Quotes

A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.

Passion →

Published October 16, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 16  ·  ,

Passion creates, addiction consumes.

~ Gabor Maté

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Prioritize →

Published October 15, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 15  ·  

I’m struck by how, except when you’re young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up your time and energy. If you don’t get that sort of system set by a certain age, you’ll lack focus and your life will be out of balance.

~ Haruki Murakami

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Writer’s block →

Published October 14, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 14  ·  , ,

Re: Writer’s Block. Perhaps more should have it. Perhaps the disease, the dilemma, the affliction is trying to tell the writer something. Much that is being produced is unnecessary, indulgent. When the sincerity, the weird naïveté and enchanted stupor of writing leaves the host—the writer—one can only pray for their return, their reintegration.

~ Joy Williams

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Contentment →

Published October 13, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 13  ·  

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

~ Ansel Adams

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Understanding →

Published October 12, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 12  ·  , ,

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

~ Upton Sinclair

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Bondage →

Published October 11, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 11  ·  ,

The inability to think logically is a form of bondage. The refusal to think logically is proof of already being bound.

~ Kareem Abdul-Jabar

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Possibility →

Published October 10, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 10  ·  ,

Hope is not happiness or confidence or inner peace; It’s a commitment to search for possibilities.

~ Rebecca Solnit

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Driven a little mad →

Published October 9, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 9  ·  , ,

Reading is letting someone else model the world for you. This is an act of intimacy. When the author is morose, you become morose. When he is mirthful, eventually you may share it. And after finishing a very good book one is driven a little mad, forced to return from a world that no one nearby has witnessed.

~ Simon Sarris

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The actual work →

Published October 8, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 8  ·  ,

The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.

~ Jessica Hische

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An agreeable tour →

Published October 7, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 7  ·  , ,

No enjoyment, however inconsiderable, is confined to the present moment. A man is happier for life from having made once an agreeable tour, or lived for any length of time among pleasant people, or enjoyed any considerable interval of innocent pleasure.

~ Sydney Smith

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