Quotes
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Promises To Keep
“But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.” ~ Robert Frost Continue reading
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Watch Your Thoughts
“Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.” ~ Laozi Continue reading
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Philosophical Animal
“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal… one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.” ~ Theophile Gautier Continue reading
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Philosophical Questions
“Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of Continue reading
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Fact And Opinion
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. ~ Marcus Aurelius Continue reading
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Reality Is
“Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it” ~ Edgar Allan Poe Continue reading
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Hating People
“Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.” ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick Continue reading
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The Opposite Of Love
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ~ Elie Wiesel Continue reading
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“Leadership Is A Privilege
“Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.” ~ Mwai Kibaki Continue reading
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Merely Observing
“I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.” ~ T. S. Eliot Continue reading
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Destination
“The journey, Not the destination matters.” ~ T. S. Eliot Continue reading
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A Mother’s Love
“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” ~ Agatha Christie Continue reading
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Are We Human
“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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To Be A Philosopher
“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.” ~ Henry David Thoreau Continue reading
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Implementing Ideas
“You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” ~ Shirley Chisholm Continue reading
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The Wonder Remains
“Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead Continue reading
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Living In The Past
“Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.” ~ Harold MacMillan Continue reading
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“A person is able to understand only when he solves the problem by himself.” ~Peter Deunov
Peter Deunov, Bulgarian Philosopher – July 11, 1864 – December 27, 1944 Continue reading
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The World We See
“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.” ~ William James Continue reading
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Time Heals
“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” ~ Rose Kennedy Continue reading
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Bad Poetry
For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out. ~Lawrence Ferlinghetti Continue reading
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The Greatest Adventure
“The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.The chances, the changes are all yours to make.The mold of your life is in your hands to break.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien Continue reading
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Natural Healing Force
“Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed Continue reading
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Read What You Want To Read
“Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.” ~ Joyce Carol Oates Continue reading
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Leadership
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” ~ Rosalynn Carter Continue reading
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Three Friends
“We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.” ~ Michelle Obama Continue reading
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The Wise Man
“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” ~ Claude Levi-Strauss Continue reading
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Climate Change
We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today. ~William Hague Continue reading
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Endangered Species
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. ~Jay Inslee Continue reading
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Who You Are
“To me, clothing is a form of self-expression – there are hints about who you are in what you wear.” ~ Marc Jacobs Continue reading
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Human Conception
“Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.” ~ Sri Aurobindo Continue reading
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Human Rights
“The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.” ~ Julian Bond Continue reading
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The Rule of Fools
“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.” ~ Plato Continue reading
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Equal Right
“All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.” ~ John Locke Continue reading
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Be Who You Are
“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.” ~ Rita Mae Brown Continue reading
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Wisdom Is Everywhere
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. ~ Josh Billings Continue reading
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Wisdom And Learning
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ~ Sandra Carey Continue reading
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Learn By Doing
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” ~ Richard Branson Continue reading
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Sublime Natural Beauty
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt. ~ Eleanor Catton Continue reading
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Vain And Inspiring Men
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” ~ Samuel Adams Continue reading
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What Is
“The ‘what should be’ never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no ‘what should be,’ there is only what is.” ~ Lenny Bruce Continue reading
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Voting
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting. ~Charles Bukowski Continue reading
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Reading Is The Key
“Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg Continue reading
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“The majority of men…
“The majority of men… are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and… are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer Continue reading
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You Were Meant To Be
“Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you’ve been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.” ~ H. G. Wells Continue reading
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Elections Belong To The People
“Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.” ~ Abraham Lincoln Continue reading
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Octopus On Roller Skates
Talent without discipline, is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr. Continue reading
A Pondering Mind 