Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve. – Charlie Chaplin [Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin] (1889 – 1977) / (Simplicity is the…) (Image by photosforyou from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Swing, little girl, / Swing high to the sky. / And don’t ever look at the ground. // If you’re looking for rainbows, / Look up to the sky. / You’ll never find rainbows, / If you’re looking down. //… More »
Some guys have all the luck, / Some guys have all the pain, / Some guys get all the breaks, / Some guys do nothing but complain. // – Jeff Fortgang: Some Guys Have All the Luck (Sung by: Rod… More »
She’s got a smile that (it seems to me) / Reminds me of childhood memories, / Where everything was as fresh as the bright blue sky. // Now and then when I see her face, / She takes me away… More »
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7. The Bull Transcended. [Ox Vanished, Herdsman Remaining.] – Kuòān Shīyuǎn [Kaku-an] (Late 12th century): Ten Bulls [Ten Ox Herding Pictures] / (Bull [Ox] = True self; Bull [Ox] herder = Self seeking true self) / (6. Riding the Bull…… More »
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6. Riding the Bull Home. [Riding Home.] – Kuòān Shīyuǎn [Kaku-an] (Late 12th century): Ten Bulls [Ten Ox Herding Pictures] / (Bull [Ox] = True self; Bull [Ox] herder = Self seeking true self) / (5. Taming the Bull… ←… More »
Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. – Steve Jobs (1955… More »
Strumming my pain with his fingers, / Singing my life with his words. // Killing me softly with his song, / Killing me softly with his song. // Telling my whole life with his words, / Killing me softly with… More »
Stay hungry. Stay foolish. – Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011) — Stewart Brand (1938 – ): Whole Earth Catalog (the words placed on the back cover of the last 1974 edition of the Catalog titled “Whole Earth Epilog”) (Image by… More »
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. – Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) (Image by Barbara A Lane from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
![IMAGE: The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/place-name-sign-822236_640-100x71.jpg)
