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This morning I found a list of quotes/aphorisms that I once thought were important; as I sip my tea, I’m appreciating the fact that I have been consistent in things.
1). don’t throw out the baby with the bath water 🙂
My original journal entry had 123 quotes/aphorisms, but I am relaying the ones that I starred then. I am wondering to myself, would I elevate the same ones in importance or choose others at this time?
Next I’ll list the ones that I put a star next to, way back when. Unfortunately, I do not know who all of them are attributed to, so i welcome your help in the comments section, if you are inclined to do things like this, in this way.
-> “truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion”
-> “neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them”
-> “necessity has been with great truth called the mother of invention. some of the noblest exertions of the human mind have been set in motion by the necessity of satisfying the wants of the body. T. Robert Malthus, 1798
-> “i may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.” Voltaire (1694-1778)
-> “you cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” Mark Twain
-> “i would rather be able to appreciate the things i cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. Elbert Hubbard
-> “access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.” – Plato
-> “do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. be not simply good; be good for something.” – Henry David Thoreau
-> “memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary”
-> “half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not. – E.R. Beadle
-> “the course of true anything does not run smooth” – Samuel Butler
-> “most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
-> “never apologize for showing feeling, when you do so, you apologize for the truth.” -Benajmin Disraeli
-> “he who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
-> “the education of the will is the object of our existence” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
-> “time will explain it all. he is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks” – Euripides
-> “brevis esse laboro, obsurus fio.” (When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.) Horace from Ars Poetica.
-> “one cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
-> “you don’t understand anything, unless you learn it more than one way. – Marvin Minsky
Sheri Munce – Hide and Seek
-> “not everything is better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.” – Pindar
-> “we are never so happy or unhappy as we think.” -Francois duc la Rochefoucauld
-> “humor is the affectionate communication of insight” – Leo Rosten
-> “fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.” – George Santayana
-> “everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world – Arthur Schopenhauer.
-> “the mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect” – Robert Louis Stevenson
-> “anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”
-> “there is nothing so easy that becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.”
-> “if you build castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put that foundation under them.” Henry David Thoreau
**I typed all these quotes out. It’s an exercise in absorbing their wisdom**
May your day be filled with many moments that you can enjoy!
Tracing the lines of the leaf to the contours of the wall,
Fiesta Estrellas 
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