THE ASSUMPTION that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. … Read more
For me the novel is character creation. Style is nice, plot is nice, structure is OK, social significance is OK, symbolism worms its way in, timeliness is OK too, but unless the characters convince and live the book’s got no chance. LARRY MCMURTRY ONE OF THE SADDEST LESSONS OF HISTORY is … Read more
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO REINVENT YOURSELF. START A NEW career at 40. Fall in love at 50. Learn to dance at 60. Start a whole new life at 70. Stop saying you can’t. You can and you should. Dreams don’t have an expiration date. Life begins at 80. Younger I didn’t appreciate being … Read more
THE DEEP CRITICAL THINKER has become the misfit of the world, this is not a coincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people. CARL JUNG THE HORRORS and sufferings that I experienced in my … Read more
LAUGHTER IS THE BRUSH THAT SWEEPS AWAY THE COBWEBS OF YOUR HEART. MORT WALKER MEN CAN STARVE from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from lack of bread. IN HATRED AS IN LOVE, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. … Read more
QUAKERWODGER (1860) A quockerwodger was a type of wooden puppet. In politics, a quockwodger was a politician acting on the instructions of an influential third party, rather than properly representing their constituents. HURT PEOPLE HURT OTHERS, but luckily, healed people heal others. Safe people, shelter others. Free spirits, free others. Enlightened people illuminate others. And LOVE … Read more
IN 1994 BILL CLINTON fired Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders in part for teaching about masturbation in schools as a way of preventing teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. wikipedia BANISH DOUBT. W hen doubt is banished abundance flourishes and anything is possible. WAYNE DYER SALUTE TO … Read more
TO SEE WE MUST STOP BEING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PICTURE. SATPREN SEPTEMBER 1ST IS NATIONAL TOFU DAY IN ENGLAND AND NATIONAL CHERRY POPOVER DAY IN THE U.S.. TALENT hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see. … Read more
THE GOD WHO IS INTELLIGIBLE TO MAN IS MADE BY MAN HIMSELF, BUT WHAT IS BEYOND HIS INTELLIGENCE IS THE REALITY. HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN MONEY CAN BUY YOU A FINE DOG, BUT ONLY LOVE CAN MAKE HIM WAG HIS TAIL. KINKY FRIENDMAN TO THINK is to ignore … Read more
MOUNTAIN OF TARA in western Serbia is one of the last regions in Europe where bears can still live in absolute freedom. Serbia is home to about 380 species of birds. in Carska Barn, there are over 300 bird species on just a few square kilometers. Vac Gorge is considered one of the last habitats of … Read more
