alone at his
favorite
outdoor table
while quietly
thinking …
blocking out the
sounds of the
traffic and
people passing by
… completely focused
on the other world
that he knows
will never happen
Tag World
America…
“America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.”
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Morning Quote
“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”
~ William James
Direction
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going in the opposite direction in this too-big world.
~ Jack Kerouac
The Most Beautiful Things
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
~John Steinbeck
More And More Information
We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.
~ Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher, Born: June 27, 1929 – Died: March 6, 2007
Treasured Wealth
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
~Henry David Thoreau
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ~Oscar Wilde
“It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.” ~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Redistribution Of Wealth
“You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.”
~ Abbie Hoffman – Social activist, Chicago Seven participant. Born: November 30, 1936 – Died: April 12, 1989
“I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.” ~ Jack Kerouac
The People Of The United States
“The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.”
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” ~Anthony Burgess
“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.” ~George Harrison
“Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.” ~Paul Theroux
“The loudest noise in the world is silence.” ~Thelonious Monk
To Find Reality
“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”
~ Iris Murdoch
Unpredictable Things
“The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.”
~ Paul Auster
Tired Of Waiting
“I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?”
~ Langston Hughes
“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” ~Rudyard Kipling
“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” ~ Marian Wright Edelman
A Mother’s Love
“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
~ Agatha Christie
The World We See
“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”
~ William James
“It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.” ~ Claude Monet
For What Its Worth
2020: the year the world got turned on its head
Population Growth
It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world it for us right now.
~ David Attenborough
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. ~Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Social Responsibility
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
Robert McKee
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. ~Bernard Williams
For What Its Worth
The coronavirus has turned the world upside down, inside out, and will probably never be the same.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. ~Iris Murdoch
For What Its Worth
With all that is going on in the world, my coffee imbibing has started to increase. Is it a good or bad thing?
“Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.” ~ T. S. Eliot
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand. ~Stevie Wonder
A Sheet Of Paper
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In a mad world, only the mad are sane. ~Akiro Kurosawa
“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.” ~Albert Einstein
The world we see ……
“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”
~William James
All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one. -John Fowles
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. – Charles Spurgeon
All the world Began With A Yes
“All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began.
Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.”
~ Clarice Lispector, Writer ~ 1920 – 1977
In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. ~ John Steinbeck
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-
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ~ William Shakespeare
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia. ~ Charles M. Schulz
Peter Ustinov Quote
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done.
~ Peter Ustinov (1921 – 2004)
“In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.” ~ George Harrison
Gold is worse poison to a man’s soul, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug. ~ William Shakespeare
Life and death matters, yes. ~ Raymond Carver
“Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.”
~ Raymond Carver, Writer – (1938-1988)
“Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.” ~ Clarice Lispector
Writer, B. December 10, 1920 – D. December 9, 1977
To See A World ~ William Blake
Genius And Madness
“Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.”
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Carl Sagan Quote
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
~Carl Sagan
Wallace Stevens Poetry Quote
Quote: Nicholas Sparks – A Great Paradox
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
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
Nonsense
Old Books
Hate
Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. -Maya Anjelou
Thinking
Occupation: Professor
Artist
Cookies And Milk
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
-Barbara Jordan
The World You See….. ~ Jack Kerouac
Neal Cassady
Iris Murdoch
Fire And Ice ~ Robert Frost
Hell
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
Aldous Huxley
Albert Camus Quote
Jack Kerouac Quote
“Truth about being single”
Source: “Truth about being single”
Happy Birthday Jack Kerouac
Born: March 12, 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts
Pondering Thought #2
Smile
Its
not
the
end
of
the
world
Pondering Thought #1
In
a
perfect
world
life
would
be
boring
Ignorance And Stupidity
Seems to be a lot of this going around.
Bertrand Russell
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunday Evening Quote
Monday Afternoon Quote
“A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.”
– Alan Watts
My Two Cents
My opinion from a straight man;
A woman wants to marry another
woman, go for it.
A man wants to marry another
man, go for it.
For people who keep saying that
marriage should be between a man
and a woman, fine. But don’t be
spouting the venom and bullshit
by putting the Gays and Lesbians
down.
They don’t bother me, and they are
not bothering you, the so called
righteous ones. Get over it.
It’s not the end of the fucking
world.
aponderingmind
Tuesday Evening Quote
“You do not need to leave your room, remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you. To be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet. ” – Franz Kafka
Tuesday Morning Quote
“You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.”
– Henry Ford
Blame
Can You Remember …….
Jimi Hendrix Quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Born: May 25, 1803 – Died: April 27, 1882
Charles M. Schulz Quote
Henry David Thoreau Quote
Daniel Berrigan Quote
Born: May 9, 1921
Clergyman
Pete Seeger Quote
Japanese Zen Saying
“The world is like a mirror you see? smile and your friends smile back.”
– Japanese Zen Saying
Socrates Quote
“I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
– Socrates
Dalai Lama Quote
“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”
– Dalai Lama
Voltaire Quote
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
– Voltaire
Oscar Wilde Quote
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
– Oscar Wilde
Intelligence
The trouble with the world
is that the stupid are
cocksure and the intelligent
full of doubt.
-Bertrand Russell
Final Quote For 2014
Quote
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
– H. L. Mencken
Quote Source: Dumb.com
No Better Feeling …
Quote
“It’s healthier to look out at the
world through a window than through
a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is
yourself and whatever is behind you.”
Bill Withers
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