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"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." ~Alan Watts
The dance of life is constantly changing, adjusting, adapting. We must do the same to thrive.
Favorite saying
- ""I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room."
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
“Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the
relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the
individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.”
- Marion Woodman
"I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind."
Richard Greenberg, NY Times Magazine, 03-26-2006
"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."
Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), 1895
"A human being is but breath and shadows"
Sophocles
"People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed."
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), "The Crack-Up" (1936)
"The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.
The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete."
Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu
"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Art,' 1841"