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BORROWED, BEGGED, AND STOLEN WISDOM, PART SEVEN

Gooding with guitar

(Things I have borrowed, begged, andstolen from books, movies, conversations, etc.)

 

The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care. —Hugh McCleod

Always comes back to the same necessity—you go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth. —May Sarton

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind and the third is to be kind. —Henry James

Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, and above all thou shalt not be a BYSTANDER. —Holocaust Museum, DC

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter most. —MLK

It’s the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from those who are strong. —Leo Raskin

It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done. —Harriet Beacher Stowe

God’s away on business. —Tom Waits

Up up up points the spine of the steeple
But God’s work isn’t done by God, it’s done by people
—Ani Difranco

You’re so heavenly minded you’re no earthly good. —J. R. Cash

The cure for guilt is gratefulness. —The Doc

Storytelling remains basic: It’s just a campfire, the human connection that says you’re not alone … In a world of unlimited voices and choices, those who can bring people together and tell a good story have power. —Shonda Rhimes

A leader works for those they lead. —Martine Rothblatt

When I started counting my blessings, my whole world turned around. —Willie Nelson

Trying to be someone else is the hardest road there is. —Willie Nelson

We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves… —Sylvia Plath

Do not go where the path may lead, instead go where there is no path and leave a trail. —Emerson

Away with the world’s opinion of you. It’s always unsettled and divided. It’s only when you are breathing your last breath that the way you’ve spent your life will become apparent. —Unknown

All know the way. Few actually walk it. —Bodhidharma

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. —Elie Wiesel

It’ll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself. —Henry Rollins

Tired of being tied by my own hands, ready to follow my instincts over my plans.

Let no doubt into your dreams or intentions—dreamers are the saviors of the world.

A good scare is worth more than good advice. —The Doc

Willie: You ain’t ready to talk to no Hunt Sears.
Redford: What I gotta do first, jog?
The Electric Horseman

Man is asked to make of himself what himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. —P. Tillich

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury. —Jean De La Fontaine

What you seek is seeking you. —Rumi

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