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“First they ignore you.
then they laugh at you.
then they fight you,
then you win.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Quote #34: “First they ignore you… “
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Quote #33: The highest point of philosophy…
Glad Day, or Dance of Albion by William Blake, c. 1804
“The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.”
John Chrysostom (c. 347-407)
Quote # 32: Pete Seeger’s Banjo
“This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.”
…words inscribed on Pete Seeger’s banjo
Pete Seeger
(1919-2014)
Quote #31: Salvador Dali on madness
“The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad.”
Salvador Dali (as quoted by Susan Sontag in As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh)
Quote #30: John Cage on the meaning of life
“No why. Just here.”
John Cage
Quote #29: Adrienne Rich on “love”
Adrienne Rich
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An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love” — is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
Adrienne Rich (quoted from brainpickings)
Quote #28: The Door of Opportunity…or of Truth
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“The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Quote #27: Allen Ginsberg, “Follow your inner moonlight…”
“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide your madness.” Allen Ginsberg
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Quote #26: Ted Hughes’ “To Paint a Water Lily”
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… Now paint the long-necked lily-flower
Which, deep in both worlds, can be still
As a painting, trembling hardly at all
Though the dragonfly alight,
Whatever horror nudge her root.
from “To Paint a Water Lily,” Ted Hughes
Quote of the week #25: Thoreau’s Thanksgiving
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how one can be with nothing definite–only a sense of existence.”
Henry David Thoreau (letter to Harrison Blake, 1856)
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