BILL  OF  RIGHTS! 

Quote for the Day - July 4,  2010


"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensible condition, of nearly every other form of freedom."


Benjamin Cardozo, opinion, Palko v. Connecticut, 1937

HUMILITY

Quote for the Day  - July 3, 2010

"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."

T.S. Eliot [1888-1965]

THE  GIFT OF ACCEPTANCE 

Quote for the Day - July 2, 2010


"If there is a sin against life,

it consists perhaps not so much

in despairing of life

as in hoping for another life

and in eluding

the implacable grandeur of this life."

Albert Camus [1913-1960], The Myth of Sisyphus, Knopf, 1955, page. 53

THE CREATIVE SELF 

Quote of the Day - July 1,  2010


"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates."


Thomas Szasz [1920- ], The Second Sin, Doubleday, 1973. Picture on top is Thomas Szasz - check him out on the internet. He's a very interesting and challenging psychiatrist and writer.

HOW YOU SEE 

IS WHO YOU ARE! 

Quote for the Day - June 30, 2010


"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight .... The truly wise person is colorblind."


Albert Schweitzer [1875-1965], News Summaries January 14, 1955

HOW DO YOU
PICTURE
YOURSELF?

Quote of the Day - June 29, 2010

"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."


John Singer Sargent [1856-1925]

Top painting center: Elizabeth "Bessie" Winthrop Chanler - Mrs. John J. Chapman, 1893 - The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Painting on Left - lady sitting with sash: Lady Agnew of Lochnaw -1892-93 - in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

Painting on Right - lady sitting with red drapes behind her: Miss Eden - 1905 - Watercolor - private collection.

Painting on Lower right center - lady standing in black gown: Madam X - 1893-94 - Madam Pierre Gautreau - called "scandalous" by critics. Sargent thought this to be his best. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.

ME,  MYSELF,  AND  I

Quote for the Day - June 28, 2010


"I am I plus my circumstances."


Jose Ortega y Gasset [1883-1955], Time, October 31, 1955