While on vacation in Florida, it happened again.  My brother played a video of the Ting Tings for my daughter and me, and immediately, as before, I thought to myself, “this is very familiar.”  A few edits later…and voila!  Another mashed-up single for your MP3 player.

“Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you.  It is meant to, and it couldn’t do it better.  Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruitation.” 

                                                                - Florida Scott-Maxwell

(This is an interesting quote, especially considering the author uses the word fruitation which does not exist in the two dictionaries that I checked, and that includes dictionary.com.  Perhaps if we substitute the word “growth,” the paragraph may be read a bit more correctly, though I suspect the meaning we derive will have changed little.)

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.”

                                                            - Victor Hugo

“Statistically, the probablility of any one of us being here is so small that you’d think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.”

- Lewis Thomas, The Lives of A Cell: notes of A Biology Watcher

“You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.”

                                                - J. Askenberg