Take From It What You Will

• Smart people know their strengths, but happy people are the ones who have accepted their flaws.  [Kimo]

• Sometimes pain becomes such a huge part of your life that you expect it to always be there, because you can’t remember a time in your life when it wasn’t. But then one day you feel something else. Something that feels wrong only because it’s so unfamiliar, and in that moment you realize you’re happy. [One Tree Hill]

• If a god is willing to prevent evil, but not able, then he is not omnipotent. If he is able, but not willing, then he must be malevolent. If he is neither able or willing then why call him a god? [Preest - Franklyn 2008]

• I've been walked on, used and forgotten and I don't regret one moment of it because in those moments, I've learned a lot. I've learned who I can trust and can't. I've learned the meaning of friendship. I've learned how to tell when people are lying and when they're sincere. I've learned how to be a teenager, and how to grow up when I need to. I've been to hell and back a few times, and I won't ever take what I have for granted. This is life, live it one day at a time. You never know how many days you've got left. [Unknown]

Did You Ever Wonder...

• Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard when he lives in the jungle? Does he have a razor?  
• Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the  batteries are flat? 
• Why do banks charge  a fee on 'insufficient funds' when they know there is not  enough?  
• Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets? 
• Why does someone  believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when  you say the paint is wet? 
• Whose idea was it to put an  'S' in the word 'lisp'? 
• Why is it that people say they 'slept like a baby' when babies wake up every two  hours?  
• How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage? 
• Why do people  pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at  things on the ground?
• Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze
  these pink dangly  things here, and drink whatever comes out"?
• Who was the first person to say, 'See that chicken there... I'm going to eat the thing that comes out from it's bum.' 
• If quizzes are  quizzical, what are tests? 
• Why is there a light in the  fridge and not in the freezer? 
• Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? Aren't they both dogs?
• If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from? 
• If electricity  comes from electrons, does morality come from morons? 
• Why do the Alphabet  song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune? 
• [Stop  singing and read on]
• Did you ever notice  that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?  
• Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?

via Unc SD

Stumbling onto the 11th Century

Awake! for morning in the bowl of night,
Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight,
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught,
The Sultan's turret in a noose of light.
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Dreaming when dawn's left hand was in the sky,
I heard a voice within the tavern cry,
"Awake my little ones and fill the cup,
 Before life's liquor in its cup be dry."
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How long, how long, in infinite pursuit,
Of this and that endeavor and dispute?
Better be merry with the fruitful Grape,
Than sadden after none, or bitter, fruit.

Omar Khayyam ; The gift of words