Tradition

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

` Gustav Mahler

I remember the feeling

The Way You Look Tonight

Some day, when I'm awfully low 

When the world is cold 

I will feel a glow just thinking of you 

And the way you look tonight 

 

Yes, you're lovely, with your smile so warm 

And your cheeks so soft 

There is nothing for me but to love you 

And the way you look tonight 

With each word your tenderness grows 

Tearin' my fear apart 

And that laugh..wrinkles your nose 

Touches my foolish heart 

Lovely ... Never, never change

Keep that breathless charm 

Won't you please arrange it? 

'Cause I love you 

Just the way you look tonight

~ Jerome Kern, lyrics by Dorothy Fields (popularly sung by Frank Sinatra)

I'm a fool, indeed...

I'm a fool to want you 

I'm a fool to want you 

To want a love that can't be true 

A love that's there for others too 

I'm a fool to hold you 

Such a fool to hold you 

To seek a kiss not mine alone 

To share a kiss the devil has known 

Time and time again I said I'd leave you 

Time and time again I went away 

But then would come the time when I would need you 

And once again these words I had to say 

I'm a fool to want you 

Pity me I need you 

I know it's wrong it must be wrong 

But right or wrong I can't get along 

Without you 

Time and time again 

I said I'd leave you 

Time and time again 

I went away 

But then would come the time when I would need you 

And once again these words I'd have to say 

Take me back 

I love you 

Pity me I need you 

I know it's wrong it must be wrong 

But right or wrong I can't get along 

Without you 

~ Written by Frank Sinatra / Jack Wolf / Joel S. Herron

Frank Sinatra's love song to Ava Gardner

Fitness in a nutshell

Steps. Sleep. Weights. Nature. 

That covers 90% of the game. 

Stop overcomplicating it.

~ Dan Go

Choose happiness

Happiness is a choice, not a result. 

Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. 

No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. 

Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. 

~ Ralph Marston

Traits

It has always seemed strange to me... 

The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. 

And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. 

And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

~ John Steinbeck, in Canery Row

The saddest country music song ever...

[Chorus]

I'm not Lisa 

My name is Julie 

Lisa left you years ago 

My eyes are not blue 

But mine won't leave you 

'Til the sunlight has touched your face 

[Verse] 

She was your morning light 

Her smile told of no night 

Your love for her grew 

With each rising sun 

And then one winter day 

His hand led hers away 

She left you here 

Drowning in your tears 

Here, where you've stayed for years 

Crying Lisa, Lisa 

[Chorus] 

I'm not Lisa 

My name is Julie 

Lisa left you years ago 

My eyes are not blue 

But mine won't leave you 

'Til the sunlight shines through your face

[Outro]

I'm not Lisa

~ Jessi Colter

Explore the world

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. 

Explore the world. 

Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. 

Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. 

Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. 

Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all. 

~ Richard Feynman

Find harmony, find happiness

What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

~ Albert Camus

Sometimes prayers ARE answered!

A storm descends on a small town, and the downpour soon turns into a flood. 

As the waters rise, the local preacher kneels in prayer on the church porch, surrounded by water. 

By and by, one of the townsfolk comes up the street in a canoe. "Better get in, Preacher. The waters are rising fast." 

"No," says the preacher. "I have faith in the Lord. He will save me." 

Still the waters rise. 

Now the preacher is up on the balcony, wringing his hands in supplication, when another guy zips up in a motorboat. "Come on, Preacher. We need to get you out of here. The levee's gonna break any minute."

Once again, the preacher is unmoved. "I shall remain. The Lord will see me through." 

After a while the levee breaks, and the flood rushes over the church until only the steeple remains above water. 

The preacher is up there, clinging to the cross, when a helicopter descends out of the clouds, and a state trooper calls down to him through a megaphone. 

"Grab the ladder, Preacher. This is your last chance." 

Once again, the preacher insists the Lord will deliver him. And, predictably, he drowns. 

A pious man, the preacher goes to heaven. After a while he gets an interview with God, and he asks the Almighty, "Lord, I had unwavering faith in you. Why didn't you deliver me from that flood?" 

God shakes his head. "What did you want from me? 

I sent you two boats and a helicopter."

Traveling through Life

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

~ Winston Churchill

Noble

    A warrior does not let a friend face danger along

~ Klingon saying, heard on Star Trek: Academy