unfamiliar and perilous

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry ~ Thomas Mann

You offer it

And that’s the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don’t know if they’ll like it, but you offer it. ~ Wynton Marsalis, To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road

Mine was the twilight and the morning

Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs. ~ Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

in the end

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. ~ Ernest Hemingway

The American city

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends… This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

watch the river

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known. ~ Winnie the Pooh

become the spectator

To become the spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life. ~ Oscar Wilde

Random Thought 09.25.09

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu