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The secret of health for both mind …

17 May , 2024  

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. Great short quote and quotation by: Buddha , Indian philosopher & religious leader (563 BC – 483 BC)

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The whole drift of my education goe…

25 Jan , 2017  

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist. Great short quote and quotation by: William James , US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 – 1910)

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Grenville Kleiser

There are fine things which you mea…

3 May , 2016  

There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a […]

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Anatole Broyard

There was a time when we expected n…

17 Nov , 2014  

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. Great short quote and quotation by: Anatole Broyard ,

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Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14

To be able to fill leisure intellig…

13 Oct , 2011  

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. Great short quote and quotation by: Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14 , British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

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To be able to fill leisure intellig…

13 Oct , 2011  

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. Great short quote and quotation by: Bertrand Russell , British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

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Lawrence K. Frank

We are living the events which for …

15 Feb , 2011  

We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the […]

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R. D. Laing

We live in a moment of history wher…

15 Feb , 2011  

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. Great short quote and quotation by: R. D. Laing ,

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Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971)

We shall never understand the natur…

15 Feb , 2011  

We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property…. Today you […]

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We think very little of time presen…

15 Feb , 2011  

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that […]

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Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer III: What is an American?

What then is the American, this new…

15 Feb , 2011  

What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french […]

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Tom Robbins

When she was a small girl, Amanda h…

15 Feb , 2011  

When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, […]

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