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Quotes by Dean Koontz that amuse me... or touch me.. you figure out which are which.Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. ~Dean Koontz "When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable." ~Dean Koontz (One Door Away From Heaven) "Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy. " — Dean Koontz "Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors." — Dean Koontz “Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.” ~Dean Koontz “Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie. Sometimes black humor is the only kind we can summon, but even dark laughter can sustain.” ~Dean Koontz “One of the greatest sorrows of human exisence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.” ~Dean Koontz “Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.” ~Dean Koontz "Being a hard-drinking woman with numerous interests in addition to poker, Granny Sugars didn't always spend as much time spreading God's word as she promised Him she would. She beleived that God expected to be conned more often than not and that He would be a good sport about it." "You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you can do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next." "He'll also cut you some slack if you're astonishingly stupid in an amusing fashion. Granny claimed that this explains why uncountable millions of breathtakingly stupid people get along just fine in life." ~Dean Koontz (Odd Thomas) Hope is scarce here....Hope is like a spider's web. Brightly spun gossamer weaves.. shimmering in light.. beautiful not in spite of its fragility but because of it.
Migraine?I have a headache today that makes my poor noggin feel
Of course, the initial whack might be as pleasant I do it anyway..... Why keep going when you feel like you've reached to bottom of the abyss.. but you still know a fear that there's an even deeper low that may suck you into its swirling mass of total darkness and despair? 'Cause you gotta do it anyway.. .. .. BecomingEver lose sight of yourself.. who you really are? That's what I did recently.. or not so recently depending on how you perceive time. Time is figurative, rushing past for some. Crawling by for others. Controlled by the action or lack of action that is surrounding us at the moment. Anyway, to me it was recently. Maybe to you it was a long time ago. I thought I knew exactly who I was. Who I could trust. What I could expect from the rest of my life. How to choose happiness in spite of the messed up twisted funk that this world has slid into in these modern times. Maybe reality is as figurative as time. Seen differently by every set of eyes that glimpses it. What difference does it make what we call reality anyway. After all, my reality is not yours. Yours is not mine. That may be a good thing. What I do know is .. when you've been knocked down and blinded .. when someone picks up life as you know it and jams it into a giant cosmic blender and sets it to puree .. you can't know what's coming out the other end. Life turns into a twisted macabre maze .. and there's no way to see the other side until you get there. I'd like to say I was knocked down as far as I could be. But, no way do I want to find out that there is a deeper depth somewhere below the regions I've recently visited. A thought like that.. and tempting fate or Satan or whatever other dark forces that help twist the universe, practically daring them to plunge me down there just to prove it exists.. makes my chest feel like concrete. Heavy. Solid. Thick. Basically just bad. But hey.. I'm still here. And if that isn't a bit of proof that God exists... well, it's more proof of His divine aid than I needed anyway. Anyway.. this is my life. It is what I make of it. I'm tired of wallowing in the mires of anguish and pain. Closing off everyone I ever called friend.. 'cept Boo but he's a rare friend, having four feet and all.. Just wanting to be alone, and wanting to die far more often than can be considered healthy. Not wanting to take action to seek death, just wishing it would find me on its own.. that morning would never come. Those days are behind me. They have to be because within them there was no 'forward'. No 'backward' either. . just suffering. And we all need to move forward. Whatever our destination, our destiny, whatever, it is always forward. So wrap it up. Stick a fork in it 'cause it's done. Over. Shake it off like water flying from the streaming coat of wet dog when he shakes .. long hairs stretching out, snapping up and down, shimmering beads flying this way and that, but never back onto the dog. Be the dog. Shake off the nasty. Rise above. Begin anew. Even if it's the hundredth time I've done it. Because what other choice is there? And from these ashes...
Beautiful, glorious and sacrificing self for renewal, For the sake of self. Red bird of fire you come forth through You embrace your new strength and Embrace yourself for you are a child of |
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