Nature does not distribute the same bounties to all alike--and that's all right with me--for I wouldn't give up my hills, my pines, my oaks, and woodland hills including my streams, for all the flat, treeless, land in all of creation..
Nature eliminates those who do not satisfy her requirements, and from Nature's decree there is no appeal
He who would read intellectually must first learn to eliminate...
I have a sullen streak--an unformed stubbornness--in my own quiet way a rock bound determination......so
the past has a rosier bottom than the present....
a "man" takes care of his own--and he pays his debts...
under fire discipline produces accurate thought
Is this one of those lessons in life I keep hearing about--like the story of the guy who used poison ivy to wipe his ass
"Life" is the important thing
anger so persistent and so intense sucks up the will
no one has ever developed without making mistakes in the process
human beings dare only those things which in their interpretations of their world are valuable to them...
to a delicate ear her tone might have resembled the stab of a pin stuck into a waxen image...
she did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones
you cannot extract purity from glittering temptation, or morality from undue restriction
Self interest is a strong motive power..
the strength of the effort is the measure of the result....
evil is always somebody's mistaken point of view...
Expression, never repression, is the function and life of man...
If people were held to every stupid thing said out of passion, the species would soon go extinct...
to be sure, without fulfillment of the heart, all other success is hollow....
any belief--which tends to produce passiveness, negativism and complacency, is debilitating...
consciousness of self actually expands our control of our lives, and with that expanded power comes the capacity to let ourselves go--this is the truth behind the seeming paradox, that the more consciousness of one's self one has, the more spontaneous and creative one can be at the same time....
'Energy is eternal delight" said William Blake; "he who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence."
In the depth of our eyes there is room for everything one has ever thought, and since there is room for it, it all demands to be seen....
variety, not sameness, gives the flavor to existence....
Nothing bought at the price of a man's dignity is a gift in my book...
one never does know and never can know as a fixed , finite fact the always harmonious and the always right....
one's believing and continual learning makes life's changes....
ages old humanity--brought down to the every day old living is you and me...
almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them--Francois de la Rochefoucauld
faith is easier to come by than belief....
in ordinary life, repeated experience and social pressure slowly correct individual narrowness, though there is such a thing as invincible ignorance...
All experiences become sources of insight...
Should one lie for the sake of simplicity
The truth is that most people feel that they are being deprived of their wealth if they are prevented from displaying it, and it is the superfluities not the necessities of life, which really afford the opportunities for such display. From this we see that the craving for wealth is not a passion that comes naturally by the vulgar and irrelevant opinions of the outside world......
I think that a man who beats his wife or child is laying sacrilegious hands on the most sacred things in the world...
It is impossible to understand a person's faith until one understands the people whose faith it is...
Reason and religion have journeyed side by side in the minds of men from the very beginning, but it is the rarest of spectacles to see them clasp hands and stand together on the common ground of intelligence and truth....
Maybe some of the old ways no longer work when the world becomes different...
Almost all great fortunes are based upon one genius's ideas and the guts to go with it...
And as I told the story, I found myself trying to understand all over again. I spoke slowly in a monotone very deliberately, it was the drone of a man speaking through the mists of illusion finding
reality...
"There are two ways of spreading light: be the candle or the mirror that reflects it"...Edith Wharton
"Keep constantly in mind how many changes you yourself have witnessed already. The universe is change; life is understanding"...Marius Aurelius Antoninus
Nothing been lost here, only merged...
Anthropologists say the spiral is the ancient symbol for the Labyrinth, the twisted, pathway for a journey to the core of being...
National interests are petty at this point....
Youth listen up--your knowledge is theoretical--age's knowledge is practical..
As one we sleep to rest --the day is done we're moving on--one step less--there's no end to black space--forever...
But in a world divided by a thousand contradictory approaches to life, implementation of different theories is almost impossible....
An idea 's age doesn't necessarily invalidate it--"old" doesn't mean "inherently inferior"...
You know how people pick up bits and pieces of null value data....
Emptiness of space is most necessary for fullness of perception...
I know this much, that a thing which is valuable which has worth, must be allowed a sufficient amount of space around it and this definitely includes people...
There is an ease, a sureness, a lightness of touch, that comes from mastery. After all, only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them. Seriousness after all, is only a sign of effort, and effort is a sign of imperfect mastery...
if you never find yourself alone, you will never find --yourself at all...
There are no boundaries in evolution...
Nature highest happiness lies in changing the things that are, and forming new things after their kind--whatever is, is in some sense the seed of what is to emerge from it...
Time is a river--the resistless flow of all created things. One thing no sooner comes in sight than it is hurried past and another is born along, only to be swept away in its turn. No wonder that the heart hardens and the soul folds up...
Life is short--snatch yours from the passing hour--elements of nothingness--(we all resolve into)--all things fade into the past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion...
There is no progress except through vision, and there is no realization of the vision except through the expression of intelligence...
When you get to the point of arguing, you're past the point of changing anybody's mind.
Old aging equals insight with maturity, I find that even ignorance has it's brighter side...
The past needs to be approached from a distance...
The waiting began to get in the way of the resting and finally displaced it...
We argue because we are confused. The man who knows does not argue; the man who argues does not know...
For just about the first time in my life I knew how it must feel to get old. My body was demanding special privileges and offering nothing in return..
"The heart has its reasons of which reason cannot know"... Pascal
"Ignorance alone often saves us from being disturbed in our self-complacency" D.T. Suzuki
People who are frightened are likely to lie...
In general, investments that need their own food and shelter don't amount to much...
there comes a time when every son can look at his aging mother and see the girl she used to be, the girl who accepted his awesome responsibility of becoming his mother, the girl who sacrificed her youth and her heart and her lithe young body to give him--this wailing, insatiable, unformed long shot at life....
Knowing what somebody's doing isn't knowing them....
In a world lacking absolutes, only death is nonnegotiable----
"Weir"--long ago had discovered that words make some things worse, that silence confuses the devil in all of us, that dumping misfortunes on loved ones is akin to using the pot without shutting the bathroom door first...Pacific Beat --Jeff parker
Don't ever presume to understand what is happening between a husband and wife nothing in this world appears more transparent, and yet is more inscrutable, than someone else's marriage...
The only truth in art is in the artist's soul...
Its different to know when to fight and when to retreat --All we really have to go on is our own convictions, sooner than later...
The law of universal progressiveness, never really violated though often hidden from immediate discernment, in due course is bound to take the whole of humanity beyond the attainment of any single person on the activities of any number of persons
come on times are always temporary and changing...
I don't think " living" is compatible with having a personal life....
Unintelligent mental proceedings --Absence of thinking
But within minutes I realized that something had happened to the man. he was not the same person
that I had known a year ago. There was a zealousness an intensity not in evidence before...
In ways or waves --my mind is like a clock --it just keeps on keeping on--like it's on atomically-- the atmosphere--the biosphere bare with me here--lot of things I cover or talk about comes from bites and pieces of conversation, T.V.<radio, and plain old mental eruptions--almost like verbal vomit--or something like when a volcano erupts--why do things erupt pressure--that's what it's about----I have questions--answer's or not discovery-unless it's shared doesn't mean a whole hell of a lot -does it? I "m not going to make anything that I have to do difficult-- time is not on my side--and life does move on, the path I thought I was following --doesn't leave a wide enough window to get in or out of so--as everyone does the cracks and crevices seem to widen--investigating these and continuing onward and upward -is to say challenging --what is illusion, what is real, How to approach what's ahead, what angles to use,--what to look for-what not to do --all lead somewhere--it's like taking a wide angle lens and looking for a straight line leading onward--there is no straightness in life--I take that back--if one has a goal there is that possibility--but it's only possible if you are someone like Wallenda - (tight rope walker) with a very focused mind--each step 's reward backed by the conduct
of your last ----
It is amazing--how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying..
Noticed that, while his body remained politely immobile, his muscles had grown tense and his voice had taken on a nervous shakiness in preparation for leaving...
It really doesn't matter what you think of yourself or what others think of you. The important thing is the general attitude toward human society, since this determines every wish and every interest and every activity of each individual..
I had seen that smirk before and I would see it often in my life, especially from women who immediately recognized an untruth I let loose...
Fate is at your elbow--it has an abyss of time
Aquiver full of anxiety--a collective ear--
But during the whole time I was exercising my mind in that painful process of thinking of two things at once--
Faults in your character will aspire to come out --easily malleable...
Life and men don't run in grooves.
no stability on earth--human emotions can indeed be mixed...
Going nowhere in plenty of time-the weight of age
Zydeco and Cajun music--various artists--Louisiana Party Collection--Cajun and Zydeco Classics Ultimate Zydeco
This is not the way I expected it to happen--I seem to be trapped in a situation I caused myself--I feel slightly ill at ease--like watching someone walking away and being swallowed up by the night...
After you die it's like you never existed...Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physiology...
But it's impossible to confront thought, to prevent it from taking whatever route it chooses....
To my way of thinking filing meant simply accumulating information in a disorganized manner...
The information age produces so much information that it winds up suffocating itself and becoming
obsolete...
Develop the habit of serious reading I have never heard or seen a program which rivaled the value of an authoritative book.....
They, under lined, would have to work out their own problems without me--I didn't feel good about that but there were a lot of things I don't feel good about, and I wasn't able to fix those either...
Dorothy Carnegie:" Only through books can we roll back the centuries or peer into the future, ignore the restrictions of the times and space and live in a three dimensional world created by the mind" ...
H. G. Wells: " I do not believe in the least that either the body of a H. G. Wells or his personality is immortal, but I do believe that the growing processes of thought, knowledge and will of which we are a part--go on--growing in range and power forever"...
Dorothy Carnegie: "Time winnows out the second rate books and what remains to us is the golden harvest of man's and woman's thought and experience on earth"...
Repetition leads to desire, and desire leads to obsession...
There is no learning in a man--unless he's taught by observation. He feels into thing's solving hunger and food is basically; what man is all about, with occasional exposure to sexual endeavors when aroused...
Money-- Those who have enough to live comfortably greatly underestimate it as a source of motivation...
The more I know of people, the more I admire their ways of attaining success in a world where it has been a constant struggle ... while people caught up in life's day to day living they may not be conscious of their own efforts-- for living on successfully, they have developed them just the same,
and they merit our admiration perhaps even more, than as if their strategy was the result of conscious thought...
It's not about the how--it's about the why--and until you can figure out the why, the how doesn't matter....
It is always pleasant to gratify wishes which coincide with one's own...
Some times it ends up no where--just ends up sitting in the surrounding ether...
Sound travels at a speed of 700 and twenty miles per hour, or about 1100 hundred feet per second...
In chaos, there is opportunity for the one who keeps his head...
If you are caught up in restraint's in your daily life your fantasies will compensate...
Best way to keep a secret, is to make sure it benefits every man who knows it--and to keep those who share it in one place...
Rustic Charm: With one gesture--one thought you can change anxiety to good nature...
Hard to believe: Any decision , once you've reached it--simplifies life's next step--whose to make these decisions--you ;of course, there are no back ups...
We must be allowed to gather " experiences" they're needed to give us what we need to become competent and independent--follow ones resolve--meet ones destiny...
It was another decision that he refused to regret...
Don't forget that your e-mails messages as well as photos appended to them, do not disappear into the ether when you hit the delete button...
Some things that need to be done never are for the fear of the consequences...
Fake words of comfort only make people who need comforting think you do not understand or believe the enormity of their anguish...
My faith is always strongest in the earlier part of a day--but once under way my sense of purpose gets caught up in the involvement of the day and drain's slowly away...
Worry is indigestible--...
In my present condition (Old age) I find vigor in young people exhausting...
Truth is not always accurate--Accuracy can be a shield to hide from the truth...
The mind that looked at me through her eyes was like muddy water continually stirred by fears, and fantasies and greed from the bottom...
Paternity doesn't confer the gift of second sight...
The degradation of the human as an individual is still going...
Conrad "A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea"...
" The garden itself says then whole universe is but a place where God grows souls in the soil of human existence, watering them with grief and tears and warming them with occasional joy"...
H.H. Hartwick The Garden
" The proverb says that providence protects children and idiots. this is really true. I know because I have tested it" Mark Twain
A gem is not polished without rubbing, or a man perfected without trials...Chinese Proverb
My sight was glazed in a wild chase of thought....
Yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision...
but every today well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope... A Sanskrit Proverb
There's an endearing quality to truth exceedingly irritating to fidgety minds....
Left on his own; death has a poor sense of selection...
Are you someone who understands deferred gratification....
Do you need anymore reminders of insecurity...
Strange how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust...
Discipline is not the same as punishment...
Environments are always relative, never absolute...
Vulgarity, a common disease like the itch; unlike it, it is not a disease on the surface, but eats to the marrow....
But I was learning not so much how lonely I could be as how lonely everybody could be...
How I've lived my life came from a remark I read: I guess a man's job is to make the world a better place to live in, so far as he is able-- always remembering the result will be infinitesimal--and to attend to his own soul...
Southerners are far easier to meet and never so intimate after meeting....
What must be learned at last had as well be learned early....
Cowards are not numerous, but they generally manage to be wretchedly conspicuous...
I have noticed that if you afford people a chance to give, they are little less than angels; but if you afford them a chance to receive, they almost convince you somebody is right about the need of a hell....
"Looking at truth is not at first a heartening experience---it becomes so; if at all, only with time, with
infinite patience, and with the luck of a little personal happiness. When I first saw defeat as the result of a man's best efforts, I didn't like the sight, and it struck me that someone had bungled and perhaps it wasn't man"...Lanterns on the Levee--Percy
Ethics designates defines and classifies what are believed to be the principles of sound, reasonable uprightness in human relationships of every sort...
A person alone knows the value of his own sacrifice...
I notice once more how unsuitable real passion is to eloquence...
They say if you expect nothing you'll always get more than you expect....
I was saved when I understood that reality and my illusions must not be set in antagonism within us. That they must remain, so to speak, perpendicular to each other, and that their very struggle nourishes our life.....
Every public has the Shakespeare it deserves....
Philosophy--Has to do with the coolly thought out and calmly oriented conclusions regarding what is conceived to be the impersonal truth....
We are not born alone--to be born ,in brief, is to be born with a mother--a connection of two--every birth is a start of knowledge...
I take refuge in the unpretending assemblage of honest common life sounds...
life never gives up willingly...
What the heart longs for, and what the mind knows are two different things...
"My time has been very ill spent if I haven't in some degree refined my nature" George Gissing
The only thing clear to me is that I have a right to make the most of my life...
A burden shared not only can lighten it. it can form a link between those who share it, so that no one is left to feel they're alone--to recognize you are the source of your being alone is not a sure cure but it is a step toward an opening--the results you find yourself in are not irrevocable....
Are you such a feeble creature that you must be at the mercy of every childish whim and run yourself for lack of courage to do what you know you ought to do...
I enjoyed it for awhile, but at length I turned away abruptly, feeling as if a cold hand had touched me--words began pricking at my consciousness
But oh how good it is to desire little, and to have a little more than enough...
Human creatures have a marvelous power of adapting themselves to necessity...
What is the intellectual and moral state of man who really believes that chemical analysis can be equivalent for natural gusto....
Moral conduct, or duty, is defined as the obligation to select that action which will achieve more good than any alternative action....
"One has a few moments that are tolerable--one breathes, as it were, again; one remembers things, but one hardly hopes. I hope for the new age--that is all--which will cure all our woes, and give us new ones, and make us happy enough for death"... Lytton Strachey
The man pinched in circumstances can live only for himself....
To be consistent when one is striking out on a new paths is a rare gift and implies a double dose of virtue...
No state of mind is more painful than a state of continuing doubt...
The fact is that liberal empires nearly always proclaim their own altruism...
The opportunities for abuse are just about everywhere...
There aren't any such thing as a bargain promise..
You can be patriotic and still believe that some things cost more than what they're worth...
Confucius held that one's power to maintain one's power harmonious relations in one's own family precisely measured one's power to do so in a wider world...
In todays politics--the real defect of our political system is that it deflects attention from what most needs attention....
The more you examine a subject, the more specific it becomes--only the intensity of your attention has changed...
What we feel, experience, and do changes our brain--what we learn becomes a part of us, making the history of our quirks and habits much more difficult to understand....
In a well established system of thought certain things are taken for granted....
Yet at the back of their minds they would always have the thought that they were dealing in palliatives and not with the real evil, and thus was found to color their proposals...
Insincerity is the mother of all the verbal sins.. (Literary sins)
At this moment of disappointment I am not reasoning with any marked degree of logic--I've lost someone dear to me-and 43 years of closeness-out the window
I've learned that mute and stoical acceptance of the many partings in life which is one of the sad endowments of old age...
It is astonishing how easily one can reassure oneself over any point if one really wants too...
The word " almost " holds on occasion so much significance....
One never realizes how little influence one has with one's friends until one comes up against some thing that really matters...
Dreams ensoul lost thoughts--for the fleeting moment of it's content--good or bad--releasing them pleasantly--
It always seems essential that I measure my response that they be equal and exactly to the idiots I'm talking too--
But there are some hurts that one would rather bear than lose what goes with them...
Vaguely I was beginning to realize some small part of the suffering which my parental restrictions had imposed upon my children--the perpetual irritation of a thwarted longing which it had entailed. But I had not yet advanced sufficiently along the widening road of thought to grasp the pitiful, irreparable waste it had involved of a talent bordering on genius....
A hundred yards away but " take a chance when it comes "(Hunters Wisdom)
Impatience is the product of your own thinking...
Fools listen to lips.....
Young people cannot divine--ignorant as youth is of what time can do--the erosion of all things human under the steady down pour of the years...
Politics: It's very simple...The best way to kill a lie is tell a bigger one and then keep lying until the other side doesn't know what to believe....
Then for a moment fear walked slowly through my mind and left an unpleasant trail of unwanted thoughts--I'd already found that there is no substitute for hard work and getting down to business to dissipate self pity or worry...
You know how it never occurs to children that things can be different from the way they always have been....
I always distrusted speed and efficiency--always just as well to want to get my breath. I aimed better. How much money the school system brought in or how big or little the school budget was --I always thought about the school " system " as prospects for brains and character....
The weather going to change because it's time for the new moon...
Uncertainty is a cloak that smothers confidence....
Odd how often the recollection of an incident was clearer than the reality had been...
No body acts without motive...
When a woman shows compassion for a drunk man it usually means an affection that is deep enough even to tolerate his errors..
Which is worse self seeking politicians or self indulgent masses--corruption, intrigue, morality, and a sense of duty rotten to the core, decline of art into craft and science into dogma, strength sapped by a despair to pervasive for everyone to realize what it is. Oversimplified enough truth to touch everybody's nerves--having lost our honesty we are losing our feelings of right and wrong....
But thought is free and so is love...
A feller that chatters all the time is bound to talk a certain amount drivel...Sayings of Si Sylvanne
One gets into the way of thinking of luxuries as necessities....
The more we see and question, and learn, the more pleasure we shall find in our own lives, and the better able we shall be to make life pleasant for others....
The Indians said that if you looked long enough into an old man's eyes, you could see what he had seen...
Around here it's as quiet as a dead tree decaying in the forest...
Why should one imagine that when there is a problem there is always a solution ? For instance--Tragedy...
Knowledge is an aid to happiness rather than it's antagonist...
We should not suppose that the given or innate must always be fixed and singular...
I'm always thinking that it was the things that happened when you were a kid that made you turn out the way you are...
Rumors are built up, changed, and twisted a little more every time they're told....
A man never gets to the place where he doesn't worry about something......
For a while I was silent and then I caught myself, thinking, I had to come out of the past and stop from poking in the ashes...
Beer ain't beer unless it's got a whang to it....
The screaming Neanderthal that hides in us all
Remember that patient and careful attention to details is the great " key " to success in finding secrets of real value...
It is through persistence we achieve...
"The day shall not be up as soon as I--
to try the fair adventures of tomorrow" William Shakespeare
I moved to the window bottle in hand various speculations filling my mind--...
Heat unsettles me...
He barricaded himself behind a defensive look...
Routine is the housekeeper of inspiration...
Every self respecting persuasive ploy must first appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse...
The brain is the most fragile organ in the body...
What she hated most was her blackness, so she would disfigure her body with skin lightening creams like her other friends forgetting the saying: that which is born black will never be white....
The ticking of my subconscious time sense woke me at six o'clock on the nose . I have always enjoyed my bed time-- it's almost a religious function taken with a primitive zest--I could almost make sleep a career...
Over time--loneliness get's inside you and doesn't go away...
Stupidity is almost always in the eye of the beholder.....
Good words are vain benevolence that demands no sacrifice and is more appreciated than real acts of kindness....
All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem...
There is nothing in the path of life we don't already know before we start . Nothing important is learned, it is simply remembered...
Our inner wisdom has it's own guiding system it's colored red, yellow, and green--" No, " " Caution, "
" Go "
"Only when our words and deeds come from kindness can we quiet the mind and open our hearts"
Achaan Chatt
It's hard enough to watch your own mind, so why add the burden of judging others...
We never really get away with anything ....
Are you a Librocubicularist--a made up word for reading in bed
But it takes a lot of water under the bridge before we begin knowing; our habits are ever striving to deceive...
Basically we do understand --you might say we've been lost--we come back to the same old lies--we keep ourselves turned away from our truth...
Books are the depositories of the human spirit which is the only thing in this world that endures...
It's funny how we hate to face realities...
You end up becoming what you see in the eyes of those you love....
" Longing " once you find you have it--you never know what to do with it...
" If you grab a handful of mind and squeeze it, it will ooze through your fingers. People under pressure likewise seek a way out "...Achaan Chatt
Worldly culture has desire as it's director and guide--trying to make more of it will drive you out of your mind --we must be totally bound up in our mentality before we let go and give up our delusions...
Housewives have no time for philosophy after breakfast...
Human beings pay very little attention to what is told them unless they know something about the subject already...
If your thinking is wrong , you will suffer; if you understand correctly, you can end suffering ---Our wrong understanding becomes habitual, stored in the subconscious , wrong understanding leads to wrong action...
Something to remember: (Always wash dishes immediately after meals it saves trouble)...
Merely thinking about something is like pouncing on the shadow and missing the substance...
My library: "Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives, those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men. I can spend a rainy afternoon reading, and my mind works itself up to such a passion and anxiety over mortal problems it almost unmans me--what would happen to a cat if she had to live in a room tapestried with catnip"...
The Haunted Bookshop
Wear your thoughts and principles close to the surface others will know who you are and what it is you stand for...
Only has age left me so --My intent is to live fully and realize in my own thoughts the insight and inner peace taught by listening to and feeling in my heart...
Out there on the frontiers of my discipline...
The quickest way to learn any subject is to make private contracts with those who know it best and get them talking...
The caustic effects of an error should be confined to the fool who made it in the first place...
" Fear and hope "--the most potent combination in the world...
There is only one thing more dangerous than a man who hesitates too long because he does not know
the right thing to do. And that is the man who is sure of he does...
If it's satire or caricature you want in your art--why not Daumier or Goya--one of the masters
All individuals in crisis--will tell--listening should always be in a shade of grey...
They're tickfull of advice...
Splitting kindling can sure put a man in touch with most of the impotent things in life...
Nothing like sun ups and sun downs for medicine--has a kind of numbing effect. Like looking into an open fire ...
Man will go to heaven or hell by his own merits not according to the way he's put to rest...
If one could stretch the wrinkles out of Montana, I'll wager it'd be bigger than Texas....
It was the face of a man who'd been down the long road, had taken the knocks, and knew his way...
He didn't look old enough to be a boss, with his mild blue eyes and young fresh face, but he had a pair of supple wrists that could wheel those 45's and he had a killer's old lack of emotion that let him pull triggers no matter the occasion...
Two things which hover around every man--one is remorse over the past and the other is fear of the future...
The virtue of any regimen lies in regulation, you weaken your fiber by skipping...
The land tells a thousand stories --the trick is reading the right one...
Trouble is like a desert--everybody knows the first law--" never to turn back but always keep going"
I still say-- people make a lot of nothing..
In a war of ideas, it's the people, not ideas, that get killed...
In my country business is subordinate to existence. In Texas ,life is only the incidental requirement to be able to do business..
My wife and I have lived by ourselves so long that loneliness is on us like an incurable disease with no visible symptoms...
Dreams carried me one way, thoughts wafted me another, sanity was the eye of my personal hurricane...
Perhaps on the whole, more power is lost than gained by habits of secrecy...
For no man can ever be so poor but that another believes himself still poorer...
Hoping for something is always good for the soul...
Ideas, like thoughts, are worthless in their natural states, they obtain their value only by observation and being where they are needed...
It is always more convenient to dream of what might be....
Time has no beginning or ending don't let it pressure you--drift with the current...
Maturity brings judgment with a depth of purpose...
No one ever did anything worth while alone...
A lesson in life:
Unless you are better off where you've been, you're always better off where you are. But no matter where you've been or where you are you'll never know if you'll be better off where you're going...
I've heard , the lord has a way of looking after drunks and fools......
Second chances in my experience can rarely be converted to an advantage...
Faults are thick--where love is thin....
"Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things, profit out of profitable things, power out of strong things; as soon as we seek to separate them from the whole" Emerson
Wars are made by something ignorant in the human heart...
No one really knows anything about anyone else, except by deduction and induction, intuition and empathy....
"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character" James Russell Lowell
Imagination is where the process of new reality is being created....
When egg and sperm unite, the single resulting cell divides into two cells, each of which in turn divides into two, and so on for some forty cell generations. The total number of cells so formed in a single human is a thousand times greater than the world's population...
Existence is made to be enjoyed. Always remember that...
I take it you're not in the mood to be suckered off with a soppy romantic trick...
"The reason why we are never able to foretell with certainty the outcome and end of any action is simply that action has no end. The process of a single deed can quite literally endure throughout time until man kind itself has come to an end " Hannah Arendt (The Human Condition)
"Realism does not imply fatalism or passive resignation, but simply a failure to doubt the reality of whatever comes into awareness"... Proverbial Experience
Behold o man, as you pass by
As you are now, so once was I
As I am now, you soon must be
Repent, prepare to follow me Anonymous
Happiness is a way of life
Marriage Lament-
When we were interesting
When we were productive
When we were younger
When I was strong
When I was thin
When we felt better
When we use to swim together
When we went on trips
When we took walks
When we gardened
When we laughed together
When I cried
When we were intimate and satisfied
When we had a lot of money
When our dogs were young
When our house looked clean and bright
When we read the same books
When I would weave, knit and spin for hours
When we had friends
When we answered the phone
When Mother and Daddy came to visit
When we got a new car or truck
When we had more time ahead of us than behind us--Amen (Died May 7, 2013 6:00 am) Love ya
Old habits are iron shirts
A good teacher is better than a barrel full of books--Chinese Proverb
The knocks which had come so far to reach me were now hardly sounds in my ears, but faint vibrations in the bones of my skull..
In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing into infinity…
Nonlinearity means that the act of playing the game has a way of changing the rules…
Faith , enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill…
Politics --hasty management under stress
