Dream on

Every time that I look in the mirror
All these lines in my face gettin' clearer
The past is gone
It went by like dusk to dawn
Isn't that the way
Everybody's got their dues in life to pay
Yeah, I know nobody knows
Where it comes and where it goes
I know it's everybody's sin
You got to lose to know how to win
Half my life's in books' written pages
Live and learn from fools and from sages
You know it's true
All the things
Come back to you
Sing with me
Sing for the year
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Sing it with me
If it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
Dream on.

Sometimes - from NatGeo HD ad

Sometimes we need to leave, in order to arrive.
Sometimes we must go up, to know we belong on the ground.
Sometimes we bow, to know why we should stand.
Sometimes you have to be apart to know you belong (together).
Sometimes we need to see something small, to know what is great.
Sometimes to know what is right, we need to see what is wrong.
Because sometimes, you have to see, to believe.

Posterity save

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot - Douglas Adams.

Ego corrupts the mind.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life - Muhammad Ali.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful - Cicero.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future, it is something you design for the present.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get - Warren Buffett.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose - Lou Holtz.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase - Martin Luther King.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea - Napoleon Hill.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant - Helen Keller.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible - Frank Herbert.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible - Dale Carnegie.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can - Tony Robbins.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception - Groucho Marx.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom. - Rene Descartes

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. - Groucho Marx

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. - Soren Kirkegaard

The positive thing about a skeptic is that he thinks everything's possible. - Thomas Mann

Anger

The emotional heart is so weak, all the damned anger melts away at one look of a truly loved one's face. How could anyone be angry forever? Jealousy is the real culprit giving rise to the heart burns of an unsatisfactory and an incomplete life. Beyond the hardened lessons of mistakes from the past, foolish desire still craves for the reckless endangerment of wanting to attain that which is unattainable. Wounds are healed by time leaving behind scars to remember the lesson. But those very scars are automatically ignored as repetition drives expectation and blinds the obvious.