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"It is my conviction that it is the intuitive, spiritual aspects of us humans-the inner voice-that gives us the 'knowing,' the peace, and the direction to go through the windstorms of life, not shattered but whole, joining in love and understanding." -Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But railing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home."
-William Wordsworth

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." -Helen Keller

"It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise." ~Nancy Thayer

When concern for others' feelings and welfare is missing, our activities tend to become spoiled. Through lack of basic human feeling, religion, politics, economics, and so on can be rendered dirty. Instead of serving humanity, they become agents of its destruction. Therefore, in addition to developing a sense of universal responsibility, we need actually to be responsible people.

- Dalai Lama -

:glasses:

In 4,000 to 5,000 languages are rhythms:

A wave's pummel,
stirred ocean,
cloud bursts on islands over mountains,
burst of plant greens in loam,
it is spoken in sleep of Earth's name,
all life.

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‎"If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere.” ~ John W Holt Jr.

Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, scenes, foreign travel, new faces, stories, dreams, music, dancing, opium, wine.

When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion--that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet--therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code.

Stephen Covey

“What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.” Dave Barry

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
~last night's fortune cookie

The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.

Rabindranath Tagore

There is in this world no such force as the force
of a person determined to rise.
The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
W.E.B. Du Bois

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains
with the green majesty of a forest.
I too will set my face to the wind
and throw my handful of seed on high.

Fiona MacLeod

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;
the real tragedy is when adults are afraid of the light.
Plato

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
(f)(f)(f)
Jimi Hendrix
American, Musician Quotes

"Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy." -Louisa May Alcott

"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt." -Norman Cousins

"God is the friend of silence.See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...We need silence to be able to touch souls." -Mother Teresa

“Create your own visual style…let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”
~Winston Churchill

A Cowboy´s Life

As soon as you put that hat on, you better be ready for a fist fight.

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

- Groucho Marx

The piano man is right.

I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on. -- Billy Joel

"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn."
~Gore Vidal

An early reminder.

“I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: Why this is Christmas Day!” David Grayson

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” - T.E. Lawrence

“Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.” - Author Unknown

The secret of charm is bullshit. -- Tyrone Power

Use your consciousness as an adventure.
Anonymous

Love is a force. . . . It is not a result;
it is a cause. It is not a product.
It is a power, like money, or steam
or electricity. It is valueless unless you
can give something else by means of it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One of the paradoxes of our time is that
we have more power at our disposal than
ever before, and yet we seem more powerless than ever.

Ralph W. Sockman (1953)

If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kind of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have no security; we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us.

Nena O’Neil

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
Marquis de Sade

Quoting snippets from: The Argument Culture (Tannen, 1998)

Chapter 1 - "Fighting for Our Lives"

"the argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it- in an adversarial from of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done..." (p. 3)

"we hoped to do our part to ameliorate the conflict by focusing on commonalities (in response to a flawed PR campaign) [...] The promise of controversy seems an easy and natural way to rouse interest. But serious consequences are often intended: Stirring up animosities to get a rise out of people, though easy and "provocative," can open old wounds or create new ones that are hard to heal. This is one of many dangers inherent in the argument culture..." (p. 7)

"our determination to pursue truth by setting up a fight between two sides leads us to believe that every issues has two sides - no more, no less: If both sides are given a forum to confront each other, all the relevant information will emerge, and the best case will be made for each side. BUT, opposition does not lead to truth when an issue is not composed of two opposing sides but is a crystal of many sides. Often the truth is in the complex middle, not the over-simplified extremes..." (p. 10)

"What does it matter that our public discourse is filled with military metaphors? Aren't they just words? Why not talk about something that matters - like actions? Because words matter. When we think we are using language, language is using us. As linguist Dwight Bolinger put it (employing a military metaphor), language is like a loaded gun: It can be fired intentionally, but it can wound or kill just as surely when fired accidentally. The terms in which we talk about something shape the way we think about it - and even what we see..." (p. 14)

"it's as if we value a fight for its own sake, not for its effectiveness in resolving disputes. This ethic shows up in many contexts. In a review of a contentious book, for example, a reviewer wrote, "Always provocative, sometimes infuriating, this collection reminds us that the purpose of art s not to confirm and coddle but to provoke and confront." This false dichotomy encapsulates the belief that if you are not provoking and confronting, then you are confirming and coddling - as if there weren't a myriad of other ways to question and learn. What about exploring, exposing, delving, analyzing, understanding, moving, connecting, integrating, illuminating... or any of innumerable verbs that capture other aspects of what art can do?" (p. 23-24)

and finally:

"Philospher JOhn Dewey said, on his ninetieth birthday, "Democracy begins in conversation." In conversation we form the interpersonal ties that bind individuals into a community. In conversation we exchange the many types of information that citizens in a democracy need in order to decide how to vote [...] Of course, it is the responsibility of intellectuals to explore potential weaknesses in others' arguments, and of journalists to represent serious opposition when it exists. BUT, when opposition becomes the overwhelming avenue of inquiry - a formula that requires another side to be found or a criticism to be voiced; when the lust for opposition privileges extreme views and obscures complexity; when our eagerness to find weaknesses blinds us to strengths; when the atmosphere of animosity precludes respect and poisons our relations with one another; then the argument culture is doing more damage than good" (p. 25)

Reference:

Tannen, Deborah. (1998).Fighting for Our Lives. In, The Argument Culture (pp. 3-26). New York, NY: Ballantine Books Publishers.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed. — Christopher Isherwood

Sometimes, not often enough,
We reflect upon the good things;
And those thoughs always center around those we love.
And I think about those people who mean so much to me;
And for so many years have made me so very happy.
And I count the times I have forgotten to say 'thank you',
And just how much I love them.

~The Carpenters, "Sometimes"

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

~Benjamin Disraeli

She's a diamond that wants to stay coal. Tom Waits

The Thin Man (1934)

Nora Charles: Take care of yourself
Nick Charles: Why, sure I will.
Nora Charles: Don't say it like that! Say it as if you meant it!
Nick Charles: Well, I do believe the little woman cares.
Nora Charles: I don't care! It's just that I'm used to you, that's all.