#Quotes
The soul that sees #beauty may sometimes walk alone. ― #goethe
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart. ― #goethe
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«El problema del exceso de empatía es que, mientras nosotros podemos entender las luchas ajenas, los demás son incapaces de entender las nuestras. Y entonces uno es la hoguera donde nadie más coloca leña pero se acercan a calentar las manos».
Ann Everestt
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#Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. ― #goethe
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. ― #goethe
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"You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding."
- Terence McKenna
The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal; there is a forward motion to yearning.
-- Gail Godwin
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida
Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
Jesse Jackson
Elections aren't just about who votes but who doesn't vote.
Michelle Obama
You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
Eric Holder
"One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
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The essential thing "in heaven and in earth" is that there should be long obedience in the same direction, thereby results in the long run, something which has made life worth living; for instance, virtue, #art... #spirituality — anything whatever that is transfiguring, refined ... or divine."
#philosophy #ethics #inspiration #motivation #saturday #quotes
“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.”
― Gloria Steinem
“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
― Ned Vizzini
“There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”
“It’s a lot more complicated than that-“
“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
- Terry Pratchett, “Carpe Jugulum”
"Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream;
Highlows pass as patent leathers;
Jackdaws strut in peacock's feathers."
~ W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan - HMS Pinafore, ACT II ~
— — — #GilbertandSullivan #quote #quotes #appearance #mislead #fooled #false #delude #seem
"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned." - Saul Bellow
#quote #quotes #quoteoftheday #quotesdaily #Read #libraries #books #BeingHuman
The Cause of God has room for all. It would, indeed, not be the Cause of God if it did not take in and welcome everyone--poor and rich, educated and ignorant, the unknown, and the prominent--God surely wants them all, as He created them all. #inspiration #quotes #bahai
“To gauge my shutter time, I would smoke cigarettes – a Gauloise for a certain light, a Boyard if it was darker.” – Brassaï on night-time photography. #photography #quotes
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
-- Bertrand Russell
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O SON OF MAN! Transgress not thy limits, nor claim that which beseemeth thee not. Prostrate thyself before the countenance of thy God, the Lord of might and power. #inspiration #quotes #bahai
I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there.
Medgar Evers
A quotation from Carlyle, Thomas:
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Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: The end of Man is an Action and not a Thought, though it were the noblest.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/22968/
#quote #quotes #quotation #action #meaningoflife #philosophy #though #wordsanddeeds
A quotation from Garrison, Theodosia:
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I have known sorrow — therefore I
May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily
Than those who never sorrowed upon earth
And know not laughter’s worth.
I have known laughter — therefore I
May sorrow with you far more tenderly
Than those who never guess how sad a thing
Seems merriment to one heart’s suffering.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/garrison-theodosia/61131/
"When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep... and you're never really awake."
- Fight Club (1999)
#cinema #film #fightclub #quotes #insomnia
A quotation from Pratchett, Terry:
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People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/61126/
#quote #quotes #quotation #choice #freewill #holiness #wickedness #good #evil
For those who don't know, I keep a #quotes journal, documenting snippets from #books I've read that speak to me for one reason or another.
The result is a unique #journal of my own, reflecting on my life using the words of others as prompts for thought. I've never been one for #journaling, but I find this to be quite introspective.
Today's quote is from the late Louise Dickinson Rich. There are a few takeaways here, but one is greater than the rest:
Find your happy.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers
A quotation from Martial:
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Boy! let my cup with rosy wine o’erflow,
Above the melting of the summer snow:
Let my wet hair with wasteful odour shine,
And loads of roses round my temples twine:
Tombs of the Caesars, your sad honours cry,
“Live, little men, for lo! the gods can die.”
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/martial/61123/
#quote #quotes #quotation #carpediem #gods #goodliving #tomb #livefortoday #goodliving #mortality
A quotation from Bengis, Ingrid:
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There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/bengis-ingrid/61121/
#quote #quotes #quotation #alcoholism #drunkenness #magnificence
Americans are trained to invest money, are said to take even desperate chances on that, yet never do they invest [in] beauty nor take desperate chances on that. With money they try to buy beauty--after it has died--famishing--with grimace.
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
A quotation from Johnson, Lyndon:
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Every President wants to do right.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/johnson-lyndon/19824/
#quote #quotes #quotation #aspiration #doinggood #intentions #president
A quotation from Dante Alighieri:
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Therefore, rise. Force your breath, restore it
By that spirit which wins in every battle it fights,
Unless the beaten body says, “no more!”
[E però leva sù; vinci l’ambascia
l’animo che vince ogne battaglia,
col suo grave corpo non s’accascia.]
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet/61116/
#quote #quotes #quotation #body #courage #encouragement #persistence #soul #spirit #struggle
If someone says, 'Democracy is a sham, those people don't speak for me... the system's rigged,' you say, 'Vote.' Someone says, 'I was making a statement by not voting,' and then you say, 'Well I can't hear it.'
Jesse Williams
They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.
Fannie Lou Hamer
“I made a promise to myself that if I am even sort of alive, I will vote. Fannie Lou Hamer took a hell of a beating so I could vote, and so I will. . . and everyone else should, too.”
Nikki Giovanni
#Quotes #HelpfulPeople #Helping #DrMardyGrothe
"The selfish person and the genuinely helpful person
are equally interested in helping, but in different ways.
One naturally thinks, 'How can I be of help to you?'
the other, 'How can I get you to be of help to me."
Dr. Richard Mardy, Dr. Madry's Quotes
#Quotes #Ethics #Decency #Morality #KiranBedi
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Ethics, decency, and morality are the real soldiers. -Kiran Bedi, police officer and social activist (b. 9 Jun 1949)
‘Force does not work the way its advocates think in fact it does.
It does not, for example, reveal to the victim the strength of the adversary.
On the contrary, it reveals the weakness, even the panic of the adversary.’
—James Baldwin
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"I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love."
W. E. B. Du Bois
"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have."
John Lewis
"No single solution or actor can deal with the complex and interrelated challenges to electoral integrity arising from manipulated data, hate speech, and fake news. These phenomena are not new; they have been part of electoral cycles since the advent of democracy."
Kofi Annan
"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there."
Kofi Annan
"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
Kofi Annan
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir - “Travels in Alaska”
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
- Mary Wortley Montagu
#books #quotes #booktoot #photography #read @bookstodon@a.gup.pe
"How many years of work on that book did it take you to make it feel as if you were just making it up as you went along?"
"Two or three."
"See, this is the worst thing about being a supposedly comic writer. In order for the prose to work, it has to feel effortless, almost weightless. And yet, if you do your job right, everyone's going to think that you didn't work hard enough." […]
"Exactly" I said, "sucks for us, doesn't it?"
Russo shrugged. "Sucks for you, Boylan."
life really is so simple when you sit back and realise you don’t actually have to do a lot of things. i don’t have to be on my phone constantly. i don’t have to sit inside all day. i don’t have to reply to peoples messages straight away. i don’t have to have what’s in my fridge. i can go out and get groceries and make things that I’m craving. i can go on a walk. i can turn my phone off for a day or two. i can sit and read for hours on end. i can journal for as long as i want. i can mediate. i can cook. i can clean. i can breathe deeply. i can get myself a tea or a coffee. i can have meaningful conversations with my family. i don’t have to be in a constant state of “online”. i can disconnect. I’m not obliged to be here. my name isn’t being called out on a list. i can leave. i can take time away. i am allowed to live.
- wvterways
https://wvterways.tumblr.com/post/686097363175161856/life-really-is-so-simple-when-you-sit-back-and
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'True #love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
And the being we love must not be mysterious and sphinx-like, but clear and limpid as a diamond; so that admiration and attachment may grow with #knowledge .'
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
#Rationalism is a philosophical position or view that #reason is the source of knowledge.
Vernon J. #Bourke wrote that rationalism is defined as a methodology or a theory "in which the criterion of #truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive."
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#quotes #philosophy #epistemology #patriarchy #whiteness #agnotology #historyOfScience #intelligence #factChecking #knowledge #publicOpinion #learning #sociology #wordsMatter #hashtags @psychology #TESCREAL
"Stories and songs enable us to locate ourselves in other people's experience and they increase our compassion. But these things in a vacuum are useless. A story doesn't cultivate empathy just by virtue of having been thought up; it must be engaged with to become powerful; the story must be read, the song must be listened to, in order to acquire its full power."
~ Kae Tempest
#PrideMonth #TellYourStory #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Bookstodon #Arts #Music #Quotes #Books #Poetry
But if you write a version of Ragnarok in the twenty-first century, it is haunted by the imagining of a different end of things. We are a species of animal which is bringing about the end of the world we were born into. Not out of evil or malice, or not mainly, but because of a lopsided mixture of extraordinary cleverness, extraordinary greed, extraordinary proliferation of our own kind, and a biologically built-in short-sightedness.
- A.S. Byatt - “Ragnarok”
"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked, but only that they be spineless.
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The past is not dead; it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character."
— Marguerite Yourcenar
The rich man to-day does not only rule by using private property; he also rules by treating public property as if it were private property.
--G K Chesterton (1917) "Utopia of Users"
#Capitalism #Property #PrivateProperty #Public #Exploitation #Plutocracy #EatTheRich #History #HistoryRepeat #GKChesterton #Quotes
Some people say: How can you live without knowing?
I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing.
- Richard Feynman
“I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.”
Tim Cook, CEO of #Apple
#Quotes
#PrideMonth
"Telling politicians that their decision-making will be made public only drives them to take those decisions in places where no one is watching. Transparency does not breed openness; it breeds paranoia."
Jonathan Sumption
As we have daily proof.
#Quotes #UKPolitics #CovidInquiry
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
- Herman Melville - Moby Dick
(Replace "sea" with "the woods" and you've got it.)
‘Draw into yourself and look and if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
He cuts away here, he smooths there. He makes this line lighter, that one purer.
Cut away all the excess.
Straighten all that is crooked.
Bring #light to all that is overcast.
Labor to make all one glow or #beauty and never cease chiseling your statue’
— Plotinus
#philosophy #spirituality #quotes #SilentSunday #psychology #Sunday #motivation
"There is no 'joining' WITCH.
If you are a woman
and dare to look
within yourself,
you are a Witch."
WITCH Manifesto (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell),
New York, 1968
"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it." – John Keats #quotes
"There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice." – Confucius #quotes
“How do you pick your nose if you have a mustache?”
William Shatner
#Quotes
Welcome Time Travellers! This is 2023 where you can find yourself locked out of your toothbrush after too many failed password attempts.
-- quingcharles @ HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36133661
"Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs." – Jim Rohn
I guess by this definition I'm successful then, I don't own a television but I have a library of books. 😆
Not sure how I feel about this quote, came across it and thought I would share it on here.
A quotation from Russell, Bertrand:
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In all affairs — love, religion, politics or business — it’s a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/3382/
#quote #quotes #quotation #acceptance #assumption #axiom #doubt #premise #questioning #reevaluation #reexamination #reexamine #revalidation #skepticism #takingforgranted
"When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale and never tried it again."
- Bill Clinton, on the topic of cannabis
"When I was a kid, I inhaled frequently. That was the point."
- Barack Obama, on the topic of cannabis
''I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.''
Mitt Romney
#Quotes
^ I shit you not. That is a real quote, and I can’t believe it either. 😂
"Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it. " – Shakespeare ("Henry IV, Part I, Act V, Scene 1", [no later than] 1597) #quotes
"My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail." ― John Kennedy Toole ("A Confederacy of Dunces", 1980) #books #writing #FlashMemoir #SouthernGothic #florida #quotes
@argumento They reply: "La migrazione dell'anguilla europea è un it eats creativity. it eats quality and shits quantity.” william s. burroughs #quotes."
“But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
comic by: kerebrin
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<<Nos parece imposible que existan los unicornios pero vemos totalmente normal que haya gente pobre defendiendo a gente multimillonaria diciendo que si tienen tanto dinero es porque se lo han ganado. Un unicornio es un caballo con un pincho en la frente, no es una cosa tan loca.>>
Jorge de Cascante.
#popazo #art #mastoart #quotes #citas #lectura #libros #books #literatura #escribir #literaverso #relato #cuentos #tales
An architect proves his skill by turning the defects of a site into advantages.
-- Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
“That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
#Glorious25thOfMay #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Quotes #books #bookstodon
"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple." — Unknown (but attributed to Coach Barry Switzer) #quotes
"America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.
Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves." ― Kurt Vonnegut #quotes
"Manuscripts don’t burn." – Mikhail Bulgakov ("The Master and Margarita", 1967) #quotes
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✨Yahia Lababidi’s work is characterized by a contemplative tone in line with #Rumi, whom he often #quotes. Lababidi is a Muslim voice for peace, celebrating the #wisdom in ancient traditions and pointing out the ridiculous in the rush & cynicism of contemporary life. ✨
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“That's always the way in this world. The chappies you'd like to lend money to won't let you, whereas the chappies you don't want to lend it to will do everything except actually stand you on your head and lift the specie out of your pockets.” – P.G. Wodehouse, ‘Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg’ #wodehouse #quotes #books
"Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food." – Austin O'Malley ("Keystones of Thought", 1914) #quotes
Listen, maybe I can’t change the world, but I can pass eggs over the fence to my neighbor to save them a few dollars. I can cross the street and fix another neighbor’s cabinets. I can send my kid to the house next door with a can of tomato sauce they need and they’ll come back with a box of cocoa powder they weren’t going to use. We can leave our old furniture at the curb and one of us will drive by and pick it up to fix and sell or keep. I’ll plant a garden since I have the space and time and I’ll share what I can and I’ll get calls from someone else asking if I can use a crate of oranges.
I may not be able to change the world but I can do something
- thededfa
https://thededfa.tumblr.com/post/684448372226179072/listen-maybe-i-cant-change-the-world-but-i-can
"It is also crucial for us to recognize that it is equally valid for a trans person to decide to transition and live as the other sex as it is for them to instead choose to blur gender boundaries and identify themselves outside the gender binary. There is no one right way to be trans. Each of us simply needs to figure out what works best for us and what allows us to best express who we feel we are." - Julia Serano – Whipping Girl
"And by the time I made the decision to transition, my gender dissonance had gotten so bad that it completely consumed me; it hurt more than any pain, physical or emotional, that I had ever experienced. I know that most people believe that transsexuals transition because we want to be the other sex, but that is an oversimplification." - Julia Serano – Whipping Girl
“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.” — Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?” - Rabbi Hillel
"All fanaticism is repressed doubt." - Carl Jung
"The driver was thinking seriously of buying aluminum siding for his
home in Little Rock, and he begged Trout to give him an honest answer to this question: “From what you’ve seen and heard—the people who get aluminum siding, are they happy with what they get?”
“Around Cohoes,” said Trout. “I think those were about the only really happy people I ever saw." — Kurt Vonnegut #quotes
"One’s point of view makes all the difference in the world. There is a famous story of the days when Sir Christopher Wren was building St. Paul’s Cathedral. On one occasion he was making a tour of the work in progress. He came upon a man at work and asked him: “What are you doing?” The man said: “I am cutting this stone to a certain size and shape.” He came to a second man and asked him what he was doing. The man said: “I am earning so much money at my work.” He came to a third man at work and asked him what he was doing. The man paused for a moment, straightened himself and answered: “I am helping Sir Christopher Wren build St. Paul’s Cathedral.” (Source Unknown)
"To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody but yourself - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight - and never stop fighting." - E. E. Cummings
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
"A strong military, a tool of misfortune
All things detest it" - Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, chapter 31