I am the happiest piglet in the world. I’m done with finals. The instructor told me I had enough credits for an A (afterwards!) and that I didn’t really have to take the final exam.
I know that if I’d had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn’t have got anywhere. You don’t take exams for acting, you take your courage.
Quotation from Dame Edith Evans
They only ask you one question, they say ‘Who are you?’ and I got seventy-five per cent on that.
Quotation from Peter Cook
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. Those are the five stages of, well, everything seriously bad that happens to us– grief, lost relationships, addiction, job dislocation and death– to name a few (as if one can bargain with grief and death).
Nothing in life seems quite so orderly, however. Some people never get past their own feelings of anger and bitterness. Others seem to live in a perpetual state of grace and total acceptance (though in the interest of disclosure, I haven’t yet met anyone that fits that description). Life is an ongoing process, and I feel blessed– even in spite of it all.
Romeo: Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear…
Juliet: O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Quotation from William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche
Too often, I judge my worth by how others see me. It’s a social thing, not unique to women. I think I could be happier if I was different. I wish I was either [choose one] taller, older, younger, thinner, prettier, more athletic; I want longer hair, shorter hair, shinier hair, highlights, boobs, better complexion, smaller feet, longer fingers. I wish I didn’t wear glasses. I eat well and exercise regularly. I don’t rest enough. Do you like yourself?
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Quotation from Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Another quotation from Oscar Wilde
Anniversaire heureux, Northie!
Did life turn out the way you thought it would be when you were a kid? What you expected is probably what you got (unless you were unlucky); and if you didn’t expect much, that is also probably what you got. But no matter how well you planned (or didn’t plan), be honest– your life didn’t turn out exactly like you thought it would happen. For better or worse, one thing is certain: There were surprises and exceptions along the way.
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
Quotation from Dennis Wholey
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Quotation from Henry David Thoreau
An attribute expresses a value and is associated with a person. Attributes provide a default value, but in most cases, individuals can revise an attribute’s default value. Custom attributes become personal extensions, often visible even if one doesn’t have intimate access to the user’s default.
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,
Loveliness extreme.
Extra gaiters,
Loveliness extreme.
Sweetest ice-cream.
Pages ages page ages page ages.
Poem by Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily
I used to Overflow with frequency, but I’m getting better at Underflowing. This feels to me like reverting to the mean, which I’m told is normal, but it makes me feel ordinary. Underflow denotes a loss of precision, which is closely approximated by zero. I want to be greater than zero.
In behavior, normal refers to a lack of significant deviation from the average.
Definition of Normal according to Wikipedia.org
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today is Mother’s Day. May you see all the grains of beauty and happiness the world has to offer.
Is money money or isn’t money money. Everybody who earns
it and spends it every day in order to live knows
that money is money, anybody who votes it to be
gathered in as taxes knows money is not money. That
is what makes everybody go crazy… When you earn
money and spend money every day anybody can know the
difference between a million and three. But when you
vote money away there really is not any difference
between a million and three.
Poem by Gertrude Stein, Money
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
Poem by William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
Making a list is part of the process towards completing a goal. But in life, it seems prudent to make your list open-ended. Also, no matter how much time you have left, don’t hurry.
1. Witness something truly majestic 2. Help a complete stranger for a common good 3. Laugh till I cry 4. Drive a Shelby Mustang 5. Kiss the most beautiful girl in the world 6. Get a tattoo 7. Skydiving 8. Visit Stonehenge 9. Spend a week at the Louvre 10. See Rome 11. Dinner at La Cherie d’Or 12. See the Pyramids 13. Get back in touch 14. Visit Taj Mahal, India 15. Hong Kong 16. Victoria Falls 17. Serengeti 18. Ride the Great Wall of China.
Taken from the move The Bucket List
Singing in the shower means you’re happy.
Singing duet in the shower is even better.
“A drunken person experiences inexpressible joy and gladness because the vapour of the spirit in his heart is pervaded by natural heat, which the power of the wine generates in his spirit. The spirit, as a result, expands and there is joy. Likewise, when those who enjoy a hot bath inhale the air of the bath, so that the heat of the air enters their spirits and makes them hot, they are found to experience joy. It often happens that they start singing, as singing has its origin in gladness.”
Quotation from Ibn Khaldun, Muqaddimah
Cloud 9 refers to the highest cumolonimbis
(white fluffy) clouds in the atmosphere.
It’s mythical, this place of joyous euphoria,
where you don’t have a care in the world.
Luke Howard: The Man Who Named The Clouds (The Weather Doctor)
Origin of the Phrase ‘Cloud 9′ (WorldWideWords.org)
“Hearing the low sound
of a cloud scattering rain
at midnight
and thinking for an eternity
on his absent young wife,
a traveller heaved a sigh
and with a flood of tears
howled the whole night long.
Now, villagers won’t let him stay
in their place anymore.”
Poem by Amaru, from Amaruataka