LIFE

If you should go skating,
On the thin ice of modern life,
Dragging behind you the silent reproach,
Of a million tear-stained eyes,
Dont be surprised when a crack in the ice,
Appears under your feet.
You slip out of your depth and out of your mind,
With your fear flowing out from behind,
You as you claw the ice.
- Roger Wates, "The Thin Ice"

Nothing affects the environment of a child so much as the unlived life of a parent.
- Carl Jung

Can't pretend that growing older never hurts.
- Pete Townshend, "Slit Skirts"

No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful
Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful
They want what they're not and I wish they would stop saying,
Deputy dog dog a ding dang depadepa
Deputy dog dog a ding dang depadepa
- They Might Be Giants, "Don't Let's Start"

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
- Kris Kristofferson, "Me and Bobby McGee" -

"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."
- Bob Dylan, "All Along the Watchtower" -

CHILDREN

Nothing affects the environment of a child so much as the unlived life of a parent.
- Carl Jung

What's done to children, they will do to society.
- Karl A. Menninger,psychiatrist (1893-1990)

SUFFERING

If you should go skating,
On the thin ice of modern life,
Dragging behind you the silent reproach,
Of a million tear-stained eyes,
Dont be surprised when a crack in the ice,
Appears under your feet.
You slip out of your depth and out of your mind,
With your fear flowing out from behind,
You as you claw the ice.

- Roger Wates, "The Thin Ice"

Can't pretend that growing older never hurts.
- Pete Townshend, "Slit Skirts"

No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful
Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful
They want what they're not and I wish they would stop saying,
Deputy dog dog a ding dang depadepa
Deputy dog dog a ding dang depadepa
- They Might Be Giants, "Don't Let's Start"

Beau Lausdoff learned that if we wait to tend to suffering until we dealt with our own, we'll never get around to so much as wiping a single teardrop of anyone else's.
- Gregg Levoy, Callings -

In fact, the human heart is incapable of containing the world's suffering without breaking. Yet, only by breaking does it make from for the world's suffering.
- Gregg Levoy, Callings

FUN

Have fun while you still can
Fate's an awful thing
- Aaron T-Bone Walker -

KNOWLEDGE

Believe nothing. No matter where you read it, or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason, and your own common sense.
- Guatama Siddhartha

The truth may set you free, but there's an even chance that, at first, it will scare the daylights out of you.
- Gregg Levoy, Callings -

SUCCESS/CAREERS

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
- Michael Jordan -

Chance favors the prepared mind.
- Louis Pasteur -

You never expect the wild card, but it's there.
- Beau Lausdoff -

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
- Gen George Patton -

MISCELLANEOUS

The truth may set you free, but there's an even chance that, at first, it will scare the daylights out of you.
- Gregg Levoy, Callings -

SPIRITUALITY

Christ is crying
Outside your front door
Don't let him in
He'll get mud on the floor.
- Brian Ritchie, "Love and Me Make Three"

If there is a god, I wonder... When the god is watching us, does it ever get bored and change the channel?
- Nick Carlson


If you listen down below, you will deserve to hear from above.
- The Torah -

God thy will is hard
But you hold every card
I will drink your cup of poison
Nail me to your cross and break me
Bleed me, beat me
Kill me, take me now
Before I change my mind
- Tim Rice, Jesus Christ Superstar -

POLITICS

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
- Kris Kristofferson, Me and Bobby McGee -

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
- Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910).

INDIVIDUALISM/SELF

If I kick out my devils, my angels might leave.
- Iggy Pop -

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.
- Graham Greene,novelist and journalist (1904-1991)

It costs so much to be a full human being that there are few who have the enlightenment, or the courage, to pay the price... One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to count doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
- Morris West -

SOCIETY/WORLD

"You sold us out, Clark. You gave them the power that should have been ours. Just like your parents taught you to. My parents taught me a different lesson... lying on the street, shaking in deep shock, dying for no reason at all. They showed me that the world only makes sense when you force it to."
- Frank Miller, The Dark Knight Returns -

The trouble with trying to change the world, I once heard someone say, is weeks go by and nothing happens.
- Gregg Levoy, Callings -

What's done to children, they will do to society.
- Karl A. Menninger,psychiatrist (1893-1990)

I don't know what the world may want
But some words of wisdom could comfort us
Think I'll leave that up to someone wiser

Cause what the world needs now
Are some true words of wisdom
Like La La La La La La La La La
- David Lowery

In fact, the human heart is incapable of containing the world's suffering without breaking. Yet, only by breaking does it make from for the world's suffering.
- Gregg Levoy, Callings

PEOPLE

Spouses may be temporary, but exes are forever.
- an old co-worker of mine

Nothing affects the environment of a child so much as the unlived life of a parent.
- Carl Jung

No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful
Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful
They want what they're not and I wish they would stop saying,
Deputy dog dog a ding dang depadepa
Deputy dog dog a ding dang depadepa
- They Might Be Giants, "Don't Let's Start"

Those who put out the people's eyes, reproach them for their blindness.
- John Milton, poet (1608-1674)

What's done to children, they will do to society.
- Karl A. Menninger,psychiatrist (1893-1990)