"The days I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations I have really good days."   Ray Wylie Hubbard

 ScottN wrote:
 

Indeed. I was struck by his ability to pinpoint the source of his meloncholia; at least that day... 

 oldviolin wrote: 

...his live concerts blended tenderness and ferocity, theatre and sincerity, agitation and embrace...

spoken of David Olney

 oldviolin wrote: 
Or a comedian.

This one really hit me to the core and has become my raison d'etre.  However I can see how people may apply their own meaning to it, I sure did.   Some may say that it is socialist or facist (what the diff?) mantra designed to perpetuate servitude to the state.   I took it as service to the universe and to those in your personal realm.  The notion that your reason for existence is to help, take care of and support or just behave in such a way as to improve all of those you have contact, influence andor responsibility for.   This is how our time should be passed:

"I thank God for all the freedoms we've got in this country. I cherish them. Even the rights to burn the flag, you know, I'm proud of those rights. We've also got a right to bear arms and if you burn my flag, I'll shoot you."        Johnny Cash

• “What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.” -Soren Kierkegaard

From last portion of Statue of Liberty dedication speech in 1886:

 

The rays from this beacon, lighting this
gateway to the continent, will welcome the
poor and the persecuted with the hope and
promise of homes and citizenship. It will
teach them that there is room and brother-
hood for all who will support our institutions
and aid in our development; but that those
who come to disturb our peace and dethrone
our laws are aliens and enemies forever.

 

Anyone who knows me in person or even on this forum knows I am quite the antithesis of a religious person, but that doesn't mean the Bible does not hold a lot of wisdom:


"Now some cried out one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together." Acts 19:32

 oldviolin wrote: 
"...tending the light at the end of the tunnel"

Anger is the product of emotion; based on a sense of frustration or unfairness, and as such  can be converted to positive motivation to right wrongs and correct injustice in any form or format. Hatred is a product of fear and as such can only feed on itself until nothing is left to salvage of a thinking feeling human being. Hatred is cancer of the spirit, and fear is its leering father and beneficiary ...

 Red_Dragon wrote: 

“It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves”

“A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.”

 

“Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt or kill! … You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you..."

 SeriousLee wrote: 

 Proclivities wrote: 
From the latter:

Facebook and Reddit have made the fake quote-picture a staple of online discussions, but there is a long and ignoble history of misquoting famous people to suit contemporary agendas.

Right. If it's on Facebook it must be true, and if it's not then by cracky we can repeat it enough times that eventually it will be...

 sirdroseph wrote: 
It's very unlikely old Benny ever said that, but it's been floating around the innerwebs for a while.