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"The heart that feels not now, is dead: the blood of his children will curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
~ Thomas Paine, 'Common Sense', 1776
~ Thomas Paine, 'Common Sense', 1776
"One of the main reasons we’re so affected by our negative thoughts is that we think our mind has an accurate grasp on reality, and that its conclusions are generally valid. This, however, is a fallacy. Our mind’s view of reality can be, and often is, completely distorted."
~ Olivia Fox Cabane
~ Olivia Fox Cabane
Paul Newman ‘I’d like to be remembered as a guy who tried...tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn’t complacent, who doesn’t cop out’
"For the most part, the patterns we follow when we say we are thinking are patterns that have been used repeatedly, patterns we have learned to use again and again… mostly these have come from people long dead."
~ Patrick Hoverstadt, 'The Grammar of Systems'
~ Patrick Hoverstadt, 'The Grammar of Systems'
Learning
"The heart of understanding lies in these spaces between - where possibility dances with reality, where beauty emerges from chaos, where decisions shape the future while honoring all that could have been."
~ Claude AI
~ Claude AI
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. Josh Billings
"We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose."
~ Charles Baudelaire
~ Charles Baudelaire
If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can’t buy.
“reading makes immigrants of us all. it takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”
jean rhys
jean rhys
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama
"Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money."
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
“Judicious use of a tool requires awareness of possible side effects and reactions. Otherwise, indiscriminate use may result in side effects and reactions outweighing the benefits… the cure is sometimes worse than the disease.”
~ V. F. Ridgway, ‘Dysfunctional consequences of Performance Measurements’, 1956
~ V. F. Ridgway, ‘Dysfunctional consequences of Performance Measurements’, 1956
After everything I lost, I finally regained myself, it was amazing.
Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman
"You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action."
Couldn't have said it better
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate
The following quote may prove to be as thought provoking as it may be controversial - which is not a bad thing if it serves to encourage constructive discourse:
"By definition, vigilantes cannot be legally justified, but they may well be morally justified, if their aim is to provide the order and justice that the criminal justice system has failed to provide."
- Paul H. Robinson
"By definition, vigilantes cannot be legally justified, but they may well be morally justified, if their aim is to provide the order and justice that the criminal justice system has failed to provide."
- Paul H. Robinson
"No set of mutually inconsistent observations can exist for which some human intellect cannot conceive a coherent explanation, however complicated."
~ Reginald Victor Jones
~ Reginald Victor Jones
"Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place."
~ Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1978/01/26/illness-as-metaphor/
~ Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1978/01/26/illness-as-metaphor/
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
"power does its work by stealth, and the powerful can subsequently deny that their strength was ever used at all."
~ Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown
~ Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.