You are your own obstacle

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blume Industries - Key to Success

Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you’re going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you. – Herman Blume, Rushmore

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But if we had the information, we might have to think for ourselves.

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people. – Former US Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black 

[bolded words mine]

 

The element of trust

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. – George McDonald

Deathly - Aimee Mann

Ahhh.... NOW I see clearly!

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust

You have the power to change yourself

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves. - Mohandas K. Gandhi

A healthy dose of cynicism

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too. – Chuck Palahniuk

Don't think. Just do.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. – Ray Bradbury

Say it with Flava!

We got Magnum Brown, Shoothki - Valoothki

Super-calafraga-hestik-alagoothki

You could put dat in ya don't know what I said book

Took-look-yuk-duk-wuk – Public Enemy, Flavor Flav

He's lampin' he's lampin', he's cold cold lampin'

Get past/over yourself!

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself. - Hafiz

Happy-go-lucky You

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. – Margaret Lee Runbeck

 

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be writers

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. – Albert Camus

I believe the children are our future...

Feeling kind of Muppety

It's time to play the music
It's time to light the lights
It's time to meet the muppets on the Muppet Show tonight.

It's time put on makeup
It's time to dress up right
It's time to raise the curtain on the Muppet Show tonight

Why do we always come here?
I guess we'll never know
It's like a kind of torture
To have to watch the show

But now its getting started
Why don't you get things started?
It's time to get things started
On the most sensantional
Inspirational
Celebrational
Muppet-ational
This is what we call The Muppet Show! 

- Theme song to The Muppet Show

Finding yourself

The true vocation of man is to find his way to himself. - Hermann Hesse

If ever I would stop thinking about music and politics...

Create your own ending

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. – Anonymous

 

I don't know, but it makes me laugh

You can’t bullshit a cricket – Tecumseh Elijah Spivet (from Reif Larsen’s The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet)

You have the pieces; just assemble the puzzle

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. - Lewis Carroll

Life through the perspective of a headstand

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. – Edward de Bono

 "On the floor I am more at ease, I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around in it, work from the four sides and be literally in the painting." - Jackson Pollock

If you have 3 good friends in your lifetime, consider yourself wealthy

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. – Elie Weisel

 
Bill Withers - Lean On Me
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Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
We all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow

Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

Please swallow your pride
If I have things you need to borrow
For no one can fill those of your needs
That you WON’T let show

you just call on me brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that YOU’LL understand
We all need somebody to lean on

Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For ,it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on


YA just call on me brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that YOU’LL understand
We all need somebody to lean on

If there is a load you have to bear
That you can't carry
I'm right up the road
I'll share your load
If you just call me
call me (if you need a friend)
call me (call me)
call me (if you need a friend)
call me (if you ever need a friend)
call me (call me)
call me (call me)
call me (call me)
call me (call me)
call me (if you need A friend)
call me (call me)
call me (call me)
call me (call me)
call me (call me)
call me

Everything. Life.

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. - Anatole France

Sit, just sit. Breathe, just breathe

You need not do anything. 

Remain sitting at your table and listen.

You need not even listen, just wait.

You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, still and solitary.

And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.

It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

- Franz Kafka

Breathe, Just Breathe (sit, just sit)

CHARGE!!!!

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. - Norman Vincent Peale

 Knock Down That Wall

Got understanding? Got milk?

Understanding is the first step to acceptance and only with acceptance can there be recovery. - Joanne Kathleen (J.K.) Rowling

Art imitating life imitating art imitating...

If you want to work on your art, work on your life. — Anton Chekhov

 

 

Are those REALLY your words?

If you must write prose and poems

The words you use should be your own

Don't plagiarise or take "on loans"

There's always someone, somewhere

With a big nose, who knows

And who trips you up and laughs

When you fall

Who'll trip you up and laugh

When you fall – Cemetery Gates, The Smiths

But what if we have no string? Then sing, or bang your hands like drums

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. - Charles R. Swindoll

 

Look Ma! No hands!

Y'know, we're all in this together

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. – Audrey Hepburn

 

Bridge Over Troubled Water
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We are, each of us, so much more than our pain

Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power. – Blaine Lee

Love rescue me
Come forth and speak to me
Raise me up and don't let me fall
No man is my enemy
My own hands imprison me
Love rescue me

Many strangers have I met
On the road to my regret
Many lost who seek to find themselves in me
They ask me to reveal
The very thoughts they would conceal
Love rescue me

And the sun in the sky
Makes a shadow of you and I
Stretching out as the sun sinks in the sea
I'm here without a name
In the palace of my shame
Said, love rescue me

In the cold mirror of a glass
I see my reflection pass
See the dark shades of what I used to be
See the purple of her eyes
The scarlet of my lies
Love rescue me

Yeah, though I walk
In the valley of shadow
Yeah, I will fear no evil

I have cursed thy rod and staff
They no longer comfort me
Love rescue me

Sha la la...sha la la la
Sha la la la...sha la la...
Sha la la la...sha la la la
Sha la la la...sha la la
Sha la la la...sha la la la
Sha la la...

I said love, love rescue me

I said love
Climb up the mountains, said love
I said love, oh my love
On the hill of the son
I'm on the eve of a storm
And my word you must believe in
Oh, I said love, rescue me
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah...

Yeah I'm here without a name
In the palace of my shame
I said love rescue me

I've conquered my past
The future is here at last
I stand at the entrance
To a new world I can see
The ruins to the right of me
Will soon have lost sight of me
Love rescue me