With or Without You, I Go On
With or without compassion,
Understanding,
Sanctity,
Love,
I go on.
With or without consent,
Support,
Favour,
A plan,
I go on.
With or without strength,
Courage,
Wisdom,
Serenity,
I go on.
With or without devotion,
Integrity,
Passion,
Tolerance,
I go on.
With or without adversity,
Perseverance,
Resilience,
You,
I go on.
~Kristine Hurt
December 29, 2011
I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy, than be a success at something I hate. ~ Unknown
December 28, 2011
The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe. ~ H. L. Mencken
December 26, 2011
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. ~ Victor Hugo
December 25, 2011
For never in this world
Do hatreds cease by hatred.
By freedom from hatred they cease:
This is the eternal dhamma.
~ Dhammapada 5
Do hatreds cease by hatred.
By freedom from hatred they cease:
This is the eternal dhamma.
~ Dhammapada 5
December 23, 2011
In depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus
December 21, 2011
All people have the right to stupidity but some abuse the privilege. ~ Michael Katzer
December 19, 2011
Dear, never forget one little point. You just work here. ~ Elizabeth Arden, to her husband
December 18, 2011
It will not do to leave a live dragon out of your plans if you live near one. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien (from "The Hobbit")
December 17, 2011
Re-examine all that you've been told in school, or in church, or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul. ~ Walt Whitman
December 16, 2011
A right is not what someone gives you; its what no one can take from you. ~ Ramsey Clark
December 15, 2011
Its a good idea to keep your words soft and sweet. You never know when you may have to eat them. ~ Unknown
December 14, 2011
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
December 13, 2011
Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. Hate me because I'm beautiful AND your boyfriend wants to fuck me. ~ Unknown
December 12, 2011
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ~ Alice Walker
December 11, 2011
Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details:
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it: all is one.
And yet everything comes in season.
~ Heraklietos of Ephesos
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it: all is one.
And yet everything comes in season.
~ Heraklietos of Ephesos
December 10, 2011
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. ~ G. K. Chesterton
December 06, 2011
The cause of every war in the world can be traced back to one of four things: prejudice, land, belief, and the British. ~ Unknown
December 04, 2011
Creationists make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. ~ Isaac Asimov
December 03, 2011
A man had to do what a man had to do. And so had a woman. ~ Maeve Binchy (from "Silver Wedding")
December 02, 2011
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. But it still needs to be mowed. ~ Unknown
December 01, 2011
So, you guys wanna hear a Black Flag song? Four words: Before. You. Were. Born. The last time I was here with Black Flag, I was getting beer bottles thrown at my balls and white people were beating up black people. You guys didn't even have a hair on your nuts! ~ Henry Rollins, at a Rollins Band gig in Austin, Texas, 13 June 1997.
November 30, 2011
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. ~ John Stuart Mill
November 29, 2011
We're all a little weird. And life's a little weird. And when we find someone who's weirdness is compatible to ours, we join up with them and fall into a mutually satisfying weirdness and call it love, true love. ~ Unknown
November 28, 2011
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. ~ H. Jackson Browne
November 27, 2011
The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well. ~ J. D. Roosevelt
November 25, 2011
At least he has some ideals, however misplaced and mad. ~ Maeve Binchy (from "Silver Wedding")
November 24, 2011
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
November 23, 2011
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. ~ Albert Einstein
November 22, 2011
You know your childhood is over when a puddle seems like an obstacle instead of an opportunity. ~ Unknown
November 21, 2011
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding landmines. ~ Amy Tan (from "The Kitchen God's Wife")
November 20, 2011
God is on every one's side... and in the last analysis, He is on the side with plenty of money and large armies. ~ Jean Anouilh
November 18, 2011
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorence. ~ Frederick Douglass
November 17, 2011
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. ~ Archimedes
November 15, 2011
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. ~ Bertrand Russell
November 11, 2011
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. ~ Harriet Woods
November 09, 2011
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. ~ Orville Wright
November 06, 2011
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. ~ Anais Nin
November 04, 2011
March 06, 1989. Linz, Austria: Sometimes you hit these situations where all you can do is endure, take it minute by minute. ~ Henry Rollins (from "Black Coffee Blues")
November 01, 2011
My goal in life is to not wake up at the age of 40 with a bitter realization that I've wasted my entire life at a job that I hate because I was forced to decide on a career in my teens. ~ Unknown
October 31, 2011
Women complain about pre-menstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself. ~ Rosanne Barr
October 30, 2011
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classified with the fable of the generations of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. ~ Thomas Jefferson
October 29, 2011
The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes when they do. ~ Malcolm Forbes
October 28, 2011
Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. ~ Dave Barry
October 27, 2011
I've learned that just because someone doesn't love you in the way that you want, it doesn't mean they don't love you with all that they have. ~ Unknown
October 26, 2011
You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace yourself. ~ Douglas Adams
October 25, 2011
We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and most are different colours. But they all have to learn to live in the same box. ~ Unknown
October 24, 2011
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ~ George Orwell
October 23, 2011
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. ~ Paul Tillich
October 22, 2011
Its not that I'm so smart. Its just that I stay with problems longer. ~ Albert Einstein
October 21, 2011
You can get away with a lot of shit if it looks like that's all you know how to do. ~ Henry Rollins (from "Get in the Van")
October 17, 2011
It was once said that it is better to have loved and lost than have never loved at all. This is not entirely true. It is neither better nor worse. Both hurt and both are, in their own separate ways, unbearable. ~ Cristoph Lamarte
October 16, 2011
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. ~ Abraham Lincoln
October 15, 2011
The truth is not in the words we speak. It is not in the actions that we present before others. The truth is in our hearts and in no way can it ever be fully explained. ~ Unknown
October 13, 2011
It doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defence. I don't call it violence when its self-defence. I call it intelligence. ~ Malcolm X
October 12, 2011
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~ Aristotle
October 10, 2011
Anyone can pretend to be serious. But its almost impossible to be funny. ~ Robin Williams
October 09, 2011
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. ~ Winston Churchill
October 07, 2011
You do not set the standard. You have not walked in my footsteps, danced in my shoes, or lived in my world. Do not judge me, point your fingers at me, or become experts on my life. Instead celebrate with me in times of joy and cry with me in times of pain. Only then will we begin to understand each other. ~ Kate Baker
October 04, 2011
How to Stay Young
Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight, and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her.
Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
Enjoy the simple things.
Laugh often, long, and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
Surround yourself with what you love, whether its family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
Cherish your health. If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, not NOT to where the guilt is.
Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
And always remember: life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
~ George Carlin
Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight, and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her.
Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
Enjoy the simple things.
Laugh often, long, and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
Surround yourself with what you love, whether its family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
Cherish your health. If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, not NOT to where the guilt is.
Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
And always remember: life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
~ George Carlin
October 03, 2011
Do not build walls for they are dangerous. Learn to transcend them.
Live in the moment, for each one is precious and not to be squandered.
Take care of yourself, first and foremost.
Drop the ego. Be real. And watch what happens.
All things are possible, all of the time.
Maintain Universal Flow. When someone gives, it is an act of generosity to receive. For in the giving, there is something gained.
~ Joan Bradly (from "God on a Harley")
Live in the moment, for each one is precious and not to be squandered.
Take care of yourself, first and foremost.
Drop the ego. Be real. And watch what happens.
All things are possible, all of the time.
Maintain Universal Flow. When someone gives, it is an act of generosity to receive. For in the giving, there is something gained.
~ Joan Bradly (from "God on a Harley")
October 01, 2011
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief.
So dawn goes down today.
Nothing gold can stay.
~ Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief.
So dawn goes down today.
Nothing gold can stay.
~ Robert Frost
September 29, 2011
I don't wish to be admired by someone's heart -- I wish to be admired by someone's head. ~ Ayn Rand (from "Atlas Shrugged")
September 28, 2011
Nessa didn't know exactly what she wanted, but she knew very definitely that it was something different to what she had got. She would never be able to please her mother, no matter what she did. ~ Maeve Binchy (from "The Copper Beach")
September 27, 2011
The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off everything and let the problem solve itself? ~ Unknown
September 26, 2011
Never pass up anything that is free, except candy from a stranger and sex from a prostitute. ~ Adam Tardiff
September 23, 2011
I just wanted security and a little house and a bit of cash in the pocket. That was all, really. I was pathetic, but that was it. I knew my limits. ~ Michael Collins (from " Emerald Underground")
September 22, 2011
Don't let anyone, even your parents, break you. Find good people who care about you and surround yourself with just them. If you can't find them at first, find good music and fall into it, let it hold you until they come. ~ Davey Havok
September 21, 2011
The Road of Life
I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being, let me do it now.
Let me not neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
~Ettiene De Grellet
I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being, let me do it now.
Let me not neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
~Ettiene De Grellet
September 20, 2011
I am neither especially clever, nor especially gifted. Just very, very curious. ~ Albert Einstein
September 18, 2011
Democracy is only a dream; it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. ~ H. L. Mencken
September 17, 2011
Just remember there is no true shining knight, not in the sense that women look for. What comes riding along is more like Don Quixote. His armour is battered, misshapen, scratched, he wears a shaving basin for a helmet; however, it is his spirit that shines like a true knight. ~ John Rabon
September 16, 2011
If you really have a lot on your mind, and you really want to do something with yourself... hating someone is giving them too much. Just leave them alone. Its like when someone wants to hand you a big pile of horseshit. You don't have to take it. ~ Henry Rollins
September 15, 2011
They say you only live once. If you live like I do, once is enough. ~ Frank Sinatra
September 12, 2011
I have no war to fight, no great depression. My war is a spiritual one, my great depression is my life. ~ Chuck Palahniuk
September 11, 2011
The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific/technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years. That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defense against the dangerous new knowledge. When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. Unfortunately, you cannot reason with them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity. ~ G Gaia
September 10, 2011
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it... always. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
September 09, 2011
Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
September 07, 2011
And it is a mark of prudence never to trust wholly in those things which have once deceived us. ~ Rene Descartes
September 04, 2011
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. ~ Richard Francis Burton
September 02, 2011
I am always ready to learn; but I do not always like being taught. ~ Winston Churchill
September 01, 2011
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ~ B. F. Skinner
August 29, 2011
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. ~ Dale Carnegie
August 27, 2011
If you're bored with life - if you don't get up in the morning with a burning desire to do things - you haven't enough goals. ~ Lou Holtz
August 26, 2011
To show hate is to show you still care. Who needs that? Focus on what's really important. ~ Henry Rollins
August 24, 2011
Black belt? Yes, I have a black belt that covers only two inches of my butt. The rest I've got to cover on my own. ~ Royce Gracie, Jiu-jitsu master
August 22, 2011
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. ~ Jack Layton
August 20, 2011
You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven. ~ Jimi Hendrix
August 19, 2011
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
August 18, 2011
Dearest Catherine, beware how you give your heart. ~ Jane Austen (from "Northanger Abbey")
August 17, 2011
Invincible is merely a word to describe someone who has nothing to lose. ~ Matt Hutchinson
August 14, 2011
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ~ Susan Ertz
August 13, 2011
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidante... my depression is the most faithful mistress I have known... no wonder, then, that I return the love. ~ Soren Kierkegaard
August 12, 2011
But it would be nice to have someone to come home to in the evening. Someone who was interested and in your corner, someone who would fight your battles. ~ Maeve Binchy (from "Tara Road")
August 11, 2011
Mom, romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. ~ Lisa, The Simpsons
August 10, 2011
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. ~ Rene Descartes
August 09, 2011
You don't have to be your mother unless she is who you want to be. You do not have to be your mother's mother or even your mother's mother's mother. You may inherit their chins, or their hips, or their eyes, bu you are not destined to become the women who came before you. So if you inherit something, inherit their strength. If you inherit something, inherit their resilience. Because the only person you are destined to be is the person you decide to be. ~ Unknown
August 08, 2011
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ~ Albert Einstein
August 06, 2011
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, and a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, and they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. ~ Muhammad Ali
August 04, 2011
Practice doesn't make perfect, nor is it supposed to. Practice is about increasing your repertoire of ways to recover from your mistakes. ~ Joann C. Gutin
August 03, 2011
To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence. ~ Sun Tzu
August 01, 2011
Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism. True democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the centre. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
July 29, 2011
Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and ofttimes we call a man cold when he is only sad. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
July 28, 2011
People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer. ~ Andrew Smith
July 27, 2011
His Holiness The Dalai Lama's Good Karma Instructions for Life
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risks.
When you loose, don't loose the lesson.
Follow the three R's:
respect for self
respect for others
responsibility for all your actions
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
Spend some time alone every day.
Open arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
Share your knowledge. Its a way to achieve immortality.
Be gentle with the earth.
Once a year, go somewhere you've never been.
Remember that the best relationship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Judge your successes by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risks.
When you loose, don't loose the lesson.
Follow the three R's:
respect for self
respect for others
responsibility for all your actions
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
Spend some time alone every day.
Open arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
Share your knowledge. Its a way to achieve immortality.
Be gentle with the earth.
Once a year, go somewhere you've never been.
Remember that the best relationship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Judge your successes by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
July 25, 2011
The strongest human instinct is to impart information. The second strongest is to resist it. ~ Kenneth Grahame
July 24, 2011
Do not believe in anything simply because you heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observations and analysis, when you find anything with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. ~ Buddha
July 22, 2011
If you hate your parents, the man, or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and hitting your car into a tree. If you really hate your parents, out earn them, out live them, and know more. ~ Henry Rollins
July 20, 2011
I may disagree strongly with all you have said, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~ Voltaire
July 19, 2011
Turning eighteen years old makes you legal. It does not mean you are an adult. ~ Unknown
July 18, 2011
If we kill every person who ruins this world, would that be wrong or would it be justifiable genocide? ~ Kevin Blonske
July 14, 2011
Let me savour this time.Let me capture this moment.
We've come this far to find that without a wind in the fire, the burning can smoulder.
Don't let this feeling die,
I don't ever want to loose it...
~Amy Grant
We've come this far to find that without a wind in the fire, the burning can smoulder.
Don't let this feeling die,
I don't ever want to loose it...
~Amy Grant
July 13, 2011
No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew. ~ Albert Einstein
July 11, 2011
Class never runs scared. It is sure footed and confident and it can handle whatever comes along.
Class has a sense of humour. It knows a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations.
Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes.
Class knows good manners are nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
Class bespeaks an aristocracy unrelated to ancestors or money. A blue blood can be totally without class while the son o f a Welsh miner may ooze class from every pore.
Class can "walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch."
Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because he is comfortable with himself.
~Ann Landers
Class has a sense of humour. It knows a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations.
Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes.
Class knows good manners are nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
Class bespeaks an aristocracy unrelated to ancestors or money. A blue blood can be totally without class while the son o f a Welsh miner may ooze class from every pore.
Class can "walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch."
Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because he is comfortable with himself.
~Ann Landers
July 09, 2011
May you have the foresight to know where you're going, the hindsight to know where you've been, and the insight to know when you've gone too far. ~ Irish Toast
July 08, 2011
If you cannot fly, run; if you cannot run, walk; if you cannot walk, crawl. But keep moving. Keep moving. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
July 07, 2011
As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it. ~ Jane Austen (from "Northanger Abbey")
July 06, 2011
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ~ His Holiness, the Dalai Lama
July 05, 2011
Remember, when life throws you lemons... genetically re-engineer the lemon tree to eliminate taste compatibility issues, using the profits to increase personal gain and eventually dominate the citrus market. ~ Unknown
July 03, 2011
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell his own way. ~ Robert Frost
July 02, 2011
Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
~ Swedish proverb
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
~ Swedish proverb
June 30, 2011
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ~ Jane Austen ( from "Northanger Abbey")
June 29, 2011
Bebop was about change, about evolution. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change. ~ Miles Davis
June 27, 2011
Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 1997... wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.
The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advise has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
I will dispense this advise now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really look.
You are NOT as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, its only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't, maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't, maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself, either. Your choices are have chance, so are everybody else's. Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or what other people think of it, its the greatest instrument you'll ever own.
Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings; they are your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography in lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you will get, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair, or by the time you are 40 it will look 85.
Be careful whose advise you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advise is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than its worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.
~Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 1997... wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.
The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advise has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
I will dispense this advise now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really look.
You are NOT as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, its only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't, maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't, maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself, either. Your choices are have chance, so are everybody else's. Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or what other people think of it, its the greatest instrument you'll ever own.
Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings; they are your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography in lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you will get, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair, or by the time you are 40 it will look 85.
Be careful whose advise you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advise is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than its worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.
~Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune
June 23, 2011
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. ~ Kahil Gibran
June 22, 2011
At one time or another I have insulted everybody and I am proud of that. Folks, let me sum it up for you: I think religion is bad, and drugs are good. I think America causes cancer, longevity is less important than fun and young people should be discouraged from voting. I think stereotypes are true, abstinence is a perversion, Bush's lies are worse than Clinton's, and there is nothing sexy about being old or pregnant. I think 9-11 changed nothing, and if I had known the onset of war would add a hundred points onto Bush's I.Q., I would have started one. I think pornography stops rape, I think AIDS ribbons are stupid, and a flag burning makes me feel patriotic. I think death is not the worst thing that can happen. I think people have too much self-esteem, and being drunk is funny. I think children are not innocent, God doesn't write books, and Jesus wasn't a republican. I am for mad cow disease, and against suing tobacco companies. I think girls hate each other, no doesn't always mean no, you have to lie to stay married, women's sports are boring, and the Olympics are gay. We'll be on for another six weeks here on ABC... ~ Bill Maher, prior to ABC cancelling his show
June 21, 2011
To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. ~ Unknown
June 20, 2011
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. ~ Dolly Parton
June 19, 2011
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. ~ Seneca
June 18, 2011
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can possibly go. ~ T. S. Eliot
June 17, 2011
There comes a point where you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just means you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are and sometimes in spite of it. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton (from " Anita Blake: Incubus Dreams")
June 13, 2011
I Am Me
In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically me because I alone chose it.
I own everything about me; my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions,whether they be to others or to myself.
I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears.
I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me.
By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know.
But as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and for ways to find out more about me.
However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me.
If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded.
I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me.
I own me, and therefore I can engineer me. I am me and I am OK.
~ Virginia Satir
In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically me because I alone chose it.
I own everything about me; my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions,whether they be to others or to myself.
I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears.
I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me.
By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know.
But as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and for ways to find out more about me.
However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me.
If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded.
I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me.
I own me, and therefore I can engineer me. I am me and I am OK.
~ Virginia Satir
June 12, 2011
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination. ~ Mark Twain
June 10, 2011
It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as a lamb. ~ Roman proverb
June 08, 2011
I imagine the reason that people hold on to hatred so stubbornly is because if the hate is removed, the pain will set in. ~ James Baldwin
June 05, 2011
Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the Church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. ~ Unknown
June 04, 2011
I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. ~ Madonna
June 01, 2011
His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may sometimes be a gain. ~ Jane Austen (from "Northanger Abbey")
May 29, 2011
Religion is truly inspirational. After all, it has be inspiring fear and hatred for centuries. ~ Mike Hutchinson
May 28, 2011
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. ~ Jane Austen
May 26, 2011
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, in spite of yourself. ~ Victor Hugo
May 20, 2011
Of course, people often say things out of jealousy, because they are not secure in themselves. ~ Maeve Binchy (from " The Glass Lake")
May 19, 2011
Go without a coat when its cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what its all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define your character. ~ Henry Rollins
May 15, 2011
If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers. ~ Steve Allen
May 14, 2011
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. ~ George Bernard Shaw
May 13, 2011
In short, the things he did were done because it was easier to do them than not to do them. ~ Jack London (from "The Call of the Wild")
May 11, 2011
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ~ Bertrand Russell
May 09, 2011
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people do that, but the really great make you feel you, too, can become great. ~ Mark Twain
May 08, 2011
The Gospel of Thomas threatens the status quo of conservative, literal Christianity -- the enemies of Gnosticism -- who have done everything they can to make the Gospel of Thomas disappear again, by declaring it Gnostic and therefore heretical. There is no Gnostic theorising in Thomas -- it is more likely to have been written at the time of the canonical gospels and maybe even earlier. Thomas, if anything, is anti-Gnostic, with its emphasis on the presence of the Kingdom of Heaven within the world now... Gnosticism emphatically insisted that the Kingdom of Heaven is to be found in the highest sphere above the world and certainly not here among the archons. ~ Stevan Davis
May 07, 2011
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts. ~ Bill Vaughan
May 06, 2011
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ~ Joseph Conrad
May 05, 2011
Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky. ~ Dogen
May 02, 2011
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is all comprehensible. -- Albert Einstein
May 01, 2011
The positive power of virtue is enormous. When we don't live by these precepts, it is said we live like wild beasts; without them, all other spiritual practice is a sham. Imagine trying to sit down to meditate after a day of lying and stealing. Then imagine what a different world this would be if everyone kept one precept -- not to kill, not to lie, or not to steal. We would truly create a new world order. ~ Jack Kornfield ( from "A Path With Heart")
April 29, 2011
The world will never be truly free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. ~ Voltaire
April 25, 2011
Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly perfectly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. In the same way many human institutions are turned over to grossly inferior men. This is true, for example, of most universities, and of all great newspapers. ~ H. L. Mencken
April 24, 2011
God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me. ~ Marquis de Sade
April 19, 2011
Follow your heart and you'll be fine. Follow your dreams; they're the key to everything. ~ Unknown
April 18, 2011
By the age of ten I knew I was different. I didn't need to convince anyone else to know the truth of it. ~ Ann Brasher (from "My Name Is Memory")
April 17, 2011
The Buddha didn't describe his awakening as an awakening to some absolute truth or absolute reality, perhaps comparable to God as we would find in other religious traditions. Instead, what he woke up to is the unfolding of the phenomenal world itself. This I think is what is so radical in the Buddha’s understanding of spiritual experience. It doesn’t have to do with gaining some privileged access to a higher truth that somehow transcends the messiness of everyday life. Rather, his awakening was an awakening to the flux and the flow, the pain, the beauty, the tragedy, and the joy of life itself. ~ Stephen Batchelor (from "Awakening to Life, Awakening to Death")
April 16, 2011
Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it. ~ Maya Angelou
April 15, 2011
Sometimes you need to hang on to someone else's hope, someone else's peace and sanity while your's is under siege. Do it. Courage, hope, faith, sanity, peace... they all come and go. Borrow them from someone else's supply until your own comes back in. ~ Linda Mundy
April 14, 2011
Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. Its about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater. ~ Nicholas Evans (from "The Horse Whisperer")
April 13, 2011
There are too many jokes made at the expense of opera. ~ Unknown (from "What People on the Tube are Saying, May 23, 2002")
April 11, 2011
Never over look the power of simplicity. ~ Robin Sharma (from "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Remarkable Story About Living Your Dreams")
April 10, 2011
Sitting by a teapot in a room bathed with pure breezes and moonbeams, one can read the mind of Heaven in every thing. Walking along a running brook in the clouded mountain, one can observe the mysteries of Tao in every moment. ~ Hung Ying-ming
April 09, 2011
The Sahara Desert is like no other place I've ever been. It's trippy. It is in a way a living thing. It is beautiful and brutal. It is like space or the sea, its is huge and it doesn't care what happens to you when you're in it. ~ Henry Rollins
April 08, 2011
I don't have an attitude problem; you have a perception problem. ~ Scott Adams, as Dilbert
April 07, 2011
He's the type who makes mountains out of molehills and then sells climbing equipment. ~ Ivern Ball
April 06, 2011
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ~ Abba Eban
April 04, 2011
Imagination is more important than knowledge for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world. ~ Albert Einstein
April 03, 2011
Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise. ~ Unknown (Adorns a lintel in the Shakespeare and Company bookshop, Paris)
March 31, 2011
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. ~ Scott Adams
March 30, 2011
If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart. ~ Marlene vos Savant
March 29, 2011
No guy is worth your tears, and if you find one who is, he won't make you cry. ~ Unknown
March 28, 2011
I pulled an arm away because I didn't want to hear this. I actually needed to feel I was alone. Why did I need the grief of others? Wasn't mine enough? Why did I need to feel that this abandonment was plural, when it was heavy enough singular? The best way ahead that I could see was to drag this thing off and digest it on my own, like a python with an outsized kill. ~ Sebastian Faulks (from "Engleby")
March 27, 2011
Everyone can understand that being human, you want a happy life, a happy family, to be a happy individual. But material things will not provide you with genuine inner peace or inner happiness. Human values are essential. We must find a way to present basic human values to everyone—and present them not as religious matters but as secular ethics that are essential whether you are religious or not. ~ The Dalai Lama, (from "Ethics for a Secular Millennium")
March 26, 2011
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. ~ Marie Beynon Ray
March 25, 2011
I began to observe other people. I noticed quite a few who define themselves by the drama that surrounds them, and then there are those who think being a victim is the way to get people to love you. Some like to belittle in order to feel superior, while others charge into the world with way too much audacity, a sure sign of insecurities ahead. This is not to say that I don't recognize myself in each and every one of the aforementioned traits. But I do know that my yoga practice has helped with the ongoing task of removing many of my masks. It has also helped me realize that each new day is another opportunity to bravely chose not to define myself, or let myself be defined, by negativity in any form.
And so it is that my perceptions have begun to shift. Maybe its not that I'm hiding things, maybe I'm simply handling them. ~ Rita Trieger
And so it is that my perceptions have begun to shift. Maybe its not that I'm hiding things, maybe I'm simply handling them. ~ Rita Trieger
March 24, 2011
I am the sun. I am the stars. I am the universe. I am very lonely. ~ Unknown (from "What People on the Tube are Saying, May 23, 2002")
March 23, 2011
Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins. ~ Jennifer Donnelly
March 22, 2011
If you can't be a good example, then you will just have to serve as a horrible warning. ~ Unknown
March 20, 2011
Only when the last tree has been felled, the last river poisoned, and the last fish caught, man will know that he cannot eat money. ~ Native American proverb
March 19, 2011
With courage you dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. ~ Keshavan Nair
March 17, 2011
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a sun
In somebody else's sky
But why
Why
Why can't it be
Why can't it be mine
~Eddie Vedder
I know you'll be a sun
In somebody else's sky
But why
Why
Why can't it be
Why can't it be mine
~Eddie Vedder
March 16, 2011
I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humour. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences. ~ David Draiman, lead singer of Disturbed
March 15, 2011
If you think any human system of justice is infallible, then you are ignorant. If you think that no person has been falsely condemned to death, then you are naive. If you think that one innocent person, ripped from their life and their passion and put to death at the hands of the state is in any way justifiable, then you are evil. ~ Joshua W. H. Steiner
March 13, 2011
There is more probability of aliens than there is of god so why is it that when someone says they believe in aliens, they are completely crazy? But if they believe in some all powerful invisible dude in the sky, they are on the road to success? ~ Unknown
March 11, 2011
After a While
After a while you learn
The subtle difference between
Holding a hand and chaining a soul
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
And company doesn't always mean security.
And you begin to learn
That kisses aren't contracts
And presents aren't promises
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes ahead
With the grace of a woman
Not the grief of a child.
And you learn
To build all your roads on today
Because tomorrow's ground is
Too uncertain for plans
And futures have a way
Of falling down in mid flight.
After a while you learn
That even sunshine burns if you get too much
So you plant your own garden
And decorate your own soul
Instead of waiting
For someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn
That you really can endure
That you are really strong
And you really do have worth
And you learn and you learn
With every good bye you learn.
~Veronica A. Shoffstall
After a while you learn
The subtle difference between
Holding a hand and chaining a soul
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
And company doesn't always mean security.
And you begin to learn
That kisses aren't contracts
And presents aren't promises
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes ahead
With the grace of a woman
Not the grief of a child.
And you learn
To build all your roads on today
Because tomorrow's ground is
Too uncertain for plans
And futures have a way
Of falling down in mid flight.
After a while you learn
That even sunshine burns if you get too much
So you plant your own garden
And decorate your own soul
Instead of waiting
For someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn
That you really can endure
That you are really strong
And you really do have worth
And you learn and you learn
With every good bye you learn.
~Veronica A. Shoffstall
March 09, 2011
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be, but before you start pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean. ~ Bob Marley
March 07, 2011
If I knew what is was we were doing, it would not be called "research", would it? ~ Albert Einstein
March 06, 2011
The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
March 05, 2011
With every passing hour our solar system comes 43 000 miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress. ~ Ransom K. Ferm
March 04, 2011
There are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power. ~ Jane Austen (from "Northanger Abbey")
March 03, 2011
NASA spent eight years and twelve billion dollars developing a pen that could write in space. It needed to be able to work in zero gravity, at a range of temperatures, and able to write on any surface.
The Russians used a pencil.
~Unknown
The Russians used a pencil.
~Unknown
March 02, 2011
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
February 28, 2011
Too many times for comfort I have expected to reap good when I know I have sown evil. ~ Maya Angelou (from "Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now")
February 27, 2010
People will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
February 26, 2010
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are so full of doubts. ~ Bertrand Russell
February 21, 2011
Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ~ Albert Einstein
February 20, 2011
I believe there is a god, but I don't believe that to truly believe you must sit with other believers one day a week for two hours. If God is god then I'm sure he/she will not mind if I choose to believe in him/her in my own way. ~ Rudiger Rapin
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