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“Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.” — Albert Camus (1913–1960) Continue reading
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“Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone—all I want to do Continue reading
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“Perhaps that’s what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that’s what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I’m neither one side nor the other, I’m in Continue reading
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“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.” -James Branch Cabell Continue reading
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“Leave me alone at night with my books. Don’t complicate the world for me. I want it uncomplicated. And above all, leave me alone with my books at night.” – Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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In a world increasingly defined by complexity and noise, how can we cultivate an appreciation for :”bare things” and simple moments without losing sight of the broader dynamics that shape our lives? – Virginia Woolf Continue reading
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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” -Oscar Wilde Continue reading
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“The world you see is just a movie in your mind. Rocks dont see it. Bless and sit down. Forgive and forget. Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now. That’s the story. That’s the message. Nobody understands it, nobody listens, they’re all running around like chickens with Continue reading
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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” -Leo Tolstoy Continue reading
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“Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way. But if we Continue reading
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Sunday Night
Another Sunday is soon coming to an end, and a new day will come about. Took my walks today, even though it was hot, it humid at all. On the early evening stroll, I decided to go walking on the boardwalk as it runs parallel with the river. About halfway down the way I ran Continue reading
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Today’s Quote
“To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end Continue reading
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Nina Simone Quote
“Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good” ~ Nina Simone Continue reading
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To Live An Interesting Life.
“To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule, if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look up word origins, to analyze closely the work of writers you admire, to read not only contemporaries but writers of the past, to learn at least one foreign language, to live Continue reading
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Invincible Love
“My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, Continue reading
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Fear & Love
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot Continue reading
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Nature
“As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can”.” ~ John Muir Continue reading
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Responsible Decisions
“The place of stillness that you have to go to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make responsible decisions, where you can actually engage productively with an otherwise scary and unmanageable world.” ~ Jonathan Franzen Continue reading
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Nothing In The World Is Permanent
“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham 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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World
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, Playwright 1849 – 1924 Continue reading
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Calm State Of Mind
alone at his favorite outdoor table while quietly thinking … blocking out the sounds of the traffic and people passing by … completely focused on the other world that he knows will never happen Continue reading
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America…
“America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson Continue reading
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Morning Quote
“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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Direction
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going in the opposite direction in this too-big world. ~ Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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The Most Beautiful Things
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. ~John Steinbeck Continue reading
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More And More Information
We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning. ~ Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher, Born: June 27, 1929 – Died: March 6, 2007 Continue reading
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Treasured Wealth
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. ~Henry David Thoreau Continue reading
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Redistribution Of Wealth
“You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that Continue reading
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The People Of The United States
“The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez Continue reading
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To Find Reality
“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.” ~ Iris Murdoch Continue reading
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Unpredictable Things
“The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.” ~ Paul Auster Continue reading
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Tired Of Waiting
“I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?” ~ Langston Hughes 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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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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For What Its Worth
2020: the year the world got turned on its head Continue reading
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Population Growth
It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world it for us right now. ~ David Attenborough Continue reading
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For What Its Worth
The coronavirus has turned the world upside down, inside out, and will probably never be the same. Continue reading
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For What Its Worth
With all that is going on in the world, my coffee imbibing has started to increase. Is it a good or bad thing? Continue reading
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A Sheet Of Paper
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down. Friedrich Nietzsche 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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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
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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- Continue reading
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Peter Ustinov Quote
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done. ~ Peter Ustinov (1921 – 2004) Continue reading
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Life and death matters, yes. ~ Raymond Carver
“Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.” ~ Raymond Carver, Writer – (1938-1988) Continue reading
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“Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.” ~ Clarice Lispector
Writer, B. December 10, 1920 – D. December 9, 1977 Continue reading
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Genius And Madness
“Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer Continue reading
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Carl Sagan Quote
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ~Carl Sagan Continue reading
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Quote: Nicholas Sparks – A Great Paradox
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Joni Mitchell Quote
“When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it’s time for artists to make their mark.” – Joni Mitchell Continue reading
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Reading ~ Judith Butler
“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.” – Judith Butler Continue reading
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Hate
Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. -Maya Anjelou Continue reading
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Thinking
Occupation: Professor Continue reading
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Neal Cassady
Born: February 8, 1926 – Died: February 4, 1968 AZQuotes.com Continue reading
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Iris Murdoch
Born: July 15, 1919 – Died: February 8, 1999 AZQuotes.com Continue reading
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Fire And Ice ~ Robert Frost
From the Robert Frost poem, Fire and Ice written in 1923. Wordables.com Continue reading
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Hell
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell. Aldous Huxley Continue reading
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Jack Kerouac Quote
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“Truth about being single”
Source: “Truth about being single” Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Jack Kerouac
Born: March 12, 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts Continue reading
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Pondering Thought #2
Smile Its not the end of the world Continue reading
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Pondering Thought #1
In a perfect world life would be boring Continue reading
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