Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Indira Gandhi

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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

Indira Gandhi

I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.

Indira Gandhi

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Indira Gandhi

I am not a person to be pressured – by anybody or any nation.

Indira Gandhi

Indira Gandhi served as India’s prime minister. Her occupation of this office ended when she was assassinated. If you’d like to read more, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira_Gandhi. I’d like to warn you if you are going to read this article. The assassination was described in detail. That being said, there is a great deal of information in the article that I was unaware of.

Well, happy Wednesday, folks. I hope all of you have a terrific day!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Dale Carnegie

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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Dale Carnegie

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

If you’d like to learn more about this American writer and lecturer, here is his Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Carnegie

Have a great Wednesday, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Henry Miller

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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Miller

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Miller

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Henry Miller

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

Henry Miller

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Henry Miller

Miller was an American Novelist. Here’s his Wikipedia page for more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Miller

Have a great Wednesday, folks. My Nephew left today. I just got back home from the airport. He had a good time and his grandmother (my mom) loved every minute of his stay. My brother is still here. We’ll hang out today. He heads back home tomorrow.

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Galileo Galilei

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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Galileo Galilei

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Galileo Galilei

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Galileo Galilei

I hope you enjoy these today. Here’s his Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

Have a great Wednesday, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Lillian Hellman

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People change and forget to tell each other.

Lillian Hellman

People change and forget to tell each other.

Lillian Hellman

God forgives those who invent what they need.

Lillian Hellman

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Lillian Hellman

You lose your manners when you are poor.

Lillian Hellman

If you’d like to know more about Lillian Hellman, take a quick look at her Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Hellman This gal had a really colorful and crazy life.

Have a great Wednesday, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Malcolm X

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There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Malcolm X

Stumbling is not falling.

Malcolm X

My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Malcolm X

The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

Malcolm X

If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

If you’d like to learn more about Malcolm X, here’s his Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X

I hope you are all having a great week!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – William Blake

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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

William Blake

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

William Blake

A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

William Blake

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

William Blake

For more information about William Blake, here’s a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake

All quotes from BrainyQuote.com

Have a great Wednesday, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Marcus Aurelius

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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Marcus Aurelius

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aurelius

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius

Here is the Wikipedia link for Marcus Aurelius: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius This is a very interesting read, should you care to learn more.

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Charles de Gaulle

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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Charles de Gaulle

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Charles de Gaulle

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Gaulle

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Charles de Gaulle

Old age is a shipwreck.

Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle is one of the many icons of the WWII era. For most, he is well known. For those who do not know who he is, here’s a wikipedia link for your convenience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle

I hope you enjoyed today’s quotes. Have a great Wednesday!

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Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Octavia E. Butler

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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.

Octavia E. Butler

I’m comfortably asocial – a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

Octavia E. Butler

You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

Octavia E. Butler

Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.

Octavia E. Butler

Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

Octavia E. Butler

Part of my joy of posting these quotes is not the quotes themselves, but the investigation of who this person is. In this case, Octavia E. Butler is one of America’s Science Fiction Writers. I’ll let you read more at this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler

This is yet another fascinating story of someone I never knew before. I hope you enjoyed these quotes. Have a great Wednesday!

Until next time…

Dave