Lemony Snicket on Mourning

If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.
 
Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
The Bad Beginning

Source: goodreads.com

TV Wisdom: Castle

These are politicians. They can’t order in a restaurant without two compromises and an ultimatum.

Rick Castle (Nathan Fillion) to Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) about the mayor's staff stepping back to give her the space to investigate a murder.

Castle
Dial M for Mayor
Season 4, Episode 12, January 16, 2012
Writers, Andrew W. Marlowe (creator) and Christine Boylan
Beacon Pictures, Experimental Pictures, ABC Studios

Source: imdb.com

Edith Sitwell on Winter

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
 
Edith Sitwell

Source: goodreads.com

Andrew Wyeth on Winter

I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.

Andrew Wyeth 

Source: quotegarden.com

Pete Seeger on Duality

To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time to every purpose under heaven.

A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep.

To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time to every purpose under heaven. 

A time to build up, a time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to cast away stones
A time to gather stones together.

To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time to every purpose under heaven. 

A time of war, a time of peace
A time of love, a time of hate
A time you may embrace
A time to refrain from embracing.

To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time to every purpose under heaven.
 
A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to rend, a time to sew
A time of love, a time of hate
A time of peace… I swear it’s not too late.

Pete Seeger
Words from the book of Ecclesiastes (3:1-8)
Music and additional words by Pete Seeger (1954)
TRO – (c) 1962 (renewed) Melody Trails, Inc., New York, NY
Best known performance: by The Byrds

To view an Interview with Pete Seeger with Alec Wilkinson about Turn, Turn, Turn, click here. (Thanks to openculture.com)

Turn, Turn, Turn by The Byrds (Roger (Jim) McGuinn, David Crosby, Gene Clark, Chris Hillman, Michael Clarke), 1965.

Source: peteseeger.net

Thank you and farewell. 

Brian Jacques on Mourning

Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.

Brian Jacques 
Taggerung  

Source: goodreads.com

Song Lyric Wisdom: Stay

Stay 

All along it was a fever
A cold sweat hot-headed believer
I threw my hands in the air I said show me something
He said, if you dare come a little closer  

Round and around and around and around we go
Ohhh now tell me now tell me now tell me now you know  

Not really sure how to feel about it
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you
It takes me all the way
I want you to stay

It's not much of a life you're living
It's not just something you take, it's given

Round and around and around and around we go
Ohhh now tell me now tell me now tell me now you know  

Not really sure how to feel about it
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you
It takes me all the way
I want you to stay  

Ohhh the reason I hold on
Ohhh cause I need this hole gone

Funny you're the broken one 
but I'm the only one who needed saving
Cause when you never see the lights 
it's hard to know which one of us is caving 

Not really sure how to feel about it
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you
It takes me all the way
I want you to stay, stay
I want you to stay, ohhh

Mikky Ekko, Justin Parker, Elof Loely
Words and Music
2012 © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
From the Album Unapologetic, Rhianna (featuring Mikky Ekko)

Source: musicnotes.com and directlyrics.com

Glenda Cloud on Self-Determination

Change is inevitable. Growth is intentional.

Glenda Cloud

Source: tinybuddha.com

Sahdguru on Perspective

Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious.

Sahdguru (Sahdguru J. Vasudev)

Source: Thanks to George Takei and In Good Faith on facebook

Erica Jong on Dogs

Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog. It merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.

Erica Jong

Source: Karen Meldrum on facebook

To remember and honor Jaz. Thank you and farewell.

Johnny Bench on Mindful Purpose

We all have an obligation to share our talents, to lift others with the power of who we are.  If we don't, we're squandering half of what we've been given.  It could be as simple as a word of thanks.

Johnny Bench
Catch Every Ball
©2008 Johnny Bench, Orange Frazier Press

Martin Luther King, Jr. on Conscious Choice

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Resource: huffingtonpost.com

Martin Luther King, Jr. on Resilience

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source: goodreads.com

Martin Luther King, Jr. on Faith

This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts:

Fear knocked at the door.
Faith answered.
There was no one there.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Strength of Love

Source: goodreads.com

Benjamin Rush on Healthcare

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.

Benjamin Rush
Physician to George Washington
and signer of the Declaration of Independence

Source: Thanks to Tieraona Low Dog, MD on facebook

Tieraona Low Dog on Home

Home itself is a sanctuary: a place to rest, to recover, and separate ourselves from the chaos of an often-busy life. Home is the place where most medicine should start and finish.

Tieraona Low Dog, MD

Source: Thanks to Dr. Andrew Weil on facebook

Ravi Shankar on The Art of Living

To love someone whom you like is insignificant.

To love someone because they love you is of no consequence.

To love someone whom you do not like means you have learned a lesson in life.

To love someone who blames you for no reason shows that you have learned the art of living. 

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Source: blog.gaiam.com

Byron Katie on Ownership

Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience. Taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.

Byron Katie (Byron Kathleen Mitchell)

Source: blog.gaiam.com

Will Durst on Laughter

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

Will Durst

Source: transcendingfear.com

Richard Bach on Faith

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

Richard Bach

Source: transcendingfear.com

Song Lyric Wisdom: You'll Never Walk Alone

You'll Never Walk Alone

When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark

At the end of the storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of the lark

Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown

Walk on walk on with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone

You'll never walk
You'll never walk alone

Oscar Hammerstein, II and Richard Rogers
Words and Music
from Carousel
1949, Hal Leonard Music Publishing

Source: musicnotes.com and risamusicarchives

Mike Norton on Friendship

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

Mike Norton, 
Just Another War Story 

Source: goodreads.com

Sharon L. Adler on Authenticity

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others - it only changes yours.

Shannon L. Alder  
300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late 

Source: goodreads.com

William Arthur Ward on Focus

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

William Arthur Ward

Source: psychologytoday.com

George Bernard Shaw on Communication

The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

George Bernard Shaw

Source: goodreads.com

Stephen Colbert on Political Process

The stages of grief: sadness, press conference, denial, anger, political death. 

Stephen Colbert 

Source: The Colbert Report on facebook

Will Ferrell on Relationships

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.

Will Ferrell

Source: Thanks to George Takei on facebook

Fortune Cookie Wisdom

Faith is personal, but never private.

Fortune Cookie fortune 
from New China Express

Zora Neale Hurston on Insights

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Are Watching God

Source: goodreads.com

T-Shirt Wisdom

Nerd? I Prefer the Term Intellectual BadAss 

 Source: Thanks to George Takei on facebook and TeeShirtPalace