Patman

I'd like to meet:

New friends, old friends, people that love life, those that respect others and anyone that is fun to be around. People that can hold an intelligent conversation on almost any subject. People that know who they are and who they are not. I can do without anyone that wants to judge me before they know me, not who they think I am or who they think I should be. People that think they are better than me because of material possessions they own that others don't. People that were born with the silver spoon in their mouths, and never underwent the hardships that "normal" people face, and those that think the world owes them a living simply because they were born into it.

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!"

"If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid— but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself."

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.""You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life."

"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."

"Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens."

"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
Your Brain is Purple
Of all the brain types, yours is the most idealistic.
You tend to think wild, amazing thoughts. Your dreams and fantasies are intense.
Your thoughts are creative, inventive, and without boundaries.
You tend to spend a lot of time thinking of people and places, or a very different life for yourself. "Choose your friends by their character, and choose your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable."

"Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence."

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

"We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty. Some are dull while others are bright. Some have weird names. But we all have to learn to live in the same box."

"Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away." And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll

"The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well intentioned words."

"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart."
You Are From Mars
You're energetic, althletic, and totally hyperactive.
You love playing sports and being in the middle of all of the action.
You're independent, corageous, and brave. Unafraid to do things your way.
Mars can be reckless, quick tempered, and a little too spontaneous.
So think before you act - and resist your natural urges to dominate others. "I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything, and many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit, but if I can't figure it out, then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me."

"Real Friendship is the sharing of all that the heart holds inside, it's tears and laughter, it's joy and broken dreams. Because friendship dwells in the heart where time and distance know no boundaries, it understands the depth of true feelings and the sound of words unspoken. It is a true gift, for it connects the heart of soulmates together forever."

"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight."

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." "In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion, the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers."

"A friend is like sunlight, filtering into the quite corners of ones heart, offering bright new mornings and fresh hope yet demanding nothing in return."

"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

"Love is when you look into someone's eyes and you see their heart."

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude."

"Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer."

"There is an exquisite melody in every heart. If we listen closely, we can hear each other's song. A friend knows the song in your heart and responds with Beatiful harmony."

"A brother is not always a friend, but a friend is always a brother."

"If I had my life to live over, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax; I'd limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones."

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

"The best feelings are those that have no words to describe them."

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly unborn until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance, they awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon, they stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same."

"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?"

"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."

"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of books, a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects."

"For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you're not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness."

"I don't care much for facts, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction."

"It is an important and popular fact that things arent always as they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man has always assumed that he is more intelligent than the dolphins because he has achieved so much, the wheel, New York, wars and so on, while all the dolphins have ever done is muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins have always believed that they are far more intelligent than man, for precisely the same reasons."

"Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life."

Music:

I can listen to just about anything, other than rap, which I don't consider to be music. I really love classic rock and the blues, anything from Aerosmith to ZZ Top. I love the guitar and wish I had learned to play when I was younger, my boys are making up for that shortcoming, Josh plays guitar and John plays bass. Watch out for these guys, they've got real talent! I think we went through kind of a down time for music in parts of the 80's and 90's, it all pretty much sounded the same, and I didn't like a lot of it, so I stayed with the classics. I feel that there is more good "new" music now than in any time in our history, as far as sheer numbers of bands and singers worthy of a good listen. I probably have a Beatles CD in the player of my Jeeper, my favorite song is Let It Be, but I'm pretty much open to anything. ..

"Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option."

"Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life."

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible, is by going beyond them into the impossible."

"There is only one day that exists and that is TODAY, tomorrow may never come and yesterday has past and gone.""What is a friend? One soul dwelling in two different bodies."

"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses."

"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense."

"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."

"To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another."
Your Theme Song is Born to Be Wild by Steppenwolf
"I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Racin' with the wind
And the feelin' that I'm under"
A totally independent spirit, you can't be held down or fenced in.
You crave the feeling of wind in your face and total freedom. "He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."

"Always make NEW mistakes"

"Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things."

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't."

"Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere."

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

"If my heart could do all the thinking, would my brain begin to feel?""Fake is the new trend, and almost everyone seems to be in style these days."

"The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself."

"The happiest person has three things, a bestfriend, a true love and a best friend who is their true love."

"Friendship? Yes Please."

" Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

Movies:

It's A Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, Animal House, American Graffiti, Back to the Future, Blazing Saddles, Cool Hand Luke, The Deer Hunter, Easy Rider, Ghostbusters, The Hustler, Old Yeller, Scarface, Sling Blade, The Godfather, The Shawshank Redemption, The Outsiders, Deliverance, The Shining, Rumblefish, Taxi Driver, The Green Mile, Dr. Zhivago, The Wizard of OZ, Braveheart, Casino, Pulp Fiction, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Tombstone, Forest Gump, "that's bout all I got to say bout that." ..

"A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."

"Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have."

"Happiness is life's most precious gift, be wise and cherish the happiness you have, don't dwell on the happiness you don't have.""The zoo is always the best place to study human behavior.”

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of."

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

"Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night."
You're 85% Irish
Congratulations, you're a shining example of an Irish lad.
There's hardly anyone more Irish than you! "To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone."

"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

"There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear."

"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.""If language is about imparting meaning, why do some people spend most of their time spouting utter nonsense?"

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."

"There are two ways to live your life, one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is."

"Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow." "I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Television:

I don't really watch commercial television, but I love HBO's series Rome, Deadwood and the Sopranos. I watch college football, Boomer Sooner, but I can't stand professional sports. They are just overpaid prima donnas and I quit watching years ago. ..

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

"Facts do not cease to exist simply because they are ignored.""Some people just don't understand shit that doesn't exist!"

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."

"He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today."

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Your Mood Ring is Red
Excited
Energized
Adventurous
Ready to go "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

"Mastering yourself makes you fearless."

"Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do."

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

"Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others."

"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life."

"Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others."

"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination, but the combination is locked up in the safe." "I think it's kind of sad that profanity is the one language that almost everyone understands."

"He is able who thinks he is able."

Books:

I don't take the time to read anymore, I can of course, I just don't find the time. I wrote a couple of books twenty years or so ago, but never bothered to try to have anything published. Maybe one of these days I will write again, possibly even for public consumption. ..

"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."

"I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other."

"We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support, strength needs it far more."

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." "Lying is done with words and also with silence."

"People are like a bowl of cereal, what ain't fruits and nuts is flakes."

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
Your Hippie Dude Name Is:
Oz "Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world."

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars."

"Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

"Seven days without laughter makes one weak." "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."

Heroes:

My parents, they were married for over sixty years and raised eight kids. I never heard a fight, an argument or even a cross word between the two in my life. ..

"A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. People can be prisoners of their own concepts and ideas. They can be slaves to their own selves."

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

"Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence."

"Live your life and forget your age."

"Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.""Health food may be good for the conscience, but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better."

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

"Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.""The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse always gets the cheese."

"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.""Why do people with closed minds always have their big mouths open?"

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.""The perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care."

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up in the first place."

"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves."

"The happiest people are those who seem to have no particuliar reason for being happy except they are so."

"The greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends."
What Patrick Means
P is for Proud
A is for Astounding
T is for Thoughtful
R is for Revolutionary
I is for Intelligent
C is for Comical
K is for Kinky "When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there."

"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."

"The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life."

"Imperfection is beauty; madness is genius. And it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit."

"Things that we may forget can be turning points for others."

"The Shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as a destroyer of liberty."

"The more you know, the less you need."

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."

"Life isn't always fair, sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow."

"The greatest challenge in being a friend is not listening when words are spoken but hearing and feeling even though there is nothing but silence."

"Peace, like charity, begins at home."

"Our true nationality is mankind."

"There is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it."

"Men occassionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing had happened."

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

"The spaces between your fingers were created so that another's could fill them in."