[ I saw this just a moment ago and couldn't believe my eyes, because I've said something very similar a few years ago without realising this man had already said it. No wonder I admire him! ]

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

-- John Lennon

[ Mahatma Gandhi had a lot of good and inspiring things to say. Here are two of them ]

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

[ Peace is what everyone wants, and yet so few understand how to really achieve... maybe they should listen to this? ]

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[ I borrowed this from one of smilla's texts and translated it to English. It's just that inspiring and exactly the way I see life (or want to see it) ]

Life is a tremendous celebration - and I'm invited!

There are times when some songs seem particularly important. Today, this one made an impression on me as an affirmation.
I hope the Barcode Brothers will forgive me for copying the lyrics, for they send a very important message that should be told over and over, again and again.

Barcode Brothers: Ambient

Consider this:
92% of the world's population
feel that their lives could be better.
what about you?
If you could do anything,
anything at all,
what would you do?
What are you doing now?

Imagine that
you could live your life,
knowing that it could not be better,
and never feeling that you would rather
be doing something else,
be somewhere else,
or be someone else.

Now consider this:
some people actually live that way
and so could you.

Contemplate this:
What if 90% of the problems you encountered in your life
were mere illusions and only existed in your mind?
In your everyday life
whenever something annoys you,
stresses you, makes you mad, or makes you sad,
consider if that something really matters.

Will you even remember
how you felt in one day, one week, one month, one year,
or what about in ten years?
So when the people you work for pressure you, and fail to understand you, does it really matter?
And when they call you on the phone,
screaming and yelling,
does it matter and should you really allow that to influence your life?
It's all about choices.

Clever = answers
Wise = questions

-- Laura Mc Donald

There are 10 types of people, those who understand binaries and those who don't.

"Humans think that they're smarter than dolphins because they've developed war, the atom bomb, and culture, while all dolphins do is swim around all day and have sex. Dolphins think that they're smarter than humans for the exact same reasons."

-- Douglas Adams

[ A good friend sent this to a forum I participate in ]

Use C, or not use C, that is the question:
Wheter 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The flags and warnings of a rude compiler,
Or to take arms agains a sea of errors,
And by debugging, fix them? To code, to hack,
No more; and by a hack to say we end
The type-check and the thousand other checks
Pascal is heir to, 'tis a compilation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To code, to hack;
To hack! perchanse to test: ay, there's the rub;
For in that hacker's bliss what bugs may come,
When we have written out this awful code,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes development of such long life.

-- Wes Munsil

I beg you...

To have patience with everything unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms, or books written in a very foreign language.

Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them.

And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now!! Perhaps, someday in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answers.