We’re not doing very well at posting this month, mainly because everything is both manic and upside down. However here is this month’s collecton of interesting/amusing/thouyght-provoking quiotes.
If organic chemistry was easy it would be called biology.
The planet does not need more ‘successful people’. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.
[Dalai Lama]
As much of the history of England has been brought about in public houses as in the House of Commons.
[Sir William Harcourt, 1872]
I don’t have a solution, but I do admire the problem.
[R]omantic relationships are tricky because they are so clearly a nest of mutual delusion. A romantic relationship is a collaborative delusion with someone else in which you encourage the other person to think that you will, can, or should make them happy, and vice versa. Even if your relationship is more subtle and nuanced than this, the hidden subtext is that you expect the other person to make you happy, or at least less unhappy.
[Gesshin Greenwood at http://thatssozen.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/get-unstuck.html]
I have not read a work of literature for several years. My head is full of pebbles & rubbish & broken matches & bits of glass.
[James Joyce, letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver, 24 June 1921]
As I’ve grown older I’ve learned that pleasing everyone is impossible, but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
A real girl isn’t perfect and a perfect girl isn’t real.
[Harry Styles]
In the morning you beg to sleep more, in the afternoon you are dying to sleep, and at night you refuse to sleep.
Oh you want to have your cake and eat it too? Darn right, what good is cake if you can’t eat it ?
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.
It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
[Frank Herbert, Dune]
Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.
[Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle]
