marching to pretoria

By the time we got back together our adventure had become an epic. We were entitled to a little exaggeration. Every soldier does. After all if growing up is war, then those friends who grew up with you deserve a special respect. The ones who stuck by you shoulder to shoulder in a time when nothing is certain when all life lay ahead and every road led home.

-- The Wonder Years

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

--  Lewis Carroll

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

--  William James

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

--  Mark Twain

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;  

One need not be a house; 

The brain has corridors surpassing  

Material place.”

--  Emily Dickinson

A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.

--Heraclitus of Ephesus

here i am. here i fucking am.

One of the hardest things for me during hard times is to be with other people while I'm in the midst of having my hard time.  More often than not it helps, but it's never, never not difficult.

Who shall tell the lady's grief
When her Cat was past relief?
Who shall number the hot tears
Shed o'er her, belov'd for years

- On the Death of a Cat,
Christina Rossetti 

there is no end

As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!

--  Albert Camus

Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out.

-- Jack Handy

crumble

Some guy hit my fender and I said "be fruitful and multiply" but not in those words.
-- Woody Allen

new moon

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

--  Gwendolyn Brooks

you and me babe

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

-- Woodrow T. Wilson

these faces, these.

Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.

-- Gail Lumet Buckley

the mote in your brother's eye

Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refreshed, ready to draw from the same storehouse -- always open, always full, always abundant -- new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul -- its gaiety or its sadness. As with our perishable flesh. talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power.

-- Eugene Delacroix

of thee I sing

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

--  Gore Vidal

inclemency

The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

-- Adolf Hitler

that which does not kill us

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

-- William Tecumseh Sherman

bond

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

-- Paul McCartney

guidance

We must care about the world of our children and grandchildren, a world we may never see.

-- Bertrand Russell