Don't seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
~ Basho
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed in the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
~ Charles Morgan
How simple it is to see all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
Band Aid - Do They Know Its Christmas Lyrics
recorded on November 25, 1986
It's Christmas time
There's no need to be afraid
At Christmas time, we let in light and we banish shade
And in our world of plenty we can spread a smile of joy
Throw your arms around the world at Christmas time
But say a prayer
Pray for the other ones
At Christmastime it's hard, but when you're having fun
There's a world outside your window
And it's a world of dread and fear
Where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears
And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging
chimes of doom
Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you
And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time
The greatest gift they'll get this year is life
(Oooh) Where nothing ever grows
No rain nor rivers flow
Do they know it's Christmas time at all?
(Here's to you) raise a glass for everyone
(Here's to them) underneath that burning sun
Do they know it's Christmas time at all?
Feed the world
Feed the world
Feed the world
Let them know it's Christmas time again
Feed the world
Let them know it's Christmas time again
repeat then fade
>>>>
>
...a lover and a fighter.
"I'm at least half a bum" Rocky Balboa
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
~ Annie Dillard
Never lose your sense of wonder.
~ Joe Battan
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion for life.
~ Frederico Fellini
The first step to getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
~ J. Pierpont Morgan
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift of life is yours; it is an amazing journey; and you alone are responsible for the qualtiy of it.
~ Dan Zadra
Band Aid - Do They Know Its Christmas Lyrics
recorded on November 25, 1986
It's Christmas time
There's no need to be afraid
At Christmas time, we let in light and we banish shade
And in our world of plenty we can spread a smile of joy
Throw your arms around the world at Christmas time
But say a prayer
Pray for the other ones
At Christmastime it's hard, but when you're having fun
There's a world outside your window
And it's a world of dread and fear
Where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears
And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging
chimes of doom
Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you
And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time
The greatest gift they'll get this year is life
(Oooh) Where nothing ever grows
No rain nor rivers flow
Do they know it's Christmas time at all?
(Here's to you) raise a glass for everyone
(Here's to them) underneath that burning sun
Do they know it's Christmas time at all?
Feed the world
Feed the world
Feed the world
Let them know it's Christmas time again
Feed the world
Let them know it's Christmas time again
repeat then fade
Thanks for that much needed perspective. Hail, hail the lucky ones...
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
1. YOU WILL RECEIVE A BODY. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period of this time around.
2. YOU WILL LEARN LESSONS. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.
3. THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, ONLY LESSONS. Growth is a process of trial and error: Experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works."
4. A LESSON IS REPEATED UNTIL LEARNED. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.
5. LEARNING LESSONS DOES NOT END. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
6. "THERE" IS NO BETTER THAN "HERE." When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
7. OTHERS ARE MERELY MIRRORS OF YOU. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.
8. WHAT YOU MAKE OF YOUR LIFE IS UP TO YOU. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. YOUR ANSWERS LIE INSIDE YOU. The answers to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10.YOU WILL FORGET ALL THIS.
Cherie Carter-Scott
"You think I got my eyes closed but I'm lookin' at you the whole fuckin' time..."
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
~ J.B. Priestley
Oh, the experience of this sweet life.
~ Dante
one of my all-time faves.........
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, divinely aware.
~ Henry Miller
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, "here and now" without any possibility of postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.
~Jose Ortega y Gasset
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Mark Twain
Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.
~ Anne de Lenclos
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."
It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless Us, Every One!
--Charles Dickens
Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.
--Unknown
If there is no joyous way to give a festive gift, give love away.
--Unknown
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
--Jay Leno
>>>>
>
...a lover and a fighter.
"I'm at least half a bum" Rocky Balboa
Say yes to life, even though you know it may devour you.
~ Stephen Larsen
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment we know how, we begin to die a little. We never entirely know. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
~ Agnes De Mille
Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!
~ John Keats
Never be afraid to ask a question, especially of yourself - discovery is the mission of life.
~ Brian Kates
We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
~ David Grayson
Safety is the most unsafe path you can take, safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.
~ Steven Levine
Happy New Year all....best wishes for 2005 and always..........may it bring all you hope for and more.
Comments
~ Joseph Campbell
~ Basho
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed in the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
~ Charles Morgan
How simple it is to see all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
recorded on November 25, 1986
It's Christmas time
There's no need to be afraid
At Christmas time, we let in light and we banish shade
And in our world of plenty we can spread a smile of joy
Throw your arms around the world at Christmas time
But say a prayer
Pray for the other ones
At Christmastime it's hard, but when you're having fun
There's a world outside your window
And it's a world of dread and fear
Where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears
And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging
chimes of doom
Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you
And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time
The greatest gift they'll get this year is life
(Oooh) Where nothing ever grows
No rain nor rivers flow
Do they know it's Christmas time at all?
(Here's to you) raise a glass for everyone
(Here's to them) underneath that burning sun
Do they know it's Christmas time at all?
Feed the world
Feed the world
Feed the world
Let them know it's Christmas time again
Feed the world
Let them know it's Christmas time again
repeat then fade
>
...a lover and a fighter.
"I'm at least half a bum" Rocky Balboa
http://www.videosift.com/video/Obamas-Message-To-American-Indians
Edmonton, AB. September 5th, 2005
Vancouver, BC. April 3rd, 2008
Calgary,AB. August 8th, 2009
~ Annie Dillard
Never lose your sense of wonder.
~ Joe Battan
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion for life.
~ Frederico Fellini
The first step to getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
~ J. Pierpont Morgan
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift of life is yours; it is an amazing journey; and you alone are responsible for the qualtiy of it.
~ Dan Zadra
Make each day your masterpiece.
~ John Wooden
Let us live while we live.
~ Phillip Doddridge
Thanks for that much needed perspective. Hail, hail the lucky ones...
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
1. YOU WILL RECEIVE A BODY. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period of this time around.
2. YOU WILL LEARN LESSONS. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.
3. THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, ONLY LESSONS. Growth is a process of trial and error: Experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works."
4. A LESSON IS REPEATED UNTIL LEARNED. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.
5. LEARNING LESSONS DOES NOT END. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
6. "THERE" IS NO BETTER THAN "HERE." When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
7. OTHERS ARE MERELY MIRRORS OF YOU. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.
8. WHAT YOU MAKE OF YOUR LIFE IS UP TO YOU. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. YOUR ANSWERS LIE INSIDE YOU. The answers to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10.YOU WILL FORGET ALL THIS.
Cherie Carter-Scott
~ Aristotle
~ Ice Queen
~ J.B. Priestley
Oh, the experience of this sweet life.
~ Dante
one of my all-time faves.........
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, divinely aware.
~ Henry Miller
~ernesto che guevara~
(This was uttered by a candidate for a high-level position at our University, after having been dragged through interviews with about 20 VIPs...)
Of which we're caught in the middle.
A couple of lucky ones
Tangled up in too much love
~cowboy junkies
Robert Nesta Marley
(thought this was appropriate around Christmas time and all)
~ Thomas Carlyle
Live today.
~ Martial
J.J. Gould (1995)
>
...a lover and a fighter.
"I'm at least half a bum" Rocky Balboa
http://www.videosift.com/video/Obamas-Message-To-American-Indians
Edmonton, AB. September 5th, 2005
Vancouver, BC. April 3rd, 2008
Calgary,AB. August 8th, 2009
~Jose Ortega y Gasset
~George Carlin
~Michael Bolton
~ Mark Twain
i'd insult you, but you're not bright enough to notice!
bout damn time...this thread has missed you.
squirrel...i like it.
~ Anne de Lenclos
- albert einstein
--Charles Dickens
Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.
--Unknown
If there is no joyous way to give a festive gift, give love away.
--Unknown
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
--Jay Leno
>
...a lover and a fighter.
"I'm at least half a bum" Rocky Balboa
http://www.videosift.com/video/Obamas-Message-To-American-Indians
Edmonton, AB. September 5th, 2005
Vancouver, BC. April 3rd, 2008
Calgary,AB. August 8th, 2009
--Unknown
that one in particular cree, is just beautiful.
Love is the whole and more than all.
~ E.E. Cummings
~ Stephen Larsen
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment we know how, we begin to die a little. We never entirely know. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
~ Agnes De Mille
Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!
~ John Keats
~ Brian Kates
We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
~ David Grayson
Safety is the most unsafe path you can take, safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.
~ Steven Levine
Happy New Year all....best wishes for 2005 and always..........may it bring all you hope for and more.