Fortune Cookies

 All time fortune cookie:
The great pleasure in life 
is doing what people say you cannot do.


 Fortune cookie of the week:
A person of words and not of deeds
is like a garden full of weeds.


 Watching the sunrise outdoors statistically increases your odds of having a good day. And needing a nap after lunch. Firefox.7.11.17

The plural of anecdote is not data. :)

Tara Goddard
@GoddardTara

Don't tell me why it won't work.
Tell me what you tried that didn't work.
Carlin Black, DuPont, 1966 

To try and fail is at least to learn; 

to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

 Chester Barnard

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.  
Daniel_Burnham

But I have no beliefs. Belief gets in the way of learning.
Lazarus Long

It's not the mistakes that count,
it's what you do after them that counts.
-Thelonious Monk

Thanks Paige Wroble for the find.

The weather right now in Seattle is cold and rainy.
It will get better--about April.
Horizon Air preflight announcement.

If it is to be it is up to me to do it.
John Tee-Van

 He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes;
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much:
Those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else
Cyrus H.K.Curtis

 Wisdom is knowing what to do next;
Skill is knowing how to do it;
Virtue is doing it. 


 Learn from the mistakes of others.  
You haven't the time to make them all yourself.


 Minds are like parachutes: 
they function only when open.




"Butterflies are not insects, they are self-propelled flowers."
Captain John Sterling. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, Robert A.
Heinlein, 1985.

 

Sprichwörter

 My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes and oh, my friends--
It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay 

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin

 

Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is
Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things,
the divine beauty of the universe.
Love that, not man apart from that,
Robinson Jeffers 

Note to self:
You can't control how other people recieve your energy.
Anything you do or say gets filtered through the lens of whatever shit they are going through at the moment.
Which is not about you.
Just keep doing your thing with as much integrity and love as possible.
- Nanca Hoffman

Posted on Facebook by The Earth Tribe:
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What some call luck
Is simply pluck
And doing things 
Over and over

Perseverance and skill
Courage and will
Are the four leaves
Of Luck's clover
Anon per Google


There is no such thing as luck;
There is only adequate or inadequate preparation
To cope with a statistical universe. 
Dr. Samuel C. Russell, Have Space Suit - Will Travel, RA Heinlein, 1958

The Virile Mind

One of the most striking things about the virile mind is that at the end of its thinking there is always a question mark.  The ignorant man finds it easy to convince himself that what he does not know is not worth knowing.  It is only those who are willing to go on learning, who becoome aware of how vast are the realms of to be explored beyond the farthest reach of their own understanding.
Peter Fletcher

"What makes my truth mythology and your mythology truth?"
A Hopi "Cathy"

Quoted on Facebook by friend Brian King

 “Where's your church?”

“We’re standing in it.”

“But this is a bookstore and it’s a Friday.”

“Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we’ve ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space.”
 From Forrest Church’s A Chosen Faith

In biology when an experiment goes wrong it stinks. 

In chemistry when an experiment goes wrong something blows up. 

In physics when an experiment goes wrong nothing happens. 

Hat tip to Paul Lewis on Facebook

I like to feel that I've paid rent on the piece of earth I'm using.             Hilda Burroughs.  The Number of the Beast, R.A.Heinlein, 1980.

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

Thích Nhất Hạnh

Memorable Quotes

“Slow up!  I don’t ‘believe’ in anything.  I know certain things—little things, not the Nine Billion Names of God—from experience.  But I have *no* beliefs. Belief gets in the way of learning.”  Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love, Prelude II, Robert A. Heinlein, 1973.

BRITANNIUS (shocked):

    Caesar, This is not proper.

THEODOTUS (outraged):

    How?

CAESAR (recovering his self-posession):

    Pardon him, Theodotus: He is a barbarian, and

    thinks that the customs of his tribe and island

    are laws of nature.

                                                        Caesar and Cleopatra, ACT II

                                                                —George Bernard Shaw 

 

 

How on earth does a guy with this much disposable income manage to not pay the housekeeper on time *or* even mop a floor to maintain a property in the city he lives in.  Send him back to his mom; he’s broken.   Ishie Bay on Facebook.

...than is walking the dog twice a day the “life’ of of a man who bosses a planet-wide corporation between those walks—even though to a being from Arcturus III those walks might seem to be the tycoon’s  most significant activity — as a slave to the dog.  

Editorial comment. Stranger in a Strange Land. Robert A. Heinlein. 1961.

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

Thích Nhất Hạnh

 There is no such thing as luck;  there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.   Dr. Samuel C. Russell. Have Space Suit Will Travel, Robert A. Heinlein, 1958.

 

Toledo is where you find Velveeta on the gourmet counter at the supermarket.  Gael Greene, Restaurant Critic. 

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” – George Carlin 

Elegies

The road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began
Now far ahead the road has gone
Let others follow it who can!
Let them a journey new begin,
But I at last with weary feet
Will turn towards the lighted inn,
My evening-rest and sleep to meet.

Sleep well, Christopher. Thank you for sharing your father's dreams with us.

Kevin Black for Christopher Tolkien Facebook, 2020

Attribution:
It's Bilbo's final version, recited right before he falls asleep in his chair at Rivendell after the Ring has been destroyed. J.R.R.Tolkien, Return of the King, 1965, p266

Under the wide and starry sky,

Dig the grave and let me lie.

Glad did I live and gladly die.    

 And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:    

“Here he lies where he longed to be;

Home is the sailor, home from sea,

 And the hunter home from the hill.”

Requiem.  R.A. Heinlein, 1935.

From

This is the epitaph Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) wrote for himself. It is carved on his gravestone at Vailima in Samoa.