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janer · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:32 pm Post subject:

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard
(1864 - 1910)

Aurua · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 6:47 pm Post subject:

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

-Joseph Joubert

oceanna · Extra Super Dooper Poster Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 767

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

- Ogden Nash

Aurua · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:06 am Post subject:

We have to understand the world can only be grasped by action, not by comtemplation. The hand is more important than the eye....The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

-Jacob Bronowski

Dee · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:39 am Post subject:

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe

Aurua · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:54 pm Post subject:

The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

~W. M. Thackeray

oceanna · Extra Super Dooper Poster Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 767

"One of the penalities for refusing to participate in politics
is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

- Plato

Aurua · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:10 pm Post subject:

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
-Plato

Aurua · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 3:11 pm Post subject:

I guess that it is hard to find a quote for the word "penalties"... Here is one I found but it is rather long...Sorry I made it a bit too hard! This word should be a easy one.

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Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force of thunder and lightning. In human affairs there must be a clear distinction between the penalties for small and great crimes. Retribution for wrongdoing must be swiftly and surely applied if greater problems are to be prevented.

-I Ching

oceanna · Extra Super Dooper Poster Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 767

(Sorry, I haven't had much time to be here,
and we are missing Janer, hope she is well and
will be back soon.)

"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound
man, discourse a clear man."

- Benjamin Franklin

Aurua · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:41 am Post subject:

“It is true that the mind is restless and difficult to control. But it can be conquered, Arjuna, through regular practice and detachment. Those who lack self-control will find it difficult to progress in meditation; but those who are self-controlled, striving earnestly through the right means, will attain the goal.”
-Bhagavad Gita

oceanna · Extra Super Dooper Poster Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 767

"The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice,
a continual extinction of personality.

- T. S. Elliot

Aurua · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:23 pm Post subject:

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing
butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
-William Moulton Marston

Dee · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:38 am Post subject:

Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine. ~Jeffrey Glassberg

Aurua · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:56 pm Post subject:

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
-Hans Christian Andersen