Quotes
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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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Quote ~ Victor Hugo
“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.” – Victor Hugo Continue reading
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Quote ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet. ~ Edgar Allan Poe Continue reading
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Religion
“The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.” – Harvey Milk Continue reading
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Quote ~ Nhat Hanh
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the… Continue reading
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Government ~ Harry S. Truman
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” – Harry S. Truman Continue reading
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Start
Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling, but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are with what you have. Just…start. ~Ijeoma Umebinyuo Continue reading
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Quote ~ Soren Kierkegaard
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” – Soren Kierkegaard Continue reading
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Quote
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Xunzi Continue reading
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Telephone Quote ~ Fran Lebowitz
The telephone is a good to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. ~Fran Lebowitz Continue reading
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Coffee
What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup. ~Henry Rollins Continue reading
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Mountains
The mountains are mighty patience, Buddha-man ~Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums Continue reading
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People
“You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.” – Eldridge Cleaver Continue reading
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Quote ~ Henry David Thoreau
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. ~Henry David Thoreau Continue reading
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People
People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad. ~Stephen King Continue reading
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Three Things
“We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.” – Jim Valvano Continue reading
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Quote ~ Benjamin Jowett
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. ~Benjamin Jowett Continue reading
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Quote ~ Al Pacino
“You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.” – Al Pacino Continue reading
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Spring Quote ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spring is strong and virtuous, Broad-sowing, cheerful, plenteous, Quickening underneath the mold Grains beyond the price of gold. So deep and large her bounties are, That one broad, long midsummer day Shall to the planet overpay The ravage of a year of war. Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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Quote ~ John Urshel
“I can only play the sport for so long, I have mathematics for the rest of my life.” – John Urschel (Former football player, Baltimore Ravens) Continue reading
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Knowledge
“Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.” – Nicky Gumbel Continue reading
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Quote ~ Janis Joplin
You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow. ~Janis Joplin Continue reading
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Noble And Beautiful
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. ~John Lennon Continue reading
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The Wind
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. ~William Arthur Ward Continue reading
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Normal
“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to… Continue reading
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Perspective
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective. ~Al Neuharth Continue reading
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Fear
“Many a time freedom has been rolled back – and always for the same sorry reason: fear.” ~ Molly Ivins Continue reading
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Reading
“Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.” ~Paul Theroux Continue reading
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Wireless
When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts. ~Nikola Tesla Continue reading
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Books
“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.” ~ Isaac Asimov Continue reading
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Cats
If cats were the double the size they are now, they’d probably be illegal. ~Douglas Coupland – Canadian Novelist Continue reading
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Darkness
Born: January 15, 1929 ~ Died: April 4, 1968 Continue reading
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