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Aug 15 2011 08:41am
"Dumbledor Dies"
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Aug 19 2011 08:58am
Quote (Mushukai @ Aug 15 2011 10:41am)
"Dumbledor Dies"


*palm in face*

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." H. P. Lovecraft
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Aug 22 2011 08:39pm
Quote (JEB90 @ Aug 10 2011 01:49am)
"Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Shakespeare


this

"tommarrow and tommarrow and tommarrow creeps at this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of reccorded time and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death, out out! brief candle lifes but a walking shadow a poor player who strets and fruts his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by a idoit full of sound and fury signifying nothing

i may have a word or two messed up but i went by memory ;P i'm 100% sure its not life is a tale though

also it's from the story macbeth

it's one of my favorites too :)

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Aug 26 2011 04:49am
Have to go for book quotes on this one.

Dresden Files by Jim Butcher:
“You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.”

"What we hadn't known about, back then, was pain. Sure, we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids don't.
Sure, Justin had qualified for his Junior de Sade Badge in his teaching methods for dealing with pain. We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt.
And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.
Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee."
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Aug 26 2011 07:25pm
No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

Either you die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain.

A person who has never made a mistake is somebody who has never tried anything new.



The moment you stop learning, you stop leading.

The second you stop having fun, you ruin everyone else's.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.

I refuse to prove that I exist, says God, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Smile, it enhances your face value.

You will encounter many defeats, but you must never be defeated.

I made his day, now mine is complete

Help yourself before helping others, but love others as you love yourself.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Learn from the mistakes of others, because life is too short to make them all yourself.

Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.

Stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone.

Trust nothing you hear, half of what you see, and all of what you believe.

Never accept defeat because victory is always within reach.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

A man with no skills can be taught, a man with no honor has nothing

If I had known yesterday what will happen tomorrow, I would have done something different today

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning. Anyone can start today and make a new ending.

Learn from the past, live in the present, and prepare for the future.

A thousand mile journey begins with the first step.

Risk Everything. Regret Nothing.

You may be disappointed if you try and fail but you are doomed if you never try at all.

Life is a lesson, you'll learn it when you're through.

Today's dreams are tommorrows reality, so dream big and never give them up.

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and small minds discuss people.

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.

Obstacles are things you see when you take your eye's off the goal

If you are going through hell, keep going!

Nobody cares if you can't dance well, just get up and dance!

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

100% of the shots you don't take don't go in.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally

The only real failure in life; is giving up.

Don't live life waiting for the storm to pass, learn to dance in the rain.

whatever a mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve

It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph

Born to lose, live to win.

If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space.

To some people, no matter what you do, there are some things you cannot fix, even though you know its broken. Thats why every day it is a challenge, and it is worth getting out of bed for.

Our destiny is not detirmined by the chances we take, but by the choices we make.

Can't means don't want. Therefore if you cannot do something, you don't want to bad enough.

You can not control the wind, But you can adjust the sails

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.

If you give a man a fish, he can eat for a day. If you teach a man to fish, he can eat for a lifetime.

Those who matter will understand, those who don't understand will not matter.

Losers complain, Winners train. Be an athlete...Make the play

We don't need any rules, we only need common sense

It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

When the power of love overcome the love of power, the world will know peace.

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

Do or do not there is no try.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Live your life to the fullest because you never know when it will be your last.

God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but he did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

Ask a question and you are a fool for 2 minutes. Don't ask and you are a fool for the rest of your life

The road to success is covered with the people who tripped. Feel free to kick them as you walk by.

Never Argue With An Idiot. They Will Drag You Down To Their Level, Then Beat You With Experience

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

To be old and Wise you Must Be Stupid and Young First

Everything will be okay, in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

If you ever feel like giving up, remember why you started in the first place.

Life is like a bicycle, mounting it is tough, but after you get going you can't stop.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance

The best things in life, aren't things.

Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. Involve me and I will understand.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Keep doing what you've been doing,
You'll keep getting what you've been getting.
IF what you are getting is NOT what you want
Then CHANGE what you've been doing!!

Never give up on someone or something, you can't go a day without thinking about.

If you want something you've never had before, you better do something you've never done before.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that precedes the victory.

The only thing between you and your dreams is YOU

Life is an occasion. Rise to it.

Inspiration is... The momentary cessation of stupidity.

It's never too late to become the person you might have beenNever part with your dreams. When they're gone, you might still exist, but you cease to live.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity

Only after disaster can we be resurrected, it's only after you've lost everything that you are free to do anything.

Our lives are defined by opportunities.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

He's just a guy who is probably more unknown for the reason being that he's really quite humble.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake Up and Live!

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you.
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Aug 27 2011 08:01am
"Singing always felt like a concussion, and I got a lot of migraines from doing it,” “Sometimes I wonder if it has caused some damage to my head and my memory. If there was any right or wrong way of doing this, I’m sure I did it wrong.” - Scott "Malefic" Connor, from Xasthur
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Aug 30 2011 07:46am
'PESSIMISM n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.'
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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Sep 5 2011 09:09pm
"I thought Beatrice Keedsler had joined hands with other old-fashioned storytellers to make people believe that life had leading characters, minor characters, significant details, insignificant details, that it had lessons to be learned, tests to be passed, and a beginning, a middle, and an end.
As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my countrymen. And then I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave so abominably, and with such abominable results: They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. This was the reason Americans shot each other so often: It was a convenient literary device for ending short stories and books.
Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as paper facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their madeup tales.
And so on.
Once I understood what was making America such a dangerous, unhappy nation of people who had nothing to do with real life, I resolved to shun storytelling. I would write about life. Every person would be exactly as important as any other. All facts would also be given equal weightiness. Nothing would be left out. Let others bring order to chaos. I would bring chaos to order, instead, which I think I have done.
If all writers would do that, then perhaps citizens not in the literary trades will understand that there is no order in the world around us, that we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.
It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done."
-Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions

"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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Oct 27 2011 12:09pm
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