Timeless Knowledge

"We cannot get rid of mankind's fleetingly evil wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true." - Kurt Vonnegut

It’s only human to want joy and happiness to consume our everyday.

"Those condensed moments of pure delight are truly magical. Desiring that all the time, I think, is natural. I guess what I've learned is sometimes, for sure, it's tough to see beauty in such an [often]"ugly" world. That's when I think we ought to close our eyes and peer within. Go back to those moments of joy and reflect on them and reconnect with, as Joseph Campbell would call, our bliss. It's always there; sometimes we just find it difficult to tap into it. So, as we dive inward - let us see through eyes of wisdom and strive with a soul of perseverance." - bflo

"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?" ~Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985

"It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness."
Jerry Garcia

"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."
Alan Watts

"At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities."
Jean Houston, PhD.

"Agreeing on values is one of the most difficult things about being human. Agreeing that there are none, however, is impossible."
-Peter Marston, PhD. Califiornia State University, Northridge

“It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.”
Adlai E. Stevenson

This is one of my favorite quotes. I often say it to people on their birthday who are having a difficult time accepting their age. Today I am 35, so I've said it to myself. Who we choose to be and how we choose to live are the building blocks of happiness.

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
Hermann Hesse
Swiss (German-born) author (1877 - 1962)

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan
US novelist (1922 - 2007)