Life is so strangeI don’t know whyBut somebody, somebody has to cry. (Elvis Costello)
It’s tragic that extremists co-opt the notion of God, and that hipsters and artists reject spirituality out of hand. I don’t have a fixed idea of God. But I feel that it’s us – the messed-up, the half-crazy, the burning, the questing – that need God, a lot more than the goody-two-shoes do
It’s tragic that extremists co-opt the notion of God, and that hipsters and artists reject spirituality out of hand. I don’t have a fixed idea of God. But I feel that it’s us – the messed-up, the half-crazy, the burning, the questing – that need God, a lot more than the goody-two-shoes do (Mike Doughty)
Writing is one way to explore new ideas and by doing so blunt the sense of personal unrest and discontent. Writing assist us recognize, explore, and accept the patent absurdity of life. Writing facilitates thinking; the reagent substances we produce through writing augment our expanding system of ideas. Writing boldly triggers a chain reaction in our philosophical structure and thus writing can operate to transform who we are
Writing is one way to explore new ideas and by doing so blunt the sense of personal unrest and discontent. Writing assist us recognize, explore, and accept the patent absurdity of life. Writing facilitates thinking; the reagent substances we produce through writing augment our expanding system of ideas. Writing boldly triggers a chain reaction in our philosophical structure and thus writing can operate to transform who we are (Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls)
One who doesn’t recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity
One who doesn’t recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity (Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words)
Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are
Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are. (Werner Herzog)
If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery? – Joyce Meyer
If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery? – Joyce Meyer
You must discipline yourself consistently to do what others do occasionally in order to have the future few will get to experience
You must discipline yourself consistently to do what others do occasionally in order to have the future few will get to experience (Mensah Oteh, The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day)
For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason
For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason (Marcus Aurelius, Meditations)
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men. (Henry David Thoreau)
Jung Chang said that Mao ruled by getting people to hate each other: ‘Mao had managed to turn the people into the ultimate weapon of dictatorship. That was why under him there was no real equivalent of the KGB in China. There was no need. In bringing out and nourishing the worst in people, Mao had created a moral wasteland and a land of hatred
Jung Chang said that Mao ruled by getting people to hate each other: ‘Mao had managed to turn the people into the ultimate weapon of dictatorship. That was why under him there was no real equivalent of the KGB in China. There was no need. In bringing out and nourishing the worst in people, Mao had created a moral wasteland and a land of hatred (Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century)