I TRY TO TAKE SUBJECTS THAT MIGHT SEEM DEEP AND MAKE THEM AS SILLY AS POSSIBLE.
AMERICA’S A GANGBANGER COUNTRY. WE GOT OUR GANG AND EVERYTHING ELSE IS IRRELRVANT.
MICHAEL CHE
FILLED WITH SO MUCH HATRED. PINK
SO WHAT DOES IT MATTER HOW LONG WE MAY LIVE IF AS LONG AS WE LIVE UNSELFISHLY GIVE.
FOR TIME AND SPACE CAN NEVER DIVIDE OR KEEP YOUR LOVED ONE FROM YOUR SIDE — When memory paints in colors true, the happy hours that belonged to you.
WEED OUT THE NEGATIVE & FOCUS ON THE POSITIVE!
HELEN STEINER RICE
HE SAID ‘FROM THEN ON I REALIZED THAT I WAS NOT JUST ABANDONED.
I WAS CHOSEN. I WAS SPECIAL.’ AND I THINK THAT’S THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING STEVE JOBS.
WHAT EINSTEIN was able to do was — to use a cliche — THINK OUT OF THE BOX.
SMART PEOPLE ARE A DIME A DOZEN. What matters is the ability to think different . . . to think out of the box.
TERRORISM IS A HORRIBLE THING that is the great threat to civilization on our planet. WALTER ISAACSON
THE OPTIMISM OF A HEALTHY MIND IS INDEFATIGABLE.
Margery Allingham
SUFFERING ultimately teaches us compassion which is the fast track to our spiritual evolution. SONYA GRACE
THE LOVE OF YOUR FATE. NIETZSCHE
Walt Whitman “Leaves of Grass”. 1855
NOT I, NOR ANYONE ELSE CAN TRAVEL THAT ROAD FOR YOU.
YOU MUST TRAVEL IT BY YOURSELF.
IT IS NOT FAR. IT IS WITHIN REACH.
PERHAPS YOU HAVE BEEN ON IT SINCE YOU WERE BORN & DID NOT KNOW.
PERHAPS IT IS EVERYWHERE — ON WATER AND LAND.
A WEALTH YOU CANNOT IMAGINE FLOWS THROUGH YOU.
DO NOT CONSIDER WHAT STRANGERS SAY.
BE SECLUDED IN YOUR SECRET HEART-HOUSE.
THAT BOWL OF SILENCE.
RUMI
TO DOUBT that this world can chaNGE FOR THE BETTER IS ONLY A PRODUCT OF THE LIMITED NATURE OF THE FORWARD GOING MIND.
ATTENTION WORKS BOTH WAYS.
THOUGH there is a world that seems to exist outside
and around us
without the connection to the source we have lost our way.
Bhagavan das Shyam Lescault
LAW is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass & catches all the small ones.
HONORE de BALZAC
NO MASSA IT IS BEST I had no learning for many learned men be great fools.
THOMAS FULLER Negro slave renowned for his mathematical abilities.
A PERSON WHO THINKS all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts.
So, he loses touch with reality & lives in a world of illusions. ALAN WATTS
TO BE ANGRY IS TO REVENGE THE FAULTS OF OTHERS ON OURSELVES.
ALEXANDER POPE
COURAGE IS VERY IMPORTANT. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use.
RUTH GORDON
THE TRICK IN ANY TECHNOLOGY is knowing when to get on the bandwagon, knowing when to push for change & then knowing when it’s dead and time to get off. G. GORDON BELL 1934-2024 “FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT” of computers.
YOU LOOK AT EVERY U.S. WAR & it’s the same. We create regrets.
Col. Robert Waltemeyer
WE ARE ALL VERY INDIVIDUAL. You have to find out what you can do best & be self-conscious about that. JOSHUA LEDERBERG
RUMI
I SOMETIMES FORGET THAT I WAS CREATED FOR JOY.
MY MIND IS TOO BUSY.
MY HEART IS TOO HEAVY
FOR ME TO REMEMBER THAT I HAVE BEEN CALLED TO DANCE
THE SACRED DANCE OF LIFE.
I WAS CREATED TO SMILE
TO LOVE
TO BE LIFTED UP AND TO LIFT OTHERS UP.
O’ SACRED ONE UNTANGLE MY FEET FROM ALL THAT TRAP
FREE MY SOUL.
THAT WE MIGHT DANCE & OUR DANCING MIGHT BE INFECTIOUS.
MARY POPE OSBORNE 1949— “MAGIC TREE HOUSE” 134 MILLION COPIES
MY IMAGINATION IS CLOSER TO A CHILD’S IMAGINATION THAN TO A GROWN-UP’S.
I DISCOVERED writing children’s books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child.
I GET IDEAS from my own personal experiences — from my imagination and from my research and from old stories.
I LOVE USING MY IMAGINATION. I LOVE WRITING ABOUT ANIMALS.
WITH MY WRITING I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.
JOHN STUART MILL 1806-1873–“On Liberty””Utilitarianism” “System of Logic”
ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT TRUE THAT ALL CONSERVATIVES ARE STUPID PEOPLE — IT IS TRUE THE MOST STUPID PEOPLE ARE CONSERVATIVES.
M SCOTT PECK 1036-2005–“The Road Less Traveled””People of the Lie”
SHARE OUR SIMILARITIES — CELBRATE OUR DIFFERENCES.
JOSEPH BRODSKY 1940-1996 “A Stop in the Desert””On Grief & Reason”.
HOW DELIGHTFUL TO FIND A FRIEND IN EVERYONE.
SNOBBERY? BUT IT’S ONLY A FORM OF DESPAIR.
A MAN IS, AFTER ALL, WHAT HE LOVES.
IT IS WELL TO READ EVERYTHING OF SOMETHING & SOMETHING OF EVERYTHING.
BY FAILING TO READ OR LISTEN TO POETS, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan . . . in other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.
THE REAL HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS STARTS WITH ONE’S FIRST LIE.
POETRY seems to be the only weapon able to beat language — using language’s own means.
EVIL is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies &balanced sheets.
EVERY INDIVIDUAL ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.