“My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.” ― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, The Mute's Soliloquy: a Memoir “Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement, it is too fleeting; as an occupation, it is too wearing; as a public exhibition, there is no money in it. It is unsuited to the drawing room, and in the most cultured society it has long been banished from the social board. It has at last, in our day of progress and improvement, been degraded to brotherhood with flatulence. Among the best bred, these two arts are now indulged in only private--though by consent of the whole company, when only males are present, it is still permissible, in good society, to remove the embargo on the fundamental sigh.” ― Mark Twain, On Masturbation
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. - Thomas Jefferson
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” ― Dr. Seuss @ᏕოᎥլꂅᎩ I cannot tell if you are dying or spying but keep tiling! Tiling the floor of the soul.
My soul tiles cracked have to start over. Spilled my marbles in a very unskillful manner and everything shattered to pieces. How stupid is a soul tiling analogy, sigh?
Don't be like the man who kills himself in the winter because it's so cold, not knowing spring is just around the corner. - Elliott Hulse
"Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency." --Desmond Tutu
I am taking a hiatus from this. Idk if I will return. The winds have changed and my path moves away from this section. Too much to focus on elswhere here, not enough time.