Wisdom
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A bird does not sing ….
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. — Chinese Proverb Continue reading
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Painting
Painting, n,: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. — Ambrose Bierce Continue reading
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Poverty
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. — Woody Allen Continue reading
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Books
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. — John Ruskin Continue reading
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America would be …..
America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. — Wilma Mankiller Continue reading
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Focus
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. –Alexander Graham Bell Continue reading
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Wind
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Philosophy and Art ….
Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination. — George Henry Lewes Continue reading
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Truth
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Hell
It sure is hell to be president. — Harry S. Truman Continue reading
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The Zen proverb ….
The Zen proverb, ‘in summer we sweat; in winter we shiver,’ is meant to illustrate the importance of not trying to escape or avoid our present situation. — Rebecca Otowa Continue reading
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Nature
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. — Michel de Montaigne Continue reading
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The Zen philosophy …..
The Zen philosophy posits that ‘human beings suffer’ and ‘the cause of suffering is desire.’ The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time. — Karl Albrecht Continue reading
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Egg
A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it. — Japanese Proverb Continue reading
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Learning
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A man’s work …..
A man’s work is nothing but his slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. — Albert Camus Continue reading
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Energy
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Nature
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. — Anatole France Continue reading
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Cooperation
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. — Bertrand Russell Continue reading
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A newspaper is a ….
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. — Henry Louis Mencken Continue reading
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Quote
Wisdom outweighs any wealth. — Sophocles Continue reading
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He knows not ….
He knows not where he’s going, For the ocean will decide, Its not the destination, It’s the glory of the ride. –Edward Monkton, Zen dog Continue reading
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Do not fear ……
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. — Bertrand Russell Continue reading
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Public opinion …..
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin Continue reading
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Once a person is …..
Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them. — Nelson Mandela Continue reading
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Age
The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be. — Paul Newman Continue reading
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The first forty years ……
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. — Arthur Schopenhauer Continue reading
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Quote
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. — Lorraine Hansberry Continue reading
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Life is not a ……
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. — Soren Kierkegaard Continue reading
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Observation
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing. — William S. Burroughs Continue reading
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A conservative is ….
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. — Woodrow Wilson Continue reading
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You can only go ….
You can only go halfway into the darkest forest; then you are coming out the other side. — Chinese Proverb Continue reading
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Trouble
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folk’s who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. — William S. Burroughs Continue reading
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After all, a homeless man …..
After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is against him. — Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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The ache for home ….
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. — Maya Angelou Continue reading
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Living
Instructions for living a life. Pay Attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. –Mary Oliver Continue reading
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Everything
If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few. — Shunryu Suzuki Continue reading
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Aw I don’t wanta go ….
Aw I don’t wanta go to no such thing. I just wanta to drink in alleys.’…But you’ll miss all that, just for some old wine.’ There’s wisdom in wine, goddam it’ I yelled. ‘Have a shot! — Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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How long a minute is ……
How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you’re on. — Zall’s Second Law Continue reading
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Truth
Socrates showed us that thinking the truth is not enough. Truth demands to be lived. –Americ Azevedo Continue reading
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No matter what people say …..
No matter what people say about you, know who you are. Their blame can’t injure you, nor can their praise elevate you. You are what you are; nothing anyone can say can change that. — Daniel Levin Continue reading
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If you propose to speak ….
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Meditation
Meditation is not about finding the self–quite the contrary: it is about finding one’s way beyond the self. Meditation is also not about ‘explaining the mind’. It is instead about clearing away clutter created by the mind. — David M. White Continue reading
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Conversation
A conversation is so much more than words: a conversation is eyes, smiles, the silences between the words. — Annika Thor Continue reading
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Opinions
But opinions, judgements, memories, dreaming about the future–ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality. — Charlotte J. Beck Continue reading
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Reality
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. — Thich Nhat Hanh Continue reading
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We may believe ……
We may believe that we know what another person is thinking, but most often our efforts at ‘mind reading’ are projections of our own inner, self-centered concerns. — Susan Edmiston, Leonard Scheff Continue reading
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Do not judge …..
Do not judge a person until the lid of his coffin is closed. — Chinese Proverbs Continue reading
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All change is a miracle …..
All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. — Henry David Thoreau Continue reading
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Protest
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. — Martin Luther King Jr. Continue reading
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You don’t get to choose ….
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. — Joan Baez Continue reading
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The principle that the poor ….
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Life appears to me …..
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. — Charlotte Bronte Continue reading
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Meaning
I”m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. — Andy Warhol Continue reading
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After all is said and done …..
After all is said and done, more is said than done. — Aesop Continue reading
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Many groups that have ….
Many groups that have the power to make life decisions for others don’t ever have to live out the consequences. — Frances Fox Piven Continue reading
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What is objectionable, ….
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. — Robert Francis Kennedy Continue reading
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My definition of a philosopher …..
My definition of a philosopher is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. — Louisa May Alcott Continue reading
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Earth provides enough ….
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed. — Mahatma Gandhi Continue reading
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Forever
Forever is composed of nows. — Emily Dickinson Continue reading
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Look not mournfully into the past ….
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Continue reading
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Sanity
Sanity is a cozy lie. — Susan Sontag Continue reading
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Sometimes people don’t want …
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A bird doesn’t sing …
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. — Lou Holtz Continue reading
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Whoever is happy ….
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. — Anne Frank Continue reading
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