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. . . LIVE see: "CELEBRATE" see: "LIFE" Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, "No, thank you," to dessert that night. And for what! --Erma Bombeck (1927—1996) American humorist. I hate a Roman named Status Quo! Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security — there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that — shake the tree and knock [that] great sloth down on his ass. --Ray Bradbury (1920— ) American science fiction author. _Fahrenheit 451_ [1953] Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. --John Dryden (1631—1700) English poet, critic, and dramatist. (Translation of Horace's _Odes_, bk. 3 # 29.) I am not at all disposed to think that we should be resigned to live or die, but rather that we should kick and struggle and determine to live as long as we can. For however long we live, we shall feel at the last that we have not got half the things into life that we ought to have done. --Benjamin Jowett (1817—1893) English educator and Greek scholar. I who am blind can give one hint to those who see — one admonition to those who would make full use of the gift of sight: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Make the most of every sense. --Helen Keller (1880—1968) American author and educator who was blind and deaf. The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved... the ones who... burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like pop and everybody goes "aww!" --Jack Kerouac 1922—1969) American author and member of the "Beat Generation." Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592) French moralist and essayist. _Essais_ (Essays) {94 chapters written 1571-1580 & published 1580; the last 13 chapters were written 1585-1587 & published 1588 }. Bk. 1, ch. 20 Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. --Mary Manin Morrissey (1949— ) In John D. Moore _Quotations for Martial Artists_, p. 3 [2003]. What good are vitamins? Eat four lobsters, eat a pound of caviar — live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brain at all, don't be afraid, marry her — live! --Artur Rubinstein (1887—1982) Polish pianist. Live and let live. --Scottish proverb The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind — jump in. --Charles R. Swindoll (1934— ) American evanegelical Christian pastor. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. In Bill Gold _The Greatest Book In Your Life_, p. 108 [2006]. Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. --Henry Van Dyke (1852—1933) American clergyman, educator, and author. In _Forbes_ [1917]. - "A Story To Live By" by Ann Wells in the "Los Angeles Times," late 1990s My brother-in-law opened the bottom drawer of my sister's bureau and lifted out a tissue-wrapped package. "This," he said, "is not a slip. This is lingerie." He discarded the tissue and handed me the slip. It was exquisite; silk, handmade and trimmed with a cobweb of lace. The price tag with an astronomical figure on it was still attached. "Jan bought this the first time we went to New York, at least 8 or 9 years ago. She never wore it. She was saving it for a special occasion. Well, I guess this is the occasion." He took the slip from me and put it on the bed with the other clothes we were taking to the mortician. His hands lingered on the soft material for a moment, then he slammed the drawer shut and turned to me. "Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Every day you're alive is a special occasion." I remembered those words through the funeral and the days that followed when I helped him and my niece attend to all the sad chores that follow an unexpected death. I thought about them on the plane returning to California from the Midwestern town where my sister's family lives. I thought about all the things that she hadn't seen or heard or done. I thought about the things that she had done without realizing that they were special. I'm still thinking about his words, and they've changed my life. I'm reading more and dusting less. I'm sitting on the deck and admiring the view without fussing about the weeds in the garden. I'm spending more time with my family and friends and less time in committee meetings. Whenever possible, life should be a pattern of experience to savor, not endure. I'm trying to recognize these moments now and cherish them. I'm not "saving" anything; we use our good china and crystal for every special event — such as losing a pound, getting the sink unstopped, the first camellia blossom. I wear my good blazer to the market if I feel like it. My theory is if I look prosperous, I can shell out $28.49 for one small bag of groceries without wincing. I'm not saving my good perfume for special parties; clerks in hardware stores and tellers in banks have noses that function as well as my party-going friends. "Someday" and "one of these days" are losing their grip on my vocabulary. If it's worth seeing or hearing or doing, I want to see and hear and do it now. I'm not sure what my sister would have done had she known that she wouldn't be here for the tomorrow we all take for granted. I think she would have called family members and a few close friends. She might have called a few former friends to apologize and mend fences for past squabbles. I like to think she would have gone out for a Chinese dinner, her favorite food. I'm guessing — I'll never know. It's those little things left undone that would make me angry if I knew that my hours were limited. Angry because I put off seeing good friends whom I was going to get in touch with someday. Angry because I hadn't written certain letters that I intended to write one of these days. Angry and sorry that I didn't tell my husband and daughter often enough how much I truly love them. I'm trying very hard not to put off, hold back, or save anything that would add laughter and luster to our lives. And every morning when I open my eyes, I tell myself that it is special. Every day, every minute, every breath truly is...a gift from God. - It is better to wear out than to rust out. --attributed to various. ----- brio [BREE-oh], noun: Enthusiastic vigor; vivacity; liveliness; spirit.  . . see "LIFE" for related links Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively. --Mel Brooks (1926- ) American actor, writer, and director. We are always getting ready to live, but never living. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American philosopher and poet. _Journals_ [13 April 1834] Exuberance is better than taste. --Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) French novelist. That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner. --Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In a letter to Sir Joshua Reynolds. The existence of most human beings is of absolutely no significance to history or to human progress. They live and die as anonymously and as nearly uselessly as so many bullfrogs or houseflies. They are, at best, undifferentiated slaves upon an endless assembly line, and at worse they are robots who leave their mark upon time only by occasionally falling into the machinery, and so incommodint their betters. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist and literary critic. "Dear God," she prayed, "Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry ... have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well-dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream, all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost." --Betty Smith (1904-1972) American playwright and novelist. _A Tree Grows in Brooklyn_ Take care to do what you like or you will be forced to like what you do. --George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] In Joan Lunden _Wake-Up Calls_, p. 31 [2000]. - This was written by a reporter for the Chicago Tribune - sorry, don't remember her name. Superb advice!! kap Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now. Savor the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine. Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday. Do one thing every day that scares you. Sing. Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours. Floss. Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself. Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements. Stretch. Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year- olds I know still don't. Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone. Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chances. So are everybody else's. Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own. Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. Read the directions, even if you don't follow them. Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly. Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young. Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel. Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders. Respect your elders. Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85. Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth. But trust me on the sunscreen. ----- extant EK-stunt; ek-STANT, adjective: Still existing; not destroyed, lost, or extinct. . . see "THE MIND" for related links - LOGIC n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; therefore - Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. --Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] {Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_}. - `Contrariwise', continued Tweedledee, `If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.' --Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898) English writer and logician. _Thorough the Looking-Glass_ [1872] Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. --Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. In Andrew I Weeraratne _Uncommon Commonsense Steps to Super Wealth_, p. 208 [2007]. A woman scoffs at evidence. Show her the sun, tell her it is daylight, at once she will close her eyes and say to you, "No, it is night." --Emile Gaboriau (1832-1873) French novelist. _Monsieur Lecoq_ [1869] Logic: An instrument used for bolstering a prejudice. --Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania." "The Philistine" magazine, published [1895-1915] vol. 22, # 6 [May 1906] Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. --T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist {grandfather of Aldous Huxley}. _Science and Culture and Other Essays_ [1881] "The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species" ----- non sequitur (adjective) [nahn 'se-kwi-têr] Literally, not following (logically), illogical, not connected to anything previously said or (as a noun) a statement not following logically from what was previously said. It originates in logic, where it refers to an inference not following from the premise. ratiocination (noun) [ræ-shi-ah-sê-'ney-shên] To reason methodically with precise logic. ;void(0)) LONDON . . see "PLACES" for related links The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved. --Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Conservative statesman, Prime Minister [1940-1945, 1951-1955], Radio broadcast [14 July 1940] It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. --Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) English essayist and critic. In London they don't like you if you're still alive. --Harvey Fierstein (1954- ) American dramatist and actor. Great numbers of sturdy beggars, loose and vagrant Persons, infest the Nation, but no place more than the city of London and parts adjacent. If any person is born with any defect or deformity, or maimed by fire or othe casualty, or any inverterate distemper, which renders them miserable objects, their way is open to London, where they have free liberty of showing their nauseous sights to terrify people, and force them to give money to get rid of them; and those vagrants have for many years past moved out of several parts of the three kingdoms, and taken their station in the metropolis, to the interruption of conversation and business. --Joshua Gee _The Trade and Navigation of Great Britain Considered_ [1729] p. 41 It is difficult to speak adequately, or justly, of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent. --Henry James (1843-1916) American novelist. - You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. --Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer, in James Boswell _Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791] "20 September 1777" Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists. --Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer, (Boswell: Life of Johnson) By seeing London I have seen as much of life as the world can show. --Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer, in Boswell's _Tour to the Hebrides_, [12 October 1773] - It was a dark and stormy night and the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. --Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) British novelist and politician I'm sick of fog and yellow gloom, Of faces strange, and alien eyes, Your London is a vault, a tomb, To those born 'neath Australian skies. O land of gold and burning blue, I'm crying like a child for you! --Dorothy Frances McCrae The first thing which the rescue squads and the firemen saw, as their torches poked through the gloom and the smoke and the bloody pit which had lately been the most chic cellar in London, was a frieze of other shadowy men, night-creatures who had scuttled within as soon as the echoes ceased, crouching over any dead or wounded woman, any soignee corpse they could find, and ripping off its necklaces, or earrings, or brooch: rifling its handbag, scooping up its loose change. --Nicholas Monsarrat (1910-1979) English novelist, _Breaking In, Breaking Out_ [1971] p.288. In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 847 Cohan & Major add: The scene is the Cafe de Paris in London, which took a direct hit on 8 March 1941. A darker sidelight on the Blitz. These people are exceedingly brave, tough and prudent. The East End, where disaster is always just around the corner, seems to take it better than the more fashionable districts in the West End. --Edward R. Murrow [Egbert Roscoe Murrow] (1908-1965) American broadcaster and journalist [9 September 1940] (The first sustained bombing attack on London came 2 days earlier.) Said Lord Nelson, 'Oh, for a boat! That I might still yet be afloat, Not stand here so solemn On top of my Column While pigeons shit over my coat.' --anon. London is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting. --V S [Victor Sawdon] Pritchett (1900-1997) British novelist and short-story writer Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city. --Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English poet The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. --Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish playwright and poet "Upon Westminster Bridge" by William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet Earth hath not anything to show more fair Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty This city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning, silent, bare Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky All bright and glittering in the smokeless air Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock and hill Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep The river glideth at his own sweet will Dear God! 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