June 2018 – A Pondering Mind

A Man Who Lies ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

“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 loveContinue reading “A Man Who Lies ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky”

Education Quote ~ Socrates

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. ~Socrates

Seasons

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. ~Arthur Rubinstein

Soup

Coffee Fanatic

Education

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.” – George Santayana

Justice For All

Summer Sky

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie – True Poems flee ~Emily Dickinson, C.1879

Summer Quotation

In summer, the song sings itself. ~William Carlos Williams

Prime Purpose

Lies

Good Books

Animal

“I don’t care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!” – Jeremy Bentham

Know Nothing

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. ~Leo Tolstoy

Jack Lemmon Quote

“If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.” – Jack Lemmon

Al Pacino Quote

Clean Water

“Clean water is only as far away as the nearest tap, and there are taps everywhere. There’s a faucet everywhere. But the reality is, the water in our toilets is cleaner than the water that most people are drinking.” – Matt Damon

Alfred Hitchcock Quote

Ancient Philosopher

“According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat” – Moliere

Stars Quote ~ Neil Gaiman

“A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now that’s a question.” – Neil Gaiman

Music ~ Chinese Proverb

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. He sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb

Reading ~ Judith Butler

“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.” – Judith Butler

Thinking

“Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.” – Slavoj Žižek

Schools

Introversion

Don’t think of introversion as something that needs to be cured… Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you’re supposed to. ~Susan Cain

A New Word For Seniors

Quote George Orwell

Life

All of life is a foreign country. ~Jack Kerouac

Travel Quote

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. ~Jack Kerouac

Music

If music is a Place — then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. ~Vera Nazarian

Moral Foundation

“We’ve lost our moral foundation, which allows us to go this far over. So I don’t blame Trump. I just think he is what he is. We’re the ones who let that happen. We should be looking at ourselves.” – Robert Redford

Zen Quote

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. ~Lao Tzu

Sunday Update

Its been five weeks since I was sent home from the hospital, and have been making great strides, to a better and healthier life ahead. Everything is looking good, and my doctor likes what she has seen far. i’m starting to sleep better, and my diet is working out. I an proud of myself, andContinue reading “Sunday Update”

Commitment To Equality

Attitude

“When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: “Why do I care if my high school’s team wins the football game? I don’t know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me… why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense.” But the point is,Continue reading “Attitude”

Technique Of Privatization

“That’s the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.” – Noam Chomsky

Life

Gullible Side

“There’s a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.” – Michael Moore

Time To Think

Humanity

Looking

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. ~Antonio Porchia

Voltaire Quote

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. ~Voltaire

Two Things

Friendship

Today

Today was a strange day Woke this morning thinking that today was Saturday but it turned out to be Friday IT was eerily a quiet day odd for a Friday Come tomorrow it being Saturday I should be back to a normal human self

Family

Nature ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some 20 or 30 farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all theContinue reading “Nature ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson”

Steven Wright Quote

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments. ~Steven Wright

Real Beauty

Sometimes you have to shut your eyes, so you can see the real beauty. ~Kilian Jornet

Nonsense

Be Kind ~Jack Kerouac Quote

Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything. ~Jack Kerouac

Zen Quote

Relax. Nothing is under control. ~Adi Da

Stephen Hawking Quote

“It is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and forContinue reading “Stephen Hawking Quote”

Supreme Art

Thinking

“Thinking is hard work; that’s why so few do it.” – Albert Einstein

Nobody Is Superior

Crayons

Taxman

“George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.” – Paul McCartney

Sunday Photo

White Rabbit

“‘White Rabbit’ was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a ‘Bolero’ rip-off and the lyrics a rearrangement of ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ You take two spectacular hits and throw them together, and it’s hard to miss.” – Grace Slick

Literacy

“Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.” – Grace Slick

Unpredictable Things

Blue Skies

“Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see” – Ella Fitzgerald

Will Power

Last month. when I became ill, it didn’t look good. I was so weak, that I couldn’t even get off the couch. I told my partner to call for an ambulance, and off to the hospital. They rushed me to the emergency room, and immediately the nurse hooked the IV into me. I spent sevenContinue reading “Will Power”

Talent

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. ~Erica Jong

Rainbow

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. ~Maya Angelou

Believe ~Robert McCloskey

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” – Robert McCloskey

Knowledge

Irish Proverb

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Eight Things To Remember

Circus ~Edward R. Murrow

Politicians

“Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.” – David Brinkley

Moving

“I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.” – John Coltrane

Listening

“Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.” – John Coltrane

Soul

“What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.” – Ray Charles

Walking

I was walking through the leaves. Falling from the trees. Feelin’ like a stranger nobody sees. ~Bob Dylan Love and Theft (2001)

Commenting

I have posted quite a few ‘quotes,’ but for the present time, I am not ready to read and reply to any comments. Since the middle of May, I’ve gone through a lot health wise. I have my good days, and some not so good. I will say this, I have the will-power, to keepContinue reading “Commenting”