Common Knowledge

“We are driven by five genetic needs:

Survival, Love, and Belonging,

Power, Freedom, and Fun.”

~ William Glasser

Incomplete Fractures

“The world breaks everyone,

and afterward, some are strong

at the broken places.”

~ Ernest Hemingway

“There is a land of the living

and a land of the dead

and the bridge is love,

the only survival, the only meaning.”

~ Thornton Wilder

“A weed is a plant that has mastered

every survival skill except for

learning how to grow in rows.”

~ Doug Larson

“History repeats itself,

but the special call of an art

which has passed away

is never reproduced.

It is as utterly gone out

of the world as the song of

a destroyed wild bird.”

~ Joseph Conrad