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Quotes
I used to love buying books of quotes when my parents took us to the bookstore. I've bookmarked some elsewhere on my website, but I'm going to start putting them here. ( e.g. - https://davidawindham.com/education-through-recreation/)
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." - Henry David Thoreau wrote in Walden
"A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both." - L.P. Jacks
"Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are." - Ortega y Gasset
"The nicest thing about anything is not knowing what it is." - George Carlin
"If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise." - William Blake
"You know, I'm sick of following my dreams, man. I'm just going to ask where they're going and hook up with 'em later." - Mitch Hedberg
"The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed." - Terence McKenna
"The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously." - Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time" - Steven Wright
"The more opinions you have, the less you see" - Wim Wenders
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso