeback! ! !
Where are you going to ... alone?
Where are you going to ... all alone?
-Conor Oberst


In every parting there is an image of death.
-George Eliot

Suspicions

A wise man will keep his suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.
-Marquess of Halifax

Praise & Blame

Don't find fault, find a remedy.
- Henry Ford

Hands Held High

If the sky falls, hold up your hands.

-Spanish proverb

That Which We Once Feared

In misfortune we usually regain the peace that we were robbed of through the fear of that very misfortune.
-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Possesion Paradoxes

A man is wealthy in proportion to the things he can do without.
-Epicurus


That which we give makes us richer, that which is hoarded is lost.
-Shota Rustaveli


What you’ve hidden is lost. What you’ve given away is all yours.
-Shota Rustaveli

Beauty

Beauty is a brief gasp between one cliché and another.
-Ezra Pound

For the Workforce Drowning

The price we pay for money is paid in liberty.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Praise & Blame

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
-Thomas A. Kempis

Hope

While there's life, there's hope.
-Terence

The Tragic Comedy

He is a (sane) man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
-G.K. Chesterton

Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.
-Jean de la Bruyère

Moderation

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
-Frank McKinney Hubbard

"Loud Noises!"

Voices become louder when understanding diminishes.

-Friedrich Georg Junger

Gallantry, Generosity, & Faith

You should be able to boast that if gallentry, generosity, and faith were lost in the world, they could be found again in your own breast.

-Baltasar Gracian

Distortions

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
-Henri Frédéric Amiel