We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems.
- John Gardner

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.--Richard P. Feynman

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.--Mahatma Gandhi

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
~Henry David Thoreau

"I'm thirsty, but the holy keep pissing in my well." -- John Moreland

“Contempt prior to examination is an intellec- tual vice, from which the greatest faculties of mind are not free." William Paley

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all ar- guments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlast- ing ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investiga- tion. —Herbert Spencer

In ancient Greece, scholar and intellectual, Socrates , was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteem. One day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and said, "Do you know what I just heard from one of your friends?"

"That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you're going to say. That's why I called it the triple filter test."

The first filter is Truth.
"Have you made absolutely sure that what you're about to tell me is true?"
"No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and wanted to tell it to you."
"Alright," said Socrates, "so you don't really know if it's true or not."

Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness.
"Is what you are going to tell me about my friend something good?"
"No, on the contrary , it is bad."
"So," Socrates replied, " you want to tell me something bad about him, but you're not certain if it's true."

"You may still pass the test though, because there's one filter left, the filter of Usefulness." " Is what you are going to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?"
"No, not really." replied the man.
"Well," concluded Socrates , " if what you are going to tell me is neither true, nor good, and nor even useful to me, why telling me at all."

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. - Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish

Why dont i have any tattoo's?
For the same reason you dont put a bumper sticker on a Ferrari.

"Don't let the shadows of yesterday spoil the sunshine of tomorrow. Live for today."
~Nandina Morris

"Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm."
~Unknown

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table

“If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.”
― Roopleen

“I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.”
― Stanley Kunitz

"Discipline is the only way to avoid struggle, chaos, and confusion. When you know what you must do, when you must do it, and why you are doing it, things that are not in alignment with your intent seem to fall away."

From the Book I am reading called "Ignore Everybody: And 39 other Keys to Creativity" excellent read.

"The sovereignty you have over your work will inspire far more people than the actual content ever will.” ― Hugh MacLeod

"A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life."
~Charles Darwin

"Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present."
~John Lubbock

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

- John Lennon

"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?."
~Henry David Thoreau

"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."
~George Sand

"Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other."
~Rene Yasenek

You keep waiting for something to happen,
the thing that lifts you out of yourself,
catapults you into doing all the things you’ve put off
the great things you’re meant to do in your life,
but somehow never quite get to.
You keep waiting for the planets to shift
the new moon to bring news,
the universe to align, something to give.
Meanwhile, the piles of papers, the laundry, the dishes, the job—
it all stacks up while you keep hoping
for some miracle to blast down upon you,
scattering the piles to the winds.
Sometimes you lie in bed, terrified of your life.
Sometimes you laugh at the privilege of waking.
But all the while, life goes on it its messy way.
And then you turn forty. Or fifty. Or sixty…
and some part of you realizes you are not alone
and you find signs of this in the animal kingdom –
when a snake sheds its skin its eyes glaze over,
it slinks under a rock, not wanting to be touched,
and when caterpillar turns to butterfly
if the pupa is brushed, it will die—
and when the bird taps its beak hungrily against the egg
It’s because the thing is too small, too small,
and it needs to break out.
And midlife walks you into that wisdom
that this is what transformation looks like—
the mess of it, the tapping at the walls of your life,
the yearning and writhing and pushing,
until one day, one day
you emerge from the wreck
embracing both the immense dawn
and the dusk of the body,
glistening, beautiful
just as you are.
by Leza Lowitz

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.--Ambrose Bierce