"There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked." ~Anton Chekhov
''Snow was falling, so much like stars, filling the dark trees... that one could easily imagine its reason for being, was nothing more than prettiness.'' - Mary Oliver
"you must be able to do three things to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go” ― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.” ― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
“Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?” ― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your TV; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.” ― Edward Abbey Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.” ― Carrie Fisher
"Beach-goers are probably more scared of sharks than coconuts, but the brown, hairy fruit is actually responsible for more annual human deaths than the ferocious sea creatures. Falling coconuts kill an alarmingly high 150 people each year!"--Brainjet.com Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Dave was a confirmed serotonin junkie. Any day of the year, he chose a good book, a hot cupper, and air-conditioning over jeopardy to life and limb.” ― Dan Sofer, A Love and Beyond Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish."--Terrence Mckenna Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"The science is clear: the brain makes pain. Pain is 100% brain made, like everything else we perceive. Threat signals from “insulted” tissues are only one factor of many that the brain considers before creating an experience of pain. The brain often even over-protectively exaggerates pain, sometimes sounding alarms so persistently false that it can become a much bigger problem than whatever caused the alarm in the first place: “sensitization.”--- https://www.painscience.com/articles/pain-is-weird.php
''Every man [person] is guilty of the good he [or she] did not do.'' - Voltaire I've always liked his writings, and wit. He seems a bit underrated, imo.
“My spirit gets nourished in faraway places. Sometimes I wonder if it's a biological need, perhaps a biological flaw, that compels me to seek the excitement and challenge that comes of being in a place where nobody knows me."---Rita Golden Gelman Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale."---Richard Dawkins Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.” ― Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
