“As for me, I know nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
Or stand under the trees in the woods,
Or talk by day with any one I love,
Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love,
Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon…
Or the wonderfulness of the sundown,
Or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring…
What stranger miracles are there?”
– Walt Whitman
Month: July 2018
Thoughts
“Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.”
– William James
Kindness ~ Mark Twain
Liberty ~ George Orwell
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
– George Orwell
Time Is Never Wasted ~ Thomas Pynchon
“Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.”
– Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.211, Penguin
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
“You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bored Solitude ~ Jack Kerouac
“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength”
– Jack Kerouac
Comforts
couch
book
black
coffee
ac
is
on
the
comforts
of
home
Life Is Short ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Just Saying
I
know
that
I
dislike
some
people
but
I
don’t
hate
anyone
as
it
is
not
in
my
DNA
Disliking
a
person
or
group
of
people
is
not
as
harsh
as
hating
Hate
hating
and/or
hatred
to
me
are
too
demeaning
and
have
no
use
for
them
Everyone Loves Music
Beauty In Words
“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
Confidence, Not Cockiness
One Sentence Fiction
She’s savoring the all around beauty, of the numerous wild flowers.
Disordered Minds
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Coltrane Quote
“Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.”
– John Coltrane
John Dean Quote
Leonardo da Vinci Quote
Learning never exhausts the mind.
~Leonardo da Vinci
One Sentence Fiction
She lives in a household full of mad, whacked-out people.
Six Word Story
Living the life of a nomad.
Poetry Quote ~ Novalis
Call It A Plan
J. L. Austin Quote
“A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words…. Statements are made, words or sentences are used.”
– J. L. Austin
Iris Murdoch Quote
“Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.”
– Iris Murdoch
When Your Past Calls
Six Word Story
Her Sunday breakfast special, soupy pancakes.
Anton Chekov Quote
Yiddish Proverb ~ Laughter
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
~Yiddish Proverb
Leo Anthony Gallagher Quote
I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked “brightness” but it don’t work, does it?
~Leo Anthony Gallagher
Oxford Comma
An Oxford comma walks into a bar. Orders a gin, and tonic.
~@NeinQuarterly (Nein. Eric Jarosinski, editor), 2013 July 30th tweet
Calm Abiding Meditation
David M. Bader Quote
Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?
~David M. Bader – Zen Judaism
Great Things
Hubert Reeves Quote
Jamie Lynn Morris Poem
Like butterflies in Spring
Poetry awakens the Spirit,
stirs the imagination and explores
the possibilities with each stroke of its rhythmic wings.
~Jamie Lynn Morris
E. B. White – Library Quote
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.”
– E. B. White
Lao Tzu Quote
The soul has no secret that the behavior does not reveal.
~Lao Tzu
Attitude Matters
Helen Hayes Quote
We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart… and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together…. I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.
~Helen Hayes
George Jean Nathan “Viewpoint”
In a rapidly ascending balloon were two men.
One watched the earth getting farther and farther away.
One watched the stars getting nearer and nearer.
~George Jean Nathan, “Viewpoint,” A Book Without a Title, 1918
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The Four Conditions of Happiness ~ Albert Camus
“The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being, Freedom from ambition, Creation” ~Albert Camus
Joni Mitchell Quote
“When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it’s time for artists to make their mark.”
– Joni Mitchell
Buddy Guy Quote
B.B. King Quote
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
~B.B. King
Gustave Flaubert Quote
Peter Fonda Quote
Edith Zittler Quote
The best way to stop smoking is to just stop — no ifs, ands or butts.*
~Edith Zittler
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*That’s how I did it, [cold turkey] and don’t miss it.
Dale Carnegie Quote
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
~Dale Carnegie
J.D. Salinger Quote
William Faulkner Quote
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”
– William Faulkner
Bill Gates Quote
Philosophical Poem
See without looking,
hear without listening,
breathe without asking.
~W.H. Auden
What Is Enough
You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough.
~William Blake, Proverbs of Hell
Beauty Quote – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maya Angelou Quote
All great achievements require time.
-Maya Angelou
Six Word Story
The daily daydreamers bus has arrived.
Cup Of Coffee – Charles Bukowski
“I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.”
– Charles Bukowski
Docile Automatons – Timothy Leary
Poetry Quote
“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.”
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Republican Party – Alec Baldwin
When Its 100 Degrees In New York – Neil Simon
Pets – Anne Tyler
African Proverb
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
~African Proverb
Reality Quote ~ Jim Morrison
Great Books
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
~John Green
Life Worth Living
“Put down the pen someone else gave you.
No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.”
– Jack Kerouac