Deep thoughts-Swami Vivekanand

A blind man asked Swami Vivekanand: "Can there be anything worse than losing eye sight?

He replied: "Yes, losing your vision!"

Philosophical quotes-The life you never had

It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.
- Terri Minsky, Sex and the City, "The Baby Shower"

Famous people quotes-Worth waiting

I've observed that there are more lines formed than things worth waiting for.
- Robert Brault

Philosophical quotes-The human mind

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
- Evelyn Waugh

Political quotes-New leader of North Korea

It's been reported that Kim Jong Il's son has been chosen as the new leader of North Korea, over his two older brothers. That's right. They completely passed over Tito and Jermaine.
- Conan O'Brien

Philosophical quotes-Void

We become aware of the void as we fill it.
- Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Political quotes-Hallucination pills

Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi said that people protesting against him are under the influence of 'hallucination pills.' In a related story, Charlie Sheen just boarded a plane to Libya.''
-Conan O'Brien

Philosophical quotes-Kernel of corn

May your passion be the kernel of corn stuck between your molars, always reminding you there's something to tend to.
- Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com

Philosophical quotes-Responsible

You become responsible forever for what you've tamed.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard

Deep thoughts-Worship something

"A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshiping we are becoming."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosophical quotes-Pain

When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.
- Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Famous people quotes-Empirical concept

Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.
-Immanuel Kant, 1781

Philosophical quotes-Nothing

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.
-Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea

Poetry by W.B. Yeats

If I make the lashes dark
And the eyes more bright
And the lips more scarlet,
Or ask if all be right
From mirror after mirror,
No vanity's displayed:
I'm looking for the face I had
Before the world was made.
~W.B. Yeats

Philosophical quotes-Another man's table

Who depends on another man's table often dines late.
- John Ray

Famous people quotes-Divide time

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
- Albert Einstein

Philosophical quotes-Stand an itch

It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch.
- Chang Ch'ao

Thought for the day-Steering wheel

Prayer is not a "Spare Wheel " that you pull out when in trouble, but it is a "Steering wheel " that directs the right path throughout.

Deep thoughts=-Most toys

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

Philosophical quotes-Sea

You can see a lot by just looking.
- Yogi Berra