May 30, 2017

Barbara Samuel: It`s not...

It`s not being a woman I mind so much," she said slowly. "`Tis the way men seem to always order my life." She leaned earnestly toward him. "Your hand, Papa, has wielded a sword and cradled a child and held power over hundreds of men." She held up her own hand. "This one has far fewer adventures before it.
/Barbara Samuel/

May 28, 2017

Christopher Lasch: The family...

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
/Christopher Lasch/

May 27, 2017

Arnold Weinstein: We are...

We are stripped of all that gave value and substance to our existence: power and love; in this naked final state, our last lover, our mate, death, comes. Bereft, without cover, we face the elements that will undo us. The winter breakers crash over and through us, flaunting their vigor and our nullity, as if the entire cosmos were now taking its ultimate revenge on the human creature who has lived too long: the dying sun mocks us from the west, for it will return tomorrow to die again, but we go down only once; the rising sun mocks us from the east, for we will not share in the rebirth of light and life; the noonday taunts us with its heat and vitality, for we are detritus; the north finally cloaks us in our last vestments: eternal night. That is how it ends.
/Arnold Weinstein/

May 26, 2017

Paul Valéry: Latent in...

Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself
/Paul Valéry/

Ta-Nehisi Coates: In those...

In those years, hip-hop saved my life. I was still half alien to the people around me. I loved them, mostly because I`d realized that there was no other choice. Hip-hop gave me a common language, but that August, on liberated land, I found that there were other ways of speaking, a mother tongue that, no matter age, no matter interest, lived in us all.
/Ta-Nehisi Coates/

May 25, 2017

Debasish Mridha M.D.: Fill the...

Fill the pages of your life with the exciting story of triumph and tragedy, failure and victory, desire and discovery.
/Debasish Mridha M.D./

Robin Gregory: If life...

If life were all sunshine and chocolate, there wouldn`t be any saints.
/Robin Gregory/

May 24, 2017

Clarissa Pinkola Estés: Sometimes the...

Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.
/Clarissa Pinkola Estés/

May 22, 2017

Rebecca McNutt: In her...

In her eyes was the reflection of everything that mattered: old diners with neon signs, vinyl records, celluloid film, drive-in movies, Pears soap, department stores, her brother?s old blue Camaro car and the smell of coal dust in the rainy sky of a summer lightning storm.?And all the nice bright colors of the past that she thought were gone for good came flowing back into her life like a wave of nostalgia flooding over her, reds, yellows, blues and greens drenching her gray memories in psychedelic ribbons and glittering fireworks.?She hoped that the world would always hold those miniscule yet beautiful, deep and mysterious traces of memory.
/Rebecca McNutt/

May 18, 2017

Swami Dhyan Giten: The most...

The most important thing that is happening in the world right now is the emerging of the new man.Since the monkeys, man has remained the same, but a great revolution is on it`s way. When monkeys became man, it created the mind. With the new man, a great revolution will bring the soul in. Man will not just be a mind, a psychological being, he will be a spiritual being.This new consciousness, this new being, is the most important thing, which is happening in the world today. But the old man will be against the emerging of the new man, the old man will be against this new consciousness.The new man is a matter of life and death, it is a question of the survival of the whole earth. It is matter of survival of consciousness, of survival of life itself.The old man has become utterly destructive. The old man is preparing for a global suicide right now. Rather than allowing the new man, the old man would rather destroy the whole earth, destroying life itself.The old destructive man is preparing right now for a third world war. The global economical and political elite and the war industrial complex in the U.S, which runs the foreign policy of the U.S, is right now promoting for a third world war.The U.S. has over thrown the democratically elected government in Ukraine in an secret operation by the CIA, the world`s largest terrorist organization, and replaced it with a fascistic regime, a marionette for the U.S.The war industrial complex is now desperately trying to promote the third war by demonizing, lying and blaming Russia. We see the same aggression and lies from the U.S. that we have seen before against Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Venezuela and Iran.President Eisenhower warned against the war industrial complex, which he considered the largest threat to democracy. President John F. Kennedy also warned against a "secret conspiracy" against democracy. The war industrial complex consists of the international banks, oil companies, war industry, democratically elected politicians, conservative think tanks, international mainstream media and global companies, who make profits from human suffering and wars.The European governments and the mainstream media also cooperate with the war industrial complex to bring the world into disaster.But this time it will not work as the time for wars is over, and peace loving people and people who represent the new man are working against this kind of aggression.
/Swami Dhyan Giten/

Deepak Chopra: Now take...

Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It`s not the popular ideal, it is the wizard`s love - the force that upholds life and nurtures it.
/Deepak Chopra/

May 17, 2017

Walter J. Ciszek: ... every...

... every moment of our life has a purpose, that every action of ours, no matter how dull or routine or trivial it may seem in itself, has a dignity and a worth beyond human understanding... For it means that no moment can be wasted, no opportunity missed, since each has a purpose in man?s life, each has a purpose in God?s plan. Think of your day, today or yesterday. Think of the work you did, the people you met, moment by moment. What did it mean to you- and might it have meant for God? Is the question too simple to answer, or are we just afraid to ask it for fear of the answer we must give?
/Walter J. Ciszek/

Sorin Cerin: Can I...

Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?
/Sorin Cerin/

May 16, 2017

Stephen Samuel Wise: The important...

The important thing today is not what we say of Lincoln but what Lincoln would say of us if he were here in this hour and could note the drift and tendency in American life and American politics.
/Stephen Samuel Wise/

May 15, 2017

Edward Gibbon: During the...

During the age of Christ, of his apostles, and of their first disciples, the doctrine which they preached was confirmed by innumerable prodigies. The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church [...] But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study, appeared unconscious of any alterations in the moral or physical government of the world. Under the reign of Tiberius, the whole earth, or at least a celebrated province of the Roman empire, was involved in a preternatural darkness of three hours. Even this miraculous event, which ought to have excited the wonder, the curiosity, and the devotion of mankind, passed without notice in an age of science and history. It happened during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced the immediate effects, or received the earliest intelligence, of the prodigy. Each of these philosophers, in a laborious work, has recorded all the great phenomena of Nature, earthquakes, meteors, comets, and eclipses, which his indefatigable curiosity could collect. Both the one and the other have omitted to mention the greatest phenomenon to which the mortal eye has been witness since the creation of the globe.
/Edward Gibbon/

Oliver Sacks: Given her...

Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations.
/Oliver Sacks/

Richelle Mead: I should...

I should go," I said thickly. "Let me know when you want to start practice again. And thanks for...talking."I started to turn; then I heard him say abruptly, "No."I glanced back. "What?"He held my gaze, and something warm and wonderful and powerful shot between us."No," he repeated. "I told her no.""I..." I shut my mouth before my jaw hit the floor. "But...why? That was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. You could have had a baby. And she...she was, you know, into you..."The ghost of a smile flickered on his face. "Yes, she was. Is. And that`s why I had to say no. I couldn`t return that...couldn`t give her what she wanted. Not when..." He took a few steps toward me. "Not when my heart is somewhere else.
/Richelle Mead/

Dalton Trumbo: If the...

If the thing they were fighting for was important enough to die for then it was also important enough for them to be thinking about it in the last minutes of their lives. That stood to reason. Life is awfully important so if you`ve given it away you`d ought to think with all your mind in the last moments of your life about the thing you traded it for. So did all those kids die thinking of democracy and freedom and liberty and honor and the safety of the home and the stars and stripes forever? You`re goddamn right they didn`t.They died crying in their minds like little babies. They forgot the thing they were fighting for the things they were dying for. They thought about things a man can understand. They died yearning for the face of a friend. They died whimpering for the voice of a mother a father a wife a child They died with their hearts sick for one more look at the place where they were born please god just one more look. They died moaning and sighing for life. They knew what was important They knew that life was everything and they died with screams and sobs. They died with only one thought in their minds and that was I want to live I want to live I want to live.He ought to know. He was the nearest thing to a dead man on earth.
/Dalton Trumbo/

Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry is...

Poetry is life distilled.
/Gwendolyn Brooks/

May 14, 2017

Erin O'Riordan: The point...

The point is that if we accept nature as God?s creation, then it`s ridiculous to think that God could be a male without a female. Asexual, yes. But not a male. It goes against our entire experience of life on Planet Earth. That is, if you think that God would`ve created nature in Her own image.
/Erin O'Riordan/

May 12, 2017

Lailah Gifty Akita: Every challenge...

Every challenge you encounter is part of the life`s journey. The challenges must be overcome for the vision to be fulfilled.
/Lailah Gifty Akita/

Ernest Becker: The irony...

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.
/Ernest Becker/

May 10, 2017

Ibraheem Hamdi: You don`t...

You don`t hunt something that you can live with, you idiot. You can`t have a challenge for a lifetime, it?ll drain you out. You?ll be dead before you even know it. Someone you go all those miles for, someone you change your own skin for, someone you take pride in having managed to impress; is most probably someone you don`t live with. People you can live with are ones who complete your sentences, ones who are too comforting, ones who don`t really urge you to fall off cliffs for them, rather cheer you on by their mere presence; ones who you can exercise silence with, free and unguarded silence.
/Ibraheem Hamdi/

May 08, 2017

Sainte-Beuve: Nature wants...

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.
/Sainte-Beuve/

May 07, 2017

Wilhelm Reich: I do...

I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.
/Wilhelm Reich/

Harshit Walia: Whole life...

Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.
/Harshit Walia/

May 05, 2017

Anthony Michael Hall: There've been...

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.
/Anthony Michael Hall/

Pierce Brown: Death isn`t...

Death isn`t empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death. I say we break those chains. Break the chains of fear and you break the chains that bind us to the Golds, to the Society. Could you imagine it? Mars could be ours. It could belong to the colonists who slaved here, died here." Her face is easier to see as the night fades through the clear roof. It is alive, on fire. "If you led the others to freedom. The things you could do, Darrow. The things you could make happen." She pauses and I see her eyes are glistening. "It chills me. You have been given so, so much, but you set your sights so low.""You repeat the same damn points," I say bitterly. "You think a dream is worth dying for. I say it isn`t. You say it`s better to die on your feet. I say it`s better to live on our knees.""You`re not even listening!" she snaps. "We are machine men with machine minds, machine lives ?" "And machine hearts?" I ask. "That`s what I am?""Darrow ?" "What do you live for?" I ask her suddenly. "Is it for me? Is it for family and love? Or is it just for some dream?""It`s not just some dream, Darrow. I live for the dream that my children will be born free. That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.""I live for you," I say sadly. She kisses my cheek. "Then you must live for more.
/Pierce Brown/

May 04, 2017

Archibald Marwizi: The reality...

The reality of life and an imperfect world dictates that things cannot be held constant to guarantee your success; you have to wiggle your way through a planned path within a maze, to attain your goal.
/Archibald Marwizi/

May 01, 2017

Don A. Martinez: Gabe taps...

Gabe taps Michi on the shoulder. ?I can understand any hesitation on your part, Michika. If you wish, you can stay behind with your family ???Nuh-uh, not a chance!? She brushes Gabe`s hand off of her shoulder. ?If my best friend?s gonna be risking her life to kick New Empire ass, then I wanna be right there with her in my asskickin? boots.
/Don A. Martinez/