quotes

"Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone." -Louis L'Amour

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." - Henry Miller

"Here and now contains eternity." - Taisen Deshimary

"He who binds himself to joy,
Does the winged life destroy;
He who kisses the Joy as it flies,
Lives in Eternity's sunrise."
-William blake

"Life just is. You have to flow with it. Give yourself to the moment. Let it happen."
-Jerry Brown

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
Terry Pratchett, Discworld

"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

"All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else."
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats."
H. L. Mencken


"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
H. L. Mencken


"It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry."
H. L. Mencken

"Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own."
H. L. Mencken

"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)"
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary