Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup and looking up I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat, made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke, and somebody spoke and I went into a dream.
A Day in the Life by The Beatles
Although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and trembling.
Thomas Merton
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all, cling onto your back, and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it devour your remains – for all things will kill you, both slowly & fastly – but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
Kinky Friedman
EDGAR
Come on, sir. Here’s the place. Stand still.
GLOUCESTER
Set me where you stand.
EDGAR
You are now within a foot
GLOUCESTER
Let go my hand.
King Lear (Act 4, scene 6, by Shakespeare)
On this night in 1846,following the marvellous calculations of Le Verrier of Paris and Adams of Cambridge concerning the celestial phenomenon known as the perturbations of Uranus, Herr Gaulle of Berlin discovered the existence of a new planet, one of the greatest triumps of theoretical astronomy. The planet was named Neptune“
Book of Days by Elizabeth & Gerald Donaldson
Time of great explorers has passed but there are still precious territories to discover. We can explore the boundaries of our own lives. But before we go exploring we’ll need a map telling which areas of mind are still uncharted.
Garry Kasparov
Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being, to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Carl Jung