WHEN STUPIDITY IS CONSIDERED PATRIOTISM, IT IS UNSAFE TO BE INTELLIGENT. ISSAC ASIMOV
BUDDHA WAS NOT A BUDDHIST.
JESUS WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN.
MUHAMMAD WAS NOT A MUSLIM.
THEY WERE TEACHERS WHO TAUGHT LOVE.
LOVE WAS THEIR RELIGION.
IF YOU PUT YOURSELF OR FAMILY OR FRIENDS OVER WHAT IS RIGHT, YOU AREN’T LIVING RIGHT! LOVE OF TRUTH, JUSTICE, SERVICE & KINDNESS SHOULD OUTWEIGH YOUR LOVE OF PLEASURE OR SELF. Jamie Fox
LIFE IS SHORT, BREAK THE RULES.
FORGIVE QUICKLY, KISS SLOWLY.
LOVE TRULY. LAUGH UNCONTROLABLY MARK TWAIN
AND NEVER REGRET ANYTHING
THAT MAKES YOU SMILE.
BE SOMEONE YOU WANT TO BE AROUND.
ADD A WHOLE BUNCH OF LOVE TO THE WORLD EVERY DAY THAT YOU’RE HERE. DOE ZANTAMATA
NEVER LET YOUR FEAR DECIDE YOUR FATE. TIFFANY TATUM
TRUE FRIENDSHIP OUGHT NEVER TO CONCEAL WHAT IT THINKS.
GOOD, BETTER, BEST. NEVER LET IT REST. TIL YOUR GOOD IS BETTER & YOUR BETTER IS BEST. ST. JEROME
I’M TERRIFIED FOR THE FUTURE OF THIS COUNTRY.
NOBODY TRUSTS ANYBODY ANYMORE. glenn lowry
KINDNESS CAN BECOME ITS OWN MOTIVE.
WE ARE MADE KIND BY BEING KIND.
ERIC HOFFER
YOU CAN’T STUDY COMEDY; it’s within you. It’s a personality. My humor is an attitude. DON RICKLES
I’VE EXPANDED MY SEARCHES into forms of poetry that have been hidden from our view but have much to teach us about the sources & resources of poetry that would allow us to fill out the picture. JEROME ROTHENBERG 1931-2024
FANATICISM consists of redoubling one’s efforts after you have forgotten your original goal. GEORGE SANTAYANA
REMEMBER ME IN YOUR HEART: MARGARET MEAD
YOUR THOUGHTS AND YOUR MEMORIES,
OF THE TIMES WE LOVED,
THE TIMES WE CRIED,
THE TIMES WE FOUGHT,
THE TIMES WE LAUGHED.
FOR IF YOU ALWAYS THINK OF ME — I WILL NEVER HAVE GONE.
IT’S CLEAR to me that sharing our shortcomings & weaknesses with each other is our greatest strength. Our salvation.
AS a lifelong explorer, my perspectives, philosophical outlooks & beliefs are dynamic & fluid. STEVE GLEASON
THE REALEST THING IN THE WORLD IS SUFFERING.
SUFFERING IS A PRODUCT PATTERNS IN OUR OWN MINDS.
YUVAL NOAH HARARI
GRATITUDE is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry & irritation. It is savoring; it is not taking things for granted; it is present-orientated. SONJA LYUBORNIRSKY
THE ENEMY IS FEAR . WE THINK IT IS HATE; BUT IT IS FEAR. GANDHI
RABINADRANATH TAGORE 1861-1941–“THE CHAMPA FLOWER””GITANJAI”.
WHERE THE MIND IS WITHOUT FEAR & THE HEAD IS HELD HIGH — WHERE KNOWLEDGE IS FREE.
IT’S ALWAYS THE OLD TO LEAD US TO THE WARS
ALWAYS THE YOUNG TO FALL
NOW LOOK AT WHAT WE’VE WON WITH THE SABER AND THE GUN
TELL ME IS IT WORTH IT ALL? Phil Ochs. “I Ain’t Marching Anymore”
A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself.
BEAUTY IS SIMPLY SEEING WITH THE EYES OF LOVE.
I SLEPT AND DREAMT THAT LIFE WAS JOY. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold — service was joy.
AND BECAUSE I LOVE THIS LIFE, I KNOW I SHALL LOVE DEATH AS WELL.
THE WORLD SPEAKS TO ME INCOLORS — MY SOUL ANSWERS IN MUSIC.
FAITH IS THE BIRD THAT FEELS THE LIGHT WHEN THE DAWN IS STILL DARK.
WE LIVE IN THE WORLD WHEN WE LOVE IT.
KATHRYN KUHLMAN 1907-1976 “I Believe in Miracles””Nothing is Impossible”
FAITH is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed.
GREAT SEA CAPTAINS ARE MADE IN ROUGH WATERS & DEEP SEAS.
LIVING WITH FAITH AND COURAGE IS
SOMETHING THAT LIFE REQUIRES OF
EACH OF US.
NEVER, ABSOLUTELY
NEVER, GIVE UP! NEVER GIVE IN NO
MATTER WHAT!
FIGHT IT THROUGH!
AND I PROMISE YOU SOMETHING WITH
ALL OF MY HEART — GOD WILL HELP YOU.
WHEREVER YOU FIND REAL LOVE, YOU WILL ALSO FIND HUMILITY. REMEMBER SOMETHING: HUMILITY IS NOT A WEAK & TIMID QUALITY. Too often we feel that humility is a sign of weakness. This is not so. It is the sign of strength & security.
THE GREATEST HUMAN ATTAINMENT in all the world is for a life to be so surrendered to Him that the name of God Almighty will be glorified through that life.
THE ONLY LIMIT TO THE POWER OF ALMIGHTY GOD LIES WITHIN YOU & ME.
WHETHER LIFE GRINDS A MAN DOWN OR POLISHES HIM DEPENDS ON WHAT HE’S MADE OF.
ANY TRUTH, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET 1883-1955″The Revolt of the Masses”Dehumanization
PRESERVE one’s personal integrity in the face of social conformity, fanaticism & hypocrisy.
LIFE is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
TO WONDER IS TO BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND.
LIVING IS A CONSTANT PROCESS OF DECIDING WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO.
KARL BARTH 1886-1968-“Church Dogmatics” “The Humanity of God”.
LAUGHTER IS THE CLOSEST THING TO THE GRACE OF GOD.
GRACE MUST FIND EXPRESSION IN LIFE OTHERWISE IT IS NOT GRACE.
MEN HAVE NEVER BEEN GOOD — THEY ARE NOT GOOD & THEY NEVER WILL BE GOOD.
CONSCIENCE IS THE PERFECT INTERPRETER OF LIFE.
THE BEST THEOLOGY WOULD NEED NO ADVOCATES; IT WOULD PROVE ITSELF.