X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=infobase%2Ffortunes.dat;h=e50f28e9a1619fcb46839191850f8de411cccc59;hb=b1627bdc21ecdf68670a339e6461107bb99e4775;hp=19252d88631d7ccb91f70d3d0cacf05fc4f96c19;hpb=2f10609a685f0512cee89890d2e365a8f10c8054;p=feisty_meow.git diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 19252d88..e50f28e9 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -43909,4 +43909,106 @@ So all the "lefthanders" stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming von here working intelligencies. Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked anderswhere! Also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished the blinkenlights. +~ +Naval Lint! Belly up to the finest barnacle scrub on the market, and have +your teams boat bright as a button! +Only $9.99 a bottle, sold at all Ben Franklin Department Stores. + -- fictional product developed due to misspelling of navel lint +~ +(a missing phone haiku) + +tech disconnection +no friends, no spam, brain at peace +must log back in now! + + -- fred t. hamster +~ +Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the +truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, +or for being years ahead of your time. If you're right and you know it, +speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the +truth is still the truth. + -- Mahatma Gandhi +~ + The sky is pure, open space, free from all obstructions. The nature of +our mind is similar: the afflictions, self-centered attitude, and other +obscurations are not in its essential nature. Just as clouds may temporarily +obscure the open sky, anger, attachment, and confusion can temporarily obscure +our mind. When they do, the pure, open nature of the mind still remains; we +just can't see it at the time. + By generating the wisdom realizing the emptiness of inherent existence, we +will be able to eradicate obscurations from our mind forever and enjoy the +sky-like spaciousness of a purified mind. + -- Thubten Chodron, from "Awaken Every Day: 365 Buddhist Reflections to + Invite Mindfulness and Joy", Shambhala Publications +~ +i buy all my hats +at interdimensional +pancake restaurant + -- fred t. hamster +~ +Love is about finding something pleasant in everyone. It can't be external +appearance, or what the person is engaged in at the moment; it has to be just +the fact that this is a sentient being who wants happiness and does not want +suffering and who has been the best of friends at some time in the limitless +past. A Tibetan definition of love is that the person pleasantly comes to +mind (yid du 'ong ba). Rather than pushing people away, you experience a core +similarity and closeness in them that makes you receptive to their basic +being, regardless of the problem--regardless of how distorted their current +attitudes and behavior are. That's how strong spiritual love is. + -- Jeffrey Hopkins, from "A Truthful Heart: Buddhist Practices for + Connecting with Others", Shambhala Publications +~ +this is not confirmed yet, but UVa is changing the name of its funding tokens. +UVa is moving away from the PTAO payment codes (Project, Task, Award, and +Organization) to a new acronym using "Cost center, Activity, Program, Spend +category" or... CAPS!!! +finally all my hard work in fallout new vegas will be paying off. +~ +Rob's Meeting Mantra: + +Is what I am thinking necessary to say? +Is it necessary for this to be said by ME? +Is it necessary for me to say this RIGHT NOW? + + -- Rob Diethorn +~ +fred's chow mantra: + just eat when you're hungry, + and be sure you're hungry and not just sating an appetite, + because scheduled food times are irrelevant to your body, + and can lead to overfeeding unless you're malnourished; + so let the body decide when to eat, + and use your brain to decide what you feed it. + -- fred t. hamster +~ +No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. + -- Voltaire +~ +Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. + -- Thomas Szasz +~ +Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? + -- Winnie the Pooh +~ +It is well for people who think, +to change their minds occasionally +in order to keep them clean. + -- Luther Burbank +~ +Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. + -- Benjamin Lee Whorf +~ +Misery is almost always the result of thinking. + -- Joseph Joubert +~ +Most of the mistakes in thinking +are inadequacies of perception +rather than mistakes of logic. + -- Edward de Bono +~ +Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. + -- Ralph Waldo Emerson +~ +What we think, we become. -- Shakyamuni Buddha