“A friend … awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.” — John O’Donohue
“The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When a library is open, no matter its size or shape democracy is open, too.” — Bill Moyers
“A person waiting for their ship to come in will find they are missing the boat.” — Anonymous
“He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.” — Henry George
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” — Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” — C.S. Lewis
“Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.” — Richard Lamm
“I possess a device, in my pocket, that is capable of accessing the entirety of man’s knowledge. I use it to look up pictures of cats and get in arguments with strangers.” — Unknown from the Internet
“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.” — Calvin Coolidge
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” — Saul Bellow
“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!” — C.J. Cherryh
“Many conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.” — Margaret Millar
“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.” — Neil Gaiman
“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.” — Billy Wilder
“To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.” — P.G. Wodehouse
“You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” — Doug Floyd
“We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.” — Eric Hoffer
“Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.” — Robert Brault
“The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence but it still has to be mowed.” — Anonymous
“The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.” — Bobby Knight
“There is always time for another last minute.” — Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
“Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” — Oscar Wilde
“The great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” — Thomas H. Huxley
NOTE – If you are new to the “Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows,” read the quote at the bottom this post then watch the video.
Avenoir – The Desire To See Memories In Advance
via The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Do you like moods? Perhaps the question would be better phrased: “Do you like videos that provoke or elicit particular emotions?” The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is intriguing because John Koenig, creator, presents a word that is obscure or completely invented and then connects it to a stylized video to further enhance the definition of that word. As Koenig indicates on his website (linked below), “Each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language—to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don’t yet have a word for.”
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” — Thomas Paine
“Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there.” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.” — Mary Kay Ash
“What I need is a lawyer who specializes in the law of the jungle.” — Ashleigh Brilliant
“If you are riding a high horse, there is no way to get off of it gracefully.” — Anonymous
“Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.” — Ndo Qubein
“We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely.” — C. S. Lewis
“My toughest fight was with my first wife.” — Muhammad Ali
