Sir John Lubbock on Affection
Don’t be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
John Schaar
“The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination.”
Travis Randy - Three Wooden Crosses - Rise and Shine
A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher,
Ridin’ on a midnight bus bound for Mexico.
One’s headed for vacation, one for higher education,
An’ two of them were searchin’ for lost souls.
That driver never ever saw the stop sign.
An’ eighteen wheelers can’t stop on a dime.
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of [...]
James Baldwin- Change- Facing Change
Not everything that is faced can be changed.
But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Suppose some mathematical creature from the moon were to reckon up the human body; he would at once see that the essential thing about it was that it was duplicate. A man is two men, he on the right exactly resembling him on the left. Having noted that there was an arm on the right [...]
Josh Billings- Men Are Getting Lower
Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since.
Mark Twain - Human Race
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Anton Chekhov- Humans- Butterflies-Caterpillars
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.