Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – e. e. cummings

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e. e. cummings

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

e. e. cummings

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

e. e. cummings

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

e. e. cummings

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

e. e. cummings

Happy Wednesday, folks! Today we are highlighting the American Poet e. e. cummings. You may be wondering about his lower case first and middle initial and last name. You’ll find the answer here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings I hope you find the answer to this puzzle interesting.

Well, that’s all I got for today, folks. I hope you all had a great Day of the Dead and Halloween.

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 – Anne Frank

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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Anne Frank

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Anne Frank

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Anne Frank

For those of you who do not know who Anne Frank is, she is a young girl who wrote a diary that was later published. She was a Jewish girl during WWII who was ultimately captured by the Nazis, who then put her in a camp. It is a hard book to read. The Diary of Anne Frank is well known and in every country in the world. Here’s a Wikipedia link for you to learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank

If you’d like to get the book for yourself, I’m sure your public library has a copy or your can purchase it. Here’s a link to the electronic version: https://amzn.to/3Bj1VJi

One of my sister’s friends is from the Netherlands and their is a museum there. It is the house Anne Frank was hidden. Here’s a YouTube video that gives a short tour of the place. I hope you enjoy it.

I hope you have a great Wednesday!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Alexis de Tocqueville

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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

Alexis de Tocqueville

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Alexis de Tocqueville

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Alexis de Tocqueville

If you’d like to learn more about this French historian, check out his Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Henry Miller

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Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Henry Miller

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

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

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

Henry Miller

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Henry Miller

This is one colorful character. Take a look at his bio on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Miller What a great life!

Have a great Wednesday, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Aristotle Onassis

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If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Aristotle Onassis

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle Onassis

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Aristotle Onassis

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Aristotle Onassis

Don’t sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.

Aristotle Onassis

If you’d like to learn more about Aristotle Onassis, here’s a Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle_Onassis

Have a great Wednesday, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Carl von Clausewitz

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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Carl von Clausewitz

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Carl von Clausewitz

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Carl von Clausewitz

For those readers who are either in the military or have served, you’ll know who this guy instantly. For those of you who are unfamiliar, check out his Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz

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 – Charles Baudelaire

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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

Charles Baudelaire

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Charles Baudelaire

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Charles Baudelaire

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Charles Baudelaire

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

Charles Baudelaire

To learn more about this French poet, check out his Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Baudelaire I think you’ll find some of his friends to be quite interesting.

Have a great Wednesday, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday –

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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