The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. ― Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899)

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. ― Lawrence G. Lovasik (1913-1986)

“What Is Wrong With Humans”

Some women emasculate their husband/boyfriend.

Some men treat their wife/girlfriend as though they are children.

Fear does not have a gender, but we expect men to be fearless… A Valentine Joseph

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. ― Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ― Confucius (551 BC-479 BCE)

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. ― Confucius (551 BC-479 BCE)

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.' — Dalai Lama

“Most Abused”

Greed and Sex!

Swing Out Sister - Breakout

When explanations make no sense~ When every answer's wrong~ You're fighting with lost confidence~ All expectations come~ The time has come to make or break~ Move on don't hesitate~ Breakout~ Don't stop to ask~ Now you've found a break to make at last~ You've got to find a way~ Say what you want to say~ Breakout~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX71jonS3Pc

Christopher Cross – Sailing

Well, it’s not far down to paradise, at least it’s not for me~ And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility~ Oh, the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see~ Believe me~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQeqmNbA2Hs

“Men Leaving”

From childhood, I have seen this type of situation. Men leaving their wives, for another woman... The women sucks up his youthfulness, the moment he becomes sick, she returns him to his wife. His wife is now under stress and strain as she nurses him back to health.  

A friend was telling me about a few women, who are going through this. She said, “Those cases are for, ‘The Diary Of A Mad Black Woman’.”

I said, “The moment he leaves, cry as much as you want, but have your head on. If you want him back and you start praying for him to come back, be prepared that he might not come home in good health. You have to ask yourself, ‘if you are geared up to nurse him back to health?’ No guarantee that he is going to be healthy again. The moment he leaves, start divorce proceedings, if you do not want to be his nurse!”...  

“Dreaming”

You fall asleep, you start dreaming, wake up, fall asleep again and the dream continues? When you wake in the morning, you know you were dreaming, but you don’t remember the dream? That night when you fall asleep the dream continues?...

Mississippi Mass Choir – Your Grace And Mercy

Your grace and mercy brought me through~ I'm living this moment because of you~ I want to thank you and praise you too~ Your grace and mercy brought me through~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCZedlkAa9c

“I Am A Good Person”

I am yet to meet the perfect person/s living on this earth… You know… hmm the righteous, virtuous, blameless, upright and honest to goodness man/woman. I don’t trust a man/woman when they say to me, “I am a good person.” My answer to that statement is always, “Okay.”

The Spinners – Love Don’t Love Nobody

It takes a fool to learn that love don’t love nobody~ It takes a fool to learn that love don’t love no one~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyN4XtfzzLs

Neville Brothers – Tell It Like It Is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcbbOYcEz88

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. — Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. — Anne Brontӫ (1820-1849)

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. — Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. ― Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. — John Ruskin (1819-1900)

You could try your best to be like someone else! How long could you act the part! At one point the act will fall apart!

“Oh My God”

When I was growing up the people I knew were good… yet there were some greedy, stupidly funny people in the mix. Oh my God I have to say that the behavior today is at an advance stage… hurtful, dishonest, argumentative, cruel and I can go on because everyday on the news there is something inconceivable!

“Another Spoon Of Milo”

Yesterday when my daughter came home from school she looked a little upset when she said hello.

“I asked. How was your day?”

She said good then went to her bedroom… I went to the kitchen. A few minutes later she walked into the kitchen, took the tin of Milo from the cupboard and a spoon from the drawer. After she ate a spoon full she said, “I am pissed. They want to cancel the school trip. That trip is not to be cancelled!”

“Why are you upset? You said that you did not want to go on the trip.”

“No I don’t want to go. I want to stay home and sleep late. If they cancel the trip then I will have to go to school.”

“So I guess you should have gone on the trip.”

“Mom! Who the hell wants to run around in the cold shooting paint guns at each other!?

“So you are really pissed that your day off is cancelled!”

“Livid!” She puts another spoon of Milo into her mouth.

“A Prayer”

The LORD hath sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength. Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thy enemies; and the sons of the strangers shall not drink thy wine, for which thou hast labored. Is. 62:8

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? — Robert Kennedy (1925-1968)

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. — Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. — T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935)

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. — John Barrymore (1882-1942)

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. — Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

Sleep is the best meditation. — Dalai Lama

“Don’t Blame The Outsider”

It really doesn’t matter who spoke first. The point is he/she said yes to him/her. He/she are the ones to blame. Not the outsider…

Outside is cold and I am not complaining because the weather is keeping the insect I hate —Cicadas away so it could stay as cold as it wants... I love the weather~

“It Feel Like Winter”

I am sure even the top weatherman/woman cannot understand what is going on with the weather… hmm. He/she might have an idea, but I believe he/she should talk to the old folks. They could tell them what the weather is going to be. Heard one say that the weatherman said it’s spring, but it feels like winter. She is so right. It is cold…

“I know my place! I know where to get off! I know when to get off!”

“Sunny Sunday”

Such a beautiful Sunny Sunday in NY~ I don't know what you are faced with, but you were blessed with another day~ You are reading this so your mental faculties are in tact~ Amen and AMEN!

Never forget Judas kissed Christ~ They live among us … Scary~

“Her Heart Rules His”
He said that three friends were complaining about Justin and his girlfriend. They said that she rules him, makes him spend all his money on her and he doesn’t hangout with them anymore.

“How do you know that she rules him?”

“Every time they ask him to hangout he always have something to do with her.”

“How do you know that he spends his money on her?”

“They said that his mother and sisters said that he works for a lot of money, but his bank account is meager, and the woman is always shopping.”

“Did you ever meet this woman? Have a conversation with her?”

“No, but the guys told me that she is not a nice person.”

“How do you know what they are saying is true… because they told you that?” He did not answer so she said, “I think you should speak to your friend.”

“I will.”
Months later when he came home he said, “Justin got married to the woman.”

“He did?”

“Yes and they bought a house. He said he knew his family and friends were talking about him, but ‘you have to be in it to know it’. He said when he met her, he was not serious until they started talking and spending intimate moments together.”

“Sex?”

“No he said just spending quiet moments talking to each other. She is constructive, kind, great conversationalist, makes him laugh and she loves him.”

“Sounds like a good friendship to me.”

“I met her and I have to say eloquent, a great sense of humor, and beautiful…

“I guess her heart rules his.”…

“Different Demeanors”

I am listening to all these young people who went to elementary through high school with the bombing suspect. They all indicated that he was a nice person and they are surprised. My son said that these things are really surprising and he knows how they feel. An elementary school classmate of his is in prison for murder. It’s like you always tell us that the classmate in elementary school will have a different demeanor in junior high and another in high school.”

“True… The same goes for college. All different demeanor,” I said.

Don't give up. There are too many naysayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself. ― Sidney Sheldon (1917-2007)

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. ― Robert H. Schuller

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen. ― Stephen Covey (1932-2012)

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. ― Confucius (551 BC-479 BCE)

“God Have Mercy on all those people in the line of fire. It is a terrifying situation in Boston at the moment.”

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. ― Richard Bach

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ― Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Jill Scott – Blessed

Yeah yeah struggle gon happen~ It's just the way it be~ Ain't nothing coming easily in this life~ Sometimes you gotta work and you gotta grow and it gotta hurt~ I'm sure you know~ Take a look around~ Woke up this morning listening to this song~ You're so blessed, yes yes~ Gonna rock this joint all night long~ It's so blessed, yes~ To be up in here with our hands up in the air~ Waving like we just don't care~ We're so blessed, yes yeah yeah yeah~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0n_EdeuhwM

“3 This Morning”

Last night was a fan night and the breeze from it felt real good… I fell asleep while I was looking at the David Letterman’s show… deep, deep sleep. Sometime during the night the radiator started to go thick, thick, thick and it woke me up. It was blasting heat, I was wide awake and sweating as though it was a very hot summer day. I turned off the radiator hoping the room would cool down… No dice.

I was wide awake… Just couldn’t sleep. Everybody else in my home asleep. All this is happening at 3 this morning. I got up prayed, had breakfast and 7 hours later I am still wide awake… I’m alive. Amen and AMEN to that!...

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions. ―Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)

If we survive danger it steals our courage more than anything else. ―Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. ―Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)

Men/Women

Spend 75% of his/her day worrying about things they have no control over…

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ― Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. ― John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. ― John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ―Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ― Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. ― William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ―  Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)

I believe if you take humans/animals/some places/some things at face-value… You will be disappointed.

Greatful - Hezekiah Walker

Flowing from my heart … Is gratefulness…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE0W-kQyz6A

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew. ― John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

People always make war when they say they love peace. ― David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)

Peace is the first thing the angels sang. ― John Keble (1792-1866)

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. ― Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)