Subject: Prompt V1@gra, X@NAX, Valiu/m/

From: "St. Esperanza Osp." <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:10:06 -0800

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An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. Books are the shoes with which we tread the footsteps of great minds. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life.  It is the tree's way of being.  Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind. The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle; rather a great reminder of just how strong true love can be. Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long after he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money - but long on hugs. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. When ideas fail, words come in very handy. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. W
hen ideas fail, words come in very handy. While we are postponing, life speeds by. Luck is the residue of design. Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. God, please save me from your followers! It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. While we are postponing, life speeds by. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel. I would have made a good Pope. I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a ... brain operation. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. The quality of the moment is mor
e important than the number of our days. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. Hope is like a road in the country: there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day. We have art to save ourselves from the truth. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Hatch a dream and then believe it. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was t
he collected works of Francis Bacon. Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. You can widen your life by yourself, but to deepen it you need a friend. Each encounter that becomes a friendship turns into a lifeline. One can never have too many, only too many to properly take care of. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. This book fills a much-needed gap. You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it. Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. The quality of the moment is more important than the number of our days. The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and e
very tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances. Don't be so humble - you are not that great. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long after he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money - but long on hugs. Wit is educated insolence. It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. A clever man commits no minor blunders. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.