....."Perhaps you think that different kinds of love are possible. Perhaps you think there is a kind of love for this, a kind for that; a way of loving one, another way of loving still another. Love is ONE. It has no separate parts and no degrees; no kinds nor levels, no divergencies and no distinctions. It is like itself, unchanged throughout. It never alters with a person or a circumstance..." - A Course In Miracles (ACIM)
.."The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease." -Bruce Lee (1940 - 1973), Tao of Jeet Kune Do
"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle..."
"I believe that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong." -Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
The ancient Hermeticists have never sought to be martyrs, and have, instead, sat silently aside with pitying smile on their closed lips, while the "heathen raged noisily about them" in their customary amusement of putting to death and torture the honest but misguided enthusiasts who imagined that they could force upon a race of barbarians the truth capable of being understood only by the elect who had advanced along The Path. And the spirit of persecution has not yet died out in the land. There are certain Hermetic Teachings, which, if publicly promulgated, would bring down upon the teachers a great cry of scorn and revilement from the multitude, who would again raise the cry of "Crucify! Crucify!"-The KYBALION
"Praise and applause do not impress me. President Lincoln got a standing ovation before they shot and killed him, as did Kennedy, and many others…"
"The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth." -Albert Einstein
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe." - Leo Rosten
"In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may too easily be dismissed as a “soft issue,†or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas — kindness toward the environment, toward other nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile. Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace, and care properly for this planet we all share." -Bo Lozoff
"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." - Andre Gide
"If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source."- the Dhammapada
"Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?'"-Johann K. Lavater
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is brought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?" -Mahatma Ghandi
"Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi (Leuconoe, don't ask — it's dangerous to know —) finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios (what end the gods will give me or you. Don't play with Babylonian) temptaris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati. (fortune-telling either. Better just deal with whatever comes your way.) seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam, (Whether you'll see several more winters or whether the last one) quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare (Jupiter gives you is the one even now pelting the rocks on the shore with the waves) Tyrrhenum: sapias, vina liques et spatio brevi of the Tyrrhenian sea (— be smart, drink your wine. Scale back your long hopes) spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida (to a short period. Even as we speak, envious time) aetas: carpe diem quam minimum credula postero. (is running away from us. Seize the day, trusting little in the future.)" -Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) in Tu ne quaesieris (Ask not), Carmina (The Odes), 1.11(Book 1)
"Isn't it amazing how often we can touch someone's life, and enrich our own, by a very simple act? Kindness, pass it on...what a wonderful way in which to pattern our lives!" -Betty
"Aprender es recordar que se sabe. Enseñar es recordarle al otro que sabe."/"To learn is to remember that you already know. To teach is to remind the other that he/she already knows." -Richard Bach
"The whole conception of ethnic groups is so complex and so vague that it might be good to abandon it altogether." ~Max Weber
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. - Booker T. Washington
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair
"Give to another human being without the expectation of a return." -Bill Bradley
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." -Albert Einstein
"There comes a time when silence becomes dishonesty." -Frantz Fanon
"The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results."-Salma Hayek, Conversation with Salma Hayek, 2002
"Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used." -Blaise Pascal
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate." -Albert Schweitzer
you, and you, and you, and you over there....
"Music is what feelings sound like. Where words leave off, music begins."
"Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below." -Joseph Addison
"A song will outlive all sermons [lectures and speeches] in the memory."-Henry Giles
"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings." -Edward Gardner
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~Berthold Auerbach
"All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!" ~Thomas Carlyle
"Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?" ~Michael Torke
"And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done
"He who sings scares away his woes." ~Cervantes
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness." ~Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name
"Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead." ~Benjamin Disraeli
"Music is the poetry of the air." ~Richter
"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is." ~William P. Merrill
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." ~Ludwig van Beethoven
"I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality." ~H.A. Overstreet
"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require." ~Edward Elgar
"Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!" ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." ~Charlie Parker
"Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years." ~William F. Buckley, Jr.
"Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself." ~Henry Ward Beecher
"Music's the medicine of the mind." ~John A. Logan
"You are the music while the music lasts." ~T.S. Eliot
"Music is the universal language of mankind." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer
"Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music." ~Ezra Pound
"He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once." ~Robert Browning
"You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow." ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket
"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet." ~Oliver Herford
"What we provide is an atmosphere... of orchestrated pulse which works on people in a subliminal way. Under its influence I've seen shy debs and severe dowagers kick off their shoes and raise some wholesome hell." ~Meyer Davis, about his orchestra
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." ~Victor Hugo
"...where music dwells Lingering - and wandering on as loth to die..." ~William Wordsworth, "Within King's College Chapel, Cambridge"
"Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words." ~Robert G. Ingersoll
"Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends." ~Alphonse de Lamartine
"Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence." - Benjamin Haydon
"You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve." -J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." -Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
"Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and shortened period of mental assimilation." -Konstantin Stanislavsky
"Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose." -George Lucas, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
"I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together." -Jim Carrey, Oprah Winfrey Show, 1997
"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization." -Arnold Toynbee
"Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality." - Michael Ellner
"There is no joy in a life that is all information. There is no 'juice' to that kind of life. No sweetness, no color. Like trading a beautiful golden-ripe orange for a stalk of whithered broccoli." - Tish Grier, love and sex and dreams, 04-15-06
"I wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called "brightness," but that doesn't work." ~Author Unknown
"All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?" ~Nicholas Johnson
"How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?" ~Rod Serling, quoted in Submitted for Your Approval, Public Broadcasting Station, 1995
"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other." ~Ann Landers
"I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book." ~Groucho Marx
"Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object." ~Author Unknown
"We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m." ~George Bush
"If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it." ~Jerome Singer
"Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well done." ~Ernie Kovacs
"Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control." ~Donna Gephart
"Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home." ~David Frost
"Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover." ~Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
"The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading." ~Raymond Chandler, 1946
"Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all." ~Fred Allen
"Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at." ~Noel Coward, attributed
"TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book." ~Author Unknown
"Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money." ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
"The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of the Sun
"Television: chewing gum for the eyes. ~Frank Lloyd Wright
"Television keeps the masses occupied. What if everyone decided they wanted to make something of their lives? Television keeps the competition down and keeps more criminals off the street. What if everyone decided to go to law school or medical school? It would sure make it tough on the rest of us." ~Jim Urbanovich
"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it." ~Alfred Hitchcock
"If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all." ~Joey Adams
"Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning." ~Alan Kay
"Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new type program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was." ~Art Buchwald, "Adding Insult to Injury," Have I Ever Lied to You?, 1966
"Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence." ~Attributed to Gene Baylos
"Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless." ~Matt Groening, The Simpsons
"Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. ~Alfred Hitchcock
"What compels you to stare, night after night, at all the glittering hokum that has been deliberately put together for you?" ~J.B. Priestley, about Americans
"Woe be to him that reads but one book." - George Herbert
"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind." - Michel de Montaigne
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails". - Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Higher Laws, 1854
"Say not, 'when I have leisure I will study;' you may not have leisure." - The Mishnah
"As a child I thought I knew everything. As a teenager I was determined to know it all. As an adult I realize that I never stop growing or learning.â€-Christy Borgeld
"It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
"I have found power in the mysteries of thought." - Euripides, 438 B.C.
"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 'Morituri Salutamus,' 1875
"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier." - Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living, 1931
"Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you." - Bible, New Testament, Matthew 7:7
"Learn as much by writing as by reading." -Lord Acton
"Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery." -Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
"Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter."- Paxton Hood
“As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother?†-Christy Borgeld
“Fathers are like a lighthouse - when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.†-Christy Borgeld
"Kindness is the kingpin of success in life, it is the prime factor in overcoming friction and making the human machinery run smoothly." -Andrew Chapman
"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." -Albert Schweitzer
"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people." -Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women." -Lady Viscountess Nancy Witcher Astor
"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." - Richard M. Nixon, in his White House farewell
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child. - Mary MacCracken
"I don't need Harry Belafonte to tell me what it means to be black." -Condoleezza Rice
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."- Carl Jung
"The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed." - Gordon Parks
"For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude." - Clarence E. Hodges
"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny." - Albert Ellis
"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." -Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965