"When you're depressed, there's no calendar.
There are no dates, there's no day, there's no night,
there's no seconds, there's no minutes,
there's nothing.
You're just existing in this cold, murky, ever-heavy atmosphere, like they put you inside a vial of mercury."

- Rod Steiger, On the Edge of Darkness

"I was much further out than you thought and not waving but drowning."
- Stevie Smith

"I have secluded myself from society; and yet I never meant any such thing.
I have made a captive of myself and put me into a dungeon, and now I cannot find the key to let myself out."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

I tell people it's like being dead.
It feels like being a ghost, maybe.
You float through your days feeling insubstantial, cut off from warmth, light and all feeling.
Sometimes it feels like you're in a coffin buried alive.
You're screaming inside your head, but no one can hear you.

I guess I could be pretty pissed about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst...

And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...

You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure... but don't worry...

You will someday.


Lester > American Beauty

Friendship quotes I shared with my friend Peggi today...

"If you're alone, I'll be your shadow.
If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder.
If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow.
If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile...
But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me."

- Unknown




To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart...
And to sing it to them when they have forgotten
- Author Unknown



What is a friend?
A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristostle



Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another...
"What!
You too?
Thought I was on the only one!"
-C.S. Lewis




Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust


Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive...
And it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin


A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.
- Unknown



Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.
- Merle Shain



A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face
- Alex

"Organized religion is good for
wars, battles, pissin' and moanin'
and not much else."

Source: Ted Nugent

"Fundamentalists are like the fir trees in German forests: they cannot stand alone, and are only stable when crowded together, branches locked with those of their brothers.
That is why we must always fear them, because they will always hate us for our individualism."

Brent Yaciw

"I'm sickened by all religions.
Religion has divided people.

I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock."

Howard Stern

"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."

- Stendhal

"If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing"

Anatole France

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

James Baldwin

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

- Deepak Chopra

“We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become what we long to be.”

~Orson Swett Marden

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."

-Thoreau

"I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start
to see cracks in everything.
I'm convinced that tragedy wants to harden us and our mission is never to let it."
-Felicity

"There is something very wonderful in music.
Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful.

It speaks not to our thoughts as words do; it speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls.

Music soothes us, stirs us up; it puts noble feelings in us; it melts us to tears; we know not how; - it is a language by itself, just as perfect, in its way, as speech, as words; just as divine, just as blessed."
~Charles Kingsley



"Yet there is one thing the world…cannot take from us, and that is the deep and abiding joy and consolation perpetuated in great music.
Here the spirit may find home and relief when all else fails."
~Eric Fenby, Delius as I Knew Him


"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy."
-Beethoven


"Without music, life would be a mistake."
-Nieztsche

"Words are the pen the heart, but music is the pen the soul."
~Shneur Zalman


"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
-Berthold Auerbach


"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to remain silent."
-Victor Hugo

“Experience is a marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.”

~F.P. Jones


“Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment.”

~Evan Hardin


“Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you.”

~Adolous Huxley

“Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.”

~Dylan Thomas

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

~Margaret Mead

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

~Nelson Mandela

Live Each Day With Love

Life is a constant process of growth and change.
Each day is a miracle filled with new
discoveries and challenges.
Some days bring hurt and disappointment also, but
these, too, are challenges, and as you grow and
change you learn to handle them with more ease.
Growing older means growing in experience,
growing in courage and compassion, growing in
love and growing in strength.
Growing older means changing your life to make
it meaningful to you, changing your attitudes,
and staying flexible about everyday living.
Life keeps getting better as long as
you have a positive attitude.
Remind yourself of all the things you love
about life, stay in touch with your loved ones and
friends, and do what your own heart tells you to.
Your tomorrow will always bring you good things
if you live each day with love.
~Donna Levine

It is better to be hated for what you are,
than loved for what you are not.
~Andre Gide

“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”

–Wiliam Blake, Auguries of Innocence

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
~ Jerry Chin ~

"When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory.
How do you manage unreasonable people?
You dismiss them...like shadows"
-David Viscott.