http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yJdMdpmMws&sns=fb
Just wanting to send a blessing to everyone.
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
Holidazed
This year, I decided to pull everything out of the attic and decorate. Last year was to grievous and somber to be holidaying. My friend, Robin, stood at the bottom of my attic ladder as I passed down Rubbermaid tubs of Christmas goodies. I decorated in the next few days, and later, I decided to hoist the tree onto a table; why not take advantage of the tall ceiling in my living room; and it was a struggle that ended in injury. The tree is cumbersome and was fully assembled (and already decorated). My bad. So it fell back at me in resistance to going up on the table and a limb poked me right in the eye. Pain all night, no work the next day and when vision was semi restored, I went to the Dr. Yep. Corneal abrasion. I have an antibiotic eye drop & the eye is fine now. As you can see in the pic above, I was successful in the lift. One of the other reasons I decorated, is I have been (off season) getting ornaments that have not ended in the attic and I felt like "Why go UP?" bring them down and decorate, you ninny!
These are a set; my: "Take your laptop to the beach - frogs in chaise lounges - sun bather ornaments". Happy-Ribbit-HoHoHo!" ornament.
These are my DIY Ornaments, 4 frog ornaments I have made using glossy paper and my computer printer. (In my family, frogs mean "Ribbit-I LOVE YOU.") Find digital images, (example: GOOGLE search: cartoon frog holiday images.) Save your image twice. Rotate one horizontally. Print on high gloss paper, the mirror image twin and the original. Carefully cut around the border of both and glue them together. (At this point you can make the edges perfect, because they are now front & back images.) Find a sturdy spot to poke your hole for a hanger or a ribbon.
Hang and enjoy.
The 10th, I held a party. It was an Open House, bring a donation of food for the Oregon Food Bank & hang out a while - kind of party. There was pretty good attendance and I took a whole trash can of food off for donation. December has still been an emotional month and I am trying to fill it with giving and with things that take my mind off some of the OTHER feelings that creep in during this season. It is an adult set of worries and life isn't like things were back in '58.
Hard to believe that the year is almost out. That some things are NOT changing and that some things never will. I am trying to do my part. I am New Year - resolutioning even before it comes and again, This weight loss saga / exercising and being healthy saga isa life-long in its challenge. Each accomplishment is worth celebrating with a little Charlie Brown kinda dance!
Sunday, November 13, 2011
November 13th - Anniversary of Mom's passing.
2011
Today we all did something honoring Mom.
My sister and I "lit" a votive candle at the church - (Ascension /& our parochial school) and we ate breakfast in our old neighborhood, (Montavilla).
(Turns out you cannot light a candle any more. They are covered vases on the same tiered rack like they used to be. A machine that accepts money (bills only) allows you one lighting per bill. Tap the top of the vase and an electronic "flicker" flame will glow. Boy that was CHEESY.)
Kath and I sat in the sanctuary, looked around the school & noticed all the changes since the sixties. It HAS been a long time since we were students there.
We put our names on a wait list for breakfast and toured the old neighborhood. The Academy Theater is now a movie theater again. For many years, it has been the Nickel Ads newspaper. Before Sunday theater times, it is dual-purposed as a church, because it was open, we toured the theater too. This was out hangout -back-in-the-day.
After our meal, we drove our old street and went past 334 SE 83rd. Before heading home, we drove to our aunt and uncle's old home, too.
Altogether, a fitting, nostalgic rememberance.
My brother is in Thailand today and he scattered some of Mom's ashes there. He sent and email about his day and we sent one to him.
This is a four-generation-picture. Alice was probably two months old. This was 2005.
Year two, Kathy and I went back to Montavilla & the neighborhood where we had grown up.
We did a walking tour and then we ate at the at the same restaurant Mom had occasionally worked at when we were kids: CHINESE VILLAGE. It was not delicious, but we bore-it-out.
In 2010, Mom was cremated. How do you visit a grave once a person is out to sea? We scattered her ashes at Camp Creek Campground on Mt. Hood, in June of 2011. I am sure she is out to sea now.
I mentioned earlier the disappointment regarding battery votive candles, that we did, begrudgingly. This year (2013), my sister and I were in New Orleans and we visited the oldest running American Cathedral is in the French Quarter (ST LOUIS CATHEDRAL). We actually LIT candles for Mom there, here are the pictures.
That felt like a better memorial than the battery operated ones. On her birthday this year, my sister and daughter held a birthday party for me and it was held ON Mom's birthday. (She died 4 days before her birthday in 2010). Mom has twin sisters (two years older) and they were both at my party.
Sad for them, remembering mom that day, but good to have everyone together.
Today we all did something honoring Mom.
My sister and I "lit" a votive candle at the church - (Ascension /& our parochial school) and we ate breakfast in our old neighborhood, (Montavilla).
(Turns out you cannot light a candle any more. They are covered vases on the same tiered rack like they used to be. A machine that accepts money (bills only) allows you one lighting per bill. Tap the top of the vase and an electronic "flicker" flame will glow. Boy that was CHEESY.)
Kath and I sat in the sanctuary, looked around the school & noticed all the changes since the sixties. It HAS been a long time since we were students there.
We put our names on a wait list for breakfast and toured the old neighborhood. The Academy Theater is now a movie theater again. For many years, it has been the Nickel Ads newspaper. Before Sunday theater times, it is dual-purposed as a church, because it was open, we toured the theater too. This was out hangout -back-in-the-day.
After our meal, we drove our old street and went past 334 SE 83rd. Before heading home, we drove to our aunt and uncle's old home, too.
Altogether, a fitting, nostalgic rememberance.
My brother is in Thailand today and he scattered some of Mom's ashes there. He sent and email about his day and we sent one to him.
This is us in Disneyland. I was ten. Mom sewed all our clothing.
This is Mom and I in Sedona, 2008.
This picture has always been a favorite. This is Mom and Dad in their dating years.
Sarah, Jordan and Ben - with their grandma.
Grandson, (my nephew) Eric, who "gave Joyce a lift" at his wedding-rehearsal-dinner.
Sept. 2010
Mom and I in front of her Tucson trailer. (Her home until she passed)
This was the summer of 1999.
Hard to believe how time flies.
We did a walking tour and then we ate at the at the same restaurant Mom had occasionally worked at when we were kids: CHINESE VILLAGE. It was not delicious, but we bore-it-out.
In 2010, Mom was cremated. How do you visit a grave once a person is out to sea? We scattered her ashes at Camp Creek Campground on Mt. Hood, in June of 2011. I am sure she is out to sea now.
I mentioned earlier the disappointment regarding battery votive candles, that we did, begrudgingly. This year (2013), my sister and I were in New Orleans and we visited the oldest running American Cathedral is in the French Quarter (ST LOUIS CATHEDRAL). We actually LIT candles for Mom there, here are the pictures.
Sad for them, remembering mom that day, but good to have everyone together.
A mixed bag.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Love the Coast.
CALMING ME HOME
The measures of time
And the worries of life
Keep me from visiting
And bind me in strife.
How quickly the memory
of your vast expanse
slips from my vision
and fades from my dance.
I’m glad to be here now,
On your foamy shore,
Inhaling and storing
Your quiet roar.
You must have mothered me,
Taught me your lands,
Lessons of living
Learned on your sands.
Giving and patience,
Beauty and smells,
Touching and feeling,
Listening to shells,
Watching and wondering…
How where and whys,
Unanswered questions,
Breaker-filled sighs.
Rocks have come to you,
Craggled and worn.
You’ve weathered their wrinkles,
You’ve gentled their form.
I’m bonded to you;
I’ve limitless mirth.
I’m calm and unwrinkled;
I’ve experienced rebirth.
Calming me home,
You’ve been calming me home.
I’ve waited too long,
You’ve been calming me home.
I need to be with you,
Where peace is well known.
I’ll return to your shore,
Where you’re calming me home.
-Annie Haynes
The measures of time
And the worries of life
Keep me from visiting
And bind me in strife.
How quickly the memory
of your vast expanse
slips from my vision
and fades from my dance.
I’m glad to be here now,
On your foamy shore,
Inhaling and storing
Your quiet roar.
You must have mothered me,
Taught me your lands,
Lessons of living
Learned on your sands.
Giving and patience,
Beauty and smells,
Touching and feeling,
Listening to shells,
Watching and wondering…
How where and whys,
Unanswered questions,
Breaker-filled sighs.
Rocks have come to you,
Craggled and worn.
You’ve weathered their wrinkles,
You’ve gentled their form.
I’m bonded to you;
I’ve limitless mirth.
I’m calm and unwrinkled;
I’ve experienced rebirth.
Calming me home,
You’ve been calming me home.
I’ve waited too long,
You’ve been calming me home.
I need to be with you,
Where peace is well known.
I’ll return to your shore,
Where you’re calming me home.
-Annie Haynes
Thursday, October 13, 2011
I collect quotes...
My favorite one EVER:
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them --- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly, only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried when you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within, not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear."
"You can't connect the dots looking forward.
You can only connect them looking backwards,
so you have to trust that
the dots will somehow connect in your future.
You have to trust in something
--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever--
because believing that
the dots will connect down the road will
give you the confidence to follow your heart,
even when it leads you off the well-worn path,
and that will make all the difference." - Steve Jobs
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
- Steve Jobs
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
- Thomas A. Edison
Children love to be alone, because alone is where they know
themselves, and where they dream
- Roger Rosenblatt
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having
it, to confess your ignorance.
- Confucius
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important
than the knowledge gained.
- David Bohm
Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it
cannot be harvested.
- African Proverb
Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding
is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.
- Jane Rule
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all
around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire,
the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
- Maria Mitchell
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
- Sydney J. Harris
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
- Larry Leissner
True knowledge exists in
knowing that you know nothing.
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the
smartest of all.
- Socrates
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
- Nietzsche
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge
without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- Samuel Johnson
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege
of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most,
but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato
The seed of knowledge withers in the harsh wasteland of
ignorance, yet grows strong in the fertile fields of imagination.
- Nantala A. Lavarenlavadora
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge
is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge
of school children. The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
Be curious always, for knowledge will not acquire you; you
must acquire it.
- Sudie Back
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge
of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
- Elizabeth Hardwick
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and
there is no knowledge that is not power.
- Jeremy Taylor
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more
comprehensible, but more mysterious.
- Albert Schweitzer
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting
or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny
camouflaged as humility.
- Robin Morgan
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must
be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking
dog to be tethered on a 10-foot chain.
- Adlai Stevenson
Knowledge increases in proportion to its use - that is, the
more we teach the more we learn.
- H. P. Blavatsky
Knowledge comes through practice.
- Celtic proverb
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate,
of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most
radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason
in their most elementary forms it is this knowledge and this
emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this
sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.
- Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative
expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come
to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more
to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept
for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
- Marion Zimmer
To be fond of learning is to be at the gate of knowledge.
- Chinese Proverb
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad
deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty
things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have
marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs
of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel
in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one just indeed
be deaf to the harmonies of life.
- Helen Keller
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge
among the people.
- John Adams
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he
knows nothing.
- Joseph Addison
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is a very simple and
effective one: be satisfied with your opinions and content
with your knowledge.
- Elbert Hubbard
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education,
and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
- Brooks Atkinson
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers
knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
- Isaac Asimov
Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles
of human liberty.
- Daniel Webster
After all manner of professors
have done their best for us,
the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true
university of these days is a collection of books.
- Albert Camus
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware
of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours.
To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience
of the soul.
- Arnold Bennett
Knowledge itself is power.
- Francis Bacon
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
- Mary McLeod Bethune
Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge
and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge
that has outlive its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably
at least as important as learning.
- Gary Ryan Blair
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar:
that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we
need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge,
not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
- Harold Bloom
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something
we do not understand.
- Frank Herbert
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from
ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not
skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace
decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the
stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary.
Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows
by dispersion.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
- Anton Chekhov
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology.
The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed,
but to those who have differed.
- Charles Caleb Colton
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
- Bertrand Russell
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
- Isaac Singer
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
- Immanuel Kant
Knowledge is an infinite series of images in the memory.
Understanding, which penetrates into their significance,
is the power to perceive their essence and interrelationship.
- Kabbalah
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, wisdom is humble
that he knows no more.
- William Cooper
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who
feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more
knowledge.
- Sivananda (1887-1963) Indian physician, sage
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,
or we know where we can find information upon it.
- Samuel Johnson (1707-1784)
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Imagination is more important than knowledge, knowledge
is limited, imaginations encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all
knowledge.
- Dr. Adolf Berle
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind
advances, the more certain it seems to me that
the path to genuine religiosity does not lie
through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and
blind faith, but through striving after rational
knowledge.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the
shoreline of wonder.
- Ralph W. Sockman
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing,
thinking -- can.
- Helen Gurley Brown (1922-) US editor, author
Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat
and drink
- Plato (427?-347? B.C.)
Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.
- Steve Droke
Those who have knowledge, don't predict.
Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
- Lao Tzu (6th Century BC Chinese Poet)
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling,
is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
- James Baldwin
After a while, you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul, and you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning – and company doesn’t always mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises, and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead, with the grace of a woman and the grief of a child. You learn to build all your roads on today, because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans, and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. After a while, you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much, so you
And you learn that you can really endure, that you really are strong, that you really do have worth, and you learn, and you learn. With every goodbye, you learn.
~ Veronica A. Shoffstall
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them --- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly, only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried when you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within, not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear."
"You can't connect the dots looking forward.
You can only connect them looking backwards,
so you have to trust that
the dots will somehow connect in your future.
You have to trust in something
--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever--
because believing that
the dots will connect down the road will
give you the confidence to follow your heart,
even when it leads you off the well-worn path,
and that will make all the difference." - Steve Jobs
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
- Steve Jobs
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
- Thomas A. Edison
Children love to be alone, because alone is where they know
themselves, and where they dream
- Roger Rosenblatt
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having
it, to confess your ignorance.
- Confucius
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important
than the knowledge gained.
- David Bohm
Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it
cannot be harvested.
- African Proverb
Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding
is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.
- Jane Rule
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all
around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire,
the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
- Maria Mitchell
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
- Sydney J. Harris
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
- Larry Leissner
True knowledge exists in
knowing that you know nothing.
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the
smartest of all.
- Socrates
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
- Nietzsche
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge
without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- Samuel Johnson
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege
of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most,
but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato
The seed of knowledge withers in the harsh wasteland of
ignorance, yet grows strong in the fertile fields of imagination.
- Nantala A. Lavarenlavadora
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge
is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge
of school children. The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
Be curious always, for knowledge will not acquire you; you
must acquire it.
- Sudie Back
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge
of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
- Elizabeth Hardwick
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and
there is no knowledge that is not power.
- Jeremy Taylor
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more
comprehensible, but more mysterious.
- Albert Schweitzer
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting
or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny
camouflaged as humility.
- Robin Morgan
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must
be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking
dog to be tethered on a 10-foot chain.
- Adlai Stevenson
Knowledge increases in proportion to its use - that is, the
more we teach the more we learn.
- H. P. Blavatsky
Knowledge comes through practice.
- Celtic proverb
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate,
of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most
radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason
in their most elementary forms it is this knowledge and this
emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this
sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.
- Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative
expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come
to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more
to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept
for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
- Marion Zimmer
To be fond of learning is to be at the gate of knowledge.
- Chinese Proverb
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad
deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty
things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have
marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs
of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel
in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one just indeed
be deaf to the harmonies of life.
- Helen Keller
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge
among the people.
- John Adams
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he
knows nothing.
- Joseph Addison
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is a very simple and
effective one: be satisfied with your opinions and content
with your knowledge.
- Elbert Hubbard
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education,
and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
- Brooks Atkinson
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers
knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
- Isaac Asimov
Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles
of human liberty.
- Daniel Webster
After all manner of professors
have done their best for us,
the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true
university of these days is a collection of books.
- Albert Camus
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware
of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours.
To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience
of the soul.
- Arnold Bennett
Knowledge itself is power.
- Francis Bacon
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
- Mary McLeod Bethune
Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge
and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge
that has outlive its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably
at least as important as learning.
- Gary Ryan Blair
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar:
that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we
need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge,
not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
- Harold Bloom
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something
we do not understand.
- Frank Herbert
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from
ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not
skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace
decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the
stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary.
Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows
by dispersion.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
- Anton Chekhov
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology.
The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed,
but to those who have differed.
- Charles Caleb Colton
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
- Bertrand Russell
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
- Isaac Singer
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
- Immanuel Kant
Knowledge is an infinite series of images in the memory.
Understanding, which penetrates into their significance,
is the power to perceive their essence and interrelationship.
- Kabbalah
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, wisdom is humble
that he knows no more.
- William Cooper
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who
feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more
knowledge.
- Sivananda (1887-1963) Indian physician, sage
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,
or we know where we can find information upon it.
- Samuel Johnson (1707-1784)
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Imagination is more important than knowledge, knowledge
is limited, imaginations encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all
knowledge.
- Dr. Adolf Berle
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind
advances, the more certain it seems to me that
the path to genuine religiosity does not lie
through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and
blind faith, but through striving after rational
knowledge.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the
shoreline of wonder.
- Ralph W. Sockman
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing,
thinking -- can.
- Helen Gurley Brown (1922-) US editor, author
Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat
and drink
- Plato (427?-347? B.C.)
Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.
- Steve Droke
Those who have knowledge, don't predict.
Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
- Lao Tzu (6th Century BC Chinese Poet)
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling,
is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
- James Baldwin
After a while, you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul, and you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning – and company doesn’t always mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises, and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead, with the grace of a woman and the grief of a child. You learn to build all your roads on today, because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans, and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. After a while, you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much, so you
And you learn that you can really endure, that you really are strong, that you really do have worth, and you learn, and you learn. With every goodbye, you learn.
~ Veronica A. Shoffstall
Free Hugs
Someone left a link to the video below on the article Peace, Love, and Oxytocin. I watched it, and the video raised my mood. I hope it does the same for you and everyone you share it with. Click here to watch the video.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
And this is how it all started:
You are so funny at times.....and at times... you don't even know how funny you can be.
I might as well own my "genius"!
..and Albert is iconic.
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." - Albert Einstein
I will attest to whimsy being a leading factor in my life.
So... I was told that I don't know how funny I am, or that I am Oblivious To My Own Genius. OKAY - I will own that and here is the beginning of my blog.
I might as well own my "genius"!
..and Albert is iconic.
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." - Albert Einstein
I will attest to whimsy being a leading factor in my life.
So... I was told that I don't know how funny I am, or that I am Oblivious To My Own Genius. OKAY - I will own that and here is the beginning of my blog.
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