Quotes – Page 3 – A Pondering Mind

“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 you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher – Born: June 21, 1905 – Died: April 15, 1980

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch. ~ Harold E. Varmus

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

Writing Quote ~ Jose Saramago

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

Emily Dickinson Quote

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. ~ Emily Dickinson

Greed ~ Erich Fromm

Psychologist, 1900 – 1980

Quiet People ~ Susan Gale

Sometimes quiet people really do have a lot to say. They’re just being careful about who they open up to. ~ Susan Gale

The Best Things In Life Are Free.

The best things in life are free. Sunsets and sunrises are free. Air is free. Love is free. Death is free. The best things in life are free. ~ Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

Street Art ~ Lies

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I’ll read my books ….

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door. Continue reading “I’ll read my books ….”

Coffee

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A Precious Privilege

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours in watching television. ~ David Letterman

“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

Look For Beauty ~ Richard Paul Evans

In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. ~ John Steinbeck

June Cleaver didn’t keep her house in perfect order, the prop man did it. ~ Barbara Billingsley

Barbara Billingsley , played June Cleaver in “Leave it to Beaver”

Rachel Carson ~ Nature

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” ~ Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams, Former First Lady of the United States – 1744 – 1818

Alice Walker Quote

“A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.” ~ Miles Davis

Miles Davis, Musician – B: May 26, 1926 – D: September 28, 1991

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. ~ Stephen King

Consciousness: That annoying time between naps. ~ Steven Wright

To read a book …..

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. ~ Chinese Saying

Music is a safe kind of high. ~ Jimi Hendrix

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. ~ Stephen Hawking

Practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be? ~ Stephen King

Joseph Addison Quote

“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” ~ Joseph Addison, Essayist 1672 – 1719

The American Dream has run out of gas. ~ J. G. Ballard

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam… ~ J. G. Ballard, British author 1930-