"There is absolutely nothing to see here. And, I've come to see it anyway. Because, y'know, sometimes, you just gotta come stand with the ghosts."

Three eggs, two slices of toast, a cup of coffee, an episode of Mr. Ed, a Violin, and a bowl of fruit. What else does a man need? - 

Stanley Victor Paskavich

A saint is a sinner who never gave up.

 oldviolin wrote:
Indeed.  

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
Oscar Wilde

Everywhere I go, I see all kinds of people at my shows - conservatives, liberals, new-agers, teen-agers, old pensioners. And for those people to have something in common is real interesting to me.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Arlo Guthrie

 oldviolin wrote:

reminds me of

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is so he sees." 
William Blake

“Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.”



“The laws of nature are sublime, but there is a moral sublimity before which the highest intelligences must kneel and adore. The laws by which the winds blow, and the tides of the ocean, like a vast clepsydra, measure, with inimitable exactness, the hours of ever-flowing time; the laws by which the planets roll, and the sun vivifies and paints; the laws which preside over the subtle combinations of chemistry, and the amazing velocities of electricity; the laws of germination and production in the vegetable and animal worlds, — all these, radiant with eternal beauty as they are, and exalted above all the objects of sense, still wane and pale before the Moral Glories that apparel the universe in their celestial light. The heart can put on charms which no beauty of known things, nor imagination of the unknown, can aspire to emulate. Virtue shines in native colors, purer and brighter than pearl, or diamond, or prism, can reflect. Arabian gardens in their bloom can exhale no such sweetness as charity diffuses. Beneficence is godlike, and he who does most good to his fellow-man is the Master of Masters, and has learned the Art of Arts. Enrich and embellish the universe as you will, it is only a fit temple for the heart that loves truth with a supreme love. Inanimate vastness excites wonder; knowledge kindles admiration, but love enraptures the soul. Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light, has found the lost paradise. For him, a new heaven and a new earth have already been created. His home is the sanctuary of God, the Holy of Holies.”



“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.”

― Horace Mann

 black321 wrote:

 oldviolin wrote:

I like that one

"Oh, Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other, and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due. Remember, that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous."
MWS

"Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are."
Bukowski

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

TR is not really my favorite President, but still:
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.  -  Theodore Roosevelt, 1918.

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”

―

Soren Kierkegaard,


The Journals of Kierkegaard

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Montgomery Scott

"So this is either a functional metaphor for how consciousness turns things into reality...or else I'm completely crazy and I just had a completely wonderful time anyway."
Jerry Garcia

There is no place for violence in our democracy — against anyone.

~Robert Reich

“I think empathy is a made up New Age term that does a lot of damage"

~Charlie Kirk