Daily Thoughts
 

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Ken Keyes, Jr. (1921-1995)
Writer

"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."
- Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

This is very appropriate....

"Every end is a new beginning"

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."

-George Bernard Shaw


I've always liked that one.

"So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to work, to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America."

- Thomas Wolfe

Life is fair.


It just you that's being selfish.


World's King

Rain, hail, snow, and ice:
All are different,
But when they fall
They become the same water
As the valley stream.

- Ikkyu (1394-1481)

All in all it's all, just another brick in the wall.

Pink Floyd

INDIFFERENCE.
It Takes 43 muscles to Frown and 17 to Smile, But It Doesn't Take Any To Just Sit There With A Dumb Look On Your Face.

MEDIOCRITY.
It Takes a Lot Less Time and Most People Won't Notice the Difference Until It's Too Late.

PROCRASTINATION.
Hard Work Often Pays Off After Time, but Laziness Always Pays Off Now.

CLUELESSNESS.
There Are No Stupid Questions, But There Are A Lot Of Inquisitive Idiots.

Life would be alot easier with an owner's manual.

-me

communicate and ask questions, observe and make a decision you can live with.
And if all else false, guess.

Before the beginning of great brilliance,
there must be chaos.
Before a brilliant person begins something great,
they must look foolish in the crowd.

- From the I Ching

If at first you dont succeed destroy any evidence that you tried.

Everything can be taken from a man but . . . the last of human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997)
Psychiatrist and Auschwitz survivor

Remember the a la mode.

Imagination is more important than knowledge

- Einstein

listen to all, even the dull and stupid. For they too, have stories to tell.

I might actually begin to put up something of substance, once I get my avatar back, and focus again.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else.

Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness"

my old favorite...

there is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action...

- johann wolfgang von goethe

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Writer

It's very hard to achieve greatness if you don't wear pants all the time...

Trust me on this.

Shit Happens

Forrest Gump

Inside every Goth there is a normal person dying to kick their ass. - SypH

cogito ergo sum...

- rene descartes

The battle against abject stupidity cannot be fought with reason.
-me

“If I don’t know I know then I think I don’t know but, if I don’t know I don’t know then I think I know.”
-R. D. Laing

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.”
-Robert Frost


“Mandrake make me a drink of grain alcohol and rainwater.”
-General Jack Ripper (Dr. Strangelove)

Watch out where the huskies go, and do you eat that yellow snow. Zappa- The Nanook Suite, 1974

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.

Dutch proverb

I am not what I used to be.


I'm far better.

"Rise early, work late, strike oil"



J. Paul Getty

Don't be something that you can't.

Everything that every individual has ever done in all of human history and prehistory establishes the minimum boundary of the possible. The maximum, if any, is completely unknown - John Tooby and Leda Cosmides

Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.

Basho

Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. --G. K. Chesterton

Words are like bullets; if they escape, you can't catch them again.

African proverb

In the battle between the rock and the river, the river will always win. Not through brute strength, but through persistence.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957)
Philosopher and writer

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

Bernadette Devlin
Political activist and member of Parliament

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
Poet

On the verge of change things seem to get worse because we finally see our errors clearly. When we feel stuck, going nowhere - even starting to slip backwards, we may be backing up to get a running start.