"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller read more
You don't know the worth of something until you're deprived of it. read more
Sad to still be here, but happy to be alive. - Stars (Musicians) read more
Paint As You Like And Die Happy (Henry Miller) read more
Now the man is thought to be proud who thinks himself worthy of great things, being worthy of them; for he who does so beyond his deserts is a fool, but no virtuous man is foolish or silly. The proud man, then, is the man we have described. For he who is worthy of little and thinks himself worthy of little is temperate, but not proud; for pride implies greatness, as beauty implies a goodsized body, and little people may be neat and well-proportioned but cannot be beautiful
Pride, then, seems to be a sort of crown of the virtues; for it makes them more powerful, and it is not found without them. Therefore it is hard to be truly proud; for it is impossible without nobility and goodness of character
Aristotle read more
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde read more
LOVE IS A PLACE. THROUGH THIS PLACE OF LOVE MOVE (WITH BRIGHTNESS OF PEACE) ALL PLACES.
YES IS A WORLD. IN THIS WORLD OF YES LIVE (SKILLFULLY CURLED) ALL WORLDS. ~ E.E.CUMMINGS read more
The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others- the living- are those who pushed their luck as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there. Or maybe it's In. (Hunter S. Thompson) read more
"Mr. Brantford now wished to know about other banks and methods of exchange. Said Mr. Mathew, 'When this organization first started it used the currency of other banks together with the notes issued by the government. As you will remember, Mr. Brantford, in your time all business was transacted on a more or less speculative basis, and gambling of all sorts ran riot. The Cooperative Association of America adopted the one great watchword, Economy, to save wasted energy. In your day the larger cities were filled with stock jobbers. Promoters of windy schemes lived and thrived everywhere. These men laid traps with but one idea, to slaughter their brothers. Gold was their god. They did not exactly use the knife and pistol, as did the pirates of old, yet on every hand could be seen bleeding humanity, which had been robbed through the medium of tricky advertising, in the form of beautifully gotten up pamphlets, promising to the reader an investment showing where rich returns would surely follow.'"
-Bradford Peck, The World a Department Store: A Story of Life Under a Cooperative System (copyright 1900) read more
"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry."
~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye read more
"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.”
Mary Kay Ash read more
