mary astell

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.
A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

motivation

Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this
or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never
use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to
school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you
want to. But never, never let them persuade you that
things are too difficult or impossible. – Sir Douglas Bader

Advice

"This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul."

Some more...

clipped from www.google.com I never refuse. I contradict. I sometimes forget. (Benjamin Disraeli) The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. (Walt West) We must become the change we want to see in the world. ( Mahatma Gandhi) I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. (Abraham Lincoln)

Flowers

clipped from www.google.com Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. (Henry Ward Beecher ) I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house. (George Bernard Shaw)

Human Being

The human being may be no more real than is a cinematograph film. When the projected light is switched off all that remains is a blank screen. That which has been projected by light was a series of 'stills'. Such also is what is being projected by 'life'. The more you consider the analogy the more perfect it seems to be: it could help us to understand. - Wei Wu Wei...

Money

Broke
is a state of wallet
Poverty
is a state of mind

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