Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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‘Suffering should not make us bitter people,’ my mother once said, ‘it should make us better comforters.’ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.
Billy Graham
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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.
Duke Ellington
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People get a kick out of my stupidity.
Dolly Parton
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The world remains ever the same.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier… I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
Steven Wright
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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
George Herbert
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If a donkey bray at you, don’t bray at him.
George Herbert
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Buddha
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When you talk about any difficulties with money, a relationship, an illness, or even that the profits of your business are down, you are not talking about what you love. When you talk about a bad event in the news, or a person or situation that annoyed or frustrated you, you are not talking about what you love. Talking about the bad day you had, being late for an appointment, getting caught in traffic, or missing the bus are all talking about what you don’t love. There are many little things that happen each day; if you get caught up in talking about what you don’t love, every one of those little things brings more struggle and difficulty to your life. You have to talk about the good news of the day. Talk about the appointment that went well. Talk about how you love being on time. Talk about how good it is to be full of health. Talk about the profits you want your business to achieve. Talk about the situations and interactions you had in your day that went well. You have to talk about what you love, to bring what you love to you.
Rhonda Byrne
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I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
Eminem
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