Quotes – A Pondering Mind

Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. ~Anthony Burgess

So long as the universe had a beginning …..

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator? ~Stephen Hawking

Tis’ better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else’s perfectly. ~Elizabeth Gilbert

Conquering Some Fear

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Food Security

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. ~Bill Gates

Food is as important as energy….

Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together. ~Louise Fresco

Making Excuses

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. -Benjamin Franklin

Order & Chaos

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. -Kerry Thomley

Bookish Homeless People

I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They’re bookish homeless people. -Lisa Yuskavage

Poor People And The Homeless

You can spend the money on new housing for the poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. -Jello Biafra

The present and the past …..

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn’t be in flashback. ~Alain Resnais

Past time is finite, future time is infinite. ~Edwin Powell Hubble

Society is like a stew ….

Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -Edward Abbey, American Author

“If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.” ~T. S. Eliot

Walk Beside Me …..

“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” ~ Albert Camus

“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.” ~Albert Einstein

Fill Your Life Up With Ideas

“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin”

Uninteresting Life

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. ~Mark Twain

Conquering Fear

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” ~Bertrand Russell Unpopular Essays (1950) “Outline of Intellectual Rubbish”

The world we see ……

“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.” ~William James

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living? ~Bob Marley

Let Them Think What They Want

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I’m already better than them. ~Marilyn Monroe

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. ~Evan Esar

“We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.” ~Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes, Marion Glasserow Gladney (1986). “Our Best Years”, Doubleday Books

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ~Alice Walker

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. ~Sam Levenson

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events. ~Albert Einstein

No one has ever died, from an over exposure to education. ~Robert M. Hensel

Robert M. Hensel, Spanish Poet-Writer

Clear Labeling For Genetically Modified Food

Europe believes that providing clear labeling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by vast majority of states in the U.S. -Zac Goldsmith

Rose Bushes

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. -Abraham Lincoln

Problems of the world…..

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. -Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist

Enjoy Life

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Existence has billions of doors, but death has none! ~Mehmet Murat ildan

“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” ~Alice Walker

Beautiful People

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do notContinue reading “Beautiful People”

I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak. ~John Goodman

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” ~Albert Einstein

The morning cup of coffee …..

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.” ~Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies, 1913 – 1995, Novelist

People spend to much time finding other people to blame …..

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. -J. Michael Straczynski, American Producer – 1954 –

Water And Life

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Life is …..

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary. ~Albert Einstein

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led. ~Stan Laurel

“Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.” ~Albert Einstein

To laugh often ……

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who as a physical being …..

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. ~Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. -Bertrand Russell

Money has never made man happy ….

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. ~Benjamin Franklin

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music is the medicine of the mind. ~John Logan

Life isn’t all haha hehe. ~ Meera Syal

Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through. ~Sam Cawthorn

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ~Albert Einstein

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? ~James Thurber

James Thurber – American Author and Comedian ~ 1894 – 1961

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one was has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein

The two most important days in your life are the you were born and the day you find why. ~Mark Twain

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday. ~Aldous Huxley

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles. ~Stephen Covey

Stephen Covey, 1932 – 2012, Author

“We’re reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we’ve placed on her, if we don’t lift the burden ourselves.” ~Steven M. Greer

Steven M. Greer, Medical Doctor

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” ~Mark Twain

“More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting” ~Martin Scorsese

If you can’t tell a spoon from a ladle, then you’re fat! ~Demitri Martin

Demitri Martin, American Comedian

People like us, …..

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ~Albert Einstein

The future is a concept …..

“The future is a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.” ~ Alan Watts — AlanContinue reading “The future is a concept …..”

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. ~ Albert Einstein

Time spent with cats is never wasted. ~Sigmund Freud

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ~Dale Carnegie

If you can’t do anything about it, laugh like hell. ~David Cook

It’s kind of a zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book? -Lee Child

To know and not to do is not yet to know. -Zen Wisdom

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. ~Alfred North Whitehead.

A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence. -Richard Helms

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. ~Karl Marx

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” ~Albert Einstein

“The Harper Book of Quotations Revised Edition”. Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 356, 1993.

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. ~Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” ~Jim Morrison

“Readers recommend: songs about control” by Peter Kimpton, http://www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2015.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain

Practice any art ….

“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut “Kurt Vonnegut Once Sent This Amazing Letter To A High School”Continue reading “Practice any art ….”

A Man who lies to himself ….

“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 loveContinue reading “A Man who lies to himself ….”

I went a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where’s the self-help section’? She said if you she told me, it would defeat the purpose. – George Carlin

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That’s why we go to movies and say, “Oh, the book is better.” Paulo Coelho

“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin

John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.732, John Ruskin

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