"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday"

-unknown

Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and do not waste a minute thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do ( Read more... )

Love the earth and the sun and animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and the crazy, devote your income and labors to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, reexamine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a ( Read more... )

"Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in "mission creep," and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would ( Read more... )

"Let us cease to consider what perhaps may never happen, and what, when it shall happen, will laugh at human speculation. We will not endeavour to modify the motions of the elements or to fix the destiny of kingdoms. It is our business to consider what beings like us may perform, each labouring for his own happiness by promoting within his circle ( Read more... )

"On average, however, the fact remains that in America the existential vacuum is more manifest than in Europe. This is due to the exposure of the average American student to an indoctrinatino along the liens of reductionism. To cite an instance, there is a book in which man is defined as "nothing but a complex biochemical mechanism power by a ( Read more... )

I've been reading Alan Alda's Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, and other things I've learned, and I came across this section and fell in love with it.

( Why hanging to moments is bad )

"It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched."

I got these quotes from an email a friend sent me. I just had to share...

( The rainbows of life follow the storm. )

"In literature the ambition of a novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it." - George Bernard Shaw

(Just a little something for my fellow Lit/English majors. You know it's true.)