ONCE YOU SEE the ego for what it is, it becomes much easier to remain nonreactive toward it. You don’t take it personally anymore. There is no complaining, blaming, accusing or making wrong. Nobody is wrong. It is the ego in someone, that’s all. Compassion arises when you recognize that all are suffering from the same sickness of the mind, some more acutely than others.
ECKHART TOLLE. “A New Earth”
HUMANS should never forget that we have been assigned a very small place on earth, that we live surrounded by nature that can easily take back everything that has ever given to man.
It costs absolutely nothing in her way one day blow all of us off the face of the earth or flood the waters of the ocean with her single breath, just to remind man once again that he is not as all-powerful as he still foolishly thinks. RAY BRADBURY
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 1613-1680. “Mémoires”
TO ACHIEVE GREATNESS ONE SHOULD LIVE AS IF THEY WILL NEVER DIE.
IF we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
NEITHER THE SUN NOR DEATH CAN BE LOOKED AT WITH A STEADY EYE.
TRUE LOVE is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
GOOD ADVICE is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
GRATITUDE IS MERELY THE SECRET HOPE OF FURTHERFAVORS.
TO KNOW HOW TO HIDE ONE’S ABILITY IS GREAT SKILL.
IT is great folly to wish to be wise alone.
THERE IS NO DISGUISE which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
IN THE HUMAN HEART new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
IN FRIENDSHIP as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
NOTHING is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
THERE IS ONLY ONE KIND OF LOVE, BUT THERE ARE A THOUSAND IMITATIONS.
FUNERAL POMP is more ffor the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
INNOCENCE does not find so much protection as guilt.
MOST OF OUR FAULTS are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
TASTE MAY CHANGE, BUT INCLINATION NEVER.
THOSE WHO OCCUPY THEIR MINDS with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
WE PROMISE ACCORDING TO OUR HOPES AND PERFORM ACCORDING TO OUR FEARS.
IF we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
WHEN we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
JEALOUSY LIVES upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
LOVE can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
AS ONE GROWS OLDER, ONE BECOMES WISER AND FOOLISH.
THE NAME AND PRETENSE OF VIRTUE IS AS SERVICEABLE TO SELF-INTEREST AS ARE REAL VICES.
THE HAPPINESS and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
IT IS EASIER TO BE WISE FOR OTHERS THAN FOR OURSELVES.
IT IS ALWAYS fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
NIPSEY RUSSELL 1919- 2005. comedian—activist.
I START WITH THE JOKE LINE AND WRITE BACKWARD.
I USE mother-in-law jokes, kid jokes, tax jokes — anything that works.
I HAVEN’T GOT A CADILLAC. I’VE GOT A SUBWAY TOKEN.
I KNEW RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AT ITS WORST IN THE 1930S. I lived with the humility of it but I never lost my sense of humor. Humor is the escape valve from the deadly reality of adversity.
I’M LIVING THE LIFE OF LIBERTY, HAPPINESS AND PURSUIT.
HUMOR is based on the way a man looks at life’s ironies and being a member of a minority group can certainly be ironic.
OUR COUNTRY’S SOCIAL REVOLUTION lends itself to jokes and I use them.
AMERICA is the only place in the world where you can work in an Arab home in a Scandinavian neighborhood and find a Puerto Rican baby eating matzo balls with chopsticks.
I’VE ALWAYS had the ability to manipulate words and communicate ideas and thoughts.
KEEP SMILING