SUMMER SOLSTICE BIRTHDAYS JUNE 21 2023
Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-1980 “Nausea” “The Words” “The Wall”
WE ARE OUR CHOICES.
IF you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.
WHAT IS LIFE but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
EVERY WORD HAS CONSEQUENCES. EVERY SILENCE, TOO.
THE WORST part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
BEFORE you come alive, life is nothing; it’s up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.
EVERYTHING comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
MAN is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
NOTHINGNESS HAUNTS BEING.
BECAUSE we can imagine, we are free.
HE WHO ASKS a question is a fool for a minute; he who doesn’t remains a fool forever.
WHEN YOU REALIZE that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. commitment is an act, not a word.
SWAMI PARAMANANDA
TRUE SELF RELIANCE doesn’t mean reliance on one’s physical strength; it means reliance on something mightier, something which is less perishable . . . it means trusting in the spiritual.
FRANCOISE SAGAN. 1935-2004 “Bonjour Trieste” “La Chamade”
THERE IS A CERTAIN AGE when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.
I HAVE LOVED TO THE POINT OF MADNESS; that which is called madness, That which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
A DRESS MAKES NO SENSE UNLESS IT INSPIRES MEN TO TAKE IT OFF YOU.
LOVE IS WOTH WHATEVER IT COSTS.
CURIOSITY is the beginning of all wisdom.
I always believe things are going to work out.
LOVE LASTS ABOUT SEVEN YEARS. That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
ILLNESS IS THE OPPOSITE OF FREEDOM. IT MAKES EVERYTHING IMPOSSSIBLE.
ONE can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
I LIKE MEN to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
IF you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. there’s a long-standing affair between us.
JAZZ MUSIC IS AN INTENSIFIED FEELING OF NONCHALANCE.
For this was THE ROUND OF LOVE: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.
THE ONE THING I REGRET is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR 1892-1971 “Moral Man & Immoral Society”
EVIL is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
CHEESE, WINE AND A FRIEND MUST BE OLD TO BE GOOD.
NOTHING that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
HUMOR is prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.
FORGIVENESS IS THE FINAL FORM OF LOVE.
GOD, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Grant me the patience with changes that take time, appreciation of all that I have, tolerance of those with different struggles, and the strength to get up and try again, one day at a time.
SUMMER SOLSTICE BLESSINGS TO ALL