"Non Degener Addam" (I add without loss)
2/29/20
Alison Gopnik - Children
“It’s not that children are little scientists, it’s actually that scientists are big children.” ~Alison Gopnik
Louise Bourgeois Quotes
“An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.” ~Louise Bourgeois
“He was the wolf, and she was the rational hare, forgiving and accepting him as he was.” ~Louise Bourgeois
“I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands...” ~Louise Bourgeois
“It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.” ~Louise Bourgeois
“My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.” ~Louise Bourgeois
“The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn’t get mad. She weaves and repairs it.” ~Louise Bourgeois
“There are many realities." ~Louise Bourgeois
“To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.” ~Louise Bourgeois
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Sydney Gurewitz Clemens - Art
"Art has the role in education for helping children become more like themselves instead of more like everyone else." ~Sydney Gurewitz Clemens on We Are Born Creative
Tom Hobson Quotes
"Our ability to imagine (or see-in-our-minds) 'all the things that could possibly go wrong' is the child's real handicap." ~Tom Hobson
"The truth is that they already are being careful. The instinct for self-preservation is quite strong in humans. It's a pity that we feel we must teach them to live within our catastrophic imaginations." ~Tom Hobson
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Dr. Edwin Louis Cole Quotes
"Maturity doesn't come with age; it comes with acceptance of responsibility." ~Dr. Edwin Louis Cole
Danny DeVito Quotes
"America's racist, so what do you expect." ~Danny DeVito
"It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway." ~Danny DeVito
"It's unfortunate that the entire country is a racist country. We're living in a country that discriminates, and has certain racist tendencies." ~Danny DeVito
"Kindness is what makes us human." ~Danny Devito
"Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up." ~Danny DeVito
"The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead." ~Danny DeVito
"The whole point of love is to put someone else’s needs above your own." ~Danny DeVito
"There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?" ~Danny DeVito
"We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space." ~Danny DeVito
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2/23/20
Rachel Marie Martin - Learn to find joy
"Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought it would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living." ~Rachel Marie Martin
Billie Mobayed - Mending broken objects
"When Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandise the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage has a history it becomes more beautiful." ~Billie Mobayed
Carly Simon - Good person
"I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody." ~Carly Simon
St. MARY Helen MACKILLOP Quotes
"Be eager in your desires but humbly patient in their accomplishment." ~Mary MacKillop
“Do all you can with the means at your disposal and calmly leave the rest to God” ~Saint Mary MacKillop
"Find happiness in making others happy." ~Mary MacKillop
"God gives me strength for what is necessary." ~St. Mary Mackillop
"Let God's Spirit guide you in your choice"~St. Mary Mackillop (1898)
"Let us all resign ourselves into His hands, and pray that in all things He may guide us to do His Holy Will ... When thoughts of this or that come I turn to Him and say: "Only what you will, my God. Use me as You will." ~Mary MacKillop
"Never see a need without doing something about it." ~Saint Mary MacKillop
"Remember we are but travellers here." ~Saint Mary MacKillop
"We feel our crosses hard at times, but our courage should rise with them." ~St. Mary MacKillop (1882)
"We must teach more by example than by word." ~Mary MacKillop
"Whatever troubles may be before you, accept them bravely, remembering Whom you are trying to follow. Do not be afraid. Love one another, bear with one another, and let charity guide you all your life. God will reward you as only He can." ~Mary MacKillop
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Theodore Hesburgh - on Marriage Relationship
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." ~Theodore Hesburgh
2/21/20
SEBASTIAN KNEIPP Quotes
"I returned to the old, abandoned, and forgotten herbs, have tested their healing power and have cured some of severe and long-suffering." ~Sebastian Kneipp
"Nature is the best pharmacy." ~Sebastian Kneipp
Imam Hassan ibn Ali Quotes
"Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it." ~Imam Ali
Ashton Applewhite - on Ageism
"Ageism is a prejudice against our own future selves." ~Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks
2/20/20
Mort Walker - on Laughter
"Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart." ~Mort Walker
Jimbo Henderson - on Imagination
"Don't let a poor imagination be your downfall." ~Jimbo Henderson, from Happiness in you life: brighten your day group
2/16/20
Lilly Singh - Foundation
"You need a rock-solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.” ~Lilly Singh
Lillian Russell - Medicine
"Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine." ~Lillian Russell
Quotes on COBWEBS
"A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it." ~Henry Ward Beecher
"Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives." ~Denis Waitley
"If I could have just one more wish, I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes." ~Ozzy Osbourne
"Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart." ~Mort Walker
"Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains." ~Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
"Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine." ~Lillian Russell
"Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off." ~Diogenes
"The greatest force is derived from the power of thought. The finer the element, the more powerful it is. The silent power of thought influences people even at a distance, because mind is one as well as many. The universe is a cobweb; minds are spiders." ~Swami Vivekananda
"The last cobwebs of fog in the black firtrees are flakes of white ash in the world's hearth." ~Denise Levertov
"The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be." ~William Hazlitt
"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear." ~Mahatma Gandhi
"Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs." ~George Eliot
"When you bring the light into your dark house, that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders." ~Rajneesh
SPIDERS/OTHERS
“The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn’t get mad. She weaves and repairs it.” ~Louise Bourgeois
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2/11/20
Felicity Huffman - Colour
"She does love lavender because it's the colour of transformation." ~Felicity Huffman
JAMES SALTER QUOTES
"A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold." ~James Salter
"Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long a time, it can happen overnight. You are the same and still the same and suddenly one morning two distinct lines, ineradicable, have appeared at the corners of your mouth." ~James Salter
"But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires. Still, anything can be endured if all humanity is watching. The martyrs prove it. We live in the attention of others. We turn to it as flowers to the sun." ~James Salter
"Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source from which may be drawn a life more successful, more knowing than our own. Somehow they will do one thing, take one step further, they will see the summit. We believe in it, the radiance that streams from the future, from days we will not see. Children must live, must triumph. Children must die; that is an idea we cannot accept." ~James Salter
"I am creating him out of my own inadequacies, you must remember that." ~James Salter
"I always knew writing a novel was a great thing." ~James Salter
"I like men who have known the best and the worst, whose life has been anything but a smooth trip. Storms have battered them, they have lain, sometimes for months on end, becalmed. There is a residue even if they fail. It has not been all tinkling; there have been grand chords." ~James Salter
"I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want." ~James Salter
"If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time." ~James Salter
"It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.” ~James Salter "It seems to me that literature is giving way a little bit to the immediacy of other diversions, other forms of entertainment. What will it be in fifty years? I don't know. Will there be printed books? Probably, but I'm not sure. There's always going to be literature, though. I believe that. I think literature has a way of getting deep into people and being essential. Literature has its own powers." ~James Salter
"It was love, the furnace into which everything was dropped.” ~James Salter
"ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.” ~James Salter "One should not believe too easily in a life which can easily vanish.” ~James Salter
"One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.” ~James Salter
"The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through, if one dares, and collecting them, one discovers the true design." ~James Salter
"There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection." ~James Salter
"You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable." ~James Salter
"Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you." ~James Salter
BIO
James Salter
Novelist
James Arnold Horowitz, better known as James Salter, his pen name and later-adopted legal name, was an American novelist and short-story writer. Originally a career officer and pilot in the United States Air Force, he resigned from the military in 1957 following the successful publication of his first novel, The Hunters.
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Ray Norda - Change
"Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die." ~Ray Norda
2/10/20
RON PAUL Quotes
“Don't steal - the government hates competition!” ~Ron Paul
“I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.” ~Ron Paul
“It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.” ~Ron Paul
“Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger.” ~Ron Paul
“One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.” ~Ron Paul
"Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms." ~Ron Paul
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” ~Ron Paul
"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." ~Ron Paul
"Vote all you want, the Secret Government won't change." ~Ron Paul (The Mind Unleashed)
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A THOUGHT TO PONDER: On Forgetting
"There's really no shortcut to forgetting someone. You just have to endure missing them everyday until you don't anymore." ~Anon
Nicolas Cage - Understanding
Photo: CTTO
Amanda Patterson - Learned in life
"One of the most important things I've learned in life is to ignore most of what people say. I watch what they do instead." ~Amanda Patterson
Lilibeth Bonifacio. - On Learning
"Learning is very generic, it's open to everyone. For as long as they have the open mind to learn." ~Lilibeth Bonifacio, acting Chief of BOH Interim Training and Development Division (Philippines)
Michael P. Watson - Listen to respond
"You can never win an argument with a negative person. They only hear what suits them and listen only to respond." ~Michael P. Watson
A THOUGHT TO PONDER: Someone's comfort
"Don't you dare shrink yourself for someone else's comfort. Do not become small for people who refused to grow." ~Anon
2/8/20
Musings of a Wanderer - Embrace life
"People who live fulfilling lives don’t wait for things to change. They grab and embrace life today. Such people may be called dreamers or visionaries or crazy. They don’t bother. They simply live." ~Ashokwahi, Musings of a Wanderer
2/6/20
Dame Whina Cooper - How the children grow
"Take care of our children. Take care of what they hear. Take care of what they see. Take care of what they feel.
For how the children grow, so will be they shape of Aotearoa." ~Dame Whina Cooper
For how the children grow, so will be they shape of Aotearoa." ~Dame Whina Cooper
A THOUGHT TO PONDER: The Wisdom of A Grandma
"If you give a person too much too soon, they'll fall in love with your hand and not your heart" ~Grandma Anon
Marianne E.Neifert - Fundamental unit
"The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be.” ~Marianne E.Neifert
Galen Rowell - Statement of individuality
“My first thought is always of light.” - Galen Rowell
Letty Cottin - A canoe and a paddle
"If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles." ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Family and Politics
2/4/20
A THOUGHT TO PONDER: Lessons of Life
"Not everyone is meant to be in your future. Some people are just passing through to give you lessons in your life." ~Anon by Simple Capacity
Heather Stillufsen - Rainbow
"Keep walking through the storm. Your rainbow is waiting on the other side." ~Heather Stillufsen
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