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A wise traveller never despises his own country. ~Carlo Goldoni |
My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
~Diane Arbus |
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine |
"The economic system claimed to work for our happiness, because we had to behave not only as producers but as consumers and if we don't consume as many goods as are produced by our factories, the whole system will collapse. So that means little by little, capitalism which was based on asceticism is now based on pleasure. This is a fundamental change." - Pascal Bruckner (Philosophy Bites Podcast)
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bliss
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is foolish. If the ignorant are lucky, reality will slap them awake, when the truth reveals what it has known all along.
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Some will hear, but not listen.
Some will listen, but not understand. And some will understand, but not act. Mike Dooley |
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." - George Washington Carver |
"Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
"If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work." - Thich Nhat Hanh |
"But an accurate definition of the self is impossible. You are more than you realize, more than you can define. And the more time you spend trying to nail down the definition, the less time you spend living right now. ... Your past is not your identity... You, living now, is your identity." --George Lawrence-Ell |
"By your own soul, learn to live And if men thwart you take no heed. If men hate you have no care. Sing your song, dream your dream, Hope your hope and pray your prayer." --Parkenham Beatty |
"Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing, and which shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime - let out all the length of all the reins." --Mary Cholomondeley |
"Don't listen to those who say, "It's not done that way." Maybe it's not, but maybe you will. Don't listen to those who say, "You're taking too big a chance." Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most importantly, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside of you rears its ugly head and says, "They're all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier and have connections…" I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respect." --Neil Simon |
"Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun.... Don't be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and be very sure." --White Eagle |
"How are you going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued? Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are." --Anne Lamott |
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw |
"She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know." Marilyn Monroe
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“Rather than abandoning the person who pushes your buttons, abandon the buttons they are pushing.”
—Guru Singh |
"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live." ~ Flora Whittemore
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Ernest Hemingway called this his best short story ever:
For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn. I think it is incredible. |
So true.
"Más rápido cae un mentiroso que un cojo" ~ Spanish Proverb
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"I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. And then it is gone. But to sacrifice what you are and live without belief, that's more terrible than dying." --Joan of Arc |
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." --Ralph Waldo Emerson |
"Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with the hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so you must attend to and nourish the garden of your becoming." --Jean Houston |
"Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny—and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do)."
Gould, Stephen J. (1998). Capturing the Center. Natural History, 107:18. |
i love this quote by pablo neruda.......
"But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me." |
"I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. And then it is gone. But to sacrifice what you are and live without belief, that's more terrible than dying." --Joan of Arc |
"Neither evil tongues, Rash judgements, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us." --William Wordsworth |
"Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being occasionally, and learns about how far to attempt to spring." --Charles Dudley Warner |
I could imagine their debate...
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
- Charlotte Bronte Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. - Oscar Wilde ....there is a certain irony. |
"Uno debe llegar vivo hasta el final, no morirse en vida." ~ Mario Vargas Llosa
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Yes, like when talking to teenagers who are "experimenting" with drugs and alcohol. I try to impress upon them, based on my own experience, just "Live to tell about it." |
"The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing.... The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their "Luck" arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed." - Srully Blotnick |
"How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown." --Elizabeth Kubler-Ross |
"It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living…To live is to find out for yourself what is true." --Jiddu Krishnamurti |
Roses are red,
violets are blue, since Mare's at work, I've got shopping, housework and cooking prep to do. *grin* |
"You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves."
-Mary Oliver |
"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
-Bertrand Russell |
"He kissed me and now I am somebody else."
-Poet Gabriela Mistral |
"If you lie on the ground in somebody's arms you'll probably swallow some of their history."
-Suzanne Vega, In Liverpool |
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