WHEN I LET GO OF WHAT I AM, I BECOME WHAT I MIGHT BE. LAO TZU
KEEP AWAY FROM PEOPLE WHO TRY TO BELITTLE YOUR AMBITIONS. SMALL PEOPLE ALWAYS DO THAT, BUT THE REALLY GREAT, MAAKE YOU FEEL THAT YOU, TOO, CAN BECOME GREAT. MARK TWAIN
BEWARE of over concern for money, or position, or glory. someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. then you will know how poor you are.
RUDYARD KIPLING
J. D. SALINGER 1919-2010. “The Catcher in the Rye”
THE WORLD IS FULL OF ACTORS PRETENDING TO BE HUMAN.
HAPPINESS IS A SOLID AND JOY IS A LIQUID.
MAKE SURE you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
KNOW YOUR TRUE MEASUREMENTS AND DRESS YOUR MIND ACCORDINGLY.
HELL IS THE SUFFERING OF BEING UNABLE TO LOVE.
PEOPLE ALWAYS CLAP FOR THE WRONG REASONS.
MOST STUFF GENUINE IS BETTER LEFT UNSAID.
IT’S FUNNY. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
I HAVE SO MUCH TO TELL YOU AND NOWHERE TO BEGIN.
YOU THINK of the book you’d most like to be reading & then you sit down & shamelessly write it.
I’M UP YO MY EARS IN UNWRITTEN WORDS.
IF you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
I’M JUST SICK OF EGO, EGO, EGO. My own & everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished & all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
THE MORE EXPENSIVE A SCHOOL IS THE MORE CROOKS IT HAS — I’M NOT KIDDING.
I’M SICK OF JUST LIKING PEOPLE. I WISH TO GOD I COULD MEET SOMEBODY I COULD RESPECT.
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH 1819-1861–“The Questioning Spirit”
IF HOPES WERE DUPES, FEARS MAY BE LIARS.
GRACE IS GIVEN OF GOD BUT KNOWLEDGE IS BOUGHT IN THE MARKET.
ALLAH IS GREAT, NO DOUBT, & JUXTAPOSITION HIS PROPHET.
OUT OF SIGHT IS OUT OF MIND.
A WORLD WHERE NOTHING IS HAD FOR NOTHING.
THE HORRIBLE PLEASURE OF PLEASING INFERIOR PEOPLE.
DO NOT ADULTERY COMMIT; ADAVANTAGE RARELY COMES OF IT.
THE HIGHEST POLITICAL BUZZ WORD IS NOT LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY OR SOLIDARRITY; IT IS SERVICE.