Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our read more

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. -Ken Burns.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture read more

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. -Doris Mortman.

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. -Doris Mortman.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. -Coco Chanel.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. -Coco Chanel.

It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addison Walker.

It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addison Walker.

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself read more

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.

They called the wind
lackadaisical..
but because he in freedom blows
the world will never
lack for daisies..
(to Laurie read more

They called the wind
lackadaisical..
but because he in freedom blows
the world will never
lack for daisies..
(to Laurie Otto Milwaukee Wisconsin advocate of wild lawns)
http://www.epa.gov/greenacres
http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow108/1.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, read more

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have-for their usefulness. -Thomas Merton.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to read more

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit. -William James.