'At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if i'm not there I carry on as usual.'
- Sir Patrick Moore
Phil Lesh said at the Grateful Dead’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994: "Sometimes you don't merely have to endure. You can prevail."
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once
'An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.'
- Iain Sinclair
"i once wanted to save the world. now i just want to leave the room with some dignity".
-lotus weinstock
"look again at that dot.
that's here.
that's home.
that's us.
on it everyone you love,
everyone you know,
everyone you ever heard of,
every human being who ever was
lived out their lives.
the aggregate of our joy and suffering,
thousands of confident religions,
ideologies,
and economic doctrines,
every hunter and forager,
every hero and coward,
every creator and destroyer of civilization,
every king and peasant,
every young couple in love,
every mother and father,
hopeful child,
inventor and explorer,
every teacher of morals,
every corrupt politician,
every "superstar",
every "supreme leader",
every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--
on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. :)))))))))))
-carl sagan
"good luck, chuck"
-peppermint patty
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'
- John Betjeman
"all who joy would win must share it.
happiness was born a twin".
-lord byron