Quotes
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Anne Frank Quote: Beauty
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. –Anne Frank Continue reading
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Black Cat ~ Groucho Marx
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. ~ Groucho Marx Continue reading
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George Carlin Quote: Odd Feeling
“You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.” ~ George Carlin Continue reading
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Edwin Way Teale Quote: Autumn
“For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.” ~ Edwin Way Teale Continue reading
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Aeschylus Quote: Happiness
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. -Aeschylus 525 BC – 456 BC Ancient Greek Dramatist Continue reading
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Jean de la Bruyere Quote: Three Events
There are only three events in a man’s life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscience of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. -Jean de la Bruyere French Philosopher Continue reading
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Miles Davis Quote: Music Is
“A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.” ~ Miles Davis Continue reading
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True Wisdom
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. -Socrates Continue reading
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Mad Ones ~ Jack Kerouac
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.” ~ Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Power ~ Gregory Corso
“Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.” ~ Gregory Corso Continue reading
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Jack Kerouac Quote: Life
“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” ~ Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Charlie Parker – Master The Music
“Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.” ~ Charlie Parker Continue reading
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Ambrose Bierce Quote
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. -Ambrose Bierce Continue reading
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John Burroughs Quote
“How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” ~ John Burroughs Continue reading
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Mother Earth ~ Mitchell Burgess
“If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It’s a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it’s time to reflect on Continue reading
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Life ~ Isaac Asimov
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome. -Isaac Asimov Continue reading
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Autumnal Winds
Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods. ~William Wordsworth Continue reading
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Autumn ~ Albert Camus
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~Albert Camus Continue reading
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John Donne ~ Autumn
No spring nor summer’s beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face…. ~John Donne, “Elegy IX: The Autumnal” Continue reading
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Walter Lippmann ~ Wisdom Quote
“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.” ~ Walter Lippmann Continue reading
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Books Are The Perfect Entertainment ~ Stephen King
Born: September 21, 1947 Continue reading
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Genius And Madness
“Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer Continue reading
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Matsuo Basho Quote
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ~Matsuo Basho Continue reading
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Carl Sagan Quote
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ~Carl Sagan Continue reading
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Real Wisdom ~ Leo Tolstoy
“Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.” ~ Leo Tolstoy Continue reading
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Plutarch Quote: Change
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” – Plutarch Continue reading
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Go To The People ~ Lao Tzu
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Cornelia Funke ~ If I Was A Book
If I was book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all kinds of different kids. -Cornelia Funke, German Author Continue reading
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Learning Quotation
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928 Continue reading
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Quote: Ignorance – W. E. B. Du Bois
“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.” – W. E. B. Du Bois Continue reading
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Poverty ~ Matt Damon
“You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.” – Matt Damon Continue reading
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Democracy ~ Howard Zinn
“Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most Americans) reports mostly what the people in power do, and repeats what the people in power say, the public is badly informed, and it means we cannot really say we have a functioning Continue reading
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Reading Quote: Maya Angelou
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way around, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader. -Maya Angelou Continue reading
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Quote: Democritus – Empty Space
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. ~Democritus Continue reading
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Quote: Nicholas Sparks – A Great Paradox
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Quote: Hermann Hesse, To Hold Our Tongues
“To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all Continue reading
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Quote: Pete Seeger, Small Villages
I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. ~Pete Seeger Continue reading
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Franz Kafka Quotation: Darkness
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. ~Franz Kafka Continue reading
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Quote: Hermann Hesse
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. ~Hermann Hesse Continue reading
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Thoughts
“Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.” – William James Continue reading
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Liberty ~ George Orwell
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell Continue reading
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Time Is Never Wasted ~ Thomas Pynchon
“Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.” – Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.211, Penguin Continue reading
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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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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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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
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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
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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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