Here are a few quotes that I have collected and a few photos of garden hoses that I have taken. I’m sharing them here because, why not?
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Many are the strange chances of the world,” said Mithrandir, “and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.”
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (Kindle Location 5384). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Galadriel: “Why the Halfling?”
Gandalf: “I do not know. Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay… small acts of kindness and love.”
The 2012 Movie, “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
Frodo: “I can’t do this, Sam.”
Sam: “I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.”
Frodo: “What are we holding onto, Sam?”
Sam: “That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for.”
The 2002 Movie, “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers”
“You either quit or keep going. They both hurt. Choose wisely.”
Anonymous.
“Only those who attempt the absurd…will achieve the impossible. I think …I think it’s in my basement…Let me go upstairs and check.”
M.C. Escher
“Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?”
M.C. Escher
“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
John Lennon
Byron Katie Mitchell was asked:
“How can you say that reality is good? What about war, rape, poverty, violence, and child abuse? Are you condoning them?”
Katie’s answer:
“How could I condone them? I simply notice that if I believe they shouldn’t exist when they do exist, I suffer.
Can I just end the war in me? Can I stop raping myself and others with my abusive thoughts and actions? If not, I’m continuing in myself the very thing I want to end in the world. I start with ending my own suffering, my own war.
This is a life’s work.”
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
Mark Twain
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
Albert Einstein
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
George Bernard Shaw
Gillenormand: “I’ve been a fool.”
Jean Valjean: “Oh sir, we are all fools for most of our lives. It is unavoidable.”
The 1978 TV Movie, “Les Miserable”
