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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
“You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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Bored Solitude ~ Jack Kerouac
“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength” – Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Comforts
couch book black coffee ac is on the comforts of home Continue reading
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Just Saying
I know that I dislike some people but I don’t hate anyone as it is not in my DNA Disliking a person or group of people is not as harsh as hating Hate hating and/or hatred to me are too demeaning and have no use for them Continue reading
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Beauty In Words
“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.” – Edgar Allan Poe Continue reading
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Disordered Minds
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Continue reading
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John Coltrane Quote
“Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.” – John Coltrane Continue reading
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Leonardo da Vinci Quote
Learning never exhausts the mind. ~Leonardo da Vinci Continue reading
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Poetry Quote ~ Novalis
Bio: Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism. Continue reading
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J. L. Austin Quote
“A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words…. Statements are made, words or sentences are used.” – J. L. Austin Continue reading
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Iris Murdoch Quote
“Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.” – Iris Murdoch Continue reading
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Yiddish Proverb ~ Laughter
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb Continue reading
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Leo Anthony Gallagher Quote
I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked “brightness” but it don’t work, does it? ~Leo Anthony Gallagher Continue reading
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Oxford Comma
An Oxford comma walks into a bar. Orders a gin, and tonic. ~@NeinQuarterly (Nein. Eric Jarosinski, editor), 2013 July 30th tweet Continue reading
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David M. Bader Quote
Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated? ~David M. Bader – Zen Judaism Continue reading
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Hubert Reeves Quote
Astrophysicist – Born: July 13, 1932 Continue reading
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Jamie Lynn Morris Poem
Like butterflies in Spring Poetry awakens the Spirit, stirs the imagination and explores the possibilities with each stroke of its rhythmic wings. ~Jamie Lynn Morris Continue reading
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E. B. White – Library Quote
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times… Continue reading
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Lao Tzu Quote
The soul has no secret that the behavior does not reveal. ~Lao Tzu Continue reading
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Attitude Matters
GeniusQuotes.org Continue reading
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Helen Hayes Quote
We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart… and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together…. I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude. ~Helen Hayes Continue reading
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George Jean Nathan “Viewpoint”
In a rapidly ascending balloon were two men. One watched the earth getting farther and farther away. One watched the stars getting nearer and nearer. ~George Jean Nathan, “Viewpoint,” A Book Without a Title, 1918 Continue reading
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Joni Mitchell Quote
“When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it’s time for artists to make their mark.” – Joni Mitchell Continue reading
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B.B. King Quote
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. ~B.B. King Continue reading
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Edith Zittler Quote
The best way to stop smoking is to just stop — no ifs, ands or butts.* ~Edith Zittler ——————- *That’s how I did it, [cold turkey] and don’t miss it. Continue reading
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Dale Carnegie Quote
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. ~Dale Carnegie Continue reading
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William Faulkner Quote
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” – William Faulkner Continue reading
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What Is Enough
You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough. ~William Blake, Proverbs of Hell Continue reading
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Beauty Quote – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without expression is boring. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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Maya Angelou Quote
All great achievements require time. -Maya Angelou Continue reading
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Cup Of Coffee – Charles Bukowski
“I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.” – Charles Bukowski Continue reading
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Poetry Quote
“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.” – Lawrence Ferlinghetti Continue reading
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African Proverb
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb Continue reading
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Great Books
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood. ~John Green Continue reading
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Life Worth Living
“Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.” – Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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A Man Who Lies ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love… Continue reading
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Education Quote ~ Socrates
People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. ~Socrates Continue reading
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Seasons
The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. ~Arthur Rubinstein Continue reading
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Education
“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.” – George Santayana Continue reading
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Summer Sky
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie – True Poems flee ~Emily Dickinson, C.1879 Continue reading
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Summer Quotation
In summer, the song sings itself. ~William Carlos Williams Continue reading
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Animal
“I don’t care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!” – Jeremy Bentham Continue reading
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Know Nothing
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. ~Leo Tolstoy Continue reading
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Jack Lemmon Quote
“If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.” – Jack Lemmon Continue reading
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Clean Water
“Clean water is only as far away as the nearest tap, and there are taps everywhere. There’s a faucet everywhere. But the reality is, the water in our toilets is cleaner than the water that most people are drinking.” – Matt Damon Continue reading
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Ancient Philosopher
“According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat” – Moliere Continue reading
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Stars Quote ~ Neil Gaiman
“A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now that’s a question.” – Neil Gaiman Continue reading
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Music ~ Chinese Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. He sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb Continue reading
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Reading ~ Judith Butler
“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.” – Judith Butler Continue reading
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Thinking
“Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.” – Slavoj Žižek Continue reading
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Introversion
Don’t think of introversion as something that needs to be cured… Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you’re supposed to. ~Susan Cain Continue reading
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Life
All of life is a foreign country. ~Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Travel Quote
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. ~Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Music
If music is a Place — then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. ~Vera Nazarian Continue reading
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Moral Foundation
“We’ve lost our moral foundation, which allows us to go this far over. So I don’t blame Trump. I just think he is what he is. We’re the ones who let that happen. We should be looking at ourselves.” – Robert Redford Continue reading
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Zen Quote
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. ~Lao Tzu Continue reading
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Sunday Update
Its been five weeks since I was sent home from the hospital, and have been making great strides, to a better and healthier life ahead. Everything is looking good, and my doctor likes what she has seen far. i’m starting to sleep better, and my diet is working out. I an proud of myself, and… Continue reading
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Technique Of Privatization
“That’s the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.” – Noam Chomsky Continue reading
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