"...we're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! that alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. we are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing." 

~Charles Bukowski
German born, American Poet, Novelist, Short Story Writer 1920-1994

Couldn't have said it any better...I love Bukowski!

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But, if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

- George Bernard Shaw

a little humor for the coming week from Will Rogers

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

"The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."

"Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat."

"If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out."

"The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office."

"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket."

- Will Rogers

Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.

- Buddha

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

- Mark Twain

The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone.

- Japanese Proverb

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?

~Satchel Paige

Baseball Legend

"All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there."

-Rumi

Poet, Theologian

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

- Albert Einstein
Physicist, Philosopher, Author

“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.”

- Buddha

“'Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.”

- J D Salinger

American Author

One of the greatest discoveries is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude of mind.

~William James

Philosopher

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

- Marcus Aurelius

Roman Emperor

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget 

that the child is already someone today.

- Stacia Tauscher ? 

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

- Walt Whitman

1819 - 1892

With the most primitive means the artist creates something in which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

Kazimir Malevich
Russian Artist 1879-1935

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

-Dr. Wayne Dyer
Author and Speaker

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

-Hugh Elliott  

Author of Standing Room Only Weblog  

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

- Buddha

When you're stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you only need to change one thing.

~Christina Baldwin

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

- William Arthur Ward

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!

- Hamilton Wright Mabie
American Essayist

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

- Will Rogers
Humorist

It's a very nice thing to be able to give joy to people.

Jon Crosby of VAST

Writing is easy: you merely stare at a blank sheet of paper until your forehead bleeds.

- Robert Benchley
U.S. Humorist 1889-1945

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

- Helen Keller
American Author 1880-1968

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Abraham Lincoln
16th U.S. President 1809-1865

Flogging the Stock Market

"What we've got here is a failure to communicate."

-from the movie Cool Hand Luke
1967

Negative Campaigning

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure."

-Norman Vincent Peale
Champion of Positive Thinking 1898-1993

Get Off of the Couch and Live!

"Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...', and then do it!"

-Duane Michals
American Photographer 1932-

In the Darkest Hour

"In the darkest hour the Soul is replenished and given strength to continue."

-Heart Warrior Chosa
Artist, Poet, Author, Storyteller