' The egocentric Man seeks to taste immortality by engaging in demanding physical challenges, wholeheartedly bringing himself to the brink of death in order to taste an egotistical sense of accomplishment, of victory. Such a feeling is false and short-lived, for Nature's power over Man is absolute. Man's honest place is not in extreme conditions, where, let's face it, he's frail as a flea, but in work. It is in building things and governing, the creation of rules and ordinances. It is in work Man will find life's meaning, not in the selfish, heroin-styled rush of hiking Everest without oxygen and nearly killing himself and the poor Sherpa carrying him.'

- 'Gareth van Meer' in Special topics in calamity physics
Unknown Playful - 16 years, 2 months, 24 days ago

Δεν ελπίζω τίποτε. Δεν φοβούμαι τίποτε. Είμαι λεύτερος.
= I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

— epitaph on the grave of Nikos Kazantzakis
Unknown Playful - 16 years, 2 months, 25 days ago

You are not little because you are already grown, playing among your lifetimes as do we all, for the fun of living.
You have no birthday because you have always lived, you were never born, and never will you die.
You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow- adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness, and so it is with this ring.
Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

- Richard Bach, There's no such place as far away
Unknown Playful - 16 years, 2 months, 25 days ago

the best show on tv y'all!

'Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family.'

'I can't prove it, but I can say it.'

'Contrary to what people may say, there’s no upper limit to stupidity'

- Stephen Colbert
Unknown Playful - 16 years, 2 months, 28 days ago

And don't think you're off the hook, voters, you're the ones who made this bed. Now you're the ones who are going to have to move over so a gay couple can sleep in it. Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones, created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax-and-spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio, and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and everybody's high! You know what, I've had it! You people don't deserve a Republican majority! I quit!

- Stephen Colbert, Colbert Report
Unknown Playful - 16 years, 2 months, 28 days ago