Don't worry about the little things, but nourish them as equally as everything else

We must not allow the ignoble to injure the noble, or the smaller to injure the greater. Those who nourish the smaller parts will become small men. Those who nourish the greater parts will become great men. – Meng Tzu (Mencius)

Courage - You've got it in you

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. – Dorothy Thompson

The best of Lester, the worst of Lester...

You are the best. You are the worst. You are average. Your love is a part of you. You try to give it away because you cannot bear its radiance, but you cannot separate it from yourself. To understand your fellow humans, you must understand why you give them your love. You must realize that hate is but a crime-ridden subdivision of love. You must reclaim what you never lost. You must take leave of your sanity, and yet be fully responsible for your actions. - Gnarls Barkley, in a letter to the legendary rock critic Lester Bangs

No regrets. Life goes on.

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer. – Colette

New Order-Regret

an alias | MySpace Video

Maybe I've forgotten the name and the address
Of everyone I've ever known
It's nothing I regret
Save it for another day
It's the school exam and the kids have run away

I would like a place I could call my own
Have a conversation on the telephone
Wake up every day that would be a start
I would not complain of my wounded heart

I was upset you see
Almost all the time
You used to be a stranger
Now you are mine

I wouldn't even trust you
I've not got much to give
We're dealing in the limits
And we don't know who with
You may think that I'm out of hand
That I'm naive, I'll understand
On this occasion, it's not true
Look at me, I'm not you

I would like a place I could call my own
Have a conversation on the telephone
Wake up every day that would be a start
I would not complain of my wounded heart

I was a short fuse
Burning all the time
You were a complete stranger
Now you are mine

I would like a place I could call my own
Have a conversation on the telephone
Wake up every day that would be a start
I would not complain about my wounded heart

Just wait till tomorrow
I guess that's what they all say
Just before they fall apart 

Oh coffee, you're the only one who truly understands me

I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee. - Flash Rosenberg

 

Words words words ≠ Actions

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. – John F. Kennedy

 





"I'd rather play than talk about it."

Spaceship Earth

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. – Buckminster Fuller

US Pavilion, Buckminster Fuller, 1967

Continue to Play - It could save your humanity

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. – Ralph Ellison

Life: It's there for the taking

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. – Oscar Wilde

Emotions just are... don't run from them

Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look. - Pema Chodron

Make Em Laugh... You'll Die Last

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other. - Alan Alda

Remember Yourself Honestly

When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself, or others; one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own. There can be no blame anywhere. One swallows what is, and becomes free. - Rodney Collin

I have no teacher. An open heart is my teacher.
I have no voice. The bird's song is my voice.
I have no path. Fearlessness is my path.
I have no achievements. Equanimity is my achievement.
I have no profession. Presence is my profession.
I have no children. All beings are my children.
I have no ambition. Kindness is my ambition.
I have no script. Authenticity is my script.
I have no partner. Life is my partner.
I have no benefactor. Gratitude is my benefactor.
I have no strength. Flowing and unfolding is my strength.
I have no goal. Freedom, and the blessings of freedom
for all beings
is my goal.

Books and life

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. – Elizabeth Drew

Oh, I'll settle down with some old story
About a boy who's just like me
Thought there was love in everything and everyone
You're so naive!
They always reach a sorry ending
They always get it in the end
Still it was worth it as I turned the pages solemnly, and then
With a winning smile, the poor boy
With naivety succeeds
At the final moment, I cried
I always cry at endings

and then nothing turned itself inside out...

Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it. Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly from the Absolute. - Rumi

 Clouds from Eloi Collective on Vimeo.

Regret, The Gibby Haynes Way

"Daddy?”

“Yes, son?”

“What does regret mean?”
“Well son, the funny thing about regret is it's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done. And by the way, if you see your mom this weekend be sure and tell her,

SATAN, SATAN, SATAN!!!" – Gibson Jerome “Gibby” Haynes (Butthole Surfers), Sweat Loaf

Frank Sinatra

What the world needs now is a new Frank Sinatra, so I can get you in bed - Cracker, Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)

Changed Priorities Ahead

Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities. – John C. Maxwell

Why are we here? That's the fun question

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked -- as I am surprisingly often -- why I bother to get up in the mornings. – Richard Dawkins

The Flaming Lips' "All We Have is Now" (Music Video: Unofficial) from Brent Long on Vimeo.

Stunning Aeriel Photos Of Planet Earth - The most amazing bloopers are here

Yes

For all that has been: Thanks

For all that shall be: Yes. 

– Dag Hammarskjöld

Growth

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing. – William Butler Yeats

 

No caffeine. Never had it, never will

Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be. – Grandma Moses

"No caffeine, never had it, never will."

Thinking Shminking

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. – Theodore Rubin

Smile.

A smile is the beginning of peace. – Mother Teresa

This is how it starts, not with a bang

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. - Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Despair/Happiness - The Mouse Trap



This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper

Simply the best...

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. – Flannery O’Connor

go go go go go you restless soul

Yes, life's a bowl of cherries
You can have as many as you can carry
And someone once said that life is like a cow
But I don't know how that applies
But anyhow here we are all on this planet
Taking everything for granted
But I think you've caught on to something
Don't let go
Go go go go you restless soul, you're going to find it
Go go go go you restless soul, you're going to find it

- Daniel Johnston, Go

Simple

Everything is simple --reality is simple. It seems complex only because of ignorance; otherwise everything is simple. Once you know it, it becomes simple. The knowing is bound to be difficult not because of reality, remember, but because of your mind. - Osho

There is no spoon

On the stairs...

On the stairs the furtive shadows pass of all those who were there one day.  - Georges Perec, Life: A User’s Manual

They Paint the Donkey Blue if You Pay

Never trust a man in a blue trench coat. Never drive a car when you’re dead – Tom Waits, Telephone Call from Istanbul

Laugh. It's easier.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.  - e.e. cummings

 

 

Seems simple enough

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. – Mark Twain