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.”
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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.

the mighty seek to secure their position with blood (police), with cunning (fashion), with magic (pomp).

walter benjamin, arcades project, [e5a, 7]

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin (1924-1987)

Look upon every day as the whole of life, not merely as a section; and enjoy and improve the present without wishing, through haste, to rush on to another.

Jean Paul Richter

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen."
----
Robert Jarvik (1946-) U.S. physician and inventor - designed the Jarvik-7 artificial heart in 1972.

Look upon every day as the whole of life, not merely as a section; and enjoy and improve the present without wishing, through haste, to rush on to another.

Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Edward de Bono

Go to nature

-Bill Hicks

To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born.

A. P. Gouthey

Doubt is the dark beast of the imagination
creativity, it's angelic other.

-BK Lee

One should know the value of Life better than to pout any part of it away.

Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821) Memoirist

if the music is loud enough, you cant hear the world collapse

derek jarman

Most of the critical things in life, which become the starting points of human destiny, are the little things.

Robert P. Smith

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope."
----
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) English politician - Prime Minister (1940-45,1951-55); rallied British people during World War II; awarded Nobel Prize for Literature (1953).

The mind should be at peace but the heart debauches it perpetually.

~Marie de Sévigné

Supple Cow, good one. Thanks.
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The recipe for well-being, then, requires neither positive nor negative thinking alone, but a mix of ample optimism to provide hope, a dash of pessimism to prevent complacency, and enough realism to discriminate those things we can control from those we cannot.

David G. Myers
Psychologist and educator

There is always something somewhere that needs to be done. Work is never ending. Grab a shovel and get busy. When you think your finished you have just stopped looking. I salute those who toil in any profession and those who recognize that the relentless pursuit of excellence in toil on a daily basis is the foundation for success in whatever you choose to endeavor. Work. Don't let them tell you that it can't be done.

:thumbsup:

Naïveté is not a failure to understand that things go wrong when your heart and mind are not in the right place; it is the belief that if they are in the right place, things won't go wrong anyway.

Supple Cow

everything is always the same except composition and as the composition is different and always going to be different everything is not the same.

gertrude stein

Good one rb. GS is a quotemine!
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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Clifton Fadiman (1904-1999)
Writer and editor

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.



Annie Dillard

Our dreams are a second life.
-Gerard de Nerval

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

~Nietzsche

heh, good one, guccilvr.

"For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad."
----
Edwin Way Teale (1899-1980) U.S. naturalist and author - won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Wandering Through Winter (1965).

The living language is like a cow-path: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay.

~E.B. White, writer (1899-1985)

Some great quotes lately, Supple Cow! Thanks.

One element of maturity is the realization that we don’t get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

Hugh Prather

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

Two thoughts about aging...

"If you are young and are not liberal, then you don't have a heart. If you are old and are not conservative, then you don't have a brain."

Winston Churchill


Also...

"When I was younger, I admired smart people. Now that I'm older, I admire kind people."

...unable to find who said this, sorry

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.

~Antonio Porchia, writer (1886-1968)

Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.

-Federico Fellini (1920-1993)

after having held up the departure of a whole army because of a childish whim to make the trip from paris to brest in a litter, she now had to put her mind to more important things.

alejo carpentier, "the kingdom of this world"

fine fellini quote, art.......

Thanks roachboy, I agree. It's a good one.
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"Pressure makes diamonds."

General George Patton (1885-1945)

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

"Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees."
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Karle Wilson Baker (1878-1960)
U.S. poet - essayist, short story writer and teacher; her poetry collections include Blue Smoke (1919) and Burning Bush (1922); wrote novel Family Style (1937).

"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it as I shall not pass this way again."

- William Penn

We have two ears, but only one mouth, so that we may listen more and talk less.

-Zeno (c. 334-262 B.C.)

I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.


Christopher Reeve

"When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks. "

-Bob Dylan

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

Kenny Ausubel
Journalist and entrepreneur

Immature love is when you want the other to be happy when they're with you- real love is when you want the other to be happy period.

Some men still have their first dollar. The man who is really rich is the one who still has his first friend.

Author unknown

We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.

~Agnes Meyer

"We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language."
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Joyce Carol Oates

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

God judges political power, calling it the great harlot. We can expect from it neither justice, nor truth, nor any good -- only distruction. Jacques Ellul Anarchy and Christianity

"Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top."
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Paul Coffey - NHL's highest scoring defenseman; winner of four Stanley Cups; inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2004

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

~Ovid

The successful people are the ones who can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Don Marquis (1878-1937)

The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will
produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and
enriched with foreign matter.

~Joshua Reynolds, painter (1723-1792)

My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling
yeast.

~Miguel de Unamuno, writer and philosopher (1864-1936)

"There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer."

-Gertrude Stein

"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say
and then don't say it."

- Sam Levenson

There is no need to go searching for a remedy for the evils of the time. The remedy already exists--it is the gift of one’s self to those who have fallen so low that even hope fails them.

Rene Bazin

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

H. L. Hunt

this quote seems to fit my thinking..........thanx Art

"When angry count to four; when very angry, swear"--Mark Twain

where are my pants.....?

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
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Wayne Gretzky