“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” Roald Dahl, “The Twits”
When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high and you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don’t you quit. Life is strange
“There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.” – William James
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. – Herman Hesse
“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.” – William Penn
“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.” – Émile Zola Perhaps in the light of recent protests and mind-bending developments, we should all try to ‘live out loud.’
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Oddly, he was on his hands and knees, chin inserted at the fork of a large tree limb. His wrists were tied to stakes driven into the ground on either side of his tree-trapped head. As he moved his legs, he realized the same arrangement bound his knees. Moldy odors roiled on the air currents,
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“And the song, from beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1868 Write a genuine letter to a dear friend.Make that phone call you’ve been trying to find time to do.Send a funny ‘thinking of you’ card. Reach out and contact someone. It’ll be meaningful, whether in the larger
Archaeologists recently discovered tiny fragments of ancient ivory with astrological symbols carved on them. The experts date the fragments back to the Babylonians, the people responsible for establishing the roots of astrology, some 2500-3000 years ago. While I wasn’t practicing my celestial craft quite that long ago, I have observed astrology has enjoyed many resurgences
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