Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.

Gabrielle Union

To love is easy, to be in a relationship is extremely difficult.

Santosh Kalwar

Upon the standard to which the wise and honest will now repair it is written: You have lived the easy way; henceforth, you will live the hard way. You came into a great heritage made by the insight and the sweat and the blood of inspired and devoted and courageous men; thoughtlessly and in utmost self-indulgence you have all but squandered this inheritance. Now only by the heroic virtues which made this inheritance can you restore it again. You took the good things for granted. Now you must earn them again. For every right that you cherish, you have a duty which you must fulfill. For every hope that you entertain, you have a task that you must perform. For every good that you wish to preserve, you will have to sacrifice your comfort and your ease. There is nothing for nothing any longer.

Walter Lippmann

Some of our struggles involve making decisions, while others are a result of the decisions we have made. Some of our struggles result from choices others make that affect our lives. We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

L. Lionel Kendrick

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Robert Half

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

Agatha Christie, Endless Night b

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

Source Unknown

For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.

Jim Coleman

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.Memoria certe non modo Philosophiam sed omnis / vitae usum, omnesque artes, una maxime continet

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Acad., ii

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Samuel Johnson

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

Lauren Bacall

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

William Law