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Albert Camus Quote
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” ~ William James
“We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.” ~ Walter Cronkite
Spiritual Expression ~ John Coltrane
Born: September 23, 1926 – Died: July 17, 1967
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. Anna Freud
Anna Freud, Austrian Psychologist
Power and speed be hands and feet. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.” ~ May Sarton
May Sarton, Poet, B: May 3, 1912 – D: July 16, 1995
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. ~ George Santayana
Personality is everything in art and poetry. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wireless ~ Nikola Tesla
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, Inventor, 1856 – 1943
A child without education, is like a bird without wings. ~ Tibetan Proverb
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness. ~ Bertrand Russell
It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. ~ Elizabeth Kenny
Elizabeth Kenny, Born: September 20, 1880 – Died: November 30, 1952
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ~ Jane Austen
Grace ~ Pablo Neruda
“He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly.” ~ Pablo Neruda, Senator of Chile Born: July 12, 1904 – Died: September 23, 1973
Easy Reading ~ Maya Angelou
Incomes ~ John Locke
“Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.” ~ John Locke, Philosopher ~ 1632-1704
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
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. ~ Okakura Kakuzo
Be as you wish to seem. ~ Socrates
Read Everything ~ William Faulkner
“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, Born:Continue reading “Read Everything ~ William Faulkner”
Nothing Is Absolute ~ Frida Kahlo
Born: July 6, 1907 – Died: July 13, 1954
Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial. ~ G. C. Lichtenberg
G. C. Lichtenberg, German writer and physicist 1742-1799
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 an infinite Universe anything can happen. ~ Douglas Adams
If you rest, you rust. ~Helen Hayes
My favorite daydream, it was this: I would be reading a book alone in my room, and no one would ever, ever interrupt me. ~ Anne Tyler
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ~ Joseph Brodsky
Books are the carriers of civilization …
Books are the carriers of civilization … They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989)
Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. ~ Susan Sontag
“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
“Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.” ~ George Carlin
Governments don’t want a population of critical thinking ….
“Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’veContinue reading “Governments don’t want a population of critical thinking ….”
On Some Summer Days In New York City
On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn’t one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city. ~ Diane Ackerman
In summer, the song sings itself. ~ William Carlos Williams
“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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. ~ Susan Sontag
Writing Quote ~ Jose Saramago
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Journey Through Life ~ William Golding
“Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and theContinue reading “Journey Through Life ~ William Golding”
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. ~ Henrik Ibsen
Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through. ~ Sam Cawthorn
When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Emily Dickinson Quote
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. ~ Emily Dickinson
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We made too many wrong mistakes. ~ Yogi Berra
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
Well, there’s nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book. ~ Chris Klein
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 ….”
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Writer / 1749 – 1832
Benign Indifference Of The Universe ~ Albert Camus
For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of 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
Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment. ~ Victor Frankl
Art
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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
‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ~ Dr. Seuss
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”
A Single Conversation … ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The weird and the stupid …
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. ~ Carl Bernstein
Acceptance
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
Fantasy is the only truth. – Abbie Hoffman
People Like Us ~ Albert Einstein
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ~ Albert Einstein
“If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.” ~ Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan, B: May 24, 1941
The Great Unknown
You’ll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step. ~ Hannah Harding
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
Douglas Adams Quote
In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been regarded as a bad move. ~ Douglas Adams
Music causes us to think eloquently. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ~ Jack Kerouac
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-
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. ~ Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman, American poet, essayist, savage and naturalist 1948-
Truths ~ Alfred North Whitehead
There are no whole truths. All truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. ~ Victor Hugo
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. ~ Max Eastman
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.” ~ David Hume
David Hume, Philosopher – B: May 7, 1711 – D: August 25, 1776
There are two ways to be fooled. ~ 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, Philosopher – B: May 5, 1813 – D: November 11, 1855
