Pulling Onions Again

Freedom opens a few doors and closes many more. 
My mind is a sea I cannot see into; I merely skim along its surface.
I think, therefore I am a living person; dead bodies don't display thinking, just stinking.
Sometimes the present alters our interpretation of the past; most often the past surrounds and infects the present. 
Wherever I go, something new becomes me. 
Be careful not to stand up for that which will cause your downfall.    
God may be very smart, but he is a poor communicator.
What ought to be cannot be derived from what is the case, but a reasonable person ought not to ignore what is the case.  
I can admire a few great persons or heroes, but seldom have much desire to try and imitate them. 
Disrespect and contempt for the body is a common trump card for spiritualists; but, our game of life does not use trump cards. 
Nonsense can sometimes improve our sense and senses. 
Prohibitions focus our aim on better choices and actions. 
Don't sell the present short on the promises of "when." 
Most tire from hatefulness; cheerfulness is abiding.
Stubborn facts are loosened up with novelty.
A sure path to the perversion of truth is to make it a belief. 
The act, the deed, the doing are the primary considerations. 
My body gave birth to my mind, is in my mind, and my body-mind thrives in our world of lived experiences. 
Objectivity is a product of our agreements, and an important feature of my imagination. 
R. Buckminster-Fuller once suggested that "God is a verb, not a noun."  Which verb?  Pretending?  Storytelling?  Fantasizing?  Believing? 
My consciousness is a vegetable soup, and the water in the soup is what I do. 
Yes, I am just this and that; but, I am also not just that and this. 
Hearing the cat purr when we pet them gently matters far more to us than whether the cat's fur is black, white, or orange. 
If you think you are damned if you do or damned if you don't, your not thinking creatively enough. 
The ten thousand things are more enchanting than the Silent One. 
To lift the mind, move the body.  

Pulling Onions: The Quips and Sayings of an Old Gardener.  Over 840 quotes.  By Mike Garofalo

Aging and Humor

 Old Age . . .

 

"To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except exercise, get up early, or be respectable." - Oscar Wilde 

 

"The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for." - Will Rogers 

 

"We must recognize that, as we grow older, we become like old cars – more and more repairs and replacements are necessary." - C.S. Lewis 

 

"Old age comes at a bad time." – Sam Banducci “

 

"Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened." - Jennifer Yay

 

"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it." - Golda Meir 

 

"The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened. - Mark Twain 

 

"Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes, age just shows up all by itself." - Tom Wilson 

 

"I’m at that age where my back goes out more than I do." - Phyllis Diller 

 

"Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere." – George Burns 

 

"Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up." - John Wagner 

 

"First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down." 

Leo Rosenberg

 

"At my age, flowers scare me." - George Burns  

 

"At age 20, we worry about what others think of us…at age 40, we don’t care what they think of us… at age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all." - Ann Landers 

 

"As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two." - Sir Norman Wisdom 

 

“The older I get, the better I used to be.” – Lee Trevino 

 

"I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap." - Bob Hope 

 

"Getting older. I used to be able to run a 4-minute mile, bench press 380 pounds, and tell the truth." -Conan O’Brien

 

"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old." - Mark Twain 

 

"The idea is to die young as late as possible." - Ashley Montagu

Pulling Onions Again

Perfection can be the opponent of betterment.
Without vagueness we are bored with literalness.
Borderline cases are where events become really interesting.
I may not be able to precisely define religious nonsense, but I know it when I hear it. 
A coastline may be impossible to measure, but is still beautiful. 
You can’t slowly boil the frog unless it can’t jump out of the pot. 
A “heap” of something desired becomes an issue when the price is discussed.
Gratefully, shit happens!
The ten thousand things are more enchanting than the Silent One.
Walking needs earth, space, and the walker.
Sometimes, just one 'thing' is critical because twenty other 'things' are just so.
Take the time to melt into the Details.
Gardening is a kind of deadheading - keeping us from going to seed.
Don't interfere, be still, and listen to the litanies of bees.
Tooth and nail, and the stench of a dead animal on the wind.
When life gives you onions, it stinks.
A rake is spaces held together by steel.
In the student's mind there are few possibilities, in the teacher's mind there are many; but only time to realize very few. 

Mother Nature is always pregnant. 
Time creeps, walks, runs and flies - it is all about moving things. 
Chaos breaks its own rules to allow Order to play. 
Dogmatists are less useful than dogs. 
Take life with a grain of salt, and a icy margarita. 
The best things in life are more expensive than you think. 
Rather than "love mankind," I'd rather admire a few good people. 
Some flourish when crowded together, others don't. 
Garbage In, Compost Out. 
It is more about You and Now, rather than Them and Back Then. 
A pocket knife will be its dullest at just the right time. 
While gardening the borders between work and play become blurred.
When gardening, look up more often.
Just the right words can be worth more than a thousand pictures. 
Death's door is always unlocked. 
A flower needs roots; beauty a society of minds. 
A callused palm and dirty fingernails precede a Green Thumb. 
A working hypothesis is far better than a belief. 
Only two percent of all insects are harmful.  Why are they all in my garden? 
Create your own garden, the god's certainly won't. 
That something is eternal is unverifiable. 
Most laws of Gardening are merely local ordinances.  

Too save some time, don’t let them get a foot in the door.
Some slippery slopes are actually improvements or fun.
Butterflies and bees flapping their wings don’t actually create hurricanes, but we are very thankful they facilitate the emergence of fruits in the billions.
Without metaphors we can barely speak.
Just because you reject the big request, don’t be fooled into accepting the smaller request.
Finding a middle ground for agreement may be just half of a solution, and the wrong solution.
Sometimes the wisdom of the crowd is quite unwise and unfair.
Chaos breaks its own rules to allow Order to play.
Failures, disorder and death are the Grim Reaper of Entropy at work. 
Somehow, someway, everything gets eaten up, someday. 
The meaning is lost in the saying - a nature mystic's dilemma. 
Vigorous gardening might help more than a psychiatrist's couch. 
A gardener is no farmer, he is much too impractical. 
No garden lasts for long - neither will you. 
Shade, in the summer, is as precious as a glass of water. 
A wise gardener knows when to stop. 
Gardens are demanding pets. 
Unclench your fist to give a hand. 
The little choices day after day are the biggest issue. 
Gardening is but one battle against Chaos. 
When life gives you onions, you ain't making lemonade. 
Many friendships are sustained by a mutual hatred of another person or group.
Read until you go to seed. 
What you see depends on when you look. 
Beauty is the Mistress, the gardener her slave. 
One's "true self" is changing and elusive. 
A little of this and a little of that, and some exceptions - these are the facts. 
Does a plum tree with no fruit have Buddha Nature?  Whack!  

Pulling Onions by Mike Garofalo
Over 799 random quips, one-liners, sayings, and "insights" from an old gardener.

Persistence, Dedication, Endurance

 "Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance."
- James Baldwin

"You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your deep, driving desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny."
-   Upanishads, 800 BCE

Willpower, Resolve, Determination
Anthology by Mike Garofalo

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.  Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.  Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.  Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts.  Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
-  Calvin Coolidge

Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior Change
 

1.  "Relying on willpower for long-term change
2.  Attempting big leaps instead of baby steps
3.  Ignoring how environment shapes behavior
4.  Trying to stop old behaviors instead of creating new ones
5.  Blaming failures on lack of motivation

6.  Underestimating the power of triggers (cues) 

7.  Believing that information leads to action 
8.  Focusing on abstract goals instead of concrete behaviors

9.  Seeking to change a behavior forever, not for a short time
10. Assuming that behavior change is difficult.”
-  Stanford University, Persuasive Tech Lab

Nature and Our Awareness, Interactions, Insights, and Wholeness

 

Nature and Spirituality: A Bibliography
The Natural World and Our Awareness, Interaction, Insights, Wholeness

By Michael P. Garofalo

Readings about bringing natural settings more into our lives, having a deeper appreciation and love for the natural world, finding inspiration and profound experiences while immersed in a natural setting, spiritual retreats a quests into Nature, learning more about our bodies, nature mysticism, and finding spiritual insights with a deep involvement with the natural world.

Manifestos for the Green Movement!

Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth.  Edited by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.  2021, 259 pages. EBook. VSCL.

Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery. By Mark Coleman. New World, 2006, 231 pages. VSCL.

An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming. By Al Gore. Vintage, 2007, 192 pages. VSCL.

Silent Spring. By Rachel Carson. 1962, 400 pages. VSCL.

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. By Robin Wall Kimmerer. Milkweed, 2013, 394 pages. VSCL.

The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World. By David Abram. Vintage, 1967, 368 pages. VSCL.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. By Annie Dillard. 2007, 302 pages. VSCL.

Ecomysticism: The Profound Experience of Nature as a Spiritual Guide. Carl Von Essen. Bear, 2010, 288 pages. VSCL.

Simple in Means, Rich in Ends: Practicing Deep Ecology. By Bill Deval. Gibbs-Smith, 1988, 232 pages. VSCL.

Walden. By Henry David Thoreau. 1854, 400 pages, Annotated. VSCL.

Buddhism. Edited by Michael P. Garofalo.

Nature Mysticism. By John Edward Mercer. 2012, 271 pages. EBook. VSCL.

Gardening - Quotations. Edited by Michael P. Garofalo.

Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World. By Karen Armstrong. Anchor, 2022, 197 pages.

Reconnect with Mother Nature: Awaken Your Higher Consciousness. By Alwynn Emerson. Soothsayer, 2023, 231 pages.

How to Live a Good Life: Advice from Wise and Respected Persons

Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth. By Randy Woodley. Broadleaf, 2022, 256 pages.

Walking Outdoors - Quotations. Edited by Michael P. Garofalo.

The Sky and the Earth Touched Me: Sharing Nature Wellness Exercises. By Joseph Cornell. Crystal Clarity, 2014, 144 pages.

Meditations of John Muir: Nature's Temple. Wilderness Press, 2001, 168 pages.

Modern Druidry. Edited by Michael P. Garofalo.

Earth Prayers: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations from Around the World. By Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon. 2009, 480 pages.

Virtue Ethics. Edited by Michael P. Garofalo.

If Trees Could Talk: Life Lessons from the Wisdom of the Woods. By Holly Worton. 2022, 296 pages.

Listen to Nature: Living in Harmony with the Earth. By Sri Chinmoy. 2021.

Tai Chi Chuan and Qigong Done Outdoors. By Michael P. Garofalo.

The Wisdom of Wilderness: Experiencing the Healing Power of Nature. By Gerald G. May. 2007, 224 pages.

The Five Senses - Quotations. Edited by Michael P. Garofalo.

The Great Conversation: Nature and the Care of the Soul. By Belden C. Lane. Oxford University Press, 2019, 344 pages.

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu. Edited by Michael P. Garofalo.

Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred. By Victoria Loorz. Broadleaf, 2021, 262 pages.

Tao of Thoreau. By Mark J. Bozeman. 2022, 139 pages.

Taoism. Edited by Michael P. Garofalo.

Yearning for the Wild: Celtic Reflections on Nature and the Soul. By Tom Cowan and Sandra Ingerman. New World, 2003, 208 pages.

Wild Wisdom: Zen Masters, Mountain Monks and Rebellious Eccentrics Reflect on the Healing Power of Nature. By Neil Douglas-Klotz and M. Amos Clifford. Hampton Rhodes, 2021, 202 pages.

Simplicity. By Nancy Braithwaite. 2014, 296 pages.

Looking to Nature: Exploring a Modern Way of Being Spiritual Without the Supernatural. By Todd Macalister. 2020, 149 pages.

Deep Ecology: Living As If Nature Mattered. By Bill Deval and George Sessions. Gibbs-Smith, 2007, 280 pages. VSCL. 

Tending To the Sacred: Rituals to Connect with Earth, Spirit, and Self. 2021, 273 pages. FVRL.

Deep Ecology for the Twenty-first Century: Readings in the Philosophy and Practice of the New Environmentalism. 1995, 520 pages.

Journeys of Simplicity: Traveling Light with Thomas Merton, Basho, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard and Others.  Edited by Philip Hamden. Skylight, 2007, 144 pages.

Nature Mysticism. Edited by Michael P. Garofalol.

Two Winters in a Tipi: My Search for the Soul of the Forest. By Mark Warren. Lyons, 2012, 264 pages.

Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us Into the Sacred. By Victoria Loorz. 2021, 245 pages.

VSCL  Valley Spirit Center Library. My home library and books I own.

Old Age - Quotations

 Old Age . . .

 "To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except exercise, get up early, or be respectable." - Oscar Wilde 

 

"The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for." - Will Rogers 

 

"We must recognize that, as we grow older, we become like old cars – more and more repairs and replacements are necessary." - C.S. Lewis 

 

"Old age comes at a bad time." – Sam Banducci “

 

"Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened." - Jennifer Yay

 

"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it." - Golda Meir 

 

"The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened. - Mark Twain 

 

"Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes, age just shows up all by itself." - Tom Wilson 

 

"I’m at that age where my back goes out more than I do." - Phyllis Diller 

 

"Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere." – George Burns 

 

"Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up." - John Wagner 

 

"First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down." 

Leo Rosenberg

 

"At my age, flowers scare me." - George Burns  

 

"At age 20, we worry about what others think of us…at age 40, we don’t care what they think of us… at age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all." - Ann Landers 

 

"As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two." - Sir Norman Wisdom 

 

“The older I get, the better I used to be.” – Lee Trevino 

 

"I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap." - Bob Hope 

 

"Getting older. I used to be able to run a 4-minute mile, bench press 380 pounds, and tell the truth." -Conan O’Brien

 

"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old." - Mark Twain 

 

"The idea is to die young as late as possible." - Ashley Montagu

...

Pulling Onions by Mike Garofalo

Here are a few selections from a collection of 1,043 one-liners (i.e., quips, quotes, aphorisms, jokes, observations, etc.) from Pulling Onions by Michael P. Garofalo:

Mother Nature is always pregnant. 
Time creeps, walks, runs and flies - it is all about moving things. 
Chaos breaks its own rules to allow Order to play. 
Dogmatists are less useful than dogs. 
Take life with a grain of salt, and a icy margarita. 
The best things in life are more expensive than you think. 
Rather than "love mankind," I'd rather admire a few good people. 
Some flourish when crowded together, others don't. 
Garbage In, Compost Out. 
It is more about You and Now, rather than Them and Back Then. 
Hunting for tomato worms- no mercy. 
A pocket knife will be its dullest at just the right time. 
While gardening the borders between work and play become blurred.
When gardening, look up more often.
Just the right words can be worth more than a thousand pictures. 
Death's door is always unlocked. 
A flower needs roots; beauty a society of minds. 
A callused palm and dirty fingernails precede a Green Thumb. 
A working hypothesis is far better than a belief. 
Only two percent of all insects are harmful.  Why are they all in my garden? 
Create your own garden, the god's certainly won't. 
That something is eternal is unverifiable. 
Most laws of Gardening are merely local ordinances. 
Failures, disorder and death are the Grim Reaper of Entropy at work. 
Somehow, someway, everything gets eaten up, someday. 
The meaning is lost in the saying - a nature mystic's dilemma. 
Vigorous gardening might help more than a psychiatrist's couch. 
A gardener is no farmer, he is much too impractical. 
No garden lasts for long - neither will you. 
Shade, in the summer, is as precious as a glass of water. 
A wise gardener knows when to stop. 
Gardens are demanding pets. 
Unclench your fist to give a hand. 
The little choices day after day are the biggest issue. 
Gardening is but one battle against Chaos. 
When life gives you onions, you ain't making lemonade. 
Many friendships are sustained by a mutual hatred of another person or group.
Read until you go to seed. 
Death's door is always unlocked. 
Autumn Yellow, the mirror image of Spring Green. 
What you see depends on when you look. 
Beauty is the Mistress, the gardener her slave. 
One's "true self" is changing and elusive. 
A little of this and a little of that, and some exceptions - these are the facts. 
Does a plum tree with no fruit have Buddha Nature?  Whack! 

-   Pulling Onions by Mike Garofalo  (1,043 One Line Quips)  

 

Months and Seasons Webpages Series

Comments before a Cloud Hands Blog Repost from April 22, 2012:  

I lived back then in Tehama County, near Red Bluff, California.  

Since 2000, I had been interested in studying Neo-Pagan theology, rituals, concepts, and creeds, e.g., Druidry, Wiccan, Taoist, Yoga, Zen.  

I published many hypertext notebooks on months, seasons, nature studies, gardening, gardens, plants, spirituality, Neo-Pagan and New Age topics, fitness, taijiquan, yoga, Taoism, Zen, Druids, etc. Many, many many millions of people used these Green Way Research Hypertext Notebooks from 2000-2021.  These hypertext notebooks are one of my gifts to others in our world.  

I had been teaching yoga and taijiquan since 2001 both privately and at the Tehama Family Fitness Center in Red Bluff, adjacent to the St. Elizabeth's Hospital and Medical Professional Complex.  I taught three yoga classes and two taijiquan classes each week at the TFFC from 2003 to 2016; a great part-time job for me.  I obtained many fitness certifications at workshops and training courses.    

Again, a Repost from April 22, 2012:

All avid gardeners are keen observers of the impact of the seasonal changes in their local environment.  Garden work projects must be carefully timed with the flow of the seasons and weather changes so as to minimize wasted effort, prevent wasted time, reduce costs, and maximize their gardening effectiveness and success. 

Those who enjoy outdoor activities and outdoor sports plan their activities around the cycle of the seasons.  Vacations and outings are carefully scheduled with the weather in mind. 

Persons interested in NeoPagan religions and Nature Worshippers play close attention to the “Cycle of the Seasons.”  Holy Days and Rites are planned and celebrated based upon a seasonally based liturgical cycle.  

 

I live in the Northern Hemisphere at latitude 40°10' North, in Red Bluff, California, in the North Sacramento Valley.  Cities with a similar northern latitude include Beijing, Barcelona, Chicago, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Madrid, Naples, New York, and Vladivostok.    

 

When I created my Months and Seasons Webpages Series I made the following assumptions.  First, the resources (i.e., quotations, poems, sayings, facts, links, citations, etc.) would be organized by months and seasons so as to be relevant to me, a person gardening and walking and enjoying nature studies in the Northern Hemisphere.  Second, resources chosen would be relevant for a gardener and nature lover.  Third, resources chosen would reflect my interests in NeoPagan customs, Indo-European myths and lore, Far Eastern worldviews, nature mysticism, ecology, and the Green worldview. 

  

Every year, the most popular webpages that I have published have been the 26 webpages in the Months and Seasons Webpages Series.  These "Cycle of the Year" webpages are served very frequently to readers all around the world.  Since they are so popular, I offer the webpages in this series at both my domains: gardendigest.com and egreenway.com.  I try to make additions and improvements to some of these webpages every month.  I use Google Analytics and my Internet web host's (Blue Host in Utah) statistical programs to keep track of how many times these webpages (excluding counts of graphics served on these webpages) were served by my Internet web host to readers in 2011.  

1,287,000 Webpages Were Served in 2011 from the Months and Seasons Webpages Series by Mike Garofalo

January    84,200

February   82,100 

Imbolic, Mid-Winter Celebrations   300   

March   103,700 

Spring   84,700

Vernal Equinox, Minerva/Athena Celebrations   900

April   67,200 

May   62,100

Beltane, May Day, Walpurgis Nacht Celebrations   1,200  

June   42,600

Summer   40,300

Summer Solstice Celebrations   2,200

July   41,800 

August   68,500

Lughnasadh, Mid-Summer Celebrations   2,400

September   85,900 

Autumn   23,800 

Autumnal Equinox, Mabon Celebrations  12,200 

October   103,800 

Halloween, Samhain, Ancestors Day Celebrations   6,000

November   105,000

December   117,100    

Winter   55,700

Winter Solstice, Yule, Saturnalia, Christmas Celebrations   4,500

Seasons and Time   5,300

Index   83,500 

Total   1,287,000

Maxims of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin's (1706-1790) Maxims
Regarding Work, Effort, Diligence and Industry
Poor Richard's Almanac

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man heathy, wealthy and wise.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
God helps them that help themselves.
At the working man’s house hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
For industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.
By diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Many, without labor, would live by their wits only, but they break for want of stock.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Lost time is never found again.
Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him.
Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting.
Ploughing deep, while sluggards sleep.
Handle your tools without mittens; the cat in gloves catches no mice.
Constant dropping wears away stones.
A ploughing on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees."


How to Live a Good Life: Advice from Wise Persons

Virtue Ethics

Winter Thoughts

"The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches."
- E. E. Cummings

"One kind word can warm three winter months."
- Japanese proverb

Winter Thoughts

Facebook Posting

I post random quotations and notes about recent activities to my Facebook account.

“The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.”
- Alex Witchel
Aging Well: http://www.egreenway.com/reason/aging.htm


"Ay me! ay me! the woods decay and fall;
The vapours weep their burthen to the ground.
Man comes and tills the earth and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.
Me only cruel immortality consumes:
I wither slowly in thine arms,
Here at the quiet limit,
Here at the quiet limit of the world.
A white-haired shadow roaming like a dream,
The ever silent spaces of the East.
Far-folded mists, and gleaming halls of morn."
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Tithonus
Forests and Woods: http://www.gardendigest.com/trees4.htm

Pulling Onions Again

The most important Master to follow is Self-Mastery.
Freedom opens a few doors and closes many more.
A callused palm and dirty fingernails precede a green thumb.
Don't sell the present short on the promises of "when." 
Most tire from hatefulness; cheerfulness is abiding.
As you move your hands so you move your mind.
Stubborn facts are loosened up with novelty.
A sure path to the perversion of truth is to make it into beliefs or dogmas. 
Wishes are like seeds, few ever develop into something.  
My mind is a sea I cannot see into; I merely skim along its surface.
Absolutes squirm beneath realities. 
The fear of the Lord is a cornerstone of indoctrination and the beginning of the end of wisdom.
The act, the deed, the doing are the primary considerations.  Stupidity and shallowness are increasingly popular. 
Wherever I go, something new becomes me.
Two essential tools for a lifetime of sexual pleasures are: vivid erotic fantasies and skillful masturbation. 
There is not much to say about "The Unknown." 
To garden is to open your heart to the sky. 
Be careful not to stand up for that which will cause your downfall.    
Borderline cases are were events really become interesting. 
Gardens are demanding pets.
There is no 'i' in "team;" but there is an 'm' in my, me, and mine.   
God and I get along fine, he ignores me all the time and I ignore him.  
Nonsense can sometimes improve our sense and senses. 
When all the chores are done, the avid gardener will invent some new ones. 
Prohibitions focus our aim on better choices and actions. 
Stupidity and shallowness are increasingly popular. 
Objectivity is a product of our agreements, and an important feature of my imagination. 
Hearing the cat purr when we pet them gently matters far more to us than whether the cat's fur is black, white, or orange. 
If you think you are damned if you do or damned if you don't, your not thinking creatively enough. 
The ten thousand things are more enchanting than the Silent One. 
To lift the mind, move the body.  

Pulling Onions: The Quips and Sayings of an Old Gardener.  Over 852 sayings.  By Mike Garofalo