GROWTH begins when we start to accept our own weakness. Jean Vanier
An enthusiastic heart finds opportunities everywhere. Paulo Coelho
HUMOR is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward de Bono
Reminder: You’re not done meeting everyone who’s going to matter to you.
Some of the best moments of your life haven’t happened. Dr. Sara Kuburic
MUSIC represents nature. Nature represents life.
Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life. Sonny Rollins
Time is a constant motion. Joseph Caroff artist 007 logo
“Prunes, the most moving picture since Bananas.”
“Annihilation of the extraneous.”
Compassion is love in action. It’s not pity but the courage to sit with someone in their pain without turning away. Sonya Grace
One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion;
it is the blood of life. Paul Tillich
Gratitude is the single most important ingredient
to living a successful & fulfilled life. Jack Canfield
Terence Stamp (1938-2025): The thing that has been constant is that from the very beginning I always seemed to be the opposite to everybody else.
“The Groom on Zlota Street” by Hugh Nissenson Differing attitudes toward God — along with differing attitudes toward Israel’s policy in the occupied territories and differing attitudes toward history — lend most of Hugh’s stories an animating tension. Should one sacrifice the present in the hope of achieving redemption in the future? NYT 1988
“Jews are on an eternal quest for an explanation of human suffering.
We demand that suffering be deserved and justice done.”
American racism & the infantile nature of white American masculinity were inseparable. “The thoughly sexualized dynamic at the heart of racism.”
Our stupefying national reality: “the indigenous American berserk.” Philip Roth
A self-satirizing culture. See things as they truly are.
American isn’t too much fun these days. Thoughminded. unfriendliness
Mysticism is a possible road to salvation.
“To be a real writer entails having a total image of society, history and the future. And this vision must certainly have a kind of oppositional, resistant stance toward lived reality and its limitations.”
“If you want to have a future you have to be able to get ahold of your destiny.”
Sonallah Ahmed El-Orfally
Creativity is a wild mind & a disciplined eye. Dorothy Parker
Insanity — a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. R.D.Laing
An apt metaphor for the double vision we hope for as readers:
to see into other people’s lives but also to see into our own.
Be afraid of nothing. You have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding. Eileen Caddy
The world is a mysterious and confusing place. If you are not willing to be confused, you become a mere replica of someone else’s mind. Noam Chomsky
The unity of man and nature
is the fundamental principle of a sound society.
Wisdom, virtue morality all these have fallen out of fashion. Charles Fourier
The mind sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.Robt. Davies
The thing is that I always consider myself lucky that
I can actually cry listening to some music. Itzhak Perlman
It is about how you live your life because the life you lead is your art and the art you make is your life. Sally Mann
HEART brain harmony is an amplification of consciousness. Bruce Lipton
