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

"Yeah... well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."

........The Dude

Poetry is the voice of spirit and imagination and all that is potential, as well as of the healing benevolence that used to be the privilege of the gods.  - Ted Hughes

The learning process continues until the day you die.
Kirk Douglas

 Ohmsen wrote:
 
Is that kinda like more people died from the fear of alcohol than actually died from alcohol?

 Ohmsen wrote: 
Both are a plague (couldn't help myself).

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Desmond Tutu

Time wounds all heels...

John Lennon

 oldviolin wrote: 
RIP, Mr. Sayers, thanks for the memories!

You need somebody just to say, 'Hey, I'm here for you. Do you need anything?' If you can get somebody like that, you can make it, no question about it. You can make it.

Gale Sayers

"Don't die so poor, so all you have left is money"...source unknown

Do not take credit or accept blame for something you did not do. 

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

James Joyce

 oldviolin wrote:
 
The meek may inherit the earth but it's the grumpy
who get promoted...

Father Mulcahy

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.