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Homeostasis to the Max

Created on 2005-01-22 15:50:33 (#5857476), last updated 2006-06-18

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Name:	Stacey
Birthdate:	01-20
Location:	Kansas, United States
Website:	MySpace

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"Whatever harm an enemy may do to an enemy, or a hater to a hater, an ill-directed mind inflicts on oneself a greater harm."
- Buddhist Scripture

"When a child first catches adults out - when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just - his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little;they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing."
- John Steinbeck, excerpt from East of Eden

"So the boy was disappointed; he decided he would never again believe in dreams. He remembered that he had a number of things he had to take care of: he went to the market for something to eat, he traded his book for one that was thicker, and he found a bench in the plaza where he could sample the new wine he had bought. The day was hot, and the wine was refreshing. The sheep were at the gates of the city, in a stable that belonged to a friend. The boy knew a lot of people in the city. That was what made traveling appeal to him - he always made new friends, and he didn't need to spend all of his time with them. When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."
- Paulo Coelho, excerpt from The Alchemist

"Do not pursue what is illusory -
property and position: all that is gained at the expense of
your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night.
Live with a steady superiority over life -
don't be afraid of misfortune,
and do not yearn after happiness;
it is after all, all the same:
the bitter doesn't last forever,
and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing."
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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