A Pondering Mind

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. ~William James

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. ~ Bertrand Russell

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday. ~ Marcus Aurelius

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” ~Abraham Lincoln

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. ~ Oscar Wilde

“How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?” ~ John Stuart Mill

“Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.” ~ Mark Twain

If pornography releases sexual tension, why don’t we send recipe books to the starving? ~ Andrea Dworkin

Noble And Beautiful

“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”

~ John Lennon

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t. ~ Albert Camus

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. ~ Bertrand Russell

The Human Spirit

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”

~ William Ellery Channing

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. ~ Abraham Lincoln

For What Its Worth

Now that the Coronavirus Covid-19 has showed up in the White House, is all I have to say is, “What goes around, comes around.”

The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception. ~ George Boole

Two Kinds Of Truth

There are two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

~ Gottfried Leibniz

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

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. ~George Berkeley

Common Sense

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Rene Descartes

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternty.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. ~Albert Einstein

Look For 3 Things In A Person

“Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity.
If they don’t have the last one, don’t even bother with the first two.”

~ Warren Buffett

For What Its Worth

May 9th, it is snowing, windy and 34 F degrees, with a windchill of 29 F. Yikes!

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

For What Its Worth

To keep my sanity intact, I tend to not pay much attention to what number 45 has to say. I’m pretty sure most of you would know who I’m talking about.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. ~ Voltaire

For What Its Worth

I’m really liking the cleaner air, as it makes the walks more enjoyable.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. ~ Francis Bacon

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” ~ Xunzi

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” ~ Thomas A. Edison

The Truth Is Simple

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: ‘Don’t decide what you have to decide.’ That’s not evasion, it’s wisdom.

Mario Cuomo

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. ~Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. ~Thomas Aquinas

Cosmic Ordering

I’m into the law of attraction and quantum physics. Like cosmic ordering. It’s all about thinking lovely things that you would like in life, and feeling good about them before the manifest, so that by the time they do, you don’t want them because you’re on to your next desire.

Julia Sawalha

Life Is Hard

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’

Sydney J. Harris

“The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“If our founding fathers were alive today, they’d roll over in their graves.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Human Nature

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”

~ Dale Carnegie

“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Vote for the man who promises least, he’ll be the least disappointing. ~ Bernard Baruch

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. ~ Mark Twain

Music is my emotional tranquilizers. ~Maria Herliana

For What Its worth

You can’t get nothing from nothing. There!

Nothing will work unless you do. ~ Maya Anjelou

“I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.” ~ Nelson Mandela

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. ~ Stephen Hawking

So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health. ~A. J. Materi

Encouraging News

The other day, I did a phone visit with the Endocrinologist. He was very happy with the average morning glucose results, which was 117 average for the last 30 days. My weight is between 136-140, and was glad to hear that to. With that said, I no longer have to see him, and he wished me well. So glad to keep the type 2 diabetes under control.

Day by Day

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back everything is different.

C. S. Lewis

For What Its Worth

When the coffee is good, then I’m good to go.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. ~Victor Hugo

What To Make Of It

Taking my second walk of the early evening, I did not see any other people, nor an auto passing by me in either direction. It was pure silence, and I was thinking, this how it must be on a no-mans island in the middle of the ocean. And then, the silence could be deafening, or golden. I guess it depends how one looks at it.

Today’s gossip is tomorrow’s headline. ~ Walter Winchell

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. ~Robert McKee

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. ~Bernard Williams

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

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“Kurt Vonnegut Once Sent This Amazing Letter To A High School” by Emily Thomas, http://www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2014.

Hate pollutes the mind. ~ William Shakespeare

Separation Of Church And State

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.

Tori Amos

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? ~Satchel Paige

For What Its Worth

The coronavirus has turned the world upside down, inside out, and will probably never be the same.

The power of imagination makes us infinite. ~John Muir

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. ~Iris Murdoch

Those who fear the darkness have no idea what the light can do. ~Katasai Rakshasa

Everyday is a journey, and the journey itself is home. ~Matsuo Basho

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation. ~Stephen Ambrose

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like. ~Jonas Salk

Evolution Of A Pandemic In Real Time

For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behavior.

Margaret Chan

Similar But Different

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

Margaret Atwood

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. The both are fruit, but taste completely different. ~Stephen King

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. ~ Stephen Hawking

Dwell On The Past

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?

Charlotte Bronte

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. ~ Edward Abbey

For What Its Worth

With the current situation going on, all we can do is it live it one day at a time.

The secret is the answer …

The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is never so interesting as struggle. ~ Willa Cather

Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. ~ John F. Kennedy

Last Night

When I took one of my evening strolls, I saw less than a half dozen people doing the same thing. As for traffic, that has gone down too. I could practically walk down the middle of what some are the busier streets in my city, and this is before sunset. Eerie! The one good thing about the air, it is cleaner, which makes it more enjoyable to walk in.