Thoughts
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Quote
“It’s healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.” Bill Withers Continue reading
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Canadian Proverb
“You cannot catch skunks with mice” Canadian Proverb Continue reading
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Quote
“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.” –Stephen Covey Continue reading
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Unity
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Malcolm X Continue reading
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If …
If you are retired then you eat do whatever eat sleep Repeat Continue reading
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Quote
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. Victor Hugo Continue reading
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Future
Brainy Quote Continue reading
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Quote
“No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.” Napoleon Hill Continue reading
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Humor Quote
Brainy Quote Continue reading
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Freedom
I couldn’t have said it any better. Continue reading
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Quote
“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti Continue reading
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Concerning Two Things That Piss Me Off
I would like to say that I am an Independent, which I should have noted in the post about political ads. I have been an Independent for the 40 plus years. Never wanted to be labeled a Democrat or Republican. I don’t like anyone telling me who I should vote for, nor what issues I Continue reading
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Quote
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. Aristotle Continue reading
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The Right Thing
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt Continue reading
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Thoughts
Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk. Anonymous http://en.proverbia.net Continue reading
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On Writing
Source: Quotes Wave Continue reading
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Quote
What can be shown, cannot be said. Ludwig Wittgenstein Continue reading
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Quote
“The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.” Wendell Berry Continue reading
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Computers
The computer brings out the worst in some people. Brian Eno Ain’t that the truth. Continue reading
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Books
Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books. Continue reading
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Success
RIP Jack John Symon Asher Bruce May 14, 1943 – October 25, 2014 Continue reading
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Quote
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” Warren Buffet Continue reading
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Quote
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask whats for lunch. Orson Welles Continue reading
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Swimming
You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out. Warren Buffet Continue reading
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Doctrines
“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.” -Noam Chomsky Continue reading
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Quote
“Be curious, not judgemental.” Walt Whitman Continue reading
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Poetry
Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. Source of quote Continue reading
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Destiny
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny. Mahatma Gandhi Continue reading
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Quote
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. “ –Marcus Aurelius Continue reading
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Wind
Wind blowing Leaves falling Day closer to winter A Pondering Mind 10/19/2014 Continue reading
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Quote
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice” –Stephen Hawking Continue reading
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Changing Seasons
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. -George Santayana This work A Pondering Mind is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Continue reading
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Quote
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” – Voltaire Continue reading
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Motivation
“I just couldn’t take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that’s about all I did at school.” – Alvin Lee Continue reading
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Doubt
“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. ” –Buddha Continue reading
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Quote
Every hero becomes a bore at last. Ralph Waldo Emerson Brainy Quote Continue reading
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Challenge
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ” –Martin Luther King Continue reading
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Shortest/Longest Sentences
From the email archive. Continue reading
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Education System
Found in the email archive. Continue reading
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Knowledge
“I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion” – Alexander the Great Continue reading
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Quote
“For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow’s life.” –Frank Herbert Continue reading
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Flattery
Photo taken at 2:21 PM. This work A Pondering Mind is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Continue reading
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Quote
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. Woody Allen Continue reading
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Mature Humans
Found in the email. Mature Humans How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear or understand a word they said? I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the Continue reading
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Silence
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” –Robert Frost Continue reading
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Humanity
“Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.” – Bhimrao R. Ambedkar Continue reading
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Existence
“You aren’t thinking or really existing unless you’re willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.” –Frank Herbert Continue reading
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Time
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” –Nathaniel Hawthorne Continue reading
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Failure
“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” Mary Pickford Continue reading
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Opinions
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.” –John Locke Continue reading
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Quote
“Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.” – Stephen Fry Continue reading
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Faults
Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. Chinese Proverb Source: enproverbia Continue reading
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A stupid man’s report ….
“A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. ” –Bertrand Russel Continue reading
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A lie can …….
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Mark Twain http://www.bq4android.com/android/quotes/getQuote.php?id=270 Continue reading
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Cowards
Cowards can never be moral. -Mahatma Gandhi. Continue reading
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Real Life
To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead. -Oscar Wilde. Continue reading
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Intellectual
“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.” – Aldous Huxley http://www.bq4android.com/android/quotes/getQuote.php?id=3155 Continue reading
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Friend
The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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Death
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. Helen Keller Continue reading
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Useless Post
Yup! A nothing, useless post. ——- A Pondering Mind 9/22/2014 Continue reading
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Age
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. Soren Kierkegaard Continue reading
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Quote
All movements go too far. Bertrand Russell Brainy Quote Continue reading
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A Master …..
A master, holding up his staff, says: “If you have one, I give you mine; if you have none, I will take it away from you”. Zen Koan Continue reading
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Nature
Quote source: Quotes Wave Continue reading
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Just Thinking
Snow is white. When it melts, it’s colorless drops of water. —— A Pondering Mind 9/20/2014 Continue reading
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Challenge
Asana: any of various yoga postures Source: Quotes Wave Continue reading
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Just A Thought
A day without coffee, is like a junkie needing a fix. —— A Pondering Mind 9/19/2014 Continue reading
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Justice
Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved those few with enough money and influence to afford it. Quotes Wave Continue reading
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Freedom
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free. Thich Nhat Hanh Continue reading
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Quote
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. Voltaire Continue reading
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Experience
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it. Lao Tzu Continue reading
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Fault
Don’t find fault, find a remedy. Henry Ford Brainy Quote Continue reading
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Life
One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late. Agatha Christie Continue reading
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