Enduring philosophies and favorite quotes

Where do you want to go? was his response. I don’t know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn’t matter.

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the same place that filled me with joy is a road I crossed, just a road I crossed

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As young as I was, I felt older back then;
more disciplined, stronger and certain.
I was saved by grace but destroyed by naivety

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Excuse me, are you lost? Perhaps you would care to visit the site map

By walking I found out
Where I was going.
By intensely hating, how to love
By loving, whom and what to love.

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Irving Layton #link

“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the powerful roar of its many waters.”

Frederick Douglass, 1849 #link

“Know, think, choose, do.”

Orson Scott Card - Ender's Shadow #link

...we must be saved by the final form of love which is *forgiveness*.”

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Reinhold Niebuhr #link

“It’s no wonder people lack romance in their lives, love belongs to those who are willing to go to extremes for it.”

Tom Robbins #link

“Yes to everything.”

D.S. 22Jun06 #link

The eyes see things that are, the mind sees things that are, that were and that that could be.

Burt Goldman 21Jun06 #link

When the ground starts moving beneath their feet, they reach for answers that seem solid, even if they are simplistic.

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Joel Garreau 21Jun06 #link

I think the real political divide increasingly is not between left and right, but between those who are intrigued by what is happening and wish to shape it, and those who fear the future, and want to stop it.

Joel Garreau 21Jun06 #link

“Someday after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will discover fire.”

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 3 comments 21Jun06 #link

Life’s simple. You make choices and you don’t look back.

Kang/Han - The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 17Jun06 #link

Chasing success is like trying to squeeze a handful of water. The tighter you squeeze, the less water you get. When you chase it, your life becomes the chase, and you become a victim of always wanting more.

Wayne Dyer 31May06 #link

“Maybe doing nothing’s better than doing this.”

Lord of War 29May06 #link

most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

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Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett - Good Omens 1 comment 7Feb06 #link

“Wait a minute, Juanita. ...is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?”
Juanita shrugs. “What’s the difference?”

Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash 4Feb06 #link

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.

St. Augustine - City of God 12Jan06 #link

Every moment is another chance to turn it all around.

unknown 3Jan06 #link

“I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.”

Crash 17Dec05 #link

‘‘The Stone Age didn’t end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil.’‘

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Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani - NYTimes article The Breaking Point 1 comment 31Aug05 #link

“Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

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Albert Einstein 1 comment 19Aug05 #link
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