Teo

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Teo’s Quotes

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: aspirations, castles-in-the-air, dreams, foundations, futility, goals, security, work-lost

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy

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“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: dance, music

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Teo’s Groups

Goodreads Librarians Group — 304308 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Nonviolent/Compassionate/Needs-Based communication — 10 members — last activity Mar 23, 2015 06:12AM
Inspired by the late Marshall Rosenberg, and his needs-based communication, in this group people from all walks of life meet to share about their expe ...more

Kobo Users — 132 members — last activity Sep 12, 2025 03:24AM
This is a group of people who use Kobo to get together and talk about all things Kobo and book related!

Sentientism — 238 members — last activity 8 hours, 19 min ago
"Sentientism is an ethical philosophy that grants degrees of moral consideration to all sentient beings. Sentientism extends humanism by showing compa ...more