Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday –

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Chile, Literature, Nobel Prize, Pablo Neruda, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Wednesday, wisdom

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Pablo Neruda

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

Pablo Neruda

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Pablo Neruda

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Pablo Neruda

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Pablo Neruda

If you guessed that Pablo Neruda was a poet, you’d be right. In fact, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971. Check out is Wikipedia page to learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Neruda

Happy Wednesday folks! The weekend is almost here. Have a terrific day!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Arnold Bennett

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5 Quotes, Arnold Bennet, Author, BrainyQuote, England, Novelist, Wisdom Wednesday, Wisdome

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Arnold Bennett

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Arnold Bennett

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going… Concentrate on something useful.

Arnold Bennett

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Arnold Bennett

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

Arnold Bennett

Here is Arnold’s Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Bennett I hope you enjoy learning about him as much as I did.

Have a great Wednesday, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Jamie Farr

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5 Quotes, Actor, Arab Heritage Month, Jamie Farr, Klinger, M.A.S.H., wisdom, Wisdom Wednesday

The dresses I wore are in the Smithsonian now.

Jamie Farr

I would like to do a nice comedy/drama feature with a good part, but nobody’s asked me to do a film. Maybe it’s because they don’t know what to do with a guy in a dress.

Jamie Farr

Before ‘M*A*SH*,’ people in the industry didn’t know what to do with this guy with the big nose.

Jamie Farr

It’s amazing how people will treat you better when you’re ‘somebody.’ The minute clerks in a store recognize me, they suddenly rush to take care of me. That irritates me.

Jamie Farr

You can’t explain why people are friends and why those friendships last, but there certainly is magic in it. It’s just something that you treasure.

Jamie Farr

For those of you who are old enough, “Klinger” was a great character in the M.A.S.H. series. I used to watch this show with my dad when I was growing up. Here’s Jamie’s Wikipedia page, if you’d like to learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Farr

I hope you are having a great Wednesday!

Until next time…

Dave

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Cinema, Director, Film, Hollywood, Movies, Mr. Robot, Sam Esmail, Wednesday, wisdom

I think technology gives the illusion that you are connecting with people, social media particularly.

Sam Esmail

It’s not necessarily bad that you have angst or you have anger – it’s what you do with it, how you interpret it into something profoundly moving.

Sam Esmail

The one thing that I know from the personal experiences that I’ve had with hackers and from people in tech who are brilliant at this thing, is there’s a lot of angst.

Sam Esmail

I did not love going out to parties or even get-togethers, really – I went to the movies, which, if you think about it, is an isolating experience anyway – and this was because I had anxiety about interacting with people.

Sam Esmail

I used to want to be a critic. I think it’s an awesome job. You get to watch all this stuff and then write about it and analyze it and give insight into it. That’s an amazing job. I was terrible at it, though.

Sam Esmail

To me Sam’s most notable work is Mr. Robot. If you haven’t seen it, it’s definitely worth a watch. Here’s his Wikipedia link to learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Esmail

Have a great Wednesday, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Ralph Nader

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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

Ralph Nader

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Ralph Nader

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That’s the only difference.

Ralph Nader

When strangers start acting like neighbors… communities are reinvigorated.

Ralph Nader

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader is my second choice for prominent Arab Americans this month. Here’s his Wikipedia page if you’d like to learn about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader

Have a great Wednesday, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Elias James Corey

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Arab American Heritage Month, Chemistry, Elias James Corey, Nobel Prize, Professor, Wednesday, wisdom

To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creations. The perception of that beauty depends on the understanding of chemical structures and their transformations, and, as with a treasured work of art, deepens as the subject is studied, perhaps even to a level approaching romance.

Elias James Corey

My special fascination has been to understand better the world of chemistry and its complexities.

Elias James Corey

To the field of synthetic chemistry belongs an array of responsibilities which are crucial for the future of mankind, not only with regard to the health and needs of our society, but also for the attainment of a deep understanding of matter, chemical change, and life.

Elias James Corey

I only found these three quotes by this Nobel Laureate. Here’s his Wikipedia link, if you’d like to learn more about this chemist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_James_Corey

Since this is Arab American Heritage Month, this is the first of many I’ll be posting about.

Have a great Wednesday, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Betty White

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Actress, Animals, Author, Betty White, Golden Girls, LGBTQ, Mary Tyler Moore, Racial Equality, WHM

It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.

Betty White

Don’t try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won’t live long enough to find out about, but I’m still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, ‘I’m going to be 30 – oh, what am I going to do?’ Well, use that decade! Use them all!

Betty White

I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple.

Betty White

I’m not what you might call sexy, but I’m romantic. Let’s put it that way.

Betty White

Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.

Betty White

Betty White passed this year. I loved her on the show “The Golden Girls”. Here’s a Wikipedia link to learn more about this American Icon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_White

Have a great Wednesday, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Eleanor Roosevelt

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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you’d like to learn more about the “first lady to the world”, here is her Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt

Have a great Wednesday, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Alice Walker

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Alice Walker, Author, Civil Rights, Poet, Pulitzer, Story, WHM, Women, Writer

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Alice Walker

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walker

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Alice Walker

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

Alice Walker

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

Alice Walker

If you’d like to learn more about this extraordinary woman, visit her link on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Walker

I hope all of you are having a terrific “hump” day.

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Mother Teresa

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@joannaoftheforest, Angels, Charity, God, Helpers, Holy Spirit, Love, Mother Teresa, Sacrifice, Selflessness, Service

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Mother Teresa

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Mother Teresa

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

The whole situation in Ukraine prompted me to borrow Mother Teresa’s quotes today. She, like many others, helped those who could not help themselves and suffered right along with the people they were helping. There was a story shared by one of the blogs I follow about a grand niece who experienced a visit from a relative who passed. The niece was calmed by this family member’s presence, even though she had passed many years earlier.

These “helpers” or angels are all part of the spiritual hierarchy in my religious path. They aid those who cannot aid themselves. This is one way the Holy Spirit helps each of us in times of trouble. So, like Mother Teresa, these Souls continue to serve, even after they have passed. They return to help those in this current life when they most need it. Like my friend’s story, they do not do anything, other than smile, listen, or provide some other type of comfort. For many, these experiences will be something that never leaves them.

If you’d like to learn more about Mother Teresa, here’s her Wikipedia Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa

I hope all of you have a terrific Wednesday!

Until next time…

Dave