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#1

“Every human being asks pertinent questions regarding how to live, what to believe in, and what we aspire to become. Throughout life, we question what desires and principles to value and prioritize – love, friendship, freedom, happiness, creativity, wealth, security. We make difficult decisions based upon what we trust constitutes ethical behavior. We balance out work and play by considering what a person’s time is worth. We encounter both joyful and unpleasant physical experiences. As we age, we modify some of our youthful assumptions and question the existence of a mystical and divine world. We engage in formal and informal educational activities, which edifying foundation support modest or dramatic shifts in our instinctive and learned behavior patterns, and alter our intellectual and emotional perspective. Each person aspires to live honorably and age gracefully despite encountering physical adversity, financial hardships, sickness, or injury.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: ethics-and-moral-philosophy, happiness-quotes

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#2

“Youth is not a curse, but a fleeting blessing. Youth enables us to cavort freely unconcerned with the larger issues in life. Aging and the accompanying responsibilities that come with added maturity is what augments, vexes, and then excises us. Maturation represents the accumulation of supplanting changes happening in a person over time including physical, mental, and social growth and development. Growing old gracefully entails submission to biological alterations and witnessing unsettling changes in cultural and societal conventions.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: aging-gracefully

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#3

“Philosophic concepts are a form of sentiment. Conflicts between lofty ideas and vouchsafed values are endemic for any thinking person.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: idealism, philosophy-of-life

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#4

“What work a person does to earn a viable income shapes their thinking patterns, buttresses their sense of self-worth, and affects how they adapt to predictable and unpredictable obstacles.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: self-esteem, self-worth-quotes, work

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#5

“Every person’s story contains chapters of pain and loss, victory and defeat, love and hate, pride and prejudice, courage and fear, faith and self-distrust, charity and kindness, selfishness and jealously. Every person’s story also contains folios of hopefulness and truthfulness, deceit and despair, action and change, passion and compassion, excitement and boredom, birth and creation, mutation and defect, generation and preservation, delusions and illusions, imagination and fantasy, bafflement and puzzlement. What makes a person’s selfsame story unique is how he or she organizes the pure and impure forces that comprise them, how they respond to internal and external crisis, if they act in a safeguarding and humble manner, or lead a self-seeking and destructive existence.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: identity, self-love, self-realization

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#6

“Narrative storytelling enables us to derive ideas from the disparate facts, incongruent motives, conflicting emotions, and other absurdities inherent in living dynamically. The narrative that we select to tell our life story acts as a lens that assigns value to our shape shifting experiences: it pulls humor from catastrophes; it places a patina of irony over our checkered history; it allows us to explore our pessimism; and it provides a platform from which vantage point we can optimistically view the future.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: narrative-identity, story-of-my-life

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#7

“All philosophic propositions, every attempt to think including all acts of oral or written articulation of an argument and metaphorically expressed ideas, are subject to the dynamics and limitations of human language. The spoken thought is only part of any philosophic message; the other part is unsaid because it is unsayable. The crux of any philosophic proposition reverberates in the echo of silence, the thought that lies in-between the lines.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: philosophy, philosophy-of-life, thoughts-of-the-mind

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#8

“No construction of thought represents a label, barrier, or a full stop. Each sentence, paragraph, and page represents an exploratory probe into the unknown; each statement is an act of experimentation, investigation, creation, and growth.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: ideas, ideas-quotes, philosophy, philosophy-quotes

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#9

“Boredom – the psychological state that we experience whenever we are uninterested in what we are currently doing – is one of the defining traits of humanity. Time is the psychological nemesis of humankind. Tedium, a fundamental angst of humankind, arises from human beings’ ability to perceive time and our attempts to derive meaning from our personal existence.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: boredom, boredom-quotes, tedium, time, time-quotes

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#10

“The epitome of our life force turns on the seam where our tempered idealistic expectations meet the annealed exigencies fueling the cataclysm of a pressing personal crisis. Many of us do not decipher who we are and what we truly cherish until we experience the terror of an inconsolable loss. Failure and suffering lead to self-scrutiny.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: idealism, suffering, suffering-of-humanity, suffering-quote

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#11

“All people share doubts. The lingering question that eventually worms it way into all thinking people’s brain is how to live splendidly and how to die without remorse and regret.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: doubt-quotes, doubting, doubting-mind, doubts, questions-in-life, regret, regrets, remorse

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#12

“Fateful encounters with a cruel world reveal our character. No human is immune from heartbreaking loss. Regardless of our socioeconomic status, eventually everybody shall suffer a grievous personal loss, a body blow that inflicts pain of inexpressible magnitude.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: character, character-building, character-development, character-quote, suffering, suffering-life, suffering-of-humanity, suffering-quote

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#13

“Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons itself to the pang of wanting.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: suffering, suffering-of-humanity, suffering-quote, wanting, wanting-what-you-can-t-have

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#14

“Our attitudes and personal values create outcomes. The consequence of any venture shapes our evolving ethical precepts, and the product of a sundry of worldly experiences in turn establishes our personality.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: attitude, attitude-quotes, attitude-toward-life, experience, personality, personality-development, personality-quotes

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#15

“We live by choice and by necessity. We choose the mechanisms that are essential to ensure satisfaction of our baseline survival. What labor we willingly endure in order to meet our minimalistic subsistence requirements and what activities we elect to pursue in order to mollify our desire for living joyfully and attain self-realization defines our essential self’s core personality.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: joy-quotes, joyful-living, joyful-living-quotes, personality, personality-development, personality-quotes, survival

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#16

“Writing a sincere narrative account of personal adversities and misfortunes is one way to become acquainted with the rifts of a person’s inmost self, the smothered pieces of want that lie separate and undetected amid the customs, habits, vices, and tedium that encases us in the hubbub of daily living.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: narrative-identity, narrr, writing-quotes

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#17

“The greatest act of personal courage is conscientiously to mature, by resolutely striving to achieve self-actualization and self-realization. A person who knows their true self and lives their life in an authentic manner while pursuing their honest passions will lose his misery.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: self-actualization, self-realization

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#18

“The tragedy of life is not death, but fearing to live, allowing parts of us to wilt and die instead of flower and rejoice.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: death, death-and-dying, death-quotes, tragedy

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#19

“Storytelling is the distinctly human implement designed to synthesize our purposeful interaction with reality.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: story, story-of-my-life, storytelling

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#20

“Telling other people our life story changes us in a startling and profound way. The act of telling demands selection, prioritization, evaluation, and synthesis, which intellectual activities increase understanding, make us more sensitive to key distinctions in principles, and expand our empathy for other people.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: story-of-my-life, storytelling

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#21

“Self-questioning is bound to arise at the outset of any worthy quest attempting to gain self-knowledge, and this disconcerting sense of uneasiness will continue to surface akin to a petulant sea serpent until a person undertaking a vision quest either discovers a safe haven or perceptively changes the trajectory of their destructive life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: self-awareness, self-improvement, self-questioning, self-quotes

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#22

“We use the mind to create ourselves. Stuck amid the inevitable gaps between the mint of imagination and the postholes of actuality, we stutter step through the stratum of objective and subjective reality. We constantly amend our internal mental maps. Each day we awaken from the nighttime dream world with a revised identity of ourselves.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: identity, mind, reality-of-life, self, self-identity

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#23

“Feelings of regret represent our aversion to reality.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: regret, regret-quotes, regrets, regrets-of-the-past, regrets-of-yesterday

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#24

“A person can allow a tyrannical world to bully them. One can kowtow to the demands of petty tormentors; blithely accept being the drummer boy for other people’s private parade. Alternatively, a person can seek to obtain autonomy over their life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: freedom-freedom-quotes

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#25

“Self-reflection enables every person to alter the trajectory of their personal storyline by reviewing a series of episodic occurrences and making value judgments regarding the past. How we perceive our history colors the present, our deeds of today script the future outcome of individual persons, and the outcome of many people making conscious decisions using their cognitive processes including the ability to remember and share memories influences the direction of human development and the progress of society.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: consciousness, decisions, humanity, memoir, memories, self-reflection

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#26

“Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an inclusive exploration of the intricacies of what it encompasses to be human. Stories enable us to comprehend the ultimate concerns of human existence and explicitly address the unalterable part of humanity.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: stories, story, story-of-a-soul, story-of-my-life, storytellers

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#27

“We unthinkingly build the pilings of our lives upon whatever comes along. Like it or not, we play the hand that fate deals us. If fate is kind, some people credit their fortuitous circumstances to their ingenuity and resoluteness. If fate is cruel, some people curse God. The truth is that an unenlightened person resists suffering, they continually wish for a world different than it is, whereas an enlightened person learns how to suffer heroically.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: enlightenment, enlightenment-quotes, human-suffering, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy-quotes, life-philosophy-suffering, life-quotes

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#28

“We discover truth by asking rapier-like questions that cut through the thick fog of doctrinarism. Artists and philosophers must be subversive: we need these rebellious cynics to ask questions, they must resist cultural norms; seek out truths that are not self-evident and challenge everything. Doubt, not blind belief, is essential for discovering truth.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: artist, cynicism, cynics, doubt, philosopher, skeptic, skepticism, truth, truth-of-life, truth-quotes

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#29

“The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: experience, experience-quotes, personal-development, personal-growth, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, self-awareness, self-help, self-improvement, self-realization

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#30

“We create a meaningful life by what we accept as true and by what we create in the pursuit of truth, love, beauty, and adoration of nature.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: beauty-in-life, beauty-in-nature, beauty-quotes, life-lessons, life-quotes, meaning-of-life, meaningful-life, truth-of-life

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