“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” - Howard Thurman
Good judgement comes from experience... a lot of which comes from bad judgement.
Anger is a luxury of the poor.
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road” -Voltaire
"If you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." -Ben Franklin
"When the levees break, and the water rushes through the town, you don't run for the hills; you get in your ark. Where did Noah build the ark? On the future floodplain. How did Noah build the ark? With materials and resources from that place. And when did Noah build the ark? Before the flood." -Chuck at Ranprieur.com
"I just take three pills a day and I blend into this horrible inbred corporate landscape!" -Doug Stanhope
How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” -Robert Heinlein
"The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll, and we can be grateful for that" -Larry Kudlow on the Japan Earthquake & Tsunami
"If you are to surrender to the will of Allah you cannot let any other human being (autocrat, theocrat or dictator) control you since this would conflict with eternal law." -Dr. Carl Calleman
"Collapse is the rapid simplification of a society." -Joseph Tainter
“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively” -Voltaire
"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need."-Jerry Gillies
"Continued denial of this ruling class-driven Apocalypse is deadly and immoral." -Joe Bageant
"What some here called 'The American Dream,' seems to have been a dangerous pyramid scheme." -Rap News #7
"I hear a big crack forming in their system... Like wildfire it will spread..." -Robert Menard
"The system will come to an end by itself. There is no need to force it out." -Jacque Fresco
“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.” -Voltaire
"We are like the billion blades of grass growing up through the cement of monetary tyranny" -Michael Ruppert
"At least black people knew when they were slaves; you fucking people remain clueless." -Doug Stanhope
"How many citizens of this republic were watching a dessert chef undergo staged humiliation for the failure of a cupcake batch while two nuclear reactors melted down across the Pacific?" -James Howard Kunstler
"That's the story of how you are so habituated and the habitual pattern of imbuing poison with comfort. It doesn't have to be substance abuse. It can be saying mean things. Maybe you never say mean things, but you think them all the time." -Pema Chodron
"Be yourself. Everyone else is taken." -Oscar Wilde
"Either the wallpaper goes, or I do." Oscar Wilde on his death bed
"I want either less corruption or more chance to participate in it." – Ashleigh Brilliant
"Many people remain addicted to trivialities all the way to their graves. Often they can't get past the social conditioning that tells them they should care about things that simply don't matter. Don't fall into that trap." -Steve Pavlina
Imprisonment is any restriction of freedom.
"One day, a fruit and vegetable seller was arrested in Tunisia, sparking social unrest, and a few weeks later the government of Egypt toppled. Such is the nature of complex, chaotic, and unpredictable systems." -Chris Martenson
"If you can't make money at something, it's not gonna happen, and that's the reality of the system we're living in." -Peter Joseph
“Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew.” - Guillaume Apollinaire
"What's left of the rule of law is this: we have a government of the banks, by the banks and for the banks. That's all there is now" - Michael Ruppert
"Show a people as one thing only, over and over again, and that is what they become" -Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
"He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it." -Ecclesiastes 10:8
"We are stardust, we are golden... and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden." -Joni Mitchell
"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." -Kahlil Gibran
"I don't really know what spirituality is... but I know that if you're weeping over a sweater... you don't either!" -Bill Maher
"I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed 1000 more if only they knew they were slaves." ~Harriet Tubman
"An object seen in isolation from the whole is not the real thing." -Masanobu Fukuoka
"In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone." - Rollo May
“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.” -Voltaire
"We are going to do something terrible to you - we are going to deprive you of an enemy." -Gorbachev to Reagan, ending the Cold War
"We can set the bar much higher, and aim for a world of permaculture food forests, decentralized manufacturing, 100% bottom-up social systems, and global consciousness." -Ran Prieur
"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein
"The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering." -Carl Jung
“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.” -Emo Phillips
"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar." -Drew Carey
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong” -Voltaire
"People only see what they are prepared to see." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." -Marilyn Monroe
"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the Weather." -Bill Hicks
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