‘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 us.’

Lord Salisbury (sometime British PM) on campaigning.

The days and weeks of screwed-up smiles and laboured courtesy, the mock geniality, the hearty shake of the filthy hand, the chuckling reply that must be made to the coarse joke, the loathsome, choking compliment that must be paid to the grimy wife and sluttish daughter, the indispensable flattery of the vilest religious prejudices, the wholesale deglutition of hypocritical pledges.

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
― Albert Schweitzer  

 oldviolin wrote:
 

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

Al Mcguire

Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb, too. The imagination and spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology. Ideology – that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes.... That was how the agents of the Inquisition fortified their wills: by invoking Christianity; the conquerors of foreign lands, by extolling the grandeur of their Motherland; the colonizers, by civilization; the Nazis, by race; and the Jacobins (early and late), by equality, brotherhood, and the happiness of future generations.... Without evildoers there would have been no Archipelago."

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Chapter 4, p. 173

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.  Daniel Patrick Moynehan

“Never lose the groove in order to find a note.” - Victor L. Wooten

https://www.alibris.com/The-Music-Lesson-A-Spiritual-Search-for-Growth-Through-Music-Victor-L-Wooten/book/10410130?matches=96

"...in such an ugly time the true protest is beauty" - Phil Ochs

 rhahl wrote:
 

In the time of your life, live—so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.

Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are the things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart.

Be the inferior of no man, or of any men be superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart. Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil. These, understand. Have no shame in being kindly and gentle but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret.

In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.

William Soroyan

There are no limits to what you can achieve if you are willing to let others take the credit.

Today's policies and political activity treat people like pawns. More than ever before, attempts will be made to use people like cogs in a wheel. People will be handled like puppets on a string, and everyone will think that this reflects the greatest progress imaginable.

Rudolph Steiner

"If you want to understand the secrets of the Universe; think in terms of Energy, Frequency and Vibration."   â€”Nikola Tesla

 black321 wrote:
 

"Keith Richards looks 40 years younger now than he did when he was 40"
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LOL

 haresfur wrote:
 

A stone on the road
Una piedra en el camino

He taught me that my destiny
Me enseñó que mi destino

It was rolling and rolling
Era rodar y rodar

Roll and roll
Rodar y rodar

Roll and roll
Rodar y rodar

El Rey