Quotes & Sayings About Simple Living And High Thinking

The essence of Druidry is training the mind to both handle contradictory input and construct contradictory output.'
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'I continued to lecture a bit more, to disguise the fact that I was getting my ass handed to me by my dog. — Kevin Hearne

When photography was invented, people had to make room in their minds for the idea that the dead would always be visible. — Vicki Goldberg

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home. — Emily Bronte

Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot. — Margot Datz

We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe. — Carl Sagan

This is the message of your life and my life - it's that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children - nothing lasts. To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It's literally psychological nomadism is what it is. — Terence McKenna

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

Here," he said, "I place the man I was aside the man I am now. And we have not the same hope nor thought, yet are one continuous breath from the body of I, Akiyama Akio. — Tamara Rendell

I was meant to sensitivity. — Jep Gambardella

I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up. — Bucky Pope

When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson. — Barack Obama

Do not suppose you are hurt, and your complaint ceases; cease your complaint, and you are not hurt (iv. 7), — Marcus Aurelius

The lottery question might get you thinking about what you would do if talent and money didn't matter. But they do. The question twentysomethings need to ask themselves is what they would do with their lives if they didn't win the lottery. — Meg Jay