A Pondering Mind

People living deeply have no fear of death. ~ Anais Nin

The weird and the stupid …

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
~ Carl Bernstein

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin, American author 1929-

“It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.” ~ Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac, Novelist ~ 1799 – 1850

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead. ~ Oscar Wilde

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” ~ Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams, Former First Lady of the United States – 1744 – 1818

“A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.” ~ Miles Davis

Miles Davis, Musician – B: May 26, 1926 – D: September 28, 1991

Fantasy is the only truth. – Abbie Hoffman

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

Life is existence with meaning. – Bangambiki Habyarimana

Consciousness is nature’s nightmare. – Emile M. Cioran

Balance is balancing. – John Dewey

We dance for ….. – Albert Einstein

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
– Albert Einstein

A Pondering Moment

put
today’s
bullshit
in the
dumpster

make
tomorrow
a better
day

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring, but very interesting.
-Zen Saying

There’s one advantage to being 102. There’s no peer pressure. ~ Dennis Wolfberg

Good Or Bad Fortune

“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
~ Hermann Hesse

The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau. ~ Anonymous

People Like Us ~ Albert Einstein

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
~ Albert Einstein

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. ~ Albert Einstein

“If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.” ~ Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan, B: May 24, 1941

The Great Unknown

You’ll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step.
~ Hannah Harding

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. ~ Stephen King

Yeah

it’s one
of them
days
that I
don’t
feel like
doing a
damn thing

Consciousness: That annoying time between naps. ~ Steven Wright

Douglas Adams Quote

In the beginning the universe was created.
This made a lot of people very angry and has
been regarded as a bad move.
~ Douglas Adams

Music causes us to think eloquently. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time is like a drug. Too much of it kills you. ~ Small Gods

A Pondering Moment 2

knowing
what you
already
know
is
known
so that
is all
you need
to know

Life before death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination. ~ Brandon Sanderson

A Mystery

Watching
a mysterious
mystery
which in
turn is
a total
mystery
to figure
out
as its
a complete
and ultimate
mystery
to seek
answers
to the
mystery
of all
mysteries

To read a book …..

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.
~ Chinese Saying

A Pondering Moment

Write using
the right
words
and then
it will
look and
read right.

Music is a safe kind of high. ~ Jimi Hendrix

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

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

What is writing? Writing is telepathy. ~ Stephen King

Writing is not a MacDonald’s Hamburger. ~ Natalie Goldberg

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ~ Jack Kerouac

A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of television existence. ~ Richard Helms

If you say you had a zen moment, you already didn’t. ~ Alec Sulkin

Diane Arbus Quote

Nudists are fond of saying that when you come right down to it everyone is alike, and again, that when you come right down to it everyone one is different.
~ Diane Arbus

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist’s morning prayer. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry. ~ John Jensen

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. ~ T. S. Eliot

The less men think; the more they talk. ~ Charles Montesquieu

“It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.” ~ Claude Bernard

Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all. ~ David Lynch

I never laugh until I’ve had my coffee. ~ Clark Gable

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. ~ Edward Coke

Six Word Story

No coffee, her day is doomed.

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. ~ Panin

Practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be? ~ Stephen King

Joseph Addison Quote

“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”
~ Joseph Addison, Essayist 1672 – 1719

Be who you are. ~ Rita Mae Brown

“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.”
~ Rita Mae Brown. Writer – B: November 28, 1944

May 14

Today, May 14
makes it
one full
year, that
I quit
smoking,
and I don’t
miss it.

The American Dream has run out of gas. ~ J. G. Ballard

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam…
~ J. G. Ballard, British author 1930-

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. ~ Ansel Adams

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. ~ Diane Ackerman

Diane Ackerman, American poet, essayist, savage and naturalist 1948-

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. ~ David T. Wolf

For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news. ~ Gloria Borger

Two Kinds of Stress ~ Hank Green

I deal with stress in two ways because there two kinds of stress. There’s stress you can take care of and there’s stress that you can’t. The first one, I take care of it fast as possible, but putting it off always makes it worse. Things that I can’t fix? I think about the fact that I can’t fix them. I think about why I can’t fix and I come to terms with the fact this is a problem that I’m not going to overcome and that the world is not a wish granting factory.
~ Hank Green, Vlogbrothers, Raw Onion, Twerking, and Speech Jam, 08-30-13

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