Karma & Chaos

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

-- Maya Angelou

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

-- Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge & emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.

Murakami

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.

-- Charlie Munger

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

-- John Lennon

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

-- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

-- Tolkien

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Merry Christmas Bluesky!!

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts. No animal could ever be so cruel as a man - so artfully, so artistically cruel.

-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

-- B. F. Skinner

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

-- Arthur Clarke

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

-- Maya Angelou

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

-- Plato

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

-- Albert Einstein

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

-- Epictetus

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

-- Groucho Marx

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

-- Emmanuel Kant

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

-- Martin Luther King Jr.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

-- Bertrand Russell

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

-- Stephen King

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

-- Soren Kierkegaard

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

-- Aldous Huxley

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

-- Nietzsche