The good life is one 

inspired by love 

and guided by knowledge.

Being deeply loved by someone 

gives you strength, 

while loving someone deeply 

gives you courage.

After your death 

you will be 

what you were 

before your birth.

Nature uses only the longest threads
to weave her patterns, 

so that each small piece of her fabric 

reveals the organisation 

of the entire tapestry.

Each day is a little life: 

every waking and rising a little birth, 

every fresh morning a little youth, 

every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Some things in life are bad they can really make you mad

Other things just make you swear and curse

When you're chewin' on life's gristle, don't grumble give a whistle

And this'll help things turn out for the best

And always look on the bright side of life

Always look on the light side of life

If life seems jolly rotten there's something you've forgotten

And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing

When you're feeling in the dumps don't be silly chumps

Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing

And always look on the bright side of life

Come on, always look on the bright side of life

For life is quite absurd and death's the final word

You must always face the curtain with a bow

Forget about your sin, give the audience a grin

Enjoy it it's your last chance anyhow

So always look on the bright side of death

Just before you draw your terminal breath

Life's a piece of shit when you look at it

Life's a laugh and death's a joke it's true

You'll see it's all a show keep 'em laughing as you go

Just remember that the last laugh is on you

And always look on the bright side of life

Always look on the right side of life

Come on Brian, cheer up

Always look on the bright side of life

Always look on the bright side of life

Worse things happen at sea you know

Always look on the bright side of life

Always look on the bright side of life

Always look on the bright side of life

I feel and think much as you do, 

care about many of the things you care about, 

although most people do not care about them.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus 

to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, 

whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. 

They had thought with some reason 

that there is no more dreadful punishment 

than futile and hopeless labour.

Brian Cleary [26.09.28 – 21.09.13] — Died Of A Broken Heart

If liberty means anything at all, 

it means the right to tell people 

what they do not want to hear.

After silence, 

that which comes nearest 

to expressing the inexpressible 

is music.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process 

where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

A man should look for what is, 

and not for what he thinks should be.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

See him wandering alone,

The crowdless man,

He has no group,

He has no tribe,

He carries his identity in his pocket.

His pocket has a hole in it,

His story has a hole in it,

His tragedy is not a tune you can hum.

His suffering and sacrifice,

They have no handles;

His persecution has no logo,

No shrine, no yardstick.

His joy has no credentials,

His observations have no fixed address;

There are no awards whatsoever.

His gaze and yearning are way outside the loop, 

His pilgrimage has lots of holes in it. 

See him wandering alone. 

Beaming to himself.

Beware lest you lose the substance 

by grasping at the shadow.

The imagination imitates. 

It is the critical spirit that creates.

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. 

And there is nobody watching.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

All action is of the mind 

and the mirror of the mind is the face, 

its index the eyes.

The artist, 

like the god of the creation, 

remains within
or behind
or beyond
or above his handiwork, 

invisible, 

refined out of existence, 

indifferent, 

paring his fingernails.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy 

unless he has first experienced their desolations.

Interesting phenomena occur
when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, 

and these phenomena illustrate very aptly 

the enrichment of information that occurs 

when one description is combined with another.

If you want others to be happy, 

practice compassion. 

If you want to be happy, 

practice compassion.

It will sometimes strike a scientific man 

that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, 

than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

Knowledge about life is one thing; 

effective occupation of a place in life, 

with its dynamic currents passing through your being, 

is another.

Compared to what we ought to be, 

we are half awake.

When it comes to atoms, 

language can be used only as in poetry. 

The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts 

as with creating images.

It's not what you look at that matters, 

it's what you see.

I sit in my wooden box

and feel the edges damp and rough

the rain that falls upon the roof

is leaking down my back.

Everyone inside their rooms

but no one wants to play

the words with which we made up things

aren't working any more.

An open space where no one lives

we are strangers in this land

In the wet season on a light blue sky

and then no more.

I heard the old wobbly man say

one by one we drop hey hey

and all that’s good will drift away

like the waters down…down…down.

It is the hallmark of any deep truth 

that its negation is also a deep truth.

The world is full of magical things 

patiently waiting 

for our wits to grow sharper.

There are only two ways to live your life. 

One is as though nothing is a miracle. 

The other is as though everything is a miracle.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. 

Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Do not go where the path may lead, 

go instead where there is no path 

and leave a trail.

I have just three things to teach: 

simplicity, patience, compassion. 

These three are your greatest treasures.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled 

but a fire to be kindled.

The purpose of art is to wash the dust of daily life off our souls.

Listen to many, 

speak to a few.

There is no wealth like knowledge, 

and no poverty like ignorance.

The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge
but imagination.

It is the mark of an educated mind 

to be able to entertain a thought 

without accepting it.

Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast,

To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect 

if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, 

nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

We don't know,

but we can dream,

can't we?

The keenest sorrow 

is to recognise ourselves 

as the sole cause 

of all our adversities.

Lives of great men all remind us, 

we can make our lives sublime, 

and, departing, leave behind us, 

footprints on the sands of time.

It is godlike ever to think 

on something beautiful 

and on something new.

A book should serve as the axe

 for the frozen sea within us.

Eternity is not the hereafter … this is it. 

If you don't get it here, 

you won't get it anywhere.