Superior Wisdom

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

“Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be fish.” – Ovid

“We must strive to reach that simplicity that lies beyond sophistication.” –John Gardner

“I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin

“Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working.” –Anonymous

"We're all dealt a different hand in life. All you can do is play the cards you're dealt." - B. Knoblach

"Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth." -Vernor Vinge Note: I like it even better without a coma after "humans"

While researchers probe sleep's functions, sleep itself is becoming a lost art. Stickgold compares sleep deprivation to eating disorders. “Twenty years ago, bulimics probably thought they had the best of all worlds,” he says. “They could eat all they…...

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.

The problem is that the "world out there" is constantly changing, everything is impermanent and it is impossible to make a permanent relationship with anything, at all. From a brief introduction to Buddhism by Mike Butler.