A little of this. A little of that.
“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
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
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
~John Steinbeck
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
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
~Henry David Thoreau
“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
“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
“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”
~ Iris Murdoch
“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
“I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?”
~ Langston Hughes
“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 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
2020: the year the world got turned on its head
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
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
Robert McKee
The coronavirus has turned the world upside down, inside out, and will probably never be the same.
With all that is going on in the world, my coffee imbibing has started to increase. Is it a good or bad thing?
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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 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
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-
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)
“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)
Writer, B. December 10, 1920 – D. December 9, 1977
“Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.”
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
~Carl Sagan
“When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it’s time for artists to make their mark.”
– Joni Mitchell
“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.” – Judith Butler
Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. -Maya Anjelou
Occupation: Professor
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
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
Aldous Huxley
Source: “Truth about being single”
Born: March 12, 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts
Smile
Its
not
the
end
of
the
world
In
a
perfect
world
life
would
be
boring
Seems to be a lot of this going around.
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.”
– Alan Watts
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
“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
“You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.”
– Henry Ford
Born: May 25, 1803 – Died: April 27, 1882
Born: May 9, 1921
Clergyman
“The world is like a mirror you see? smile and your friends smile back.”
– Japanese Zen Saying
“I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
– Socrates
“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”
– Dalai Lama
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
– Voltaire
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
– Oscar Wilde
The trouble with the world
is that the stupid are
cocksure and the intelligent
full of doubt.
-Bertrand Russell
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
“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
“For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow’s life.”
–Frank Herbert
