But when the night is falling
And you cannot find the light
If you feel your dream is dying
Hold tight
You've got the music in you
Don't let go
You've got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don't give up
You've got a reason to live
Can't forget you only get what you give

New Radicals

A man is only as faithful as his options.

Chris Rock

“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”
----
Bobby Unser (1934-) U.S. auto racer - three-time Indianapolis 500 winner

"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."
- Unknown

"I often wonder in how many pictures around the world I stand as nothing but a background to someone elses memory"

-Myself

"Follow your bliss and you will be aided by a thousand helping hands."

Joseph Campbell

"I can fix everything but a broken heart...and those I just have to kiss and make it feel better.."

My dad....

DSmith67 - that is a fascinating and very original thought. Thanks!

What is noble can be said in any language, and what is mean should be said in none.

Moses Ben Maimon (1135-1204)
Philosopher, physician, and scholar

There’s a very thin line between successful people and unsuccessful ones; crossing over to the successful side requires only a subtle evolution in mindset.

Gary Gabel
Infinite Learning

I see racism as a big joke. Come everybody, let's laugh at it. - Myself

Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carver (c. 1864-1943)
Botanist

"This is MY world! You all just background"
- thoughts from my 15 month lil girl

your all a bunch of fucking slaves

jim morrison, and me

there's always a solution to every problem.

People amaze me with their immaturity sometimes.

If you don' like it, you can't have any."

Church of all Worlds

Opportunity is a moving target, and the bigger the opportunity, the faster it moves.

Richard Gaylord Briley

Everything can in some way kill you!

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."

-Stephen Hawking

"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely."

Lorraine Hansberry

Pay attention to where you are going or you will end up in Chinatown. - said after missing my bus stop and finding myself in Chinatown instead of Midtown.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

~Charles Evans Hughes

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

- Dorothy Nevill (1826-1913) Writer

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

-Ayn Rand

The basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue and value.

Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice - which means: self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction - which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good.

-- Ayn Rand, "Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World," Philosophy: Who Needs It

A bit beyond perception's reach
I sometimes believe I see
that life is two locked boxes
each containing the other's key.

~Piet Hien

I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph-collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and night, who used other people's dreams for their lives.

ray bradbury--the martian chronicles

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

Any alleged "right" of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation, an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as "the right to enslave."

-- Ayn Rand, "Man's Rights," The Virtue of Selfishness

What is the use of running when we are on the wrong road?

Bavarian proverb

i jus wanna go to court and be on the plantiff side for once

- myles

A "whim" is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

-- Ayn Rand, "The Objectivist Ethics," The Virtue of Selfishness

This epochal coalescence has far-reaching consequences for the social relations of the built environment. In the first place, the market privision of 'security' generates its own paranoid demand.'Security' becomes a positional good defined by income access to private 'protective services' and membership in some hardened residential enclave or restricted suburb. As a prestige symbol--and sometimes as the decisive borderline between the merely well-off and the 'truly rich'---'security' has less to do with personal safety than with the degree of personal insulation, in residential, work, consumption and travel environments, from 'unsavory' groups and individuals, even crowds in general.

Mike Davis, City of Quartz, 224

"Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no idea is so overlooked as one that's unthinkable."

~Paul Graham, "What You Can't Say," Hackers & Painters

An individualist is a man who says: "I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone - nor sacrifice anyone to myself."

-- Ayn Rand, "Textbook of Americanism

People who live in glass houses have to answer the bell.

Bruce Patterson

The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.

~Mahatma Gandhi

“Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.”
----
Nolan Bushnell

ARTelevision, what a wonderful thought. One that every person regardless of their situation, can relate to.