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“How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?” ~Rene Descartes
Six Words
a new day. a normal life.
Each Day
“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”
~ John Burroughs
Do Silly Things

The Opposite Of
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”
~ Elie Wiesel
Fear
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
~ Bertrand Russell
“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” ~Henry Rollins
One Sentence Story
Watching life go by in the rear view mirror.
A Good Friend
“A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”
~ Lois Wyse, Author ~ 1926 – 2007
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between. ~Albert Camus
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” ~Anthony Burgess
“Life’s like a mayonnaise soda.” ~Lou Reed
People Know What They Do
“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.”
~ Michel Foucault, Philosopher – Born: October 15, 1926 – Died: June 25, 1984
3:00 A.M. – Short Fiction
It was one those nights, Ned was tossing and turning, and restless. He looked at the alarm clock, and it read 3:00 a.m. He decided to get up, put his clothes on, grabbed his keys and cigarettes, and went for a walk. The air was warm, and the stars were shining. It felt good to walk in the quiet solitude, of the tree lined street he resides on.
When he returned home, he felt like a new man, and the stroll helped clean out the cobwebs in his head. After all was said and done, Ned went back to bed, and before you know it, he was out like a light.
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire
“What worries you, masters you.” ~ John Locke
“Life is a constant process of dying.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer
“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” ~Jack Kerouac
Life Is One Big Road
“Life is one big road with lots of signs,
So when you riding through the ruts,
Don’t you complicate your mind
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
Don’t bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.”
~ Bob Marley
Two Sentences
Never said I was perfect. Far from it.
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” ~John W. Gardner
Law Of Life
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
~ John F. Kennedy
Love

For What Its Worth
So today, I did a load of laundry. Just one of many of life’s rituals.
“How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?” ~ Rene Descartes
“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” ~Lloyd Alexander
To Find Reality
“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”
~ Iris Murdoch
Free Will
“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” ~Abraham Lincoln
Three Phobias
“I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.”
~ Tallulah Bankhead
“Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.” ~Anton Chekhov
“If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.” ~Robert Frost
“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.” ~Jeffrey Eugenides
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ~Soren Kierkegaard
There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles. ~Stephen Covey
The Opposite Of Love
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”
~ Elie Wiesel
To Be A Philosopher
“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
“Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don’t look for anything else.” ~Bertrand Russell
“We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.” ~ Patti Smith
“A life lived in fear is a life half lived.” ~ Baz Luhrmann*
*Film director
The Greatest Adventure
“The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.”
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. ~Jacques Yves Cousteau
“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” ~ Babe Ruth
“Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.” ~Louisa May Alcott
Nothing In Nature
“Nothing in nature is by chance… Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.”
~ Baruch Spinoza
Be Who You Are
“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
Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify. ~Henry David Thoreau
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. ~ Rose Kennedy
Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try. ~Fran Lebowitz
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. ~Anais Nin
Talk about a dream, try to make it real. ~Bruce Springsteen
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. ~William James
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” ~ Steve Jobs
“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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. ~William James
Life Is The Fire …..
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
Life Is Hard
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
Sydney J. Harris
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
Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. ~Robert McKee
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
For What Its Worth
With the current situation going on, all we can do is it live it one day at a time.
Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. ~Jim Henson
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. ~Soren Kierkegaard
Its Surely Not The Same
Since COVID-19 has made its presence, it has changed the ways of life. When I go outside to take my walks, there seems to be very few, if that doing the same thing. Also, not that many cars are seen. Its so surreal, its like living in the Twilight Zone.
For What Its Worth
With the COVID-19 virus affecting our way of living, can we now call it “The New Normal?”
For What Its Worth
We could all use a time out, from the seemingly, neverending media barrage of the Coronavirus.
So far, I have been going about the days, and not getting myself all worked up about it.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. ~Albert Einstein
City Life
I’m impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
Michael Douglas
Backpack
So I’m more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It’s weird being here. It feels like I’m standing next to my real life.
Henry Rollins
When It’s Time
“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
~ Jimi Hendrix
Enjoy The Day
“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.”
~ Horace
No such thing
“No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.”
~ Henry Rollins
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. ~Sheryl Sandberg
Do not fear mistakes. There are none. ~Miles Davis
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. ~Anthony Burgess
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
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”
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
Enjoy Life
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Water And Life
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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
Life
life it is what it is: life
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
There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles. ~Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey, 1932 – 2012, Author
“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
If you can’t do anything about it, laugh like hell. ~David Cook
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press
“Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn’t painting be too?” ~ Edgar Degas
Thoughts From A Tired Mind
hot searing sun
broiling the desert
not a house
or any building
to be seen
for as far
as the eye can see
carcasses of long
ago dead animals
litter the ground
rattle snakes hissing
scorpions and black
widows crawling
seeking to bite
and deposit their
deadly venom
no water to be found
not an ideal place
to spend time in
such is life
in the desert
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ~Simone Weil
Traveling Is Like Flirting
“Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
~ Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, Novelist
As soon as there is life there is danger. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
And
the month
of August
is now in
the home
stretch
and life
goes on
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ~ Simone Weil*
*French philosopher, 1909-1943
Short, Short Story
Mr Positive debates Mr Negative. Egos clash. Neither comes out a winner. Both egos deflated.
Music ~ Albert Einstein
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
~ Albert Einstein