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Monday, November 23, 2015

Quotes - Simple Living




Quotes can nudge us out of our mental ruts and dead ends.


“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?”
- E. M. Forster


“I’d come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted one of the bedrooms into my work space and through its windows watched the wildlife appear each morning with the sunrise. Many were the days I would sit in wonder, coffee in hand, for hours.”
- David Mixner


“There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.”
- Jo Walton


“Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
- Albert Einstein


“The earth has music for those who listen.”
- George Santayana


“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.”
- Herman Hesse


"Do not let your free will, the most valuable thing you possess, be taken away."
- Helmuth Hubener


"Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman."
- Joan Jett


"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
- Albert Camus


"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
- Edward Abbey


"Truth is so obscured nowadays, and lies so well established, that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it."
- Blaise Pascal


"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."
- Martin Luther King


“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”
- Thucydides


“No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it.”
- Carroll Bryant


“Humour is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, it's unplanned, it's full of suprises.”
- Erma Bombeck


“Plans are invitation to disappointment.”
- Derek Landy


"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
- Albert Camus


"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."
- Alfred Adler


"Be silly. Be honest. Be kind."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies in world history, like the United States and Canada, are racing full-speed ahead to destroy the environment as quickly as possible."
- Noam Chomsky


"The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience."
— Victor Gollancz


“It is the consumers of the rich nations of the temperate northern regions of the world who are primarily responsible for the ongoing loss of natural wealth in the tropics."
- Jonathan Loh


“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
- Confucius


“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans”
- John Lennon


“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing”
- Lao Tzu


“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
- Socrates




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