you can't make chicken salad outta chicken shit!

if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything!

NEVER, never, never... take a knife to a gun fight!

Good judgement comes from experience,
and a lot of that comes from bad judgement.
So go out there,
mess things up,
and be honest
with people.
Will Rogers

I just had a conversation with a friend. at the end of it a soft voice said; "I love you" under my loud salutation. I was a bit suprised, this friend had never said this to me and I suppose I assumed they care for me. I just didnt know they "loved" me.
Its really a blessing to have such amazingly beautiful *real* people in my corner. Im gonna need a bigger corner and this pleases me ;-)

Then a woman said, "Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow."

And he answered:

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.

And how else can it be?

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Is not the cup that hold your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater."

But I say unto you, they are inseparable.

Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.

Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.