Lindsey: "I have trouble saying hi to people."
Teresa: "What?! You're high?"
"Third time's the charm."
"No, third time is just another chance to fail."
"Do you have class tomorrow? Wait, today's tomorrow."
~ Sara
"The voices in my head aren't mine."
~ Jeff
"All constitutions of government, however, are valued only in proportion as they tend to promote the happiness of those who live under them. '
This is their sole use and end."
~ The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith (p185)
“Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of
human life.”
~ An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (vol. I,p 34).
"I learned that Jesus not only died physically on the cross -He also died spiritually. While Jesus hung there, God the Father reached back
in time and took the spiritual death that had been generated by Adam and those who came after him and placed it on Jesus Christ."
~ http://www.leaderu.com/isot/docs/dodger/chapter3.html
The answer was provided by a friend who was a math major. I asked him about this problem, and he replied, "You've forgotten that Jesus,
though He was in human form, was actually the infinite God. If He had suffered spiritual death for even 10 minutes, He would have generated
more than enough death to pay for 100 billion eternities of separation from God. Remember He was giving up infinite life, and infinity multiplied
times anything equals infinity." Or as he wrote down for me:
Jesus yielding infinite life x 10 minutes = infinite eternities of spiritual death"
~ I sincerely hope this math major was joking, otherwise he's an afront to all math (or math people).
~ http://www.leaderu.com/isot/docs/dodger/chapter3.html
So lately, or perhaps always, I've been tired - and how do I fix that? By sleeping? Of course not. But staying awake to listen to music about not sleeping and to read quotes about sleep.
Here is a collection of quotes that I "stole" from various websites. Feel free to send me quotes about sleep if you want them up among these. I dare you to. That way there's the smallest possibility that someone will actually respond.
"No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap."
~Carrie Snow
"It's at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our
skull. I don't know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little
more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of
the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind. I wish I believed, as J. B. Priestley did, that consciousness
continues after disembodiment or death, not forever, but for a long while. Three score years and ten is such a stingy ration of time,
when there is so much time around. Perhaps that's why some of us are insomniacs; night is so precious that it would be pusillanimous
to sleep all through it! A "bad night" is not always a bad thing."
~Brian W. Aldiss
"Dawn: When men of reason go to bed."
~Ambrose Bierce
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it
early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late."
~Charles Caleb Colton
"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book."
~Irish Proverb
"Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds."
~JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmer Wisdom, 2002
"How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might
repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things."
~Dorothy Parker
The above quotes come from Quote Garden
"`I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen--I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theatres from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like the Martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.' She stopped, out of breath."
~ American Gods by Neil Gaiman