Short Like Me

Saturday, June 19, 2004

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. - Thomas Hobbes

PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

Pessimism is the bane of my existence.

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A Few of My Very Favorite Quotes, Lyrics, and Proverbs

"Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another." - Victor Hugo

" If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? " - Stephen Levine

Time is too slow for those who wait too swift for those who fear too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. Hours fly, flowers die, new days, new ways pass by, Love stays. - Henry Van Dyke

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.