Quotes – Page 2 – A Pondering Mind

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

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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“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”

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.

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

Music is the medicine of the mind. ~John Logan

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

“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

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

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.

Movies are not novels ….

Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost failure. It can’t be done. ~Paul Auster

“It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.” ~Russell Means

Russell Means, B. November 10, 1939 – D. October 22, 2012

It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart. ~Al Pacino

“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.” ~Sheryl Sandberg

All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one. -John Fowles

Book Reading

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Bookstores

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“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.” ~ Paul Valery

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. – Charles Spurgeon

“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

In art as in love, instinct is enough. ~ Anatole France

Anatole France – French Novelist

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” ~ Muhammad Ali

Twitter post from Aug 18, 2010

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ~ Jane Austen

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

“everyone tells you what’s good for you. they don’t want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.” ~ Dan Millman

Try saying hello to someone who wouldn’t expect you to – today would be a good. ~ John Avery

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

“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press

Liberty ~ Benjamin Franklin

“Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.” ~ W. H. Auden

“Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn’t painting be too?” ~ Edgar Degas

Learning never exhausts the mind. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. ~ Max Beerbohm

Max Beerbohm, English Essayist ~ 1872 – 1956

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” ~ Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ~Simone Weil

“You need nothing to be happy – you need something to be sad.” ~ Mooji

Mooji, Teacher ~ Born: January 29, 1954

Traveling Is Like Flirting

“Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” ~ Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, Novelist

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. ~ Gertrude Stein

All the world Began With A Yes

“All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began.Continue reading “All the world Began With A Yes”

The Joy Of Reading Fiction

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or hers imagination. ~ Alice Hoffman

“What worries you, masters you.” ~ John Locke

John Locke – Philosopher B: August 29, 1632 – D: October 28, 1704

In law, nothing is certain but the expense. ~Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler – English Author, 1835 – 1902

As soon as there is life there is danger. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ~ Simone Weil*

*French philosopher, 1909-1943

All Things

“All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.” ~ Black Elk, Medicine Man ~ B: Dec. 1, 1863 – D: Aug. 19, 1950

Cup Of Coffee

“Is it possible to get a cup of coffee-flavored coffee anymore in this country? What happened with coffee? Did I miss a meeting? They have every other flavor but coffee-flavored coffee. They have mochaccino, frappaccino, cappuccino, Al Pacino…Coffee doesn’t need a menu, it needs a cup.” ~ Denis Leary

I Write Differently ~ Franz Kafka

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

Truth exists; only lies are invented. ~Georges Braque

William Blake Poem

“To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.” ~ William Blake ‘Auguries of Innocence’ (c. 1803)

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am a cage, in search of a bird. ~ Franz Kafka

R.I.P Toni Morrison

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” ~ Toni Morrison, 88 y/o – Author, Nobel Laureate

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ~ Twyla Tharp

Twyla Tharp, American Dancer

You cannot create experience.You must undergo it. ~ Albert Camus

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ~ W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden, Anglo-American poet ~ 1907 – 1973

“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.” ~ Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty (1998), “Stories, Essays and Memoir”

Who Am I ~ Carl Sandburg

“It is necessary … for a man to go away by himself … to sit on a rock … and ask, ‘Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?” ~ Carl Sandburg, Writer, 1878-1967

Music ~ Albert Einstein

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ~ Albert Einstein

#1 priority is water, water, and more water. ~ Joe Teti

With the high heat and humidity, having/drinking plenty of water, is a good thing.

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.” ~ Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt (1999), Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir

“We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.” ~ Walter Cronkite

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. ~ Helen Keller

To see the Summer Sky ~ Emily Dickinson

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie – True Poems flee – ~Emily Dickinson, c.1879

Benign Indifference To The Universe ~ Albert Camus

For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference to the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I’d been happy, and that I was happy still. ~ Albert Camus

“In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.” ~ George Carlin

“Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.” ~ George Carlin

“If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.” ~ Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka, Writer – Born: July 3, 1883 – Died: June 3, 1924