Anal Wisdom
Edition I



Intro


The thing I miss most about the friendships I had cultivated in my younger days is our pursuits in philosophical musings. In the spirit of those who helped (and are helping) to make me, ‘Me’, I offer, for your consideration, this first edition in a collection thought; a culmination of various quips and quotes from friends, family and philosophers of all ranges. I hope you enjoy and will share your own favorite quote.




Whatever you give a woman, she will make it greater. If you give her sperm she’ll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she will make it a home. If you give her groceries, she will make you a meal. If you give her a smile she will give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So if you give her crap, be ready to receive tons of shit.
author unknown


It requires less character to discover the faults of others than to tolerate them.

J. Petit Senn
From Lisolette Gilcrest 2009

We’re not retarded, we’re intellectually challenged.
Christina Dickens 2007


In the end we are only fertilizer suffering brief moments of consciousness.

Sept. 7, 2009

Like a bug underfoot our end is coming.
Feb. 2010



6 Echo: “What’s God?”
McCord: “You know when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it? Well, God’s the guy that ignores you.”
Movie: The Island
Starring: Ewan McGregor

I would rather go without everything I want than to have everything I don’t want.
2008

In the willingness to ‘try’ is the possibility of failing miserably.
2007

It is the strangest thing the “Muse” provides me; poems and paint whisper of the life and death between the words. For what is death if one had never truly lived? What is living if one does not even try?

2006


On all occasions these thoughts should be at hand-
Lead me, O God, and Thou, O Destiny,
Be what it may the goal appointed me,
Bravely I’ll follow; nay, and if I would not,
I’d prove a coward, yet must follow still.
Again:
Who to Necessity doth bow aright,
Is learned in wisdom and the things of God.
Once more:-
Crito, if this be God’s will, so be it. As for me, Anytus and Meletus can indeed put me to death, but injure me, never!
Epicteus


If thou are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs thee, but thine own judgment about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now. But if anything in thy disposition gives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained, because thou art not doing some particular thing which seems to be right, why dost thou not rather act than complain? But some insuperable obstacle is in the way? Do not be grieved then, for the cause of its being done depends not on thee. But it is not worth while to live, if this cannot be done. Take thy departure then from life contentedly just as he who dies in full activity, and well pleased too with the things which are obstacles.
Marcus Aurelius


You never truly fail until you quit trying.
A quote from an unnamed friend.


If you choose anything else, with sighs and groans you will be forced to follow a Might greater than your own, ever seeking Tranquility without, and never to obtain her. For you seek her where she is not to be found; and where she is; there you seek her not.
Epicteus


If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change, but I seek the truth by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in error and ignorance.
Marcus Aurelius


“If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin, then mister, you’re a better man than I.”
Band: Aerosmith
Song: Living on the Edge



“Bullets cost bucks, mister!”
TV Series: M.A.S.H.
Character: Maj. Frank Burns

Poems are wrote by fools like me,
Only God can make a tree.
Joyce Kilmer

I contend that visual repetitive emissions are more prone to affect us than oral.
Joshua Lloyd 1996


If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life, which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, …. If you have built castles in the air, your works need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them… such is the character of the morrow which mere lapse of time can never make dawn.
Henry David Thoreau

Awareness is a good thing.
Jamie Johnson


And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran


Sometimes it is good to put aside the things that are important so that you can look at them from a different angle.
Jaime Johnson 1995