“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.” Oscar Wilde”
― Emblaze
― Emblaze
“There will be peaks of great joy from which to crow and vales of tears out of which to climb. When and why they will happen, no one can say, but they will happen. To all of us. We will all go back and forth from one to the other countless times during a lifetime. This is not some call to bipartisanship between inimical sides. The Happy and the Sad are the same population.”
― Half Empty
― Half Empty
“Here’s the second joke: Two psychiatrists meet on the street and say hello. “How are you?” asks one. “Eh, not so good,” says the other. “I had a stupid misunderstanding, a slip of the tongue. I was visiting my mother out at the old folks’ home. We were having lunch and I asked her to pass me the salt, but instead I said, ‘You fucking bitch you ruined my life.”
― Half Empty
― Half Empty
“Rise and rise again and again
like The Phoenix from the ashes;
until the lambs have become lions.”
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like The Phoenix from the ashes;
until the lambs have become lions.”
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