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So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) American writer, futurist, fabulist
Zen in the Art of Writing, Preface (1994)

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Zen in the Art of Writing, Preface (1994) - Bradbury, Ray | WIST Quotations

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

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WIST Quotations Sep 26

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

If we are indeed here to perfect and complete our own natures, and grow larger, stronger, and more sympathetic against some nobler career in the future, we had all best bestir ourselves to the utmost while we have the time. To equip a dull, respectable person with wings would be but to make a parody of an angel.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 38

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Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Aug 26

A #question not enough people ask is whether or not the world and #society actually ought to be the way they are, whether or not there might actually be better ways of doing things, whether #traditions are #based in #evidence and #logic—or even #compassion and #dignity—and whether or not we can make life better.

The ultimate purpose of life is to live well—to pursue #wellbeing and #selfactualization. If we fail in this, we have wasted the most precious gift of all. #philosophy #epitaph #⚛️

WIST Quotations Aug 13

A quotation from Candice Bergen

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen (b. 1946) American actress
Knock Wood, “Starting Over” (1984)

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WIST Quotations Aug 6

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties, and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 7 “The Sense of Sin” (1930)

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WIST Quotations Jul 11

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 28, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, ch. 8 [Malicia] (2008)

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dustinthewind.dude Jun 13

what new tyranny will replace the old while the 'liberty' of 'free' persons remains a fiction, as 'legal'?

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TheUnderAndOver May 9

I read somewhere that (beyond religious reasons) most of us are monogamous these days because we have low self worth and are selfish. We're afraid that introducing anyone else to the equation will introduce the possibility of being lesser than, and we believe that our partners pleasure should only ever come from us and us alone.

Thoughts? 🧐

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