WE should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. HENRY WARD BEECHER
MOST PEOPLE ARE OTHER PEOPLE. There thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. OSCAR WILDE
WHEN you make the present moment the focal point of your life instead of past & future, your ability to enjoy what you do — & with it, the quality of your life — increases dramatically. ECKHART TOLLE
PREJUDICE MEANS TO ‘free-judge’, when you prejudge, you are making a decision about something before you have enough data on which to base a decision. Wayne Dyer
GENESIS 21:6 – SARAH SAID, “GOD HAS BROUGHT ME LAUGHTER & EVERYONE WHO HEARS ABOUT THIS WILL LAUGH WITH ME.”
IF your personal beliefs deny what’s objectively true about the world, then they’re more accurately called personal delusions. NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
BILL McKIBBEN 1960—–“The End of Nature” “Fight Global Warming Now”.
IN REALITY CLIMATE CHANGE IS ACTUALLY THE BIGGEST THING THAT’S GOING ON EVERY SINGLE DAY.
A SPIRITUAL VOICE is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish & mortality in our nation & abroad & much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
WHEN we think of global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological & economic.
THE POPULAR NOTION is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels but I find that’s not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.
WHENEVER anyone challenges anything, the powers that be try to paint them as extremists or radicals or whatever. And I think that’s actually nonsense.
THERE IS AN URGENT NEED TO STOP SUBSIDIZING THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY, dramatically reduce wasted energy & significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal & natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal & other renewable energy sources.
SAMMY DAVIS jr. 1925-1990. “Mr. Bojangles” “What Kind of Fool am I?”
THE ULTIMATE MYSTERY IS ONE’S OWN SELF.
ALCOHOL GIVES YOU INFINITE PATIENCE FOR STUPIDITY.
REALITY is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
MY TALENT was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man’s thinking.
AFTER I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don’t have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller & Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.
BEING A STAR has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.
IMITATIONS ONLY BETTER THE ORIGINAL.
SOBER UP & you see & hear everything everything you’d been able to avoid hearing before.
A MAN IS NOT COMPLETE UNTIL HE HAS SEEN THE BABY HE HAS MADE.
WE CAN’T answer king’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
MOST ORGIES that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like shining silver & gold paper on packages but there was nothing inside.
BOGART could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
I HAD traveled 10 states & played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.