Quote from Robert M.Pirsig

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms,the culture has to protect itself.-Robert M.Pirsig

Quote from Robert M.Pirsig

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.-Robert M.Pirsig

Quote from Daniel Goleman

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically,almost as powerful as those to our very survival.-Daniel Goleman

Quote from John Irving

I'm not afraid,but I'm very nervous.-John Irving,A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY.

Quote from Dexter Perkins

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives;let us not neglect the opportunity.-Dexter Perkins

Quote from Rollo May

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.-Rollo May(1909-1994),American psychologist.

Quote on emotions

Out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid.-Daniel Goleman,WORKING WITH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Quote on metaphysics

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu,and no food.-Robert M.Pirsig

Quote from Daniel Goleman

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.-Daniel Goleman

Quote from Arthur Miller

Without alienation,there can be no politics.-Arthur Miller

Quote from Daniel Goleman

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.-Daniel Goleman

Quote on daydreaming

Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.-Daniel Goleman,FOCUS:THE HIDDEN DRIVER OF EXCELLENCE.

Great quote from Jeff Rasley

Beliefs divide us,values unite us.-Jeff  Rasley,from GODLESS-LIVING A VALUABLE LIFE BEYOND BELIEFS.

Great website on nutrition

www.healthdiaries.com

Interesting quote on fanaticism

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.-Robertson Davies

Quote from Horace Bushnell

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood,the courses in which it moves.-Horace Bushnell

Interesting quote on fundamentalists

Fundamentalists never wonder why,if herpes is sent by "god'' to scourge "adulterers'',whooping cough and measles weren't purposely created to lambaste children-Fred Woodworth

Quote from John Irving

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.-John Irving

Another quote from John Irving

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love,you have to find the courage to live it.-John Irving(b.1942),American novelist.

Quote from John Irving

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.-John Irving

Quote from Malcolm Cowley

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.-Malcolm Cowley

Quote from John Irving

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love,you have to find the courage to live it.-John Irving(b.1942),American novelist

Quote from Phillip Lubin

Every generation thinks it has the answers and every generation is humbled by nature.-Phillip Lubin

A Peruvian proverb

Little by little one walks far.-Peruvian proverb

Quote on dictators

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech.Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.-Herbert Hoover

An African proverb

Where water is boss,the land must obey.-African proverb

Quote from Horace Bushnell

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.-Horace Bushnell

An Estonian proverb

Earth is dearer than gold.-Estonian proverb

Quote on discretion

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.-Christine Keeler

Great quote from Edward R.Murrow

The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude.His words tend to be blunt or rounded,because if they have a cutting edge,they may later return to wound him.-Edward R.Murrow,Speech.

Interesting website on murderers

http://murderpedia.com

Quote from Jim Bouton

Forget goals.Value the process.-Jim Bouton

A progressive website

www.clarionproject.org -Website.Challenging Extremism.Promoting Dialogue

Quote from Debbie Crabtree

May your love soar on the wings of a dove in flight.-Debbie Crabtree

Quote from Doug Larson

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add to your regular duties.-Doug Larson

Quote on long friendships

Long friendships are like jewels,polished over time to become beautiful and enduring.-Celia Brayfield

Quote from Dale Carnegie

When dealing with people,remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.-Dale Carnegie

Quote from Tacitus

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.-Tacitus

Quote from Fred Astaire

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.-Fred Astaire

Quote on disco

Disco is just jitterbug.-Fred Astaire

Quote from Napoleon Hill

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.-Napoleon Hill

A Bulgarian proverb

Seize opportunity by the beard,for it is bald behind.-Bulgarian proverb

Quote from Victor Lownes

A promiscuous person is a person who is getting more sex than you are.-Victor Lownes

Unusual quote on monogamy

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.-George Bernard Shaw(1850-1944),playwright.

Quote from Joe Orton

You were born with your legs apart.They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.-Joe Orton

Quote from Dean Inge

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.-Dean Inge

Interesting quote from Laurence Shames

Success and failure.We think of them as opposites,but they're really not.They're companions-the hero and the sidekick.-Laurence Shames

Quote from Maya Angelou

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.-Maya Angelou

A couple of interesting websites and blogs

1 http://boardofwisdom.com
2 http://youoffendmeyouoffendmyfamily.com

Quote from Farrah Gray

Build your own dreams,or someone else will hire you to build theirs.-Farrah Gray

Quote from Theodore Parker

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing;his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.-Theodore Parker

Quote from Chris Guillebeau

If plan A fails,remember there are 25 more letters.-Chris Guillebeau

Quote from Elizabeth Kenny

He who angers you conquers you.-Elizabeth Kenny

Quote from Norman Vaughan

Dream big and dare to fail.-Norman Vaughan

Quote from Adrienne Gusoff

If opportunity doesn't knock,build a door.-Adrienne Gusoff

Quote from Frank Sinatra

The best revenge is massive success.-Frank Sinatra

Thoughtful quote on suicide

Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.-Emilie Autumn

Two great blogs on bipolar disorder(manic depression)

1 http://bipolarbandit.wordpress.com
2 http://awkwardambivalence.wordpress.com

Quote from George Denslow

Clean your energy,honor your rhythm,live your vision.-George Denslow

Quote from Bryant H.McGill

Noone is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.-Bryant H.McGill

Provocative quote from Al Lewis

I think people need housing.And there's empty buildings,I think people should live in there.If you want to call them squatters,trespassers,hey I call Wall Street thieves!-Al Lewis

Quote from Ashleigh Brilliant

The greatest wealth is to be rich in friends-but if possible let them be rich friends.-Ashleigh Brilliant

Quote from Mel Brooks

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.-Mel Brooks

Quote from Paul Lewis

A father's words are like a thermostat that sets the temperature in the house.-Paul Lewis

Insightful quote from Aldous Huxley

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life;the individual is nothing;Nature cares only for the species.-Aldous Huxley,POINT COUNTER POINT.

Quote on resentment

Resentment bred shame,and shame in its turn bred more resentment.-Aldus Huxley,POINT COUNTER POINT.

Great quote on croutons

Why do croutons come in airtight packages?It's just stale bread to begin with.-George Carlin(1937-2008),US comedian and actor.

Quote from Bryan Miller

The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude,especially atop bank and hotel buildings(airplanes are an extreme example).-Bryan Miller

Great quote from Nancy Levin

Each time you set a healthy boundary,you say "yes" to more freedom.-Nancy Levin

Great quote from Anthony J.D'Angelo

Wherever you go,no matter what the weather,always bring your own sunshine.-Anthony J.D'Angelo

Insightful quote on depressed people

Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts.-Andrew Solomon,THE NOONDAY DEMON:AN ATLAS OF DEPRESSION.

Quote from Jeffrey Eugenides

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away.A bruise in your mind.-Jeffrey Eugenides

Inspiring quote from John Maxwell

Once our minds are 'Tattooed' with negative thinking,our chances for long-term success diminish.-John Maxwell

Quote from Cary Grant

Insanity runs in my family.It practically gallops.-Cary Grant

Cary Grant

Quote on Hollywood money

Hollywood money isn't money.It's congealed snow.-Dorothy Parker

Quote on art

Art is a form of catharsis.-Dorothy Parker

Quote from Dorothy Gilman

People need dreams,there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.-Dorothy Gilman

Quote from Bernadette Devlin

To gain that which is worth having,it may be necessary to lose everything else.-Bernadette Devlin

Good quote from Ruth E.Renkel

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.-Ruth E.Renkel

Great quote on depression

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.-Dorothy Rowe

Great quote from Ruth E.Renkel

Never fear shadows.They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.-Ruth E.Renkel

Quote from Peter Drucker

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.-Management consultant Peter Drucker

Quote from Alan Watts

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.-Alan Watts

Great quote on worrying

Worrying is like praying for what you don't want.-Aileen Norton Swift

Quote on Los Angeles

In Los Angeles,by the time you're 35,you're older than most of the buildings.-Delia Ephron

Quote on insanity

Insanity is relative.It depends on who has who locked in what cage.-Ray Bradbury

Quote from Emma Goldman

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.-Emma Goldman

Quote from Tim Fargo

Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear.-Tim Fargo

Quote from Elizabeth Gilbert

Do not apologize for crying.Without this emotion,we are only robots.-Elizabeth Gilbert

Quote from Incubus

The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in.- Incubus

Quote from Susan Spano

Souvenirs are perishable;fortunately,memories are not.-Susan Spano

Quote from John Portman

Buildings should serve people,not the other way around.-John Portman

Quote from Robert Towne

Politicians,ugly buildings,and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.-Robert Towne

Quote from Frank Lloyd Wright

Why,I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.-Frank Lloyd Wright

Great quote on sensitive people

Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply.They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because their emotional thermostat is broken.-Shannon L.Alder

Great quote from Graeme Shankland

A country without a past has the emptiness of a barren continent,and a city without old buildings is like a man without a memory.-Graeme Shankland,British planner.

Quote from Catherine Gilbert Murdock

What is a staircase,but a corridor improved by elevation?-Catherine Gilbert Murdock,PRINCESS BEN.

Quote from Samuel Butler

Life is a quarry,out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.-Samuel Butler

Quote on war

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.-Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote from Eudora Welty

Sense of place gives equilibrium;extended,it is sense of direction too.-Eudora Welty

Quote on marble

Marble,I perceive,covers a multitude of sins.-Aldous Huxley

Some interesting blogs and websites

1 www.snoblife.com
2 www.lifeafterbagels.com
3 www.thehollyweirdtimes.com
4 www.snobzones.com
5 www.brokesnob.com
6 www.snobbyhippy.com
7 snobbyrobot.com
8 www.snoblife.com

Interesting medical website

www.embarrassingproblems.com

Quote on the New Year

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.-Joey Adams