X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=infobase%2Ffortunes.dat;h=7b300e1a550de28172c8ec9536e57d0718a60522;hb=60f4f93edaa657a9b0c5bd44d70d7fa30ae899fd;hp=0dd5b0a8668db7346c0744383791fe04cfd58578;hpb=18301d1b49af94d9bd0ff31165ff8346ea4aee95;p=feisty_meow.git diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 0dd5b0a8..7b300e1a 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -42640,4 +42640,64 @@ effort are in the heap of wisdom awareness; full liberation. -- Gampopa, from "The Jewel Ornament of Liberation", published by Shambhala Publications +~ +i try to think of 10,008 impossible things before breakfast, +and i'm near ecstatic if any of those is worth writing down. + -- fred t. hamster +~ +businesses or products mashed up with despots: +- fidelity castro +- mao zeding-dong +- pol potstickers +- donald trump +~ +Relaxing in the midst of chaos, +learning not to panic--this is the spiritual path. + -- Pema Chödrön, "When Things Fall Apart" +~ +Driving all blames into oneself applies whenever we complain about anything, +even that our coffee is cold or the bathroom is dirty. We may think that we +are the voice of the world, that we are speaking on behalf of others, but we +are simply speaking on behalf of ourselves. According to this slogan, +everything is due to our own ego fixation, which makes us very vulnerable. +Consequently, we provide an ideal target. We get hit, but nobody meant to hit +us--we are actually inviting the bullets. + -- Chögyam Trungpa, "The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma: The + Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion", published by Shambhala + Publications +~ +I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. +  -- Wayne Gretzky +~ +Aren't surveys inherently biased, because they only include people who are +willing to be surveyed? What about people who value their time? + -- fred t. hamster +~ +if throwing your dirty clothes at the hamper causes an avalanche, +then it's time to do the laundry. #NoteToSelf + -- fred t. hamster +~ +stoner marxism: +"from each according to his stash, to each according to his jones." + -- fred t. hamster +~ +i learned everything i needed to know about the 2016 election cycle by +listening to devo in the 70s. "We're pinheads now. We are not whole." + -- fred t. hamster +~ +"i made a sample with my organ!" +"that's disgusting!" +"an electronic organ, dork." +"oh, i get it." +"i sampled the sound of orgasm." +"gahh!" + -- fred t. hamster +~ +"the universe is flat in all directions" is what an infinitely dimensional +person might say as she perceives all realities simultaneously. + -- fred t. hamster +~ +Out of ten soldiers who are perfect in drill and the manual of arms, only one +knows the purpose of the sights on his gun or can hit the broad side of a barn. + -- General Burnside, of his civil war recruits