lyric of the day

Nothing very good or very bad will ever last for very long. -- Lloyd Cole

thought for the day

I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday. -- Anonymous

quote for the day

Silence is an invisible glue. -- Robert Fripp

quote of the day

Prayer: conversation where we’re doing the talking.
Meditation: conversation where we’re doing the listening.
-- Robert Fripp

quote of the day

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

~ Charles Reader

quote of the day

It turns out that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony — which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. I can’t imagine anything worse than that. Okay, maybe I can, but imagine reading the morning newspaper and believing it all to be true on some level. -- from JPod by Douglas Coupland

quote of the day

No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes. -- Henry Miller

quote of the day

There are three endings to a process:
A finish, where something is lost;
A conclusion, where nothing is lost;
A completion is a new beginning.
-- Robert Fripp

A completion in my life is about-to-be-becoming.
May I have the courage to greet it with cheer.

quote of the day

Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.
Gautama Buddha

quote of the day

No one has ever, ever paid admission to see an excuse.
-- Mark Borchardt

quote of the day

It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. -- Oscar Wilde

quote of the day

I don't often get excited, and when I do I doubt that anyone would notice anyway, but I was very excited.
-- Robert "Chuckles" Fripp

quote of the day

Robert Fripp on contemplation --

Morning sitting: the key to finding space in the confusion.

quote of the day

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen people.
-- Nick Currie

quote of the day

Your weakness is their money in the bank. -- Henry Rollins

quote of the day

A family is like a loaded gun: point it in the wrong direction, and someone is bound to get hurt. -- Hal Hartley

quote of the day

When life is hard, eat the best meal you can afford.
-- Robert Fripp

quote of the day

It’s wonderful when you make people you like laugh out loud.
-- Hal Hartley

quote of the day

Hell is other people. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

quote of the day

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. -- Robert Kennedy