Tat Too | Indelible stain Without getting drunk first Go ahead hurt me if you can |
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onformity and peer pressure have reached new levels of absurdity. It must be kind of hard on sailors and prisoners now that body disfigurement is part of popular culture, in correspondence with socially accepted standards. Ironically many young people consider getting tattooed an act of rebellion.
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is it worth the pain,
Or need you refrain?
For now what requires symbol of memory,
Ultimately often calls for loss of very same.
what others say:
"To get nowhere,
follow the crowd." - Anonymous
"When we remember that we are the thinker and
that it is our thoughts about life that determine how we feel,
it allows us to step back, slow down the speed of life, and regain perspective." - Richard Carlson & Joseph Baile
"Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again,
remember this, that if you wish to be great at all,
you must begin where you are and with what you are." - Russel H. Conwell
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else." - Margaret Mead
"Keep on beginning and failing.
Each time you fail, start all over gain,
and you will grow stronger until you
have accomplished a purpose -
not the one you began with perhaps,
but one you'll be glad to remember." - Anne Sullivan
"Tell me and I forget.
Show me and I remember.
Involve me and I understand." - Chinese Proverb
Posted by: karen | October 9, 2006 08:49 PM