Quotes
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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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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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Gullible Side
“There’s a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.” – Michael Moore Continue reading
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Looking
I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. ~Antonio Porchia Continue reading
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Voltaire Quote
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. ~Voltaire Continue reading
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Nature ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some 20 or 30 farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the Continue reading
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Steven Wright Quote
If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments. ~Steven Wright Continue reading
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Real Beauty
Sometimes you have to shut your eyes, so you can see the real beauty. ~Kilian Jornet Continue reading
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Be Kind ~Jack Kerouac Quote
Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything. ~Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Zen Quote
Relax. Nothing is under control. ~Adi Da Continue reading
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Stephen Hawking Quote
“It is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for Continue reading
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Thinking
“Thinking is hard work; that’s why so few do it.” – Albert Einstein Continue reading
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Taxman
“George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.” – Paul McCartney Continue reading
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White Rabbit
“‘White Rabbit’ was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a ‘Bolero’ rip-off and the lyrics a rearrangement of ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ You take two spectacular hits and throw them together, and it’s hard to miss.” – Grace Slick Continue reading
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Literacy
“Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.” – Grace Slick Continue reading
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Talent
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. ~Erica Jong Continue reading
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Rainbow
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. ~Maya Angelou Continue reading
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Believe ~Robert McCloskey
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” – Robert McCloskey Continue reading
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Irish Proverb
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Politicians
“Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.” – David Brinkley Continue reading
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Moving
“I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.” – John Coltrane Continue reading
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Soul
“What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.” – Ray Charles Continue reading
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Walking
I was walking through the leaves. Falling from the trees. Feelin’ like a stranger nobody sees. ~Bob Dylan Love and Theft (2001) Continue reading
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Music ~ Ella Fitzgerald
“Music is the universal language … it brings people closer together.” – Ella Fitzgerald Continue reading
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Change It
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. ~Maya Angelou Continue reading
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Failure
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” – George Washington Carver Continue reading
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Know Thyself
“The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos” – Timothy Leary Continue reading
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Subconscious Mind
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. ~Earl Nightingale Continue reading
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The Media
“The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.” – Abbie Hoffman Continue reading
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Yoga
“Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.” – Sting Continue reading
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Power
Born: May 29, 1917 – Died: November 22, 1963 Continue reading
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Canada
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. ~Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau Continue reading
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Your Soul
The eyes are the window to your soul. ~William Shakespeare Continue reading
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Quote ~ Jeff Beck
“My first wife said, ‘It’s either that guitar or me,’ you know — and I give you three guesses which one went.” – Jeff Beck Continue reading
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Communication
“There’s a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.” – Duane Allman Continue reading
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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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