"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." "Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up." We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful. Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance A punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet? All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life. Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens. We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on. It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause | I read the attached piece and thought about what it is to be on the wheel and the, several, times when I have asked people to, “put me back on my bike”. When my Dad was dying I sat with him in a tiny corner-room with him in the Countess of Chester hospital which, at that time, was only slightly more caring to geriatrics than Dr Shipman (I have put away my anger with them but if your mum or dad live near there …). From his window in the small room I could see clear to the [ continue reading My friend is dying, but still he rides ] My mate Porridge lounges before another expedition riding-shotgun for me. As we often walk at night I thought a bike-light on his collar a good idea, but a few locals seem to think I have decorated him for Christmas. Am I robbing him of his dignity? We choose our acquaintances but adversity chooses our friends. I taught me that we are in this together Almost cut my hair It happened just the other day It’s gettin’ kind of long I could’ve said it was in my way But I didn’t and I wonder why I feel like letting my freak flag fly And I feel like I owe it, to someone Must be because I had the flu for Christmas And I’m not feeling up to par It increases my paranoia Like looking in my mirror and seeing a police car But I’m not giving in an inch to fear çause I’ve promised myself this year I [ continue reading did I forget to thank Steve? – he might be Steve but he’s our Steve ] “Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls” (Bob Weir, Grateful Dead) “Ride lots” (Eddy Merckx) I have always been told that Merckx was called the ‘cannibal’ for the strength he drew to himself from taking his opponents apart on the road, that’s fine; he became the greatest competitive cyclist. I have always wondered about this kind of person if they carry it into other parts of their life. The person that has to crush everyone else, has to be the bullying manager, the person who has to win in a friendly knock-about, people who snipe everyone down in social settings. They say you most despise in others the trait you fear [ continue reading The Cannibal ] “‘For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.’” (Via Quotes of the Day Clifton Fadiman: .) You know it’s funny what a young man recollects? ‘Cause I don’t remember bein’ born. I don’t recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don’t know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world. “You’ll get over it, I did” was what the voice said to me. 3.5 hours with a 6.15 start. Becoming lost in the outskirts of Stockport, and some red wine night before may have set me up for an excellent PB margin if there’s a next time. Might even try to go over Winnats. He may be Steve but he’s our Steve. “… we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you [ continue reading Sharrow to Altrincham starting under a reddening dawn sky ] This afternoon as I locked my bike to a rack I watched the quite jolly and very friendly Scottish ‘Big Issue‘ seller at my local supermarket compliment a middle-aged bloke on looking better today! The fellah looked fine to me – and to others I thought. Then he said to him quietly, “Whatever it is mate you have to just take it all one day at a time”. Now there is a thing you don’t always expect to see, or hear. | Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?" Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes. There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile. Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit "Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future." "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved. heavy words thrown lightly And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” |
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