no. 485

"I hate my job!"
"There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY. We meet at the bar."

From the Drew Carey Show.

no. 483

"He who wants a rose must respect the thorn."

Persian Proverb

no. 481

"Boy, if I didn't want to regret, I wouldn't volunteer to be in charge of kids."

Daven in Something Positive

no. 479

"Every conviction of error is a violence done to the mind, inasmuch as the forcible eradication of a prejudice must be attended with a painful sensation. The blind man is happy in his blindness, and the ignorant content with his ignorance. The wisest of men has somewhere told us that the increase of wisdom is the increase of sorrow."

- Francis Hopkinson

no. 478

"Today is the sort of day where the Sun only comes up to humiliate you."

- Chuck Palahniuk

no. 475

"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." 

Jacob Bronowski

no. 473

"* In the chit-chat of the checkup, as I lay back in the chair with the suction tube in my mouth, he asked: “What are you majoring in at college?” When I replied that I was majoring in philosophy, he said: “What are you going to do with that?” 
“Think,” I replied."

By David Silbersweig, in The Washington Post, December 24, 2015

no. 460

"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."

Neil De Grasse Tyson

no. 455

"It strikes me as sad when something becomes widely disregarded. Piles of unsold Halloween “goods” are shoved into bins, to wait in the shadow of aisles filled with Christmas and Thanksgiving. No, I don’t especially want or care about plastic skulls and pumpkins. It is not about the object, I think, but the inherent humanity present in that object. Somebody made it. This would not exist if not for them, and yet what value does that add to such a thing? There is no passion in the factory, so none ends in the product. It is the way of our world to create in surplus while stripping away significance, one very much costing the other. I know the person who made this stuff didn’t give a shit. I wouldn’t. But when I look at that pumpkin, I see a small bit of someone’s life and can’t help but feel it deserves better than the throwaway bin at Fred Meyer."

Alex Hobbs

no. 451

Nick: "I didn't know being grown up is just about finding complex ways to be childish."

Philip: "Then you, my friend, haven't been paying attention to adults."


from Randy Mulholland's comic Something Positive

no. 448

Which explains why really getting something right seems like such an awesome victory.

no. 439

from Extra Fabulous Comics

no. 426

"Well coffee can't be trusted, you know that right?"

Shep, in the comic Road Apples Almanac

no. 424

"A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."

W.T. Shedd

no. 420

"Not seeing things as the are" is the field where the other causes of suffering germinate.

The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, ca. 200 BC

no. 411

April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain...

T. S. Eliot



It's also my birthday month

no. 408

"If you still dream about having a Rolex when you turn 50, your life failure".

Boulet, responding to French publicist Jaques Seguela, who said "If you dont own a Rolex when you turn 50, your life is a failure", while defending the purchase of a 13,000 Euro Rolex by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

no. 380

"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving."

Anatole France

no. 372

"Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside."

Egon Schiele

no. 367

"Act my age?
What the fuck is that, “act my age”?
What do I care how old I am?
The Ocean is old as fuck.
It will still drown your ass with vigor."

Stimie