"The supreme art of war is to
subdue the enemy without fighting."
Sunzi

"Shop for security over happiness
and you will buy it at that price."
R. Bach

"Our goal is worth the struggle,
for in this case, the star to which
we aspire is full humanity for all."
L. Buscaglia

"Life and living are arts to be celebrated."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"...the greatest tragedy in life is
the fact that most human being
die before they are fully born."
E. Fromm

"Life is always ready
and open at our side
to share it's resources.
It simply awaits our embrace."
L. Buscaglia

"Our lives are original documents
which we alone can create."
L. Buscaglia

"Either we create them
or they will never exist."
L. Buscaglia

"...exist in life..."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"Our talents are the gift that God gives to us...
What we make of our talents is our gift back to God."
L. Buscaglia

"Each of us still has it within us
that which is necessary to
remake the world."
L. Buscaglia

"We want to participate
in the process of creating
a more prefect now."
L. Buscaglia

"All things considered,
we are not too bad."
L. Buscaglia

"We have a rightful place on this Earth and in this universe."
L. Buscaglia

"And even if this life I
am living is an illusion,
as they assure me it is,
at least it is an exciting illusion
and one of my own making."
L. Buscaglia

"I like being a human being.
Even with all of my frailties,
abilities to hurt, forget,
cause conflicts,
know pain and feel fear,
I am delighted with life."
L. Buscaglia

"Be delighted with life and
let life be delighted with you."
M. Alibrando

"...we are a mass of joyful contradictions,
complexities, imperfection, incertitudes,
and magic."
L. Buscaglia

"If you have peace within yourself,
others will see it and want peace
for themselves."
M. Alibrando

"Ideas come easily,
result take time."
M. Alibrando

"Is going to the store to buy eggs and milk an epic adventure
or are epic adventures for you a walk in the park?"
M. Alibrando

"Perfection suggest an ultimate state,
a completion, a termination.
The fully functioning human person
does not seek this, even in death."
L. Buscaglia

"Fully funtioning persons know that it
[love] must be mainly self-taught,
and it [love] is best learned through
simply being vulnerable to love
and by living in it as dedicated
human lovers each day of our lives."
L. Buscaglia

"Love and intimacy requires compassion."

"...when we have knowledge of our own
personal conflicts and feeling based upon
general human experiences, we can begin
to understand how others may feel.
It is this point at which compassion begins."
L. Buscaglia

"Love and intimacy have no place for explotation.
There is an old statement, but it is still true,
use things, love people."

"Exploitation, in a relationship,
no matter how we rationalize it,
can never be love."
L. Buscaglia

"One never tires of knowing loved expressed."

"...a word, a note, a flower, a simple poem,
can bring the much needed
message of assurance."
L. Buscaglia

"For a moment the shared experience
has taken two and made them one."
L. Buscaglia

"Real love and intimacy
grow best in spontaneity
and offer an abundance of
opportunities for experiences
of joy, beauty and laughter."
L. Buscaglia

"The only valid expectaion in love lies in the
hope that those we love will become themselves,
as we do the same."
L. Buscaglia

"Mature intimacy and love are not based upon expectations."
L. Buscaglia

"Love is not nurtured or enhanced by looking back,
it is always lived in the now."
L. Buscaglia

"...be constantly aware and open to change."
L. Buscaglia

"We begin with separate Is.
We set up shared space between the two Is and call it us.
It is this space where intimacy grows.
The greater the shared experience, the more the area of us."
L. Buscaglia

"Love and intimacy
are challenged,
not threatened
by differences."
L. Buscaglia

"...intimacy brings people together
but it is each person's responsibility
to maintain autonomy..."

"...you must grow separately
in order to
continue to grow with others."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"...recognize your need for others."
L. Buscaglia

we are so both and oneful
night cannot be so sky
sky cannot be so sunful
i am through you so i
e e cummings

"Say old ideas in new ways."
M. Alibrando

"When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves."

"...pain cannot be wished out of existence."

"...learn from it..."

"...forgive and let it go forever."
L.Buscaglia

"Keep trying."
M. Alibrando

"Pain is a very human way
of demanding change."
L. Buscaglia

"...choices are ours to make."
L. Buscaglia

"No one and nothing can depress us or
cause us pain if we choose not to have it so."
L. Buscaglia

"In a very real sense,
we are directly responsible
for our own pain."
L. Buscaglia

"It is not others and other things
which cause our unhappiness.
It is we ourselves."
L. Buscaglia

"...emotional pain is largely self made.
It does not arise as often as we presume.
L. Buscaglia

"Accept emotional pain as an inevitable reality of life."

"Take it as an indispensable stimulus for change."

"Understand that pain need not only mean discomfort
but can also be utilized as a positive in humanness."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"...know that it is magic that give life it's spice,
eradicates boredom, and elevates existence."
L. Buscaglia

"Know rapture from an orange
and ecstasy from a blade of grass."

"Reach out with total trust and
touch the God of all things."
L. Buscaglia

"It is the strength and fearlessness
to allow ourselves to
transcend reality and ourselves."
L. Buscaglia

"Spirituality involves an awareness of all there is
and an openness to what is not."
L. Buscaglia

"The spirit or each person and things is present
even if we are too asleep to experience it,
even if we deny its existence."
L. Buscaglia

"Magic is not the sole prerogative of the sorcerer.
We are ourselves magicians with the power to
conjure up and melt away at will.
We create the mystery of each day -
the secrets lie under every tree,
in every insect,
in each thought."

"Flowers will bloom whether we care or not.
All food will have distinctive flavors
even if we don't bother to chew or taste them.
There will be blazing sunrises
even if we never rise early enough to see one."
L. Buscaglia

"Sometimes the right question
offers more answers
than the right answer."
M. Alibrando

"The biggest reason
you don't get answers
is that you haven't
asked the questions."
R. Bach

"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower,
share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's,
smile at someone and receive one in return,
are, to me, continual spiritual exercises."
L.Buscaglia

"We can predict tides almost to the second -
We can date and time the migration of birds and whales.
We can walk on the moon.
But does this lessen the wonder of the sea,
the magic of the birds or
the beauty of the planets?"
L. Buscaglia

"Because something can be explained
need not affect it's wonder."
L. Buscaglia

"It is like the Zen Koan which states that
there is no difference if we think we are
the monk dreaming we are a butterfly
or a butterfly dreaming we are a monk
dreaming we are a butterfly."
L. Buscaglia

"We can either accept in faith or select nothingness.
Both engage in mystery."

"Either we slect to believe that
everything matters or nothing matters -
yet, in essence, both are the same."

"Both will involve mind games,
for neither offer definitive proofs.
This does not mean that answers do not exist."
L. Buscaglia

"Life offers us few explanations.
We cannot be certain of the true meaning of life,
the source of life,
nor life after life.
Only we can fill the void which this certitude creates."
L. Buscaglia

"A human being is a deciding being."
V. Frankl

"Without continual growth and progress,
such words as improvement, achievement,
and success have no meaning."
B. Franklin

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."
M. Gandhi

"If you judge people
you have no time to
love them."
A. Bojaxhiu

"Being Deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Laozi

"The most important thing in life to learn is
how to give out love and to let it come in."
M. Schwartz

"The common tendency to confuse love with the feeling of love allows people all manner of self-deception."

"It may be difficult and  painful to search for evidence of love in one's action."

"...true love is an act of will that often trancends ephemeral feelings of love."
M. S. Peck

"Love is as love does."
M. S. Peck

"Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional."

"The person who truly loves does so because of a decision to love.
This person has made a commitment to be loving
whether or not the loving feeling is present."

"True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed.
It is a commited, thoughtful decision."
M. S. Peck

"...we must be as welcoming of the new
as we are comfortable with the old,
as fearless of the unexpected as
we are falsely secure in the planned."
L. Buscaglia

"Things seldom occur the way they are planned."
L. Buscaglia

"The only thing we can be certain about is
the uncertainty inherent in the universe."
M. Alibrando

"Unrealized dreams are the main cause of useless pain."
L. Buscaglia

"We canno be sure of what the next moment will bring."

"It is the element of uncertianty that adds the spice to living."
L. Buscaglia

"If all things were known about our lives
much of the magic would be gone."
L. Buscaglia

"The most beautiful thing we can
experience is the mystery."
A. Einstein

"The wise person never has short arguments."
Anonymous

"How can we then blame others for misunderstanding
what we are only vaguely able to express ourselves."
L. Buscaglia

"No one can know us
unless we are willing
and able to tell them
through our actions,
as well as our words,
who we are."
L. Buscaglia

"...the secret lies in letting people know, honestly, what you need..."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"We must be certain that
when we are communicating
we know precisely what
we want to express."
L. Buscaglia

"Loneliness and misunderstanding arise from
our inability to present ourselves honestly
and authentically in each new encounter."
L. Buscaglia

"Anything that leads to good,
to joy, to understanding,
to acceptance, is significant."
L. Buscaglia

"Do that thing that is uniquely yours to do,
what ever that may be, do it well."
L. Buscaglia

"Whatever immortality there is,
is assured by a continual particpation in
the productive process."
L. Buscaglia

"Because of us,
things have become more.
Something has been left of significance
because we exist."
L. Buscaglia

"Each of our acts
makes a statement
as to our purpose."
L. Buscaglia

"It is what we do rather than what we feel,
or say we do,
that reflects who and what we truly are."
L. Buscaglia

"Each act makes us manifest."
L. Buscaglia

"The existentialist says,
"To be is to do."
L. Buscaglia

"The river runs it's course.
We cannot escape moving
together and affecting
whatever we encounter."
L. Buscaglia

"In the case of genuine love
the aim is always spiritual growth.
In the case of non-love
the aim is always something else."
M. S. Peck

"Love enlarges rather than diminishes the self;
it fills the self rather than depleting it."
Me misquoting M. S. Peck

"Beauty often seduces us
on the road to truth."
Unknown

"...genuine love is a self-replenishing activity."
M. S. Peck

"We are each a singular person but
we are each a universal person as well.
Both are equal and important."
L. Buscaglia

"...we, like everything else,
are only passing through."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"Nothing occurs in the world
that in some way does not
affect us all. Enen the most
insignificant act we perform will
have some effect upon the world."
L. Buscaglia

"What does it profit a man
if he gains the whole world
and loses his own soul?"
R. Fulghum

"Don't worry that 
children never listen to you; 
worry that 
they are always watching you." 
R. Fulghum 

Dialog from the movie Oh, God (1977)

* * *
God - "I gave you the world and everything in it. It's all up to you."
Man - "But we need help."
God - "That's why I gave you each other."
* * *

"He said he wanted us to know that it can work."

"He said that he's given us everything that we need,
and it's entirely up to us."

"I don't permit suffering. You do."

"Free will. All choices are yours."

"You can love, cherish and nuture each other,
or you can kill each other."

"I said, everything could workout,
if that's everybody's choice."

"People have to decide (on their own)
what's to be done with the world."

"I want to say to everyone that every thing around them that
they see and smell and feel and hear, they should delight in
all this. That what is here are some of my very best ideas."

"I want everyone to try very hard to
make sure it doesn't all go down the drain."

"However hopeless, helpless, mixed-up and scary it all gets...
...It can work."

"I know how hard it is in these times to have faith.
But maybe if you could have the faith to start with
maybe the times would change. You could change them.
Think about it. Try. And try not to hurt each other.
There's been enough of that. It really gets in the way."

"He wants us to decide for ourselves.
It's what he always said -
that everything was up to us."

"The more I think about it,
the more I realize
there is nothing
more artistic than to
love others."
V. Van Gogh

"If I don't have wisdom, 
I can teach you only ignorance." 
L. Buscaglia 

"Don't smother each other. 
No one can grow in the shade." 
L. Buscaglia 

"Don't brood. 
Get on with living and loving. 
You don't have forever." 
L. Buscaglia

"The land changed man
long before
man changed the land."
E. S. Maggin

"A single rose can be my garden... 
a single friend, my world." 
L. Buscaglia 

"Death is a challenge. 
It tells us not to waste time... 
It tells us to tell each other 
right now that 
we love each other." 
L. Buscaglia 

"No man is an island of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent -
a part of the main."
J. Donne

"- a part, yet a part."
L. Buscaglia

"We are a community of person
and a world of things."
L. Buscaglia

"Life is selected over death,
Wisdom over ignorance,
pain over apathy and
joy over dispair."

"We cannot stop a hurricane,
silence a storm or keep a
loved one from leaving us.
But it is our response and reaction
to these catastrophic experiences
that will determine whether
we will continue to survive and
grow towards becoming a
fully functioning person."
L. Buscaglia

"The greater the number of imaginative and
creative alternatives to behavior we possess,
the more meaningful the choice,
the more self determined the action."
L. Buscaglia

"We must affirm ourselves."
L. Buscaglia

"We must have no desire
to control, possess or dominate
nor allow others to do so to us."
L. Buscaglia

"We have all we need to
become what we are,
our perfect selves.
All we need to do to realize it is to
recognize it, develop it and live it in action."
L. Buscaglia

" Love is not what you are
but only what you may become."
M. Cervantes

"Anonymous is one of
the world's best and worst
teachers of life and truth.
I quote him/her often."
M. Alibrando

"Remember, an idea you reject today,
may become one you learn to except later.
Also, ideas you except today,
may become ones you reject later."
M. Alibrando

"Included in a book written by Richard Bach
is a line that says,
'Everything in this book may be wrong.'
I sometimes wonder if these words,
or similar words,
should not have been included
very near the beginning of this
collection of thoughts.
Well, as they say,
better late than never."
M. Alibrando

"Every idea listed on these pages may not be suited to you.
Seek thoughts and ideas that work for you."
M. Alibrando

"To be fully active and fully functioning as a person,
we must make death a lifelong friend."
L. Buscaglia

"Death is the greatest of life's teachers."
L. Buscaglia

"When we can embrace death as
simply another aspect of the life cycle,
we will give appreciation and value to
each life encounter knowing that
it will never occur again."
L. Buscaglia

"You have a lot to teach yourself,
so keep track and
write down you own wisdom
whenever it comes bubbling up."
M. Alibrando

"The less we are attached to
the less we have to worry about."
L. Buscaglia

"Death teaches us that
in the long run
nothing belongs to us."
L. Buscaglia

"Time is relative.
It is ours,
given freely to spend wisely
or to squander idly,
but never to be hoarded."
L. Buscaglia

"Every day is new.
Every moment is fresh.
Time has no meaning in itself
unless we choose to
give it significance."
L. Buscaglia

"Armed with strength and choice
we are ready to look at some ways
in which we might better
become the orchestrators of our lives
and live each day as fully active
and functioning persons."
L. Buscaglia

"...we must seriously decide
to start on our way and
to stay on our path."
L. Buscaglia

"Death has no secrets."
L. Buscaglia

"He who isn't busy being born is busy dying"
R. Zimmerman 

"Perhaps the fact of life most conducive 
to living fully as a person is an honest 
awareness and acceptance of death." 
L, Buscaglia

"All truth is platitude and
all platitude is truth."
G. Vidal

"The tragedy is that it takes us a lifetime to learn this."
L. Buscaglia

"Ones mission on Earth should be to recognize the void,
inside and out side of oneself, and fill it."
Anonymous 

"A wicked man who reproaches a virtuous one
is like one who looks up spits at heaven;
the spittle soils not the heaven, but
comes back and defiles his own person."
S. Gautama

"Love is leadership."
Me misquoting M. S. Peck

"The word 'judicious' means requiring judgment,
and judgment requires more than instinct,
it requires thoughtful and often painful decision making."

"Love is not simply giving;
it is 'judicious' giving and
judicious withholding as well.
It is judicious praising
and judicious criticizing.
It is judicious arguing, struggling,
confronting, urging, pushing, and
pulling in addition to comforting."
M. S. Peck

"...a good marriage can exist only between
two strong and independent people."
M. S. Peck

"The way I see it, every life is a
pile of good things and bad things.
The good things
don't always soften the bad things.
But, vice versa - the bad things
don't necessarily
spoil the good things
or make them unimportant."
Vincent and the Doctor - The Doctor
Doctor Who

"...our use of the word 'Love' is
so generalized and unspecific
as to severely interfere with
our understanding of love."
M. S. Peck

"No matter how dedicated we are to spiritual development,
we also need rest and relaxation, exercise and distraction.
Saints must sleep and even profits must play."
M.S. Peck

"Two people love each other
only when they are quite capable
of living without each other."
M. S. Peck

"...without love
there could be no
true Personhood."
L. Buscaglia

"...strive to become
the friendly coworker
of both man and nature."
L. Buscaglia

"Having the courage to say
you do not know the answer
to a question is perhaps the
beginning of Wisdom."
Jon Meacham

"I do know this:
Do not enter with defeat in your heart,
for that will be the first victory of evil."
M. Weis and T. Hickman

"The ancients who wished to show
their fine characters to the world
would first bring order to the states.
Those who wished to bring order to their
states would first regulate their households.
Those who wished to regulate their households
would first cultivate their personhood."
Confucius

"...without love there (can) could be no true personhood."
L. Buscaglia

"There's a lot of talk about marching to the beat of your own drummer and singing your own tune but if we all truly did this there would only be a collision of sound - a cacophony of noise.

So, yes, by all means, find and sing your own tune, but also find a way to have that tune harmonize with the music the rest of the world is playing."
M. Alibrando

"Every orchestra must have a conductor.
Every choir must have a director."
M. Alibrando

"Love always brings difficulties, that is true,
but the good side of it is that it gives energy."
V. Van Gogh

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystery."
A. Einstein

"...fragmentation...   ...causes weakness and impotence."

"...the opposite of fragmentation is universal oneness, acceptance and love."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"Have the courage to be yourself."

"Be an active part of the world in which you live."

"Discover your part in the world and be that part."

"Harmonize with the world."

Me misquoting/summarizing Confucius

"Reject violence, oppression and power."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"Egotism is...   ...the root of all disharmony -
and thus the main causal factor of human suffering."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"Man has come to control all other forms of life
because he has taken more time in which to grow up;
when he takes still more time,
and spends this time more wisely,
he may learn to control and remake himself."
W. Durant

"...Serve the world..."
M. S. Peck
Me misquoting M. S. Peck

"...the spiritually evolved individual is..."
"...an extraordinarily loving individual,
and with his of her extraordinary love
comes extraordinary joy."
Me misquoting M. S. Peck

"...once suffering is completely accepted,
it ceases in a sense, to be suffering."
M. S. Peck

"...we must give up cherished notions..."
Me misquoting M. S. Peck

"...as we negotiate the curves and corners of our lives,
we must continually give up parts of ourselves."
M. S. Peck

"...the loss of balance is ultimately more painful
than the giving up required to maintain balance."
M. S. Peck

"Balancing is a discipline
precisely because the act of
giving something up is painful."
M. S. Peck

"The essence of this
discipline of balancing is
'giving up.' "
M. S. Peck

"The fishermen know that the sea is
dangerous and the storm terrible,
but they have never found these dangers
sufficient reason for remaining ashore."
V. Van Gogh

"If life's meaning is to be discovered,
it is intrinsic in each stage as we
assume the challenge of actualization
every moment of everyday as we
live it."
L. Buscaglia

"Do not go gentle into that goodnight.
Old age should burn and rage against the close of day."
D. Thomas

"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young."
O. Wilde

"The challenge is to be true to each stage of life."
L. Buscaglia

"...death is simply a running out of borrowed time."
L. Buscaglia

"But time is meaningless when it contains
the past and future in the present.
The task of old persons is to
continue to live in the now."
L. Buscaglia

"Fully functioning old persons
do not have to sit back and wait for death.

"They must build confidence and
give their limited time on Earth purpose;
They must make peace with the knowledge that
some day they will be outgrown or even forgotten,
but that the experience of life will have been enough.

"Their most precious treasures are still the
continual surprises which daily living can bring.
They can choose life."
L. Buscaglia

"The afternoon of life must
have a significance of it's own
and cannot be merely a pitiful
appendage to life's morning."
C. Jung

"Mature man finds himself and his roots in
creative relatedness to the world and
the feeling of oneness with all men and nature."
E. Fromm

"Dare to know:
That is the motto of enlightenment."
A. C. Grayling

"In other words,
discipline itself must be disciplined."
M. S. Peck

"To be fee people must assume total responsibility for ourselves,
but in doing so must posses the capacity to
reject responsibility that is not truly ours."
M. S. Peck

"By their openess,
people dedicated to the truth live in the open,
and through the exercise of their courage to
live in the open, they become free of fear."
M. S. Peck

"True intimacy is a positive force
only if it is a combining of strength and
energies with other mature persons
for the continued growth of each."
L. Buscaglia

"...agree to engage in a commitment to self."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"...have a flexible but non-conformist sense of identity."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"...maturity lies in creative
and responsible choices."
L. Buscaglia

"...continually grow..."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"Maturity is not a goal,
but rather a process."
L. Buscaglia

"...recognize the
continual wonder
of life and living."
L. Buscaglia

"...recognise that conflict can
be a positive force
for growth and change."
L. Buscaglia

"[Carl Rogers] sees maturity not as an actualization
or a state of fulfillment, but rather a process
which is forever changing and developing."
L. Buscaglia

"We coose ourselves in the present."
L. Buscaglia

"We recognize its dynamic nature,
its debt to the past,
but accept the fact that its
future realzation is independant from that past,
that our life is not merely an epologue
to what has already happened.

It is, therefore, a concept
of being and becoming."
L. Buscaglia

"Begin to emerge as an individual.
Embrace your unique self.
Come into your own."
M. Alibrando

"...find the space to explore, to experience."
L. Buscaglia

"The foolish man seeks happiness at a distance.
The wise man seeks happiness at his feet."
Chinese proverb

"...The main problem in [life] is one of being
misconceived, misinterprited and misjudged..."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"...We are not They, but We, Ourselves and I."
L. Buscaglia

"...We had to extend ourselves further
into our new and frightening world."
L. Buscaglia

"Most people do not understand how important thoughts are
and leave the development of thought paterns to chance."
D. Amen

Finally, brethren,
whatever is true,
whatever is honorable,
whatever is right,
whatever is pure,
whatever is lovely,
whatever is of good repute,
if there is any excellence
and if anything worthy of praise,
dwell on these things.
Philippians 4:8 -
New American Standard Bible

"Life is overflowing with possibilities."
M. Alibrando

'We need to discover ourselves."
M. Alibrando

"The word judicious means requiring judgment,
and judgment requires more than instinct;
it requires thoughtful and often painful decision making."
M. S. Peck

"When asked whether he believed in freewill,
twentith-centry novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer
replied, tongue-in-cheek, 'I have no choice.' "
T. Cathcart and D. Klein

"...Our use of the word love is so
unspecific as to severely interfere
with our understanding of love."
M. S. Peck

"...We shall want to maintian
the childhood thirst for
knowledge and exploration."
L. Buscaglia

"The parents role is primarily to
stand by with a goodly supply of bandages."
L. Buscaglia

"...living fully in each stage of life
is the real challenge."
L. Buscaglia

"...come to terms with our constantly growing selves
and our place in an ever-changing universe."
L. buscaglia

"Two people love each other
only when they are quite
capable of living without
each other but
choose to live with each other."
M. S. Peck

"...a good marriage
can exist only between two
strong and independent people."
M. S. Peck

"Where do we start?"
L. Buscaglia

"We start with ourselves!"
E. Wiesel

"We are the ones we've been waiting for!"
B. Obama

"When we are born,
we are almost all
unrealized potential,
and a thousand new possibilities
are present in each of us.
We can choose to be born
again at any time and
accept the challenge
of the selves we have yet to meet,
for the same is still true."
L. Buscaglia

"Only WE can accept the challenge of being our fully human selves.

Only WE can embrace ourselves and start a new.

Only WE can decide that we desire to live in full humanity."
L. Buscaglia

"When things are not done,
it is we who have not done them;
When there is misunderstanding,
it is also ours;
When we are in a state of emotional pain or tension,
it is we who have chosen the be there.

If we are not becoming all that we are,
it is we who are not changing,
and why we, therefore,
must suffer our own non-being."
L. Buscaglia

"No 'They' can teach or change us,
only we can do that.
No 'They' can bring us peace or joy:
These feelings are uniquely ours."
L. Buscaglia

"If we look carefully at behavior,
we usually discover that the emotional impotence,
apathy, and lack of understanding, and resistance to
change we see in others is really our own.

We are they.

We create our own private trap and are blind to the fact that it is of our own making."
L. Buscaglia

"We are not prisoners of the past.
We can start where we are.
we are enough."
L. Buscaglia

"There are no others to blame -
each of us is the other."
L. Buscaglia

"...each of us becomes a unique patterned unit
continually being regenerated as a part of
a constantly changing universe."
L. Buscaglia

"I am aware, therefore, I am."
M. Alibrando

"Your brain is the hardware of your soul."
D. Amen

"No one gets out of this world alive."
L. Buscaglia

"I learned that to take from
life was a privilege
and that to give my uniqueness
to life was my responsibility."
L. Buscaglia

"...the more I learn about people
and the world in which we live,
the more incapable I seem to be of
expressing to others what I have learned."
L. Buscaglia

"We are all
much less than
we can be."
L. Buscaglia

"..no one life is of more or less significance than another,
nor is any one of us more or less responsible,
for in each of us lies a vital part of the wholeness."
L. Buscaglia

"What is written may seem elementary ans repetitious.
L. Buscaglia

"He must not be foolish and recognize
only goodness even where evil exist.
He must know evil, hate and bigotry as
a real phenomena, but he must
see love as a greater force."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"Poetry surrounds us everywhere,
but putting it on paper is, alas,
not so easy as looking at it."
Vincent Van Gogh

"To be open to love,
to trust and believe in love,
to be hopeful in love and live in love,
you need the greatest strength."
L. Buscaglia

"If you can find no love in the world
you can really only blame the fact that
you have left no room for love in you heart."
M. Alibrando

"He must have love securely in himself."
L. Buscaglia

"Vulnerability is always at the heart of love."
L. Buscaglia

"To live in love is life's greatest challenge."
L. Buscaglia

"Love recognizes
and appreciates
its own uniqueness."
L Buscaglia

"Love need no recognition,
for if its effect is recognizable,
it is not true love at all."
L Buscaglia

"Love is free and cannot
be realized unless it is left free."
L Buscaglia

"Love finds its own path,
sets its own pace and
travels its own way."
L Buscaglia

"...man must listen to his own drummer
or he will march right out of himself."
L Buscaglia

"He has his own path and
love encourages him
on his own way,
even if his path does not
intersect with our desired path."
L Buscaglia

"Love listens to it's own needs
and appreciate its own uniqueness."
L Buscaglia

"Love, then,  recognizes needs,
physical and emotional.
It sees as well as looks,
Listens as well as hears."
L Buscaglia

"Love never reflects the giver."
L. Buscaglia

"Love is his guide,
not his leader."
L. Buscaglia

"Each man is his own leader."
L. Buscaglia

"Love never gives direction..."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"He must be free to go his own way..."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"He must be free to make his own mistakes
and learn from them what he can."
L. Buscaglia

""Help others to find themselves."
M. Alibrando

"Love listens to its own needs."
L. Buscaglia

"Birds never sing in caves."
H. D. Thoreau

"Love recognizes needs."
L. Buscaglia

"If you asked me for 
my New Year Resolution, 
it would be to find out who I am."

C. Cusack

"Each individual can judge for himself alone which path has heart.
Where paths cross there is union,
where they run parallel there is peace
provided that each path loves and honors the other."
L. Buscaglia

"In love, each man is his own personal challenge."
L. Buscaglia

"Each man growing in love will find his own way,
his own path to love.
We cannot force others into our way;
we can only encourage them to find their own way."
L. Buscaglia

"Love needs freedom."
L. Buscaglia

"We touch, therefore we are."
L. Buscaglia

"Physical love is neccesary for happiness."
L. Buscaglia

"...man needs to be touched."
L. Buscaglia

"There is no doubt that someone is real
when you touch them."
L. Buscaglia

"Nevertheless, love is physical,
it touches."
L. Buscaglia

"Perhaps if we listened
to another person,
truly listened,
we could hear his joy
of his cry.
Love listenes.
Love hears.
L. Buscaglia

"...words often mean different things to different people."
L. Buscaglia

"Much is spoken,
but little is heard
or listened to."
L. Buscaglia

"Man needs
just as surely
to be heard."
L. Buscaglia

"A lover requires
the need of others
to be seen.
He looks."
L. Buscaglia

"Find a peaceful moment."
M. Alibrando

"If you love someone you will look at him carefully."

"Whan was the last you looked at your wife or husband's face,
your child's face, your mother's face?"

"How long has it been since you look deeply at yourself?"
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"Look deeply at yourself."
M. Alibrando

"A person desires to be an I as wells as a WE."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"We exist for each individual as
each individual exist for all of us."
L. Buscaglia

"But love goes beyond hope.
Hope is a beginning.
Love is forever."
L. Buscaglia

"Hope is essential to man,
for man is not yet brave enough
to exist without it."
L. Buscaglia

"...responsible love rises
even beyond hope."
L. Buscaglia

"...love acquires meaning
only as it is shared."
L. Buscaglia

"If one has love to give,
he may impart it to all in the world
and he will still have the same love he started with."
L. Buscaglia

"Love is always active sharing."
L. Buscaglia

"What is the purpose of knowlwdge
if it isn't shared?"

"What is the meaning of beauty
that isn't presented for all to experienced?"

"What good is love
that isn't freely given?"

"Love shares with others."
L. Buscaglia

"Responsible love shares."
L. Buscaglia

"There is perhaps no greater knowledge than this,
that each person in the world,
no matter how lowly or how princely,
is basically a human being."
L. Buscaglia

"It's the empathy that make us
responsible in love of all men."
L. Buscaglia

"...we must make do with what we have."
L. Buscaglia

"A lover is, then, constantly watching, listening, waiting,
feeling, adjusting, readjusting, and changing."
L. Buscaglia

"Love is always changing and always learning.
Love offers the greatest flexibility."
L. Buscaglia

"Responsible love is emphatic."
L. Buscaglia

"Responsible love is accepting and understanding."
L. Buscaglia

"If you want people to know you,
you are responsible for
communicating yourself to them."
L. Buscaglia

"The way to know life is
to love many things."
V. Van Gogh

"As one shows others he loves them,
so must he reveal to them his need for love.
You cannot assume that people,
even those close to you,
will know and understand your
unexpressed needs and feelings."
L. Buscaglia

"Even lovers are not mindreaders."
L. Buscaglia

"You can choose to live today
with joy or in misery.
Why not choose joy?"
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"To live in love is to
live in joy."
L. Buscaglia

"To work in love is to
work in joy."
L. Buscaglia

"As soon as the love relationship
does not lead me to me,
as soon as I in a love relationship do not
lead another person to himself, this love,
even if it seems to be the most secure and
ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced,
it is not true love.
For real love is dedicated to a continual becoming.
When, for any reason, this process ceases,
love becomes tedious, listless and is doomed to fade.
It decays. It destroys it self.
So what may seem like a beginning is,
in actuallity, only the beginning of the end."
L. Buscaglia

"Love abhors waste, especially waste of human potential."
L. Buscaglia

"Love leads you back to yourself."
M. Alibrando

If one loves only himself,
he is labeled egocentric,
self-centered, and selfish.
If he loves himself and a small community,
including his wife and a family in his love,
society will call him a true lover and
praise him as a sound man.
But, if he loves all men in an extremely high-minded manner,
he's often ridiculed by the world as naive and foolish."
L. Buscaglia

"But only when one loves his neighbor,
only then is the selfishness of preferential
love routed out and the equality of
the eternal preserved."
S. Kierkegaard

"The love of humanity is the natural
outgrowth of love of a single individual.
From one man to all men."
L. Buscaglia

"...if love is to grow it will need
diverse minds, innumerable individuals,
and the exploration of varied paths."
L. Buscaglia

"When love is truly responsible,
it is one's duty to love all men.
Man has no choice but to
accept this duty,
for when he does not,
he finds his alternatives
lie in loneliness,
destruction and despair."
L. Buscaglia

"... to be human is to be responsible."
L. Buscaglia

"Perhaps the most positive word
in the English language and
the most conducive to
continued growth, in love is, Yes!"

"A lover says
Yes to life,
Yes to joy,
Yes to knowledge,
Yes to people,
Yes to differences."

"If yes is too threatening,
he tries maybe."

"If one wishes
to be a lover
he must start
by saying,
Yes to love."
L. Buscaglia

"To love you must
free yourself of labels."
L. Buscaglia

"...we are all more alike than different..."
L. Buscaglia

"When you realize you are the best you,
you will accept the fact that
others are the best they."
L. Buscaglia

"If you try to be like anyone else,
you may come very close,
but you will always be the second best you.
But, you are the best you.
It is the easiest, most practical,
most rewarding thing to be.
Then it makes sense that you can
only be to others what you are to yourself.
L. Buscaglia

"If you know, accept and appreciate
yourself and your uniqueness,
you will permit others to do so."
L. Buscaglia

"Loving yourself involves
appreciating the value of
you above all things."

"Loving yourself also involves
the knowledge that
only you can be you."
L. Buscaglia

"I'm convinced that
we still have
misery, despair, agony,
all of those things,
because people didn't
actualize themselves
and share their worlds."
L. Buscaglia

"...do you know that no one has ever been able to
find a limit to human potential, or to humanness? 
You are unlimited possibilities."
L. Buscaglia

"When a man has love he is
no longer at the mercy of
forces greater than himself,
for he, himself,
becomes a powerful force."
L. Buscaglia

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
A Einstein

"The foolish man seeks happiness at a distance.
The wise man seeks happiness at his feet."
Chinese proverb

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool
than to speak out and remove all doubt."
M. Twain but attributed to many others.

"Even a fool, when he holds his peace,
is counted wise: and he that shuts his lips
is esteemed a man of understanding."
Proverbs 17:28 - American King James Version

"Only you can be the final judge
in determining what is right for you."
L. Buscaglia

"There is a you lying dormant.
A potential within you to be realized.
Perhaps the only peace and joy in life lies in
the pursuit and development of this potential."
L. Buscaglia

"We think much less than what we know,
We know much less than what we love,
We love much less than what there is,
and to this precise extent
we are much less then what we are."
R.D. Laing

"Each man is unique.
Nature abhors sameness."
L. Buscaglia

"The wise man can teach
all he knows and when he's through
he'll still know all that he has taught.
But first he must have the knowledge."
L. Buscaglia

"To love others
you must love yourself."
L. Buscaglia

"...you can only give to others
what you have yourself."
L. Buscaglia

"...a great deterrent to love is found in anyone who fears change..."
L. Buscaglia

"Deterrents to love are man-made.
Love will not be deterred."

"Love flows like a river:
always itself, yet ever changing,
recognising no obstacle."
L. Buscaglia

"There is only one thing of which you can be certain of and that is change."

"...growing, learning, experiencing is change."

"Change is inevitable."

"To deny change, is to deny the only single reality."

"...only when he goes with the changing river, is a man truly free."
L. Buscaglia

"One must never be satisfied with his ability to love.
No matter where he is, it is always just the beginning."
L. Buscaglia

"Man's ability to learn will always be greater than
that of 'the old dog' and to compare them is to
degrade the very strenght that keeps
a dog a dog but make a man human.
L. Buscaglia

"With practice you can learn to identify and
understand the forces which envelop your life.
When you comprehend them,
you can modify and maneuver them as you wish. 
Or leave them as they are,
depending on how beautiful they are to you."
J. Powell

"The feeling that you are O.K. does not mean that
you have risen above all of your faults. 
It simply means that you refuse to be limited by them."
J. Powell

Once you have committed yourself the big question is;
Are you going to be faithful because you want to
or because you have to? 
M. Alibrando

As you read each abstract verse, please do not think to yourself,
"I wonder what the author meant by these words?"
People often think of poets and artist as having ulterior motives. 
But this author assures his readers that these words written on these pages
have no more of an ulterior motive than the creator has when creating a butterfly or a rose.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - June 7, 1993

"The world needs our love now more than it has ever needed it,
so please either lead, follow or get out of the way.
L. Buscaglia

"The world we have created is a product of our own thinking;
It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
A. Einstein

Originally written - November 27, 1993

The heart of intra-personal confusion lies between
the elements of communications with the
parent-self and the child-self.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - December 5, 1993

It is not failure that causes depression,
but rather failure filtered through the belief that
one should be thoroughly competent, brilliant,
and achieving in all possible respects.
Unknown

Originally written - December 30, 1993

Nature may have given you a "Model T," but it's up to you to evolve yourself into a "sports car..."
... or even a "spaceship."

Break away from the gravity of your present situation and soar.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - December 31, 1993

Fear is a great motivator,
but love is a greater motivator.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - January 9, 1994

"To know
and not yet do
is to not yet know."
Unknown - Zen Wisdom

Originally written - January 21, 1994

"We work with being,
but it is the none being that we use."
G. DeRosa

Originally written - February 8, 1994

The mind/body connection is not unlike the computer/software connection. 
Without software running through a PC in the form of electric impulses,
a PC would be nothing more than an odd looking collection of
metal, glass and plastics.  Likewise, without a CPU, a monitor and a keyboard
the electrical current would only exist as a sudden spark of energy without
the ability to continue past the moment of its' creation, doomed to
die the instant it is born.
Both are necessary for a useful existence.

Originally written - February 11, 1994

We each only see what's important to us.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - April 10, 1994

"Be in the world, but not of the world."
Not a Jesus quote but a common summation.

"We are spirits in the material world."
G. Sumner

Originally written - April 30, 1994

Once your glass is full,
saying yes to more
can only be a waste.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - August 10, 1994

There is no such thing as an easy life,
no mater what ones economic status is.
It is just as easy to find a contented poor person
as it is to find a discontented wealthy person.
The difference between a contented individual
and a discontented individual is as easy to see as
the difference between the words "I have to..." and "I choose to..."

Bad occurrence are not the worst things that can happen to you.
Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to you.
M. Alibrando


"There is no disaster that can't become a blessing,
and no blessing that can't become a disaster."
R. Bach

Originally written - August 5, 1994

"You gave your life to become the person that you are right now.
Was it worth it?"
R. Bach

"It's bad enough to fail when we let go of what we believe,
but it's worse when the ideas we've been living by
turn out to be wrong. If a core idea has flaws,
you've got to stop everything in your life till you get it sorted out."
R. Bach

Originally written - August 12, 1994

Is it the process of meeting a need and solving a problem that gives life meaning,
or would one look for a problem to solve even if there were non to solve?
M. Alibrando

Originally written - September 25, 1994

" The joy is in the growing."
G. Colnaghi

Originally written - October 3, 1994

Be actively involved in creating yourself and directing your future.
M. Alibrando

We create ourselves.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - October 8, 1994

"We possess the free will to shape the social forces that influence us."
A. Adler

Originally written - October 14, 1994

For some of us, our worst fear is finding out that
we have not become who we had hoped
we would have become.
Overcome this fear and
develop your potential to its fullest.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - October 15, 1994

Finding that new perspective isn't always easy.
Sometimes just trying to find that
quite little spot to ponder our thoughts can
become a real challenge.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - July 24, 1997

"In order to change,
the man must trust that
he is capable of change."
L. Buscaglia

"So we find love is many things,
though we know it's not a thing
in the sense that it cannot be bought
or sold or weighted or measured.
Love can only be given, expressed freely.
It cannot be captured or held,
for it's neither there to be tied nor to hold.
It's in everyone and everything in
varying degrees and awaits actualization.
It's not apart from the self.
Love and the self are one.
There are not kinds of love, love is love;
there are only degrees of love.
Love is trusting, accepting and believing,
without guarantee.
Love is patient and waits,
but it's active waiting, not a passive one.
For it is continually offering itself in
mutual revealing, a mutual sharing.
Love  is spontaneous and craves expression
through joy, through beauty, through truth,
even through tears.
Love live in the moment; it's lost in yesterday
nor does it crave tomorrow.
Love is Now!
L. Buscaglia

"Change involves three things:
First, a dissatisfaction with self -
a felt void or need;
second, a decision to change -
to fill a void or need;
and third a conscious dedication
to the process of growth
and change - the willful act of
making the change,
doing something.
L. Buscaglia

"Man has will and thus
to a large measure
guides his life."
L. Buscaglia

"So he is free to use
his internal powers to
make life his own."
L. Buscaglia

"There is no love where there is no will."
M. Gandhi

"Love has meaning
only as it is experienced
in the now."
L. Buscaglia

"Without feeling,
we would not
be human."
L. Buscaglia

"Love offers itself as
a continual feast to
be nourished upon."
L. Buscaglia

"Each person will grow
at his own rate,
in his own manner,
at his own time,
by way of his own unique self."
L. Buscaglia

"Only you are and can therefore
respond to love,
give love,
and feel love as you do."
L. Buscaglia

"The human seeking love
will find that
love is patient."
L. Buscaglia

"When you cease placing
conditions on your love
you will have taken a giant step
toward learning to love."
L. Buscaglia

"Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith
is also of little love."
E. Fromm

"The perfect love would be
one that gives all
and expects nothing."
L. Buscaglia

"For if one expects nothing
and asks nothing,
he can naver be deceived
or disappointed."
L. Buscaglia

"It is only when love demands
that it brings on pain."
L. Buscaglia

"...for love and the self are one
and the discovery of either is
the realization of both."
L. Buscaglia

"Love is never complete
in any person.
There is always room for growth."
L. Buscaglia

"Love is always open arms.
If you close you arms about love
you find that you are left holding yourself."
L. Buscaglia

"One does not fall in or out of love.
One grows in love."
L. Buscaglia

"To think or read about love or carry on
profound discourses on love is all very well,
but in the last ananysis, will offer few if any
real answers."
L. Buscaglia

"Live your questions now,
and perhaps even without knowing it,
you will live along some distant day
into your answers."
R. M. Rilke

"...Love along someday into the answer."
L. Buscaglia reusing Rilke's words

"One, in other words , lives the questions.
But in order to live the questions, it is logical
that one will have to pose them."
L. Buscaglia

"Thoughts, readings, discourse on love are of value
only as they present questions to be acted upon."
L. Buscaglia

"...let's stop talking and start doing..."
L. Buscaglia

"If one wishes to
know love,
one must live love,
in action."
L. Buscaglia

"It seems more accurate to say
one grows in love."
L. Buscaglia

"Man is either
growing in love
or dying." 
L. Buscaglia

"We are obliged as individuals
to arrive at some understanding
of love before we can deal with it."
L. Buscaglia

Explore what love is not
to learn what it is.
M. Alibrando

"We do not have to love,
we choose to love."
M. S. Peck

"Love is as love does."
M. S. Peck

"Love is not effortless.
To the contrary, love is effortful."
M. S. Peck

"...the process of extending one's self is
an evolutionary process."
M. S. Peck

"It is in reaching toward evolution that
we evolve."
M. S. Peck

"The moment of birth is an 'Alone' world,
as is the moment of death."
L. Buscaglia

"One can be alone and never feel loneliness
and, conversely, one can be lonely even
when he is among people."
L. Buscaglia

"Man by nature is a social being."
L. Buscaglia

"Each person has the potential for love.
But potential is never realized without work.
This does not mean pain.
Love, especially, is learned best
in wonder, in joy, in peace, in living."
L. Buscaglia

"If you want to learn to love,
then you must start the process
of finding out what it is,
what qualities make up a loving person
and how these developed.
L. Buscaglia

"Living is a process of
continuous rebirth."
E. Fromm

Happily ever after does not happen via magic.
It requires a lifetime of effort to maintain
a loving relationship.
M. Alibrando

"It's never too late to learn anything
for which you have a potential."
L. Buscaglia

"Teachers can only teach
what they have learned."
L. Buscaglia

"It is possible that when we
choose to give up one freedom
of a lower order, we achieve
a freedom of a higher order."
L. Buscaglia

"A Robinson Crusoe can be totally free,
on his island,
but he pays for his freedom with isolation."
L. Buscaglia

Lasting love requires effort.
Ask those who celebrated
50 years of marriage how
they succeeded, but also
ask those who ended a
marriage in divorce quickly
what they might have done
differently.

Successes and failures both
have something to teach us
about love and life.
M. Alibrando

A need for attachment is not love.
M. Alibrando

"One cannot give what he does not possess.
To give love you must possess love."

"One cannot teach what he does not understand.
To teach love you must comprehend love.

"One cannot know what he does not study.
To studt love you must live in love."

"One cannot appreciate what he does not recognize.
To recognize love you must be receptive to love."

"One cannot have doubt about that which he wishes to trust.
To trust love you must be convinced of love."

"One cannot admit what he does not yield to.
To yield to love you must be vulnerable to love."

"One cannot live what he does not dedicate himself to.
To dedicate yourself to love you must be forever growing in love."
L. Buscaglia

"No mechanic or cook
would ever believe that
by 'willing' the knowledge
in his field he could
become an expert in it."
L. Buscaglia

"If one really wants to understand
love and life, one must turn to
those who have been successful at it.
Who do you know that loves well
and lives life well?
The answer may be closer than you think.
M. Alibrando

"...if man is raised as an animal
he will behave as an animal,
for man 'learns' to be human."
L. Buscaglia

"I only know this:
I exist.
I am.
I am here.
I am becoming.
I make my life and
no one else makes it for me.
I must face my own shortcomings,
mistakes, transgressions.
No one can suffer my non-being as I do,
but tomorrow is another day,
and I must decide to
leave my bed and live again.
And if I fail,
I don't have the comfort of
blaming you or life or God."
L. Buscaglia

"We must remind ourselves, however,
that there can be no change
without working hard and
without getting your hands dirty.
There is no formula and
no book to memorize
on becoming."
L. Buscaglia

"Find 'you' - Who you are - Be as you are."
L. Buscaglia

"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. 
The most difficult thing to be is 
what other people want you to be. 
Don't let them put you in that position." 
L. Buscaglia

"The hardest thing in the world is
to be something you are not."
L. Buscaglia

"You can only be 'Real' on your path."
L. Buscaglia

"If your path is love
the goal is unimportant,
the process will have heart."
L. Buscaglia

"Each path is only one of a million paths.
Therefore, you must always keep in mind that
a path is only a path.
If you feel that you must now follow it,
you need not stay with it under any circumstances.
Any path is only a path.
There is not affront to yourself or others in dropping it
if that is what your heart tells you to do.
But your decision to keep on the path or leave it
must be free of fear or ambition.
I warn you: Look at every path closely and deliberately.
Try it as many times as you think necessary.
Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question.
It is this: Does this path have a heart?
All paths are the same. They lead nowhere.
They are all paths going through the brush or
into the brush or under the brush.
Does this path have a heart is the only question.
If it does, then the path is a good.
If it doesn't, it is of no use."
C. Castaneda

"Everybody has his own way
and must be allowed
the freedom to pursue it.
There are thousand
paths to loving.
Everyone will find his own
way if he listens to himself.
Don't let anybody impose their
way on you."
L. Buscaglia

"There are ways to meet
the needs of society,
and still do your own thing.
It's knowing where and when
and how."
L. Buscaglia

"And man needs a
feeling of achievement.
We all do."

"And then, the lover,
to learn and to change,
also needs freedom."

"You've got to be free
in order to learn."
L. Buscaglia

"It's also about time we started
listening to each other."

"We need to be heard."
L. Buscaglia

"Sometimes it takes only one
finger to mend a dike."
L. Buscaglia

"A loving person recognizes needs."
L. Buscaglia

"I have a very strong feeling that
the opposite of love is not hate -
it's apathy.
It's not giving a damn."
L. Buscaglia

"Change and growth take place
when a person has risked himself
and dares to become involved with
experrimenting with his own life."
H. Otto

"When was the last time you listened to raindrops?"
L. Buscaglia

"In serving each other we become free."
King Arthur

"Everything is in the process of change,
including you."
L. Buscaglia

If you can't think of any new wisdom to say,
then just leap into a new year and say nothing.
Or open with a joke.

Why did the comedian cross the road?
To get to the punchline.

Why did the psychologist cross the road?
Why do you think he crossed the road?

Why did the philosopher cross the road?
Why not?

Why did the surrealist cross the road?
fish.
M. Alibrando

"Sometimes you just want to go out and play."
M. Alibrando

Originally written - January 1, 1996

"...don't live in the past.
Live in the now.
When you are eating, eat.
When you are loving, love.
When you are talking, talk.
When you are looking at a flower, look."

"Catch the beauty of the moment."
L. Buscaglia