Quotes:  Food for Thought 


         I've been collecting quotes for over thirty years, things people have said that are wise,         inspiring, thought-provoking, or humorous that have had a nurturing and sustaining 
        effect on my life and at times helped make it seem like it's worth the effort, or at least 
        got me through the day. Don't assume I live up to them, but they remind me of how I 
        want to try to think and live, giving me a direction I want to move toward. This page is                  dedicated to those little bon mots with the hope that some may serve others the way 
        they have me.


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        Don't think it won't happen
        Just because it hasn't happened yet.         Jackson Browne
                                            (true of good things as well as bad)


        You never knew what I loved in you
        I don't know what you loved in me
        Maybe the picture of somebody 
        You were hoping I might be                      Jackson Browne


        Just do the steps that you’ve been shown
        By everyone you’ve ever known
        Until the dance becomes your very own.  Jackson Browne




         The natural world is a spiritual house . . . Man walks                      there through forests of physical things that are also 
        spiritual things, that watch him with affectionate looks. 


                                                                  Charles Baudelaire 

        A self-directed enjoyment of nature seems to me to 
        be something forced. More naturally, as well as more         properly, we take a self-forgetful pleasure in the sheer 
        alien pointless independent existence of animals, birds,         stones and trees. 

                                                                         Iris Murdoch


        There are so many ways to change the sentences we have 
        been given.
                                                                Terry Tempest Williams

        The stories we tell, the ways we think about the world have 
        huge consequences, and so do our actions. Ideas shape 
        reality and they can change the world. 

                                                                            Rebecca Solnit

        They do and they have throughout history.   BN


        In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the         expert’s mind there are few. 
                                                                           Shunryu Suzuki


        “When the evidence shows a conspiracy theory is wrong, 
        then the evidence, by definition, must also be wrong —         because the conspiracy theory must be right.” Quote from         article detailing Trump’s six attempts to hire people to find         evidence he won the 2020 election, author unknown

        “I was very impressed with myself to have the head of 
        Apple calling to ‘kiss my ass.’ " (Interesting interpretation)

                                   President  Donald Trump re Tim Cook


        The emerging fissure was of a different order. It brought 
        an increase in violence. A brutality that didn’t ask if it 
        was necessary or not.

                  Henning Mankell, The Man with the Mask (novel)




        It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that 
        you carried on the human heritage. 

                                                                     George Orwell, 1984

        What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters         compared to what lies within us. 

                                                                   Ralph Waldo Emerson

       
        I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself 
        if some people did. 

                                                                                Henry James 




        Self-importance is our greatest enemy. What weakens                us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of 
        our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we 
        spend most of our lives offended by someone. 

                                                                Carlos Castaneda 


        Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through              your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It 
        is being able to place a circle of power at your own feet 
        and not take power from someone else’s circle.

                                                                  Agnes Whistling Elk