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Monthly Archives: October 2020

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. ~Ann Landers

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 28, 2020October 28, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:Ann Landers, people, Quotes, Television

Equal Right

“All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.” ~ John Locke

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 28, 2020October 28, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:Equality, Independent, John Locke, men, nature, Philosophical Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Quotes

Be Who You Are

“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.” ~ Rita Mae Brown

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 28, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:life, Love, people, Quotes, Rita Mae Brown2 Comments on Be Who You Are

Coffee and love are best when they are hot. ~German Proverb

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 25, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:Coffee, German Proverbs, Love, Proverbs, Quotes

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify. ~Henry David Thoreau

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 25, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:Henry David Thoreau, life, Quotes, Simple

Wisdom Is Everywhere

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. ~ Josh Billings

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 24, 2020October 24, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:Josh Billings, Libraries, Quotes, Wisdom

Wisdom And Learning

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ~ Sandra Carey

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 24, 2020October 24, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:Knowledge, Quotes, Sandra Carey, Wisdom

Learn By Doing

“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” ~ Richard Branson

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 24, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:Quotes, Sir Richard Branson, Success

Sublime Natural Beauty

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt. ~ Eleanor Catton

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 23, 2020October 23, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:Beauty, Confront, Eleanor Catton, Language, Quotes

Voting Done

Two weeks ago, I voted by mail in, but dropped it off at the ballot box in the lobby of the local police station, as I didn’t trust the postal service with the shenanigans they was doing. I did check online to see if it was received at the city clerk’s office, and it was.Continue reading “Voting Done”

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 23, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:Mail, Vote12 Comments on Voting Done

“Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.” ~ Winston Churchill

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 23, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:Art, people, Quotes, Winston Churchill

Vain And Inspiring Men

“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” ~ Samuel Adams

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 17, 2020October 17, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:Country, Government, men, Quotes, Samuel Adams4 Comments on Vain And Inspiring Men

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. ~ Rose Kennedy

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 17, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:Change, life, Quotes, Rose Kennedy

What Is

“The ‘what should be’ never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no ‘what should be,’ there is only what is.” ~ Lenny Bruce

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 13, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:Lenny Bruce, Live, people, Quotes3 Comments on What Is

2020

Has your life changed or turned upside down, inside out, don’t know which end is up, due to all the different things that have happened in the year 2020?

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 12, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:2020, Coronavirus, Pandemic25 Comments on 2020

Food And Eating

When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need. ~ Ayurvedic Proverb

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 10, 2020October 10, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:Ayurvedic Proverb, Diet, Eating, Medicine, Proverbs4 Comments on Food And Eating

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. ~Salvador Dali

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 10, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:Intelligence, Quotes, Salvador Dali2 Comments on Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. ~Salvador Dali

For What Its Worth

Glucose levels are very good, and have been that way for quite some time. Also, its been a year since I had to be on insulin. I am happy for the way things have worked out. Life is good.

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 4, 2020Posted inUncategorized14 Comments on For What Its Worth

For What Its Worth

2020 the year from hell

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 2, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:Thoughts
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