"La Cucaracha"

La cucaracha, la cucaracha
Ya no puede caminar
Porque no tiene, porque le falta
Marijuana que fumar.
The cockroach, the cockroach
Now he can't go traveling
Because he doesn't have, because he lacks
Marijuana to smoke.

Folksong

Strengths and weaknesses

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. - Knute Rockne

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. - Lao Tzu

A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts. - Gandhi

It never ceases to amaze me; we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own. - Marcus Aurelius

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance? - Abdul Kalam

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. - Seneca

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. - Abraham Lincoln

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination... - Maya Angelou

There is nothing so strong as gentleness, and nothing so gentle as strength. - Leo Muir

Neglected, then renewed

I have been negligent in keeping up with posting my ongoing collection of quotes. So in order to start the ball off rolling again I have chosen to share some quotes on negligence and renewal.

Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through al her best resolves. - Owen Feltham

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline. - Jane Brody

No profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well. - Publilius Syrus

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To be worn out is to be renewed. - Lao-tzu

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected - John Locke (1632-1704)

Four things come not back - the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity. - Arabian Proverb

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. - Shana Alexander

Tweets

I recently became a Tweep - that is someone who uses Twitter. At first I was hesistant, not fully understanding this new world. It's only been my first week but so far here are a few of my new faves.

Be yourself today. Be wildly yourself. - John Mayer

Bran cereal gets a bad rap for being boring. Since when is promoting good digestive health boring? Answer: never. Not if you're constipated. - Michael Ian Black
If you're feeling lonely, reach out and help some one . . . we are all alone, until we chose not to be. When you give, you grow. Reach out. - paul_hewson
Remember life is what you make it!!! So go hard or go home!!! Work hard for your dreams today. And have fun!!! - iam diddy
YouLookGreat says sometimes when you think people don't like you, in actuality they don't even know you exist.
17" Macbook arrived! Santa is real, he just dresses like a UPS guy now. No toddler finger smudges on this screen... for at least a week. -tonyhawk

Trick or Treat! Smell My Feet! We Want Something Good to Eat!

When I was a kid, I remember having a record of Halloween Songs. Yes a vinyl record. One particular song stuck in my head so that even 30+ years latter when it gets to be Halloween these words ring in my head:

H-A-DOUBLE L-O-W-DOUBLE E-N spells Halloween!

H-A-DOUBLE L-O-W-DOUBLE E-N spells Halloween!

Over and over again...thus I never forgot how to spell the word and passed the little diddy onto my own children.

On Hallowe'en the thing you must do

Is pretend that nothingcan frighten you

An' if somethin' scares you and you want to run

Jus' let on like it's Hallowe'en fun.

-from an Early Nineteenth Century Halloween Postcard

Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. -Steve Almond

Hold on, man. We don't go anywhere with "scary," "spooky," "haunted," or "forbidden" in the title. -From Scooby-Doo

This Halloween the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him. -Conan O'Brien

Hark! Hark to the wind! 'Tis the night, they say,

When all souls come back from the far away-

The dead, forgotten this many a day! - Virna Sheard

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. -Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. -George Carlin

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special. -Chris Rock

From ghoulish and ghosties and long leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! - Scottish saying

Backward, turn backward,O Time, in your flight make me a child again just for to-night!

-Elizabeth Akers Allen

$$, Fear and Politics

The trick is to stop thinking of it as your money. - An IRS Auditor

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs. - Warren Buffett

The Old One had taught him that. One need not be afraid. Fear was a thing of the mind, and if one did not offer it a place, it had none. - Louis L'Amour, The Californios

The true rule, in determining to embrace or reject anything, is not whether it has any evil in it; but whether it has more evil than good. There are few things whilly evil or wholly good. Almost everything...is an inseperable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded. - Abraham Lincoln

It doesn't matter how the people vote; what matters is who counts the votes and how they do it. - Stalin

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - Benjamin Franklin

It doesn't matter where you are coming from...it matters where you're going to. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have fewer misgivings concerning our excellence in the natural, i.e. exact sciences [mathematics, atomic physics, electronics, etc.] than the field of political and social "sciences", which are by no means exact and where superficiality, lack of knowledge, even fakery cannot so easily be found out and shown up. A political columnist, a political candidate or office-holder, a professor of political science may have a long record of wrong predictions and of faulty analyses and of eloquent but ill-informed views, especially on foreign affairs; and he may very well survive as a respected oracle. An engineer on the other hand, whose design for a bridge is faulty, a mathematician or physicist whose equations do not equate will soon lose prestige and professional standing. -- Fritz Kraemer, strategic advisor to the Chief of Staff of the US Army for over 30 years

Skepticism and pessimism aren't synonymous. Skeptism calls for pessimism when optimism is excessive. But it also calls for optimism when pssimism is excessive. -- Howard Marks, Oaktree Capital Management

The Wisdom of Pooh

Quotes by one of my favorite authors: A.A.Milne

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
Winnie the Pooh

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. i'll always be with you.
Winnie the Pooh

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
Winnie the Pooh