You can map out a light plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down
to the reflexes you developed in training. That's where roadwork shows - the training you did in the dark of the mornin' will show when you're under the bright lights.

Joe Frazier

"That man's got an open mind, I can feel the breeze from here."
 Groucho 

"the center of the universe knows i'm trying to read/follow people that i don't agree with"

~miamizsun

For every true statement there is an opposite one that is also true; that language and the confines of time lead people to adhere to one fixed belief that does not account for the fullness of the truth.

Show me an atom and I'll show you the universe

Brian Cox

Nature holds the beautiful for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the ideal, which bypasses or improves on nature, may not be truly beautiful in the end.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Plato

Not a favorite but a cautionary trail...

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Benito Mussolini

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

Lewis Carroll

 oldviolin wrote:

Dude would be huge on Twitter, much respect

 coding_to_music wrote:

Hmm, not sure you got the same thing out of that quote, as i did. 

 coding_to_music wrote: 

 black321 wrote:

Applies to today for sure

If we did not have Covid to talk about - what would we be doing? 

Building housing for all? Free Transit? Food Courts and Arboretums? Burning Man everywhere all the time?

For decades I recalled how the middle east countries told their citizens that all their problems were from the fact Israel existed.

Seems we always gotta have a some reason we simply don't have any time to house the homeless, plant trees, build bike lanes.

"If you want to understand the abnormal, assume it is normal.” 
Goethe

"Art is like f*cking. When I sing to you, I want to be inside you."

—Concha Buika

 oldviolin wrote:

"hopefully my buffoonery will inspire them"

- miamizsun

"We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know."

"Now is the age of anxiety."

"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic."

"A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep."

WH Auden

“Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.”
 Criss Jami

“In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.”
 Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

"If you don't push yourself to the limits you will never know how far you can go"

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"Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind."
Robert Louis Stevenson