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Welcome to these regular musings, meanderings, wonderings and wanderings by Wendy Priesnitz. Some of my Favorite Quotes “It is not the clay the potter throws that gives the jar its usefulness, but the space within.” ~ Lao-Tzu “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” ~ Rudyard Kipling “Art is a form of the verb to be.” ~ Julia Cameron “Whenever I get somewhere, a poet has been there first.” ~ Sigmund Freud “If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” ~ Noam Chomsky “Rather than yearning to be full-time artists, we might aspire to being full-time humans. When we do, art is the overflow of a heart filled with life.” ~ Julia Cameron “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” ~ Michelangelo “You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.” ~ Nietzsche “I’ve been terrified every day of my life but that’s never stopped me from doing everything I wanted to do.” ~ Georgia O’Keefe Life and Living“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.” ~ Albert Camus “Now Suzanne takes your hand and she leads you to the river. And she shows you where to look, among the garbage and the flowers. They are leaning out for love. They will lean that way forever….” ~ Leonard Cohen “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~ Krishnamurti “It takes a long time to grow young.” ~ Pablo Picasso “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” ~ Sam Keen “You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.” ~ Navajo proverb “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith “I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch.” ~ Gilda Radner “Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their children, and their children’s children.” ~ Noah ben Shea “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” ~ Dr. Seuss “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.” ~ C.S. Lewis “Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson “Not all men are like trees; some must travel and cannot keep still.” ~ Romany proverb “I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing.” Dawna Markova “My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.” ~ Indira Gandhi “There is properly no history; only biography.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson “Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.” ~ John Lennon “The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” ~ Lily Tomlin “The tragedy of life is not death, rather, it is what we allow to die within us while we live.” ~ Norman Cousins “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ~ Carl Jung “Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us.” ~ Caroline Myss “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.” ~ Buddha “Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.” ~ P. J. O’Rourke “I feel cluttered when there is no time to analyze experience. That is the stilt-unexplored experience that literally chokes the mind.” ~ May Sarton “Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.” ~ bell hooks “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” ~ Marie Curie Men and Women “MAN is a brand name for male human. Use it and female humans feel left out.” ~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin “Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.” ~ Faith Whittlesey “If men can run the world, why can’t they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?” ~ Linda Ellerbee “Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.” ~ Katherine Hepburn “I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.” ~ Gloria Steinem “Where is the wisdom lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge lost in information?” ~ T. S. Eliot “If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying. ” ~ Coleman Hawkings, jazz musician “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” ~ Isaac Asimov “Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.” ~ Albert Einstein “College isn't the place to go for ideas.” ~ Helen Keller “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” ~ Albert Einstein “Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” ~ Oscar Wilde “I was fortunate enough to extricate myself before insensibility set in.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright, on quitting school at 13 “Most of us are tactful enough with other adults not to point out their errors but not many of us are ready to extend this courtesy to children.” ~ John Holt “What is the difference between genius and stupidity? Genius has limits.” ~ Albert Einstein “My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.” ~ Margaret Mead “Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” ~ Mark Twain “I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.” ~ Agatha Christie “It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.” ~ Albert Einstein “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ~ William Butler Yeats “Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.” ~ Beatrix Potter “The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.” ~ H. L. Mencken “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” ~ Alvin Toffler “It is a miracle that curiosity survives a formal education.” ~ Albert Einstein “What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch out of a free, meandering brook.” ~ Henry David Thoreau “Rabbit’s clever,” said Pooh thoughtfully. “Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit’s clever.” “And he has Brain.” “Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit has Brain.” There was a long silence. “I suppose,” said Pooh, “that that’s why he never understands anything.” ~ A.A. Milne “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” ~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” ~ Albert Einstein “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~ Margaret Mead “To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.” ~ Wendell Berry “What is the use of a house if you don’t have a decent planet to put it on?” ~ Henry David Thoreau “Be the change you wish to see in the world…” ~ Gandhi
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