A Pondering Mind

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

~ Josh Billings

Wisdom And Learning

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

~ Sandra Carey

Learn By Doing

“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”

~ Richard Branson

Sublime Natural Beauty

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

~ Eleanor Catton

Two weeks ago, I voted by mail in, but dropped it off at the ballot box in the lobby of the local police station, as I didn’t trust the postal service with the shenanigans they was doing. I did check online to see if it was received at the city clerk’s office, and it was. I did my part to hopefully rid the orange menace on November 3.

“Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.” ~ Winston Churchill

Vain And Inspiring Men

“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”

~ Samuel Adams

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. ~ Rose Kennedy

What Is

“The ‘what should be’ never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no ‘what should be,’ there is only what is.”

~ Lenny Bruce

2020

Has your life changed or turned upside down, inside out, don’t know which end is up, due to all the different things that have happened in the year 2020?

Food And Eating

When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.

~ Ayurvedic Proverb

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. ~Salvador Dali

For What Its Worth

Glucose levels are very good, and have been that way for quite some time. Also, its been a year since I had to be on insulin. I am happy for the way things have worked out.

Life is good.

For What Its Worth

2020 the year from hell

Voting

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

~Charles Bukowski

Reading Is The Key

“Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.”

~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. ~Mark Twain

“The majority of men…

“The majority of men… are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and… are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.”

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

You Were Meant To Be

“Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you’ve been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.”

~ H. G. Wells

Elections Belong To The People

“Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”

~ Abraham Lincoln

Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try. ~Fran Lebowitz

Octopus On Roller Skates

Talent without discipline, is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

If You’re Not Careful …

“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

~ Malcolm X

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. ~Anais Nin

Talk about a dream, try to make it real. ~Bruce Springsteen

“Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.” ~ Agatha Christie

“The path to paradise begins in hell.” ~ Dante Alighieri

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Herd Mentality

The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.

~ David Icke

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” ~ Harper Lee

For What Its worth

Its Labor Day 2020
and the moron
president is still
in office

In two more months
we can send him
packing

Another For What Its Worth

Polls
Pools
Polls
With all the
different polls
that inundate
us with the
latest who
is ahead
who is behind
blah blah blah
The only poll
that counts and
really matters
is at the polling
booth on November 3rd

For What Its worth

Hopefully come
November 3rd
we rid of
‘the sky is falling’
president

Really

A president who
praises police …
and also a vigilante
killer in Kenosha

So, you either
praise one or
the other, not
both

Now to watch
out for men dressed
in all black, flying
in a plane over
my building

For What Its Worth

The sky is falling
president, should
be removed from
office immediately.
Everyday it seems
that he gets more
outrageous with the
bullshit he spouts
off.
Again. He must be
removed ASAP!

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. ~Potter Stewart

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. ~ Edward Hennessy

“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk

He is happiest, be it king or peasant, who finds peace in is home. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ~Martin Luther King Jr.

Only ignorance excuses stupidity. ~ Nalini Singh

3 3 3. Only half evil. ~ Cheyenne McCray

Self-Control

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

~ Franz Kafka

Theatre is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture. ~Anonymous

“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” ~ Che Guevara

Excellent Pick

Kamala Harris is an excellent pick. Joe Biden made the right choice, and won’t take any shit from Trump and his minions.

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” ~ James A. Baldwin

For What Its Worth

2020: the year of not knowing which end is up.

For What Its Worth

2020: the year the world got turned on its head

“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intuitive And Rational Mind

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

~ Albert Einstein

“The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.” ~Aldous Huxley

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know. ~ Bertrand Russell

Don’t you hate people who say they’re not complaining and then complain? ~Edna Ferber

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. ~Bertrand Russell

Remembering A Civil Rights Icon – John Lewis, May you Rest In Peace

“You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.”

~ John Lewis

Population Growth

It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world it for us right now.

~ David Attenborough

I love being an introvert…

“I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.”

~ Audrey Hepburn

For What Its Worth

Is it just me, wondering if this country has lost its collective soul, and if so, can the damage be repaired?

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me. ~ G. W. F. Hegel

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ~ Bertrand Russell

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. ~John F. Kennedy

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. ~William James

Mankind is composed of two sorts of men – those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy. ~Jose Marti

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” ~ Steve Jobs

Instant coffee: is just old beans that have been cremated. ~ Jennifer Saunders

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? ~Jean Kerr

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. ~Anton Chekhov

The sands of time are quicksands … so much can sink into them without a trace. ~Margaret Atwood

Men Marry Women …..

“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”

~ Albert Einstein

The Void

The entire cast of know-it-all, know nothing so-called leaders of the free world, are all aboard an all expenses gladfully paid for, at the taxpayers expense, a non-returnable flight, on the spaceship emptiness. It is heading straight on into the void, and will never be heard from again.