brilliance

remembering

"Please don’t ask me to keep in step – It’s hard enough just to stay in line." ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

and just a few more of many thousands:

0062...... We ought to be more careful – our love could drag on for years and years.
0079...... It’s really quite a simple choice: Life, death or Los Angeles.
0118...... I’m just moving clouds today – tomorrow I’ll try mountains.
0135...... Please don’t ask me what the score is – I’m not even sure what game we’re playing.
0142...... When all else fails, eat!
0144...... My life has a superb cast, but I can’t figure out the plot.
0147...... Slowly but surely, I’m getting nowhere.
0171...... Force yourself to relax.
0179...... I don’t need a great deal of love but I do need a steady supply.
0184...... Appreciate me now and avoid the rush.
0205...... Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.
0212...... All I want is a little more than I’ll ever get.
0247...... Please don’t ask me to keep in step – It’s hard enough just to stay in line.
0431...... If only I could get that wonderful feeling of accomplishment without having to
.............. accomplish anything.
0433...... I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent.
0676...... Help improve my appearance – I’m much better - looking when I’ve been hugged.
0702...... If you can’t learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
0729...... There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about.
0759...... I don’t have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.
0800...... Incredible as it seems, my life is based on a true story.
0826...... I have abandoned my search for truth, and am now looking for a good fantasy.
0830...... Living on earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the
.............. sun.
0843...... It’s possible that my whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
0892...... Don’t be afraid to give some of yourself away…it will all grow back.
0904...... Today I hate you but try me again tomorrow
0927...... I recently had my problems on the run, but now they’ve re-grouped, and are making
.............. another attack.
0951...... It’s good to know that, if I behave strangely enough, society will take responsibility
.............. for me.
0980...... You smile is one of the great sights of the world.
0988...... Be kind to teachers -- those who don’t deserve your respect may at least deserve
.............. your pity.
0994...... NOT NOW -- and maybe not later either.
0999...... The effort of getting up in the morning usually exhausts me for the rest of the day.

0433 I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent.
1678 If you can’t say how much you love me, try to give a rough
estimate.
0729 There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know
nothing about.
1722 I want you, happiness, and chocolate -- but not necessarily in that
order.
1520 I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me
at once.

0850 Hold on to me: Someday I may be quite valuable.
0295 Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.
0398 All I ask is a chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
0395 Cheer Up! Things may be getting worse at a slower rate.
0546 I work very hard—please don’t expect me to think as well.
0142 When all else fails, eat!

033 I'm not getting paid much for staying alive but it's good experience.
0056 I think I’ll just sit here and wait till life gets easier.
0064 I'm writing to tell you I have nothing to say.
0068 I happened to see you passing through my life, so I thought I’d love you.
0100 Are we still friends? Or don't you know either?
0101 Consider yourself thanked.
0102 If you can't keep in sight, at least keep in touch.
0104 Regardless of the date, I’m glad you were born.
0118 I'm just moving clouds today - tomorrow I’ll try mountains.
0131 If you're looking for a friend, I’d like to apply.
0135 Please don't ask me what the score is - I’m not even sure what game we're playing.
0142 When all else fails, eat!
0144 My life has a superb cast, but I can't figure out the plot.
0146 I may not be easy to reach, but I may be worth it.
0156 Your illness license has expired: report back to health immediately.
0157 A large percentage of me likes a large percentage of you.
0179 I don't need a great deal of love, but I do need a steady supply.
0184 Appreciate me now and avoid the rush.
0196 Reports of my being alive and well have been grossly exaggerated.
0197 It would be nice to see you again - and again.
0205 Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.
0211 Isn't it a nice coincidence that you and I are both alive at the same time!
0212 All I want is a little more than I’ll ever get.
0223 There's a hungry mailbox down the street - please feed it something for me.
0240 Why don't you write, and give me a chance not to reply?
0254 Thanks for being.
0309 Single-handedly, I have fought my way into this hopeless mess.
0317 To whom it may concern: you are a very special person.
0328 I don't wish to appear overly inquisitive, but are you still alive?
0347 I'm looking for the perfect pillow - I think it's somewhere near yours.
0377 I'm sorry for not communicating, but sometimes it's very hard to write on a moving planet.
0433 I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent.
0445 "Please reconsider - it's so hard to take ""go to hell"" for an answer."
0455 Any day is a good day to have a mother.
0500 I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must be from you.
0519 I feel much better, now that I’ve given up hope.
0563 I, for one, am longing to feel your hot breath on my neck.
0572 To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and, whatever you hit, call it the target.
0595 Please don't tell me to relax - it's only my tension that's holding me together.
0609 I always know the right thing to say, after the right time to say it has passed.
0673 Somehow, in my busy life, I am finding time to miss you.
0676 Help improve my appearance - I’m much better-looking when I’ve been hugged.
0759 I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.
0787 If God had approved of the metric system, he'd have given us ten fingers.
0792 We must have courage, faith, and lunch together sometime soon.
0826 I have abandoned my search for truth, and am now looking for a good fantasy.
0830 Living on earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the sun.
0980 Your smile is one of the great sights of the world.
1010 Life is an intolerable burden, which every living thing somehow manages to tolerate.
1015 Words ought not to be trusted - you can never be sure if they mean what they say.
1032 Please remain calm - it's no use both of us being hysterical at the same time.
1062 I want it clearly understood that I’m totally confused.
1085 My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
1120 No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.
1150 In order to discover who you are, first learn who everybody else is - and you're what's left.
1160 You are there, and I am here, so one of us is obviously in the wrong place.
1189 What I like most about myself is that I’m so understanding when I do something wrong.
1194 By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
1213 Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living.
1248 Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.
1287 Things are gradually falling into place - on top of me.
1318 My life is a performance for which I was never given any chance to rehearse.
1336 We've been through so much together, and most of it was your fault.
1390 Inside every older person there's a younger person wondering what happened.
1394 Anybody who thinks I am strange ought to meet you.
1401 Sometimes the best way to be useful is to get out of somebody's way.
1409 Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.
1460 Look what I’ve found! ... A moment to write to you.
1520 I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
1529 Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.
1615 There's only one thing more beautiful than a beautiful dream, and that's a beautiful reality.
1678 If you can't say exactly how much you love me, try to make a rough estimate.
1861 Please ask your machine to get in touch with my machine.
1960 My life is already complicated enough, without trying to introduce organization into it.
2032 To be sure of winning, invent your own game, and never tell any other player the rules.
2053 I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy.
2101 Most of my problems either have no answer, or else the answer is worse than the problem.
2120 Slavery and torture were outlawed long ago, but, for some reason, marriage is still legal.
2373 We couldn't have met in any previous life, because you are one experience I’d surely never forget.
2409 If you postpone a pleasure long enough, it may melt, spoil, die, evaporate, or move away.
2475 Let's make it definite: I’ll see you when I see you.
2503 All I want is a warm bed and a kind word, and unlimited power.
2581 Watch out! It's quite possible that some of my best mistakes haven't yet been made.
2606 My thoughts are free to go anywhere, but it's surprising how often they head in your direction.
2651 My struggle to remain healthy is gradually killing me.
2701 One thing travel teaches is why living at home is so popular.
2702 Keep smiling! (but not so much that people begin to wonder if you are mentally unbalanced).
2747 Children who are born into happy families grow up speaking love as their native language.
2797 It's true I’m getting older, but there are still many good hugs left in me.
2829 A good friend is worth pursuing - but why would a good friend be running away?
2833 Ready - aim - spend!
2835 Never fall in love with anybody you can't afford to lose.
2836 Sometimes I make a mental note, but then forget where I put it.
2847 No matter how many times I do my work, it never stays done for long.
2849 Never resist a mad impulse to do something nice for me.
2851 Think of me as someone who is very often thinking of you.
2918 It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.
2999 The longest distance in the world is always the one between you and me.
3017 Just because I’m happy doesn't mean you couldn't make me happier.
3037 Correct me if I’m wrong, at your own risk.
3053 Doing it wrong fast is at least better than doing it wrong slowly.
3093 I have you, you have me: at least one of us is lucky.


0088 Would you care to drift aimlessly in my direction?
0102 If you can’t keep in sight, at least keep in touch.
0104 Regardless of the date, I’m glad you were born.
0131 If you’re looking for a friend, I’d like to apply.
0142 When all else fails, eat!
0146 I may not be easy to reach, but I may be worth it.
0223 There’s a hungry mailbox down the street – please feed it something for me.
0312 If you don’t do it, you’ll never know what would have happened if you had done it.
0341 You thought I’d never write, but the joke is on you – this isn’t really me writing!
0377 I’m sorry for not communicating but sometimes it’s very hard to write on a moving
planet.
0379 Is it I who am far away, or is it you?
0500 I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must be from you.
0544 Be what you are.
0644 Thank you for giving me the pleasure of giving pleasure to you!
0892 Don’t be afraid to give some of yourself away…It will all grow back.
0948 Your gift is much appreciated -- and so are you.


as small sampling of the ten thousand wonderful witticisms and profound thoughts put into words by Ashleigh Brilliant, a mentor of sorts... he taught me the power of words is enhanced by the power of medium and you can share the power of words in many ways... buy these buy the number on postcards, on mugs, on shirts, on plaques, on posters, and more... and thank you Ashleigh, for being, for sharing, for brilliance :)

uncle albert (mostly)

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment.

Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Force always attracts men of low morality. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love .

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt.

He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Information is not knowledge.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. (and no proof is needed)

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

‘The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."

"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

nyuk,

nyuk,

narf.