Sunday, May 08, 2005

thoughts on gratitude

"to complain that i could only be married once was like complaining that i had only been born once....it shows not an exaggerated sensibility to sex, but a curious insensibility to it.....polygamy is a lack of the realisation of sex; it is like a man plucking five pears in a mere absence of mind." - chesterton

"the proper form of thanks is some form of humility and restraint: we should thank god for beer and burgundy by not drinking to much of them" chesterton

"as ecclesiastes tells if, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair." yancey

"true happiness can not be achieved when it is in itself the goal. it can come as a biproduct on the way to something else." -me

so who enjoys the apple more? the one who carelessly eats knowing there are twenty more in the cupboard or the one who eats, saviouring every bite, because this is his only food for the day?
charlie

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