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Wisdom Quotes from Wise Men & Women To Impart Knowledge
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Commentary © 2007 Richard J. Chandler & Bonnett Chandler
Like Thoreau, it may be that our bigger regrets have to do with living life too conservatively.
“If I repent of anything it is very likely to be my good behavior.”
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
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Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega Y Gasset’s focus for riding life’s many edges…
“Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance.”
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955)
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Ellen Goodman’s syndicated columns, about the human side of the news, appear in over 375 newspapers...
“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.”
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From Erich Fromm, the 20th century philosopher and psychologist most noted for his book, The Art Of Loving…
“Modern man lives under the illusion the he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.”
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From an early supporter of Darwin’s theory on evolution and the man who first declared that birds evolved from dinosaurs...
"I'm too much a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.”
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895)
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An insight from author, filmmaker, composer and perhaps our foremost modern authority on how to create what you want, Robert Fritz…
"A primary choice is about concrete results, whereas a fundamental choice is about life orientation or a state of being."
"…There are many people who have chosen the religious path (primary choice) without making the fundamental choice to live in accordance with their highest spiritual truths."
" There are many people who have chosen to be married (primary choice) without making the fundamental choice to live from within a committed relationship."
- Robert Fritz
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A uniquly wise, rigorous and original view on education…
“… in addition to the fulfillment of my scholastic duties, I practiced various manual crafts and skills under [my first teacher’s] special instruction. [His] most characteristic educational procedure …was that, as soon as he noticed that I was becoming familiar with any particular craft and was beginning to like it, he immediately made me give it up and pass on to another. As I understood much later, his aim was not that I should learn all sorts of crafts but should develop in myself the ability to surmount the difficulties presented by any kind of new work. And indeed, from that time on, work of every kind had sense and interest for me, not in itself, but only in so far as I did not know it and did know how to do it.”
- G. I. Gurdjieff
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In this letter to his more grown son, Lord Chesterfield confided...
While you were a child, I endeavored to form your heart habitually to virtue and honor, before your understanding was capable of showing you their beauty and utility."
- Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)
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Service To Others
"The service we render others is really the rent we pay for our room on the earth."
- Sir Wilfred Grenfel
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A Wisdom Quote from Ken Kesey
Note: While this quotation by Ken Kesey, a modern thinker who was very influential in the 1960’s – the 1970’s, is overtly about the environment, it has a great deal to offer for many aspects of our lives, such as in relationships, advise and stress management.
"Take what you can use and let the rest go by."
- Ken Kesey
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Norman Cousins, Author of Anatomy Of An Illnesswas best know for curing
his extremely debilitating disease through laughter.
"We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth."
- Norman Cousins
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