If you play with fire you get used to it.

I've been told that I've had the weakest nightmare ever.

"There are no evildoers among ramen-lovers."

- Naruto Uzumaki

Stand like a mountain, flow like water

- Tai Chi saying

"...because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn..."

- Jack Kerouac

"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history."
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
- Also Curt Wild, Velvet Goldmine

Decadent. But people like this capture us and lift us up off the ground.

One of the funniest things I've seen from a fortune cookie: "Help! I'm being held captive in a fortune cookie factory."

The best revenge is living well.

In a sense it's not revenge at all, it steps above revenge.

Mahatma Gandhi said, "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

Hattori Hanzo from KILL BILL said, "Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest, And like a forest it's easy to lose your way... To get lost... To forget where you came in."

Impotence: Nature's way of saying, "no hard feelings"

Every stone you lift by day becomes your heart at night.

It's harder to get out of bed in winter. Can beds actually become more comfortable when it's colder and not as bright? Staying under the blanket certainly feels nicer.

I'm Chinese at heart - when I accidentally knocked a book off my desk I instinctively sighed, "Ai-yah!"

Capricorn (the goat): Your friends see you as a constant source of feta cheese.

- "Chopper" Reid

Looking for my promised land...

All your base are belong to us!

- cult Engrish phrase from a 1989 Japanese video game

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding"

- Kahlil Gibran

I also like "Pain is weakness leaving the body"

I admire hamstrings. They are a more subtle part of the body. I never noticed them much before. I think they are a real sign that someone is healthy (as opposed to having a figure from a lettuce-only diet). Check out Madonna's hams, for instance.

People with underdeveloped hamstrings are more likely to tear their ACL. It's actually an injury that women are more likely to have than men. The ratio of one's thigh/quadriceps strength to hamstring strength shouldn't be too skewed in favor of the quads.

I've been feeling bad about something, and someone told me that I should actually thank the universe for doing me this favour... instead of rejecting that message, I actually found it quite powerful.

To AR:

It was a nice dream I was having, but we all have to wake up sometime.

I am me and you are you. It's stupid to compare ourselves.