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Some observations about life from Helen Keller.
We could all learn something from her! "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature..... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something." "Science has found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings." "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land." "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui." "There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his." "As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love clears and sharpens the vision." "The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next." "Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood." "The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but no vision." |
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That was beautiful .....thanks for posting
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Eye's are just sensors for reflected light... Proof... Turn out the Light...
FEEL what you should be seeeing... Just FEEL it... You can, you know... You just forgot How; to feel your way using your consciousness... Wow... Dan... This is Really good stuff. Nice..... Trooly, Tango Last edited by Tango; 11-10-2009 at 11:30 PM. |
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I want to add a few more quotes that I like!
"Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected...then get even." _James Carville "Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive." _Tex Avery "Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats." _Howard Aiken "Don't carry a grudge. While you're carring the grudge, the other guy's out dancing." _Buddy Hackett "Don't judge each day by the harvest that you reap, but by the seeds that you plant." _Robert Louis Stevenson "Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got." _Janis Joplin "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." _Charles Schulz |
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These are great Dan...haha
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"If life is a bowl of cherries,
what am I doing in the pitts?" _Erma Bombeck ( I think) "I didn't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs." _Nancy Reagan (asked a political question during a "just say no" rally) "Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people." _Richard Nixon |
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![]() ![]() seems you have to "wake up" to really understand what they really meant |
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I'll add one..since this is in the Spirituality section....
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi |
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Excellent words...........................
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"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff.
I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it on a jar on my desk." _Stephen King "You don't write because you want to say something... you write because you've got something to say." _F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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"Just imagine if nothing you did was based on fear or insecurity."
_Adyashanti |
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For most people
death is an awakening from a lifelong sleep. |
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Dan, those are wonderful statements and some are very thought provoking. I enjoyed this. Thank you.
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Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli (British Prime Minister 1874-1880)
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own." "It is much easier to be critical than to be correct." "What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens." "Man is only truly great when he acts from passion." "There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honor." "Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius." "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." |
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Here's some more quotes from Helen...
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968) College isn't the place to go for ideas. People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. |
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