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I have one. Really cool.


I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Walt Whitman

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -- Mark Twain

Nice! I like that one.....

:shine: Yeah, I love that one too ... it's on my LJ user info page ... For me it's more about the fact that my entire family is against what I want to do for a living, saying that I'm going to regret everything later, but ... whatev.

I also LOVE this one:

"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived".
~ [William Parrish] from the movie, Meet Joe Black (1998)

Wow, that one's beautiful. I've watched the movie but a real long time ago and I don't remember it from there. Thanks for that!

Oh by the way, may I ask..what do you do? .....

"Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life."
-Nietzsche
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"If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved."
-Gregory Corso

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
-Allen Ginsberg

"I want to create wilderness out of empire."
-Gary Snyder

"I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself."
-William Burroughs to Allen Ginsberg

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end."
-Jack Kerouac


BEAT QUOTES!

As of right now, I'm looking around my general area for tattoo/piercing parlors where I could conceivably serve my apprenticeship, and then later (hopefully not TOO MUCH later), I would get certified with my professional piercing licence from the APP. Dunno though. I really, really, really hope it works out. I might have to move in with a friend while I go to college or something, because I have a feeling that my mom will be less than happy to have me living at home while I persue this dream. We don't really speak anymore. Oh well.

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love".
~ Neil Gaiman

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it ... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more".
~ Erica Jong in How to Save Your Own Life (1977).

"Let no one ever, from henceforth say one word in any way countenancing war. It is dangerous even to speak of how here and there the individual may gain some hardship of soul by it. For war is hell, and those who institute it are criminals. Were there even anything to say for it, it should not be said; for its spiritual disasters far outweigh any of its advantages."
~ Robert Nichols

"I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it."
~ Albert Einstein

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Straight people don't know, what your about
They put you down and shut you out
you gave to me a new belief
and soon the world will love you sweet leaf
~ Black Sabbath, Master of Reality, 1971

"Remember: 'I' before 'E', except in Budweiser."
~ Author Unknown


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"In this uncertain space between birth and death … we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship. The trick, however, is to remember that hope is a perilous thing, that it's not a steel and concrete bridge across the void between this moment and a brighter future. Hope is no stronger than tremulous beads of dew strung on a filament of spider web, and it alone can't long support the terrible weight of an anguished mind and a tortured heart."
~ T.G.S.R.

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."
~ Gilda Radner, 1946-1989

"Pay no attention to the man in the trunk" -Vic from The Ice Harvest

*runs off screaming as things fly at her head* AHHH!!! :tom:

(teh heheh...)

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
~ W. H. Auden

"Are we making converts to Christ, or to Christian music?"
~ Kerry Livgren, guitarist for Kansas

"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!"
~ Albus Dumbledore

"The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in.'"
~ Tori Amos

"Musicians are the architects of heaven."
~ Bobby McFerrin

"My mother's idol among pianists was Paderewski. I knew that I would never be a Paderewski, so I searched among the other great pianists of the day, looking for a model, and I found one at last who seemed to be just right for me. He was Vladimir de Pachmann. His style was refined, and so was mine. He was distinguished for the fact that especially in the works of Chopin he struck a great number of wrong notes. It was here that I knew I could rival him, and perhaps even excel him. You see, he struck his wrong notes in extremely rapid passages; I worked at my technique until I was certain that I could strike great numbers of wrong notes in very slow passages."
~ Robertson Davies, "My Musical Career"

"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings."
~ Ed Gardner

"Why do we remember the past and not the future?" - Larry, Charlie Eppes' physics teacher friend in NUMB3RS :lol:

Oh well, that sounds like fun!

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:laugh: thats cute!

-In the eyes of a child, mother is god.-

From the movie Silent Hill. I just struck a nerve even though it doesn't apply to me.


-Life is not a choice, it's biological, sperm hits egg and bam. You're born. Living however is a choice. People have a nasty habit of forgetting that.. -

This is part of something I wrote when I was in school


- It's not when animals attack... It's when stupid people get bit.-

Read that somewhere in a reaction to all those real life horrific stories. I agree completely, when will people learn that if you see a Grizzly bear it is wiser to turn around instead of coming closer. NO YOU CAN NOT CUDDLE A GRIZZLY BEAR PEOPLE!!!!.

+ Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison

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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to-letting a person be what he really is.


I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.


Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.


Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.


Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

Jim Morrison
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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.


The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.


There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors.


Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.


We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Jim Morrison
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"They came to see that family need not be defined merely as those with whom they share blood but for those for whom they would give their blood."
- Mr. Crummles in Nicholas Nickleby

"You know the best part? It isn't knowing that your friends have your back. It's knowing that you have your friends' back."
- Matt Buckner in Green Street Hooligans (US title)

"Everything you can imagine is real."
- Pablo Picasso

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
- Marie Curie

"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."
- Agnes Repplier

"The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw."
- Havelock Ellis

"Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together."
- Petrarch in De Remedies

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
- Sir Francis Bacon in Of Beauty

I bow down to the first. :bow:

Nice!

"There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.”
Don Juan deMarco

“The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.”
Johnny Depp

“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”
Johnny Depp

There is no one alive who is Youer than You - Dr Seuss