When Death grins at you, grin back; when death beckons you, run away.
Thankfully, we can imagine nearly everything─ which helps prevent boredom.
A garden is a Romantic's parádeisos.
It's over when it ends.
Act on your knowledge first, your common sense second, and your best guess third.
Wear a variety of masks; acting is essential to coping.
A garden is a feeling.
Acknowledging that you might die today has stopped few from trying to stay alive to 80.
Dreams are our imagination at play while we sleep.
You can train yourself to eliminate bad habits and useless thoughts; for example, stop attending any more church services starting today.
Seventy percent of "good luck" is following reasonable plans and working diligently; the rest is often beneficial circumstances outside of your control.
No garden lasts for long - neither will you.
Shade, in the summer, is as precious as a glass of water.
Fear may keep some stupid people in line, but virtue for virtue's sake attracts the allegiance and support of most intelligent people.
The most important Master to seek and follow is Self-Mastery.
There is no 'i' in "team," but there is an 'm' in me, my, and mine.
Sometimes it is best to walk away and never walk back.
Exercise is a way of making the unconscious body very conscious.
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, it stinks and you ain't making lemonade.
Many friendships are sustained by a mutual hatred of another person or group.
What you see depends on when you look.
Beauty is the Mistress, the gardener her slave.
Act on your knowledge first, your common sense second, and your best guess third.
Wear a variety of masks; acting is essential to coping.
A garden is a feeling.
Acknowledging that you might die today has stopped few from trying to stay alive to 80.
Dreams are our imagination at play while we sleep.
You can train yourself to eliminate bad habits and useless thoughts; for example, stop attending any more church services starting today.
Seventy percent of "good luck" is following reasonable plans and working diligently; the rest is often beneficial circumstances outside of your control.
No garden lasts for long - neither will you.
Shade, in the summer, is as precious as a glass of water.
Fear may keep some stupid people in line, but virtue for virtue's sake attracts the allegiance and support of most intelligent people.
The most important Master to seek and follow is Self-Mastery.
There is no 'i' in "team," but there is an 'm' in me, my, and mine.
Sometimes it is best to walk away and never walk back.
Exercise is a way of making the unconscious body very conscious.
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, it stinks and you ain't making lemonade.
Many friendships are sustained by a mutual hatred of another person or group.
What you see depends on when you look.
Beauty is the Mistress, the gardener her slave.
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.
There is not much to say about "The Unknown."
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.
My mind is a sea I cannot see into; I merely skim along its surface.
Absolutes squirm beneath realities.
There is not much to say about "The Unknown."
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.
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.
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.
Time creeps, walks, runs and flies - it is all about moving things.
Chaos breaks its own rules to allow Order to play.
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.
One's "true self" is changing and elusive.
Stupidity and shallowness are increasingly popular.
The News Media feed our ravenous obsessions with shock, surprise, and slander.
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!
- Mike Garofalo
Pulling Onions by Mike Garofalo
Over 888 random quips, one-liners, sayings, and "insights" from an old gardener.
"An Onion Garden," a concrete poem by Mike Garofalo
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