Remember those posters that said... "Today is the first day of the rest of your life"?
Well, that's true with every day except one the day you die.
-- Lester Burnham.
I had always heard your entire life flashes... in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second... isn't a second at all. It stretches on forever, like an ocean of time. For me, it was lying on my back... at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars. And yellow leaves from the maple trees... that lined our street. Or my grandmother's hands and the way her skin... seemed like paper. And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's... brand-new Firebird. And Janie. And Janie. And... Carolyn.
I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.
And then I remember to relax... and stop trying to hold on to it. And then it flows through me like rain, and I can't feel anything but gratitude... for every single moment... of my stupid little life.
You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.
But don't worry.
You will someday.
-- Last words of Lester Burnham.
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Anagnorisis (/ˌænəɡˈnɒrɨsɨs/; Ancient Greek: ἀναγνώρισις) is a moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery. Anagnorisis originally meant recognition in its Greek context, not only of a person but also of what that person stood for. It was the hero's sudden awareness of a real situation, the realisation of things as they stood, and finally, the hero's insight into a relationship with an often antagonistic character in Aristotelian tragedy.
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Peripeteia /ˌpɛrəpɨˈtaɪ.ə/ (Greek: Περιπέτεια) is a reversal of circumstances, or turning point. The term is primarily used with reference to works of literature. The English form of peripeteia is peripety. Peripety is a sudden reversal dependent on intellect and logic. In modern Greek, περιπέτεια means adventure.
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yeah, i used to think i'm the best end of the deal ... what have i got? really .. some money in my pocket, some nice threads, fancy car at my disposal and .. i'm single, unattached, free as a bird
i don't depend on nobody, nobody depends on me, my life's my own .... but i don't have a peace of mind .... and if you don't have that you've got nothing ... so.. what's the answer? that's what i keep asking myself .... what's it all about? .... you know what i mean?
-- Alfie
A single snowflake can bend the leaf of the bamboo
-- Chinese proverb
Serendipity means a "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise"; specifically, the accident of finding something good or useful without looking for it.
Can be described as : to look for a needle in a haystack and get out of it with the farmer's daughter.
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Power is nothing without control is the well known slogan of Pirelli Tyre Company, and is featured in numerous television and print advertisements.
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Nothing is always absolutely so
Sturgeon's law , is an adage commonly cited as "ninety percent of everything is crud" or "ninety percent of everything is crap" .
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when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.
Rus:
Когда ты ничего не создаёшь, тебя определяют твои вкусы, а не твои способности. Твои вкусы лишь сужают круг общения и отталкивают людей. Так что создавай.
http://www.joeydevilla.com/2008/08/08/why-the-lucky-stiff-on-why-you-should-create/
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
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Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.
Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
Say no, then negotiate.
You can't win them all if you don't win the first one.
Forgive and remember.
You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.
The more proficient one is at procrastination, the less proficient one need to be at all else.
Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person on Earth, so that a chain of, " a friend of a friend" statements can be made, on average, to connect any two people in six steps or fewer. It was originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy and popularized by a play written by John Guare.
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If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost.
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state. The effect derives its name from the theoretical example of a hurricane's formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings several weeks before.
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