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  • #1
    Christopher Hitchens
    “Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and—since there is no other metaphor—also the soul.”
    Christopher Hitchens

  • #2
    Jim Morrison
    “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
    Jim Morrison

  • #3
    Shannon L. Alder
    “One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many people don’t want you to have it. You have to find the courage to seize it, own it and hold on!”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #4
    Bruce Lee
    “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
    Bruce Lee

  • #5
    “In an "open 24-7" reality, want is King. We serve it, live it, breath it. But what does the king give you in exchange? Debt, neediness, addiction, and suffering. There is an alternative. JOY. Joy is created in simplicity.”
    Deborah Bravandt

  • #6
    Aaron Swartz
    “Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.”
    Aaron Swartz

  • #7
    J. Krishnamurti
    “From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.”
    Jiddu Krishnamurti, Education and the Significance of Life: Jiddu Krishnamurti on Freedom, Self-Understanding, and Mature Love

  • #8
    Thomas Jefferson
    “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”
    Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

  • #9
    Thomas Jefferson
    “Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
    Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

  • #10
    Thomas Jefferson
    “Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #11
    Thomas Jefferson
    “Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #12
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #13
    Thomas Jefferson
    “Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #14
    Thomas Jefferson
    “If you want something you've never had
    You must be willing to do something you've never done.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #15
    Thomas Jefferson
    “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #16
    Thomas Jefferson
    “Be polite to all, but intimate with few.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #17
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.”
    Thomas Jefferson
    tags: truth

  • #18
    Thomas Jefferson
    “A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not an article for mere consumption, but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #19
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #20
    J. Krishnamurti
    “We want to make life permanent, but in doing so we go against nature, and there lies our pain. Only the mind which is always moving, without resting places and fixed ideas, can be in tune with life and therefore joyful.”
    Jiddu Krishnamurti, Think on These Things

  • #21
    J. Krishnamurti
    “The moment you have in your heart this extra-ordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.”
    J. Krishnamurthy
    tags: love

  • #22
    R. Buckminster Fuller
    “The minute you choose to do what you really want to do,
    it's a different kind of life.”
    Buckminster Fuller

  • #23
    Barack Obama
    “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
    Barack Obama

  • #24
    Lao Tzu
    “In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #25
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Drive thy business or it will drive thee.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #26
    Paulo Freire
    “True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.”
    Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

  • #27
    Charles Bukowski
    “This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #28
    Henry Ford
    “If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”
    Henry Ford

  • #29
    Henry Ford
    “One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.”
    Henry Ford

  • #30
    Henry Ford
    “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.”
    Henry Ford



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