Animals and birds, know no borders.
On the other hand, mankind knows where the borders are,
and there lies the problem.
For What Its Worth
Idle thoughts
Idle mind
Its like living in a different time zone
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. ~Anthony Burgess
So long as the universe had a beginning …..
So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?
~Stephen Hawking
Tis’ better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else’s perfectly. ~Elizabeth Gilbert
Conquering Some Fear
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Food Security
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
~Bill Gates
Food is as important as energy….
Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together.
~Louise Fresco
For What Its Worth
When the mind is passive, then I know that I am with peace with myself.
Making Excuses
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
For What Its Worth
I’m healthy, not wealthy, but wise.
Order & Chaos
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
-Kerry Thomley
Bookish Homeless People
I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They’re bookish homeless people.
-Lisa Yuskavage
Poor People And The Homeless
You can spend the money on new housing for the poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.
-Jello Biafra
The present and the past …..
The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn’t be in flashback.
~Alain Resnais
Past time is finite, future time is infinite. ~Edwin Powell Hubble
Society is like a stew ….
Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
-Edward Abbey, American Author
“If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.” ~T. S. Eliot
Walk Beside Me …..
“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
~ Albert Camus
“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.” ~Albert Einstein
Fill Your Life Up With Ideas
“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin”
For What Its Worth
Monday’s weather was strange. Rain, snow, freezing rain, constantly flipping around. It was like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde type of day.
Okay So …..
2020 is a leap year. So February has 29 days, meaning we will have to wait one extra day for Spring to begin.
Walking Outdoors Is On Hold
Miserable, shitty weather, means I will resort to being the ‘hall monitor,’ thing, and do my walking in the halls and stairways. The plus side of it, is not having to wear a coat, and also get to smell the different aromas of the various meals, that are being concocted. Does it make me hungry, not really, as I do the walking on a full stomach.
For What Its Worth
The future is staring right in front of you. Make the best of it.
Uninteresting Life
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
~Mark Twain
Conquering Fear
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” ~Bertrand Russell
Unpopular Essays (1950) “Outline of Intellectual Rubbish”
For What Its Worth
The past is history. Time to move on.
For What Its Worth
Thinking positive about one’s self, is a good thing.
No Insulin Needed
As of today (12/28), it will be three months of not having to inject insulin of any kind. It feels good knowing that I don’t need it anymore, unless I screw up by having to much sugar in one day. If the high reading doesn’t go down within a day and a half or so, the doc told me to give myself one shot of insulin, and that should bring it down. Also, not taking any pills for type 2 diabetes, and that’s a good thing.
For what its worth: I get to see another day.
Walking Is My Go To
Most days, I go on a few walks. Some long, some short. It helps immensely with burning off the sugar and carbs. I am happy with the glucose reading(s), as the are generally in the 90s to the low 100s. The end result: one happy camper.
The world we see ……
“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”
~William James
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living? ~Bob Marley
Let Them Think What They Want
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I’m already better than them.
~Marilyn Monroe
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. ~Evan Esar
“We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.” ~Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes, Marion Glasserow Gladney (1986). “Our Best Years”, Doubleday Books
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ~Alice Walker
Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. ~Sam Levenson
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events. ~Albert Einstein
No one has ever died, from an over exposure to education. ~Robert M. Hensel
Robert M. Hensel, Spanish Poet-Writer
Clear Labeling For Genetically Modified Food
Europe believes that providing clear labeling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by vast majority of states in the U.S.
-Zac Goldsmith
Rose Bushes
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
-Abraham Lincoln
Problems of the world…..
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
-Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist
Enjoy Life
Quote Source: Quote Master
Existence has billions of doors, but death has none! ~Mehmet Murat ildan
“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” ~Alice Walker
Beautiful People
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.
Great News
Saw the diabetes doc (on Tuesday), and the great news is that my A1c is 6.2 which is good. No need for insulin which I have stopped using since the end of September. I only need to see him one more time, that being at the beginning of June. He told me I was doing everything right, and to keep doing what I am doing, and I shouldn’t have any more problems.
I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak. ~John Goodman
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” ~Albert Einstein
The morning cup of coffee …..
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.” ~Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies, 1913 – 1995, Novelist
People spend to much time finding other people to blame …..
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
-J. Michael Straczynski, American Producer – 1954 –
Water And Life
Quote Source: Quote Master
Life is …..
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.
~Albert Einstein
You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led. ~Stan Laurel
“Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.” ~Albert Einstein
To laugh often ……
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who as a physical being …..
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
~Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. -Bertrand Russell
Money has never made man happy ….
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
~Benjamin Franklin
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music is the medicine of the mind. ~John Logan
Life isn’t all haha hehe. ~ Meera Syal
Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through. ~Sam Cawthorn
Life
life it is what it is: life
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ~Albert Einstein
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? ~James Thurber
James Thurber – American Author and Comedian ~ 1894 – 1961
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one was has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein
The two most important days in your life are the you were born and the day you find why. ~Mark Twain
One seventh of your life is spent on Monday. ~Aldous Huxley
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles. ~Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey, 1932 – 2012, Author
“We’re reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we’ve placed on her, if we don’t lift the burden ourselves.” ~Steven M. Greer
Steven M. Greer, Medical Doctor
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” ~Mark Twain
“More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting” ~Martin Scorsese
If you can’t tell a spoon from a ladle, then you’re fat! ~Demitri Martin
Demitri Martin, American Comedian
People like us, …..
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
~Albert Einstein
The future is a concept …..
“The future is a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.”
~ Alan Watts
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Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. ~ Albert Einstein
Time spent with cats is never wasted. ~Sigmund Freud
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ~Dale Carnegie
If you can’t do anything about it, laugh like hell. ~David Cook
It’s kind of a zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book? -Lee Child
To know and not to do is not yet to know. -Zen Wisdom
The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. ~Alfred North Whitehead.
A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence. -Richard Helms
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. ~Karl Marx
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” ~Albert Einstein
“The Harper Book of Quotations Revised Edition”. Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 356, 1993.
Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. ~Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” ~Jim Morrison
“Readers recommend: songs about control” by Peter Kimpton, http://www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2015.
Thinking Silently
thinking silently
a smattering
of thoughts
are swirling
in my mind
nothing bad
nothing harmful
nothing slanderous
just normal
thinking
that I usually
do throughout
the course
of the day
Outlook
what keeps
me going
one step at a time
one day at a time
think positive
watch what i eat
drink plenty of water
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
Practice any art ….
“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut
“Kurt Vonnegut Once Sent This Amazing Letter To A High School” by Emily Thomas, http://www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2014. 
A Man who lies to himself ….
“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying – lying to others and to yourself.”
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The Brothers Karamazov”. Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 – 1880.
Movies are not novels ….
Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost failure. It can’t be done.
~Paul Auster
“It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.” ~Russell Means
Russell Means, B. November 10, 1939 – D. October 22, 2012
