February 2012
5 posts
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“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have...”
– John Greenleaf Whittier (Maud Muller - Pamphlet)
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“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play...”
– Dr. Seuss
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“I seldom think of my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is...”
– Helen Keller
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“Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at...”
– Jeremy Bentham
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“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
January 2012
8 posts
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“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people...”
– Dagobert D. Runes
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in...”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”
– Bertrand Russell
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“People should fall in love with their eyes closed.”
– Andy Warhol
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“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.”
– Rene Descartes (Meditations on First Philosophy)
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“‘Listen, Robert, going to another country doesn’t make any difference....”
– Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)
December 2011
9 posts
6 tags
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
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“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in the darkness, the astonishing...”
– Hafiz
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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival...”
– C.S. Lewis
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“We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by the qualities...”
– Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard
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“Live simply so that others may simply live.”
– Unknown
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“Forgiving is not forgetting; it’s actually remembering - remembering and...”
– Desmond Tutu
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“One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a...”
– Chinese proverb
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“Love isn’t finding a perfect person. It’s seeing an imperfect person...”
– Sam Keen
November 2011
12 posts
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“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s...”
– Marshall McLuhan
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“How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware...”
– Barry Lopez
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“I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened...”
– Jodi Picoult (My Sister’s Keeper)
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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely...”
– E.B. White
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“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic...”
– Virginia Woolf (A Room of One’s Own)
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“You may wonder, ‘How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to...”
– Steven Foster
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“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things...”
– Julian Barnes (Flaubert’s Parrot)
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“We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
– Noam Chomsky
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“And in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the...”
– John McCrae (In Flanders Fields)
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“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– Elizabeth Kubler Ross
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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply...”
– Laozi
October 2011
19 posts
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“Remember, we’re madly in love, so it’s all right to kiss me anytime...”
– Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
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“There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.”
– Dante Alighieri
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“Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person,...”
– Aristotle
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“Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds,...”
– Frederick Buechner
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“‘Google’ is not a synonym for ‘research.’”
– Dan Brown (The Lost Symbol)
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“Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom...”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards...”
– Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)
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“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the...”
– Shel Silverstein
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“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer...”
– Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)
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“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to...”
– Bill Cosby
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“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on...”
– Terry Pratchett (Diggers)
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“Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It...”
– Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)
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“Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
– Albert Einstein
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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– Steve Jobs