Starting anew is always a good thing! Here is Vol. 1 of "Artful Living on the Bluff" for you to enjoy. While I am not contributing new material to this blog, please feel free to look around and then visit me at the new and (hopefully) improved "Artful Living on the Bluff" blog at artfullivingonthebluff.blogspot.com

Monday, November 17, 2014

Morning Coffee Quotes for November 17th

Me, the morning of my 50th birthday (Nov 14th) on the shores of Lake Michigan - photo by Dan Caraway

“There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.”
- W.E.B. DuBois

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
- Charles Dickens

“Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.”
- John W. Tukey

“Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in.”
- Shannon L. Alder

“You're only lonely if you're not there for you.”
- Phil McGraw

“The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.”
- Milton Friedman

“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“I will not take ‘but’ for an answer.”
- Langston Hughes

“He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.”
- Jacques Anatole

“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”
- William Penn

“There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.”
- William Hazlitt

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
- Harriet Tubman

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You never find yourself until you face the truth.”
- Pearl Bailey

“Forget what other people think. Screw the hype. A job title is only a title. Money pays bills; it does not create happiness or move us to tears. Earn enough, give some away and stop believing it is the friggin’ authority on value.”
- Amy Selwyn

“The greatest gift you can give is just being present.”
- Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.”
- Miroslav Volf

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