WyzWmn's Words to the Wise

I am going to concentrate on what’s important in life. I’m going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I’m going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I’ll see death and I’ll remember. – Diane Frolov

Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in “Jurgen” that “to do what you always have done” and “what is expected of you” are the twin rules of life. This, of course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis. – Abraham Myerson

Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. – Shakti Gawain

Religion is for those who don’t want to go to Hell. Spirituality is for those of us who have already been through it. – Anonymous

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. – Martin Luther King Jr.

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it. – Emerson Pugh

There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes. – Doctor Who

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. – Samuel McChord Crothers

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault. – Eleanor Roosevelt