Oh! to shoot for the stars if feels right. Aim for my heart if it feels right.
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Quote:- Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
Author:- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.
Tempest-Tost
Author:- Robertson Davies
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Ojalá Critón, que la mayoría fuera capaz de llevar a cabo los mayores males, con tal de que fuera capaz de realizar los mayores bienes, que entonces todo iría bellamente. Mas, por el contrario, de ninguna de las dos cosas son capaces, que no pueden hacer ni lo sensato ni lo insensato, sino tan solo lo que les salga a la ventura
Apología de Sócrates
Author:- Socrates
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Okay, then, what was he like? Just give me something to go on so that I have a shot at him!''A shot at him? Are you on an elk hunt?
Sweethearts
Author:- Sara Zarr
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.
Shades of Grey
Author:- Jasper Fforde
Category:- time
Quote:- Okay, we didn’t work, and allmemories to tell you the truth aren’t good.But sometimes there were good times.Love was good. I loved your crooked sleepbeside me and never dreamed afraid.There should be stars for great warslike ours.
Author:- Sandra Cisneros (Author)
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Old foliage ignores the anxious sun / since dismal winds convince each brittle branch / to hold no moment closely or too long / now shadows spread and all turns silhouette. / But then she smiles, reviving life with light, / and hope may spring eternal one more night.(from April, Autumnal)
The Humbling and Other Poems
Author:- Robert J. Tiess
Category:- hope
Quote:- Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.
All the Seas of the World
Author:- Gayla Reid
Category:- hope
Quote:- Old words are reborn with new faces.
Killosophy
Author:- Criss Jami
Category:- poetry,best,knowledge
Quote:- Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something."The manuscript you brought me, by that bishop. It argues that understanding is more important than movement. That action is virtuous only if it reflects pure comprehension, and that virtue comes from the comprehension, not the action."Olivier frowned. "So?""Dear boy, I must tell you a secret.""What?""I do believe it is wrong.
The Dream of Scipio
Author:- Iain Pears
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Om (AUM) the Divine song is at the same time Symmetry, Supersymmetry, broken Symmetry, and the unbroken Symmetry of Nature.
Om Chanting & Meditation
Author:- Amit Ray
Category:- science
Quote:- Omicron is the time that the universe listened to life. It's just a shame that man didn't.
Author:- Anthony T. Hincks
Category:- time
Quote:- Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.
Author:- Dejan Stojanovic
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- On a basic level, being good in bed is not about techniques or positions. It’s about listening, paying attention and being considerate.
You're a Nice Guy, But You're Bad in Bed
Author:- Elsie Gilmore
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy for pro-lifers to eat factory-raised animals that disrespect everything sacred about creation. And that is why it's easy for rabid environmentalists to hate chainsaws even though they snuggle into a mattress supported by a black walnut bedstead.
Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
Author:- Joel Salatin
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely different elements, as though the body were only a home with which the mind has been associated but by no means bound. Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses. You see without assistance from the eyes, over distances beyond the visual horizon. There are moments when existence appears independent even of the mind. The importance of physical desire and immediate surroundings is submerged in the apprehension of universal values.For unmeasurable periods, I seem divorced from my body, as though I were an awareness spreading out through space, over the earth and into the heavens, unhampered by time or substance, free from the gravitation that binds to heavy human problems of the world. My body requires no attention. It's not hungry. It's neither warm or cold. It's resigned to being left undisturbed. Why have I troubled to bring it here? I might better have left it back at Long Island or St. Louis, while the weightless element that has lived within it flashes through the skies and views the planet. This essential consciousness needs no body for its travels. It needs no plane, no engine, no instruments, only the release from flesh which circumstances I've gone through make possible.Then what am I – the body substance which I can see with my eyes and feel with my hands? Or am I this realization, this greater understanding which dwells within it, yet expands through the universe outside; a part of all existence, powerless but without need for power; immersed in solitude, yet in contact with all creation? There are moments when the two appear inseparable, and others when they could be cut apart by the merest flash of light.While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.
The Spirit of St. Louis
Author:- Charles A. Lindbergh
Category:- time
Quote:- On a philosophical level, it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinism. The system is deterministic, but you can’t say what it’s going to do next.
Author:- J. Doyne Farmer
Category:- science
Quote:- On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to one’s body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty.
The Petting Zoo
Author:- Jim Carroll
Category:- time