Bob Dylan - If You Gotta Go, Go Now

Family Band - Night Song

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” ― Émile Zola

“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.” ― Maya Angelou

“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.” ― Edgar Allan Poe

“Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.”

One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised!

“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.” ― James Baldwin

Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.

T - Rex - Rabbit Fighter

“To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. ” ― William Shakespeare

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” ― Émile Zola

“When we give up the chase, we give up our wishing.” ― Stephen Richards

“Happy people produce. Bored people consume.” ― Stephen Richards

“There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.” ― Aleksandar Hemon

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.” ― George Bernard Shaw

“No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have your own way.” ― Chuck Palahniuk

T - Rex - Mystic Lady

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.” ― Marcus Aurelius

Red Colored Stars - Jimmy Gnecco at Hotel Cafe 7/26/10

“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

There is always time for a milkshake.

“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.” ― Samuel Lover

“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.” ― Thomas Merton

“It never got weird enough for me.” ― Hunter S. Thompson

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“We are always the same age inside. ” ― Gertrude Stein

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.” ― Edgar Allan Poe

“He who sings scares away his woes.”

“Ideas come from everything” ― Alfred Hitchcock

“When all is said and done, more is said than done.” ― Lou Holtz

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Love is the absence of judgment.” ― Dalai Lama

“It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself”

“The secret of happiness is something to do” ― John Burroughs

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.” ― Leo Tolstoy

“From the moment I saw you, I wanted you in my dreams”

Jeff Buckley - Calling you

“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.” ― Robert Henri

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.” ― Osho

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” ― E.E. Cummings

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.” ― Albert Schweitzer

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.” ― Ayn Rand

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there” ― George Harrison

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” ― Robert Frost

“...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...” ― Plato

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” ― Walt Whitman

“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.” ― Laozi

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

                                       full moon tonight.

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