World – A Pondering Mind

The Most Beautiful Things

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. ~John Steinbeck

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

Treasured Wealth

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. ~Henry David Thoreau

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ~Oscar Wilde

“It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.” ~ Alexis de Tocqueville

“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. thatContinue reading “Redistribution Of Wealth”

“I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.” ~ Jack Kerouac

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

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” ~Anthony Burgess

“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.” ~George Harrison

“Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.” ~Paul Theroux

“The loudest noise in the world is silence.” ~Thelonious Monk

To Find Reality

“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.” ~ Iris Murdoch

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

Tired Of Waiting

“I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?” ~ Langston Hughes

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” ~Rudyard Kipling

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” ~ Marian Wright Edelman

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

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

“It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.” ~ Claude Monet

For What Its Worth

2020: the year the world got turned on its head

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

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. ~Johann Gottlieb Fichte

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. ~Bernard Williams

For What Its Worth

The coronavirus has turned the world upside down, inside out, and will probably never be the same.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. ~Iris Murdoch

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?

“Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.” ~ T. S. Eliot

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand. ~Stevie Wonder

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

In a mad world, only the mad are sane. ~Akiro Kurosawa

“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.” ~Albert Einstein

The world we see ……

All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one. -John Fowles

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. – Charles Spurgeon

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 “All the world Began With A Yes”

In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. ~ John Steinbeck

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-

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ~ William Shakespeare

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia. ~ Charles M. Schulz

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)

“In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.” ~ George Harrison

Gold is worse poison to a man’s soul, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug. ~ William Shakespeare

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)

“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

To See A World ~ William Blake

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

Carl Sagan Quote

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ~Carl Sagan

Wallace Stevens Poetry Quote

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

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

Nonsense

Unpredictable Things

Old Books

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Hate

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. -Maya Anjelou

Thinking

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Cookies And Milk

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. -Barbara Jordan

The World You See….. ~ Jack Kerouac

Neal Cassady

Born: February 8, 1926 – Died: February 4, 1968 AZQuotes.com

Iris Murdoch

Born: July 15, 1919 – Died: February 8, 1999 AZQuotes.com

Fire And Ice ~ Robert Frost

From the Robert Frost poem, Fire and Ice written in 1923. Wordables.com

Hell

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell. Aldous Huxley

Albert Camus Quote

Jack Kerouac Quote

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“Truth about being single”

Source: “Truth about being single”

Happy Birthday Jack Kerouac

Born: March 12, 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts

Pondering Thought #2

Smile Its not the end of the world

Pondering Thought #1

In a perfect world life would be boring

Ignorance And Stupidity

Seems to be a lot of this going around.

Bertrand Russell

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.bquot.es/s/1194

Sunday Evening Quote

Fabulous Quotes

Monday Afternoon Quote

“A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.” – Alan Watts http://www.bquot.es/s/2805

My Two Cents

My opinion from a straight man; A woman wants to marry another woman, go for it. A man wants to marry another man, go for it. For people who keep saying that marriage should be between a man and a woman, fine. But don’t be spouting the venom and bullshit by putting the Gays andContinue reading “My Two Cents”

Tuesday Evening Quote

“You do not need to leave your room, remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you. To be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet. ” – FranzContinue reading “Tuesday Evening Quote”