Quotes on humor and truth

"More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another. Whether the other be an adult or a child, our engagement in listening to who that person is can often be our greatest gift."
Fred Rogers

bernicer wrote:

"More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another. Whether the other be an adult or a child, our engagement in listening to who that person is can often be our greatest gift."
Fred Rogers

Thank you Bern I needed this quote.

Often people make up their mind who a person is without knowing and reflect themselves in the other person. I found that and it is hard to shake once a person makes up their mind who they think a person is not who the person is.

PAUL KRUGMAN: If you look at, oh, look at European countries, just about all of them. They don't actually necessarily have higher taxes on very high incomes. That's not so much the factor. And they have higher taxes overall, which are used to pay for a lot of programs of aid.

So you have universal healthcare, and we have-- sort of are stumbling our way towards something like that now but they have a lot of income support for people with low incomes. They have lots of support for young parents, they have lots of basically, a lot of redistribution. Which is a dirty word in US politics, but in fact is essential for having a decent society.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it" - Upton Sinclair

“I think the Democratic Party really needs a healthy debate, and particularly on the foundations of the Democratic Party, which always have been that you are supposed to be a voice in the quarters of power for the people who have no power.” Jim Webb, former Senator from Virginia.

“There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.” 
― Aldous Huxley




“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” 
― Aldous Huxley,

"never attempt to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the Pig "

--Robert Heinlein

Daphine Rose Kingma
Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.

Chinese proverb
If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come.

"The purpose of education is to show us how to define ourselves authentically and spontaneously in relation to our world—not to impose a prefabricated definition of the world, still less an arbitrary definition of ourselves as individuals. The world is made up of the people who are fully alive in it: that is, of the people who can be themselves in it and can enter into a living and fruitful relationship with each other in it. The world is, therefore, more real in proportion as the people in it are able to be more fully and more humanly alive: that is to say, better able to make a lucid and conscious use of their freedom. Basically, this freedom must consist first of all in the capacity to choose their own lives, to find themselves on the deepest possible level. A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here and there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions … is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of “choice” when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses. It is not free because it is unwilling to face the risk of self-discovery." - from “Learning to Live” in Love and Living.
Thomas Merton

My mission is not merely to survive, but to thrive;and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor and some style.
Author: Maya Angelou

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
Author: James Thurber, writer and cartoonist

Here is what life has become. Some people hit it BIG at the lottery, while the masses are standing on line buying the ticket and the dream. The dream which NEVER comes.! 
                                         fudgemeister

Only the seriously deluded buy lottery tickets, expecting to hit the jackpot. WAM

In the bad hospitals they let you die; in the good hospitals they kill you. Brother Theodore

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“I really believe that our history is part of what’s holding us back. It’s kind of an unhealed wound. And we’re all in this together... "

Marjory Wentworth.


"He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."

John Milton

tonnie_rocca wrote:

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“I really believe that our history is part of what’s holding us back. It’s kind of an unhealed wound. And we’re all in this together... "

Marjory Wentworth.


"He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."

John Milton

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tonnie_rocca wrote:

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“I really believe that our history is part of what’s holding us back. It’s kind of an unhealed wound. And we’re all in this together... "

Marjory Wentworth.


"He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."

John Milton

Wise words Tonnie.....

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Impressed by the film...


“Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”

― Hannah Arendt

Conservatives hate government for the same reason that criminals hate cops.
                                              Thom Hartmann

If you simply try to "do unto other as you would like them to do unto you" then you could wind up doing things to others they might not enjoy as much as you do. . . . An even more "finely tuned" rule might be what some call "The Platinum Rule," namely, "Do Unto Others as They Would Have You Do Unto Them." In other words, take time to learn about your neighbor's tastes, their mood, their nature, and their temperment, before you start "doing" things "unto them." Treat others the way they want to be treated.
Author: Edward Babinski

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love…Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self-love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.
Author: Shunryu Suzuki

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Author: Arthur James Balfour,

How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my imagination. Here is a man who speaks--who exercises a right that he, by his speech, denies. Can liberty go further than that? Is there any toleration possible beyond the liberty to speak against liberty--the real believer in free speech allowing others to speak against the right to speak?
Author: Robert Ingersoll, 1888

fudgemeister wrote:

"It’s a contradiction that a Christian is anti-Semitic: His roots are Jewish. A Christian cannot be anti-Semitic ! Let Anti-Semitism be banished from the heart and life of every man and every woman!”
                                                    Pope Francis