I Give Thanks For This World As A Place To Learn,
And For This Human Body That I'm Glad To Have Earned,
And My Deepest Thanks To All Sentient Beings,
For Without Them There Would Be No Place To Learn What I'm Seeing.

The Beastie Boys - Ill Communication.

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

-Robert Frost

What worries you, masters you.

~ Sophocles

"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today."

-Rotarian

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

~ Erica Jong

He who angers you controls you.

There is no reality, just perception

a friend just sent this anonymous quote to me and it truly touched my heart, brightened my day. . .

And maybe your chest is an empty shell
with ribs of spiraling coral
where a perfect pearl of sadness resides
but if you ever need an ear
i could just come and press it there
listen to the sound of the ocean inside

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."

-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

To perceive is to suffer.

~ Aristotle

I am the Cory Feldman of the porn industry.

Poems about food will not feed the starving nations.

- Erica Jong

I did nothing....and it was everything I ever dreamed it could be.

- Office Space

"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."

-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Laugh

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

~ Greek proverb

"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way."

-Sophocles

"To thine own self be true."

-- William Shakespeare

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

~ Helen Keller

If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.

-William Blake

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

~ Aldous Huxley

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."

-Rabindranath Tagore

The terrible thing about searching for the truth is that sometimes you find it.

We can never find out who we really are, until we are put to test.

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

~ Confucius

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

-Richard Buckminster Fuller

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
-- Mahatma Gandhi

A life unexamined is not worth living.


Aristotle (Plato)

The truth that makes men free is, for the most part, the truth which men prefer not to hear.

~ Herbert Agar

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

-Nelson Henderson

There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow.

~ JFK

Truth is the daughter of time.

~ Aulus Gellius

Some times you just need to change.


Some times you just have to fail.

The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same.

-Heraclitus

"The whloe world is about three drinks behind"

~Humphrey Bogart

Patience is the only virtue that doesn't come naturally to people.

-ARTelevision

Love is not consolation, it is light.

~ Simone Weil