Spare Change

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
~Shunryu Suzuki

Solitude

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. ~Jack Kerouac

I'd give all wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life's decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer day.
~Lewis Carroll, "Solitude

Fathers Day

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
~Turkish Proverb

Please! Sit still

We are what we think
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make our world. - Buddha

Begin at the beginning

and go on till you come to the end; then stop. ~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland

"Which road do I take?"

"Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know,"
"Then, it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll

Illusion

is the first of all pleasures. ~Voltaire

Juicy

"Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever."
Aristophanes (448BC - 385BC) Greek dramatist