Wow, I slept for 4 hours straight without pain. Then my legs woke me to say they needed drugs. I think that I am becoming addicted but at this stage I don't think it will do more harm than all the other crap my body is having me go through. As long as I can walk and sit for at least a few hours a day and spend time with Alex, I don't care if I fall into this category. I have not yet 'upped' my dosages, so I guess I'm still safe. It does help a lot to have my companion and a nurse come by on a regular basis but it sure makes me angry sometimes not to be in control over so much of my life - so I fall into depression. They, and you help me ride this out though, and I'm really grateful.
I found a few interesting one-liners to share and hope they also cheer some of you up too:
SMILE OF THE WEEK
(contributions for this section are most welcome)
=: ONELINERS & PROVERBS :=
(a sample from
Oneliners and proverbs provoking deep thoughts with a smile )
* The search for wisdom is a great challenge; to act on wisdom is an even greater challenge. (Jagad Guru)
* Charity may begin at home, but if it goes no further, it's no longer charity. It's clan loyalty.
* A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
* Advice for the day -- If you have a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: take two, and keep away from children.
* Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
* When the well's dry, we know the worth of water. (Ben Franklin)
* A successful man makes more money than his woman can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
* If you can't dance, don't blame the dance floor.
* The road to a friends house is never long. (Swedish proverb)
* The time to ensure that the toilet works is before you really need it.
* Making enemies out of friends is easy. Making friends out of enemies is difficult, but it is actually worthwhile.
* Fools learn from experience. Wise men learn from the experience of others (Otto von Bismark)
* When the congregation falls asleep it is time for the minister to wake up.
* The measure of greatness is not found in your accomplishments. Its in how much discouragement it takes to stop you.
* People are made to be loved and things are made to be used. There is much chaos in this world because things are being loved and people are being used.
* Laziness is the mother of all vice... but, it's a mother and you should respect her! (Spanish popular wisdom)
* Being Australian is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, and then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.
* Talent hits the target which no one else can hit; genius hits the target which no one else can see.
* A beautiful relationship does not depend upon how good we understand someone but on how well we avoid misunderstandings.
* Wisdom will keep you from getting into situations where you need it. (Bruce M. Sandbrook)
* Opportunity is a bald man with a beard: You can catch him coming, but you can' t catch him going.
* What is worth having is worth waiting for.
* Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. (Robert Frost)
* An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. (Mohandas Gandhi)
* As long as people keep killing people, to stop the killing of people, the killing will go on.
* Surely it's no coincidence that the word "listen" is an anagram of the word "silent".
* May every day of your life together be worse than the next. (Old Irish wedding blessing)
* If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. (Abraham Lincoln)
* A good match blows fire...
* You may have grown old, but you may not have grown up.
* It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.
* A Sunday school teacher was describing how Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt, when little Jason interrupted, "My Mummy looked back once while she was driving," he announced triumphantly, "and she turned into a telephone pole!"
* If you need time alone, try cleaning the house.
* If I never had a bad day, how would I know whether I was having a good day? (Lee)
* Looks capture the eyes.
* Personality captures the heart.
* Heaven is where the police are British, the mechanics German, the cooks are French, the lovers Italian, and all is organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the mechanics are French, the cooks are British, the lovers are Swiss, and it's all organized by the Italians! (Eliane Kirchner)
* When you give and don't expect anything back that's love. But if you give and expect a return it's an investment.
* God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
* Laughter is a smile with the volume turned up.
* Sometimes we all have days where we are 386's in a P4 world.
* Have you ever noticed how the contents of a box are much more interesting before the box is opened?
* It is okay to visit your past just don't bring any luggage with you.
* Don't ask God to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.
* There's a book that tells you where you should go on your vacation. It's called your checkbook.
* Knowledge is proud she knows so much; wisdom is humble that she knows no more. (Cowper)
* Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did. (Mark Twain)
* You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
* We can't always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
* Be not simply good; be good for something. (Henry David Thoreau)
* Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill)
* Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. (Mark Twain)
* People laugh because I'm different, I laugh because they're all the same.
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