Some foods for thought:
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off? (all is vanity?)
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), 'Black Power: A Form of Godly Power,' 1967
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Animal Farm"
It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence.
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.
Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994
What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes? Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why? I don't know. Biological imperative? Divine law? Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other? In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
I dont think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off? (all is vanity?)
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), 'Black Power: A Form of Godly Power,' 1967
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Animal Farm"
It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence.
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.
Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994
What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes? Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why? I don't know. Biological imperative? Divine law? Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other? In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
I dont think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
