MY RELIGION IS VERY SIMPLE. MY RELIGION IS KINDNESS.
DALAI LAMA
WE ARE slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the music of the cosmos, we are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments, and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.
IF I WERE NOT A PHYSICIST, I WOULD PROBABLY BE A MUSICIAN. I OFTEN THINK IN MUSIC. ALBERT EINSTEIN
IF EVERYTHING AROUND SEEMS DARK, LOOK AGAIN. YOU MAY BE THE LIGHT. RUMI
OF ALL THHE PATHS you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. JOHN MUIR
TO LOVE IS TO RECOGNIZE YOURSELF IN ANOTHER. E. TOLLE
ROBERTO CLEMENT. 1934-1976. HUMANITARIAN.
A NATION WITHOUT HEROES IS NOTHNG.
IF YOU HAVE A CHANCE to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your Time on this Earth.
I AM FROM THE POOR PEOPLE; I REPRESENT THE POOR PEOPLE. I like workers. I like people that suffer because these people have a different approach to life from the people that have everything and don’t know what suffering is.
I WANT TO BE REMEMBERED AS A BALLPLAYER WHO GAVE ALL HE HAD TO GIVE.
WHY does everyone talk about the past? all that counts is tomorrow’s game.
IN A WAY, I WAS BORN TWICE. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say I lived two lives.
IF I WOULD BE HAPPY, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
TO THE PEOPLE HERE, WE ARE OUTSIDERS. FOREIGNERS.
FRANCIS JOHN McCONNELL. 1871- 1953 ACTIVIST
WE MUST get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.
WE NEED a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
BRIAN ALDISS 1925-2017. “Hothouse” “Non-Stop”.
WHATEVER CREATIVITY IS, IT IS IN PART A SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM.
THERE TWO KINDS OF A WRITER: those that make you think and those that make you wonder.
WHEN A CHILDHOOD DIES, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.
CIVILIZATION IS THE DISTANCE MAN HAS PLACED BETWEEN HIMSELF & his excreta.
WHY HAD I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn’t fit for society; I didn’t fit into the system.
RELAX, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It’s patriotic to overconsume.
HOWEVER you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.
KEEP VIOLENCE IN THE MIND WHERE IT BELONGS.
THAT’S THE ARTIST’S ROLE — to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, too . . . grapple with the unfamiliar.
I AHVE NO OBJECTION TO MORALITY, EXCEPT THAT IT’S OBSOLETE.
THE SHUFFLE only demonstrated people’s fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.
I CAN’T HELP BELIEVING that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it’s psychological truth.
WHEN YOU ARE YOUNG, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents’ limitations.
ROSALYNN CARTER 1927- FORMER FIRST LADY TO JIMMY C.
DO what you can do to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.
A LEADER take people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
THERE ARE ONLY FOUR KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD — those who have been caregivers, those who are caregivers, those who will be caregivers and those who will need caregivers.
KINDNESS is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods and families.
WITHOUT VOLUNTEERS, WE’D BE A NATION WITHOUT A SOUL.
THERE IS CLEARLY much left to be done and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on with it.
LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST!