Since, on a socio-economic level, there are myriad wrongs that need to be righted, a major problem for the species seems to be how to assist the unfortunate, throttle the corrupt, preserve the biosphere, and effectively organize for socio-economic alteration wihtout the organization being taken over by dullards, the people who, ironically, are best suited to serving organized causes since they seldom have anything more imaginative to do and, restricted by tunnel vision, probably wouldn't do it if they had. 151
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Related There are people who break you down by just being them They need not do anything <... MALEBO SEPHODI The Genius Of The Crowd there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the avera... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just f... STEPHEN KING THE BEST SINGERS ARE THOSE WHO WERE TOLD BY "LIFE" THAT THEY DIDN'T HAVE A REASON T... QWANA M. "BABYGIRL" REYNOLDS-FRASIER Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track t... JOSEPH CAMPBELL There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fo... JOYCE KILMER Drift me away along with the dust traveling to infinity. To another world where it feels more a... SALINA KHAN Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI BEWARE OF THOSE Beware of those who are bitter, For they will never allow you T... SUZY KASSEM Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done. The world is sacred.... LAO TZU People always ask me "Son what does it take To reach out and touch your dreams?" To t... TIM MCGRAW If I could take a bite of the whole world And feel it on my palate I’d be more happy for... ALBERTO CAEIRO And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I think the need to believe in religion is and always was a need to know. Satisfying the NEED T... HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN Been given 24 hours To tie up loose ends To make amends His eyes said it all I st... JEM And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them ... MARY OLIVER Jesus in the Temple of God in Jerusalem Matthew 21 12: AND JESUS WENT INTO THE... SWAMI DHYAN GITEN Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by some... E.E. CUMMINGS Here's to the kids who are different, The kids who don't always get A's, The k... DIGBY WOLFE There will always be those who say you are too young and delicate to make anything happen ... CLEMENTINE VON RADICS The dead do not need aspirin or sorrow, I suppose. but they might need rain... CHARLES BUKOWSKI DON'T SAY, DO Do not say things You think I want to hear. Instead, S... SUZY KASSEM Sermon of the Mounts Matthew 5 AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES, HE WENT UP INTO THE ... SWAMI DHYAN GITEN For those who are not frightened by the solitude, everything will have a different taste. PAULO COELHO
The Paradoxical Commandments
People are illogical, unreasonable, and se... KENT M. KEITH Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on you... EMM ROY Rory: "People are being serious." Jazza: "There's a serial killer out there. Of course pe... MAUREEN JOHNSON Here's to the kids. The kids who would rather spend their night with a bottle of coke &am... PETE WENTZ Those were the three words seldom asked to her. Yet, she knew they hold a healing power i... SANHITA BARUAH (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life? Pe... PAUL ARDEN may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they si... E.E. CUMMINGS This is an ode to life. The anthem of the world. For as there are billions of differe... KAMAND KOJOURI Everything we say and do affects people. It can be either physically or mentally. Words ca... HINA YU Before I tell you, I have to know three things," I said. "Okay." "One, are you sitting dow... DARYNDA JONES How everyone is struggling for something. Trying to keep the balance. Struggling to find... ASH PARSONS Is it a very wicked place?" I asked, more for the sake of saying something than for information. CHARLES DICKENS How do you love your children? By doing what's best for them. Then how would you love your... J. GRANT HOWARD Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow ge... JIM MORRISON since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never whol... E.E. CUMMINGS How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY Words Be careful of words, even the miraculous ones. For the miraculous ... ANNE SEXTON Say what you will of religion, but draw applicable conclusions and comparisons to reach a consensus.... JUSTIN KYLE MCFARLANE BEAU Are you, are you Coming to the tree They strung up a man They say who murdered thr... SUZANNE COLLINS BLACK AND WHITE I was born into A religion of Light, But with so many oth... SUZY KASSEM THE UNFORGIVEN Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people: ... SUZY KASSEM they thought that writing had something to do with the politics of the thing. CHARLES BUKOWSKI One of the greatest gifts That life can give to anyone Is the very special love that families... CRAIG S. TUNKS It's rest I want--there, I have said it out-- From cooking meals for hungry hired men And wash... ROBERT FROST Wake up. If your eyes are sleeping then wipe them gently. You need to be awake for... KAMAND KOJOURI TRUTH Whenever you stand up For your conscience, Be prepared to be hate... SUZY KASSEM HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so<... ELLEN HOPKINS I promise you I will try harder to be better. I have battled with things ... TYLER KNOTT GREGSON Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character) I would be true, for there are those who trust me; JOHN C. MAXWELL So what if I don't learn algebra?' 'Someday schools will be open again,' Mom said. 'Thing... SUSAN BETH PFEFFER THE INVITATION by Oriah Mountain Dreamer It doesn't interest me what you do for a li... ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not ... ELLEN HOPKINS A Friend Someone You're happy to see, Who's happy to see you. Someone You l... NANCY J. CAVANAUGH Good morning," said the little prince. Good morning," said the merchant. This ... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY And they say She's in the class A Team Stuck in her daydream Been that way since eigh... ED SHEERAN The Type Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else. -Richard Siken SARAH KAY How many of us suffered to death? How many of them gained more wealth? How many of u... 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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Happy be Thy world The world forgetting by the forgotten world; The failed attempts to re... RANJANI RAMACHANDRAN FORBIDDEN Pain without learning is forbidden, waking up one day not knowing what to do, JOSé N. HARRIS There is a club in this world that you do not join knowingly. One day you are just a memb... JOHNA PASSARO That sounds strangely little like "justice," Tisipohone jibed gently. "On the contrary." ... DAVID WEBER What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. Why is... CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS More than being human, we need peace and love. More than being strong and capable, we nee... NURUDEEN USHAWU I Keep Six Honest Serving Men ..." I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me a... RUDYARD KIPLING TODD: The history of the world, my love -- LOVETT: Save a lot of graves, Do a lo... STEPHEN SONDHEIM It happens all the time in heaven, And some day It will begin to happen Again o... شمس الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each ... JOHN DONNE I have come to learn, that when people of money and power organize to set upon to break ... TOM ALTHOUSE You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles thro... MARY OLIVER Cal's attraction to her was unstoppable - undeniable. Like a thunderbolt piercing his heart, it beat... NINI CHURCH As it is there isn't a single thing isn't an opportunity for some 'alert' person, including practica... CHARLES OLSON For me, you are fresh water that falls from trees when it has stopped raining. For me... KAMAND KOJOURI Life is a valuable and unique opportunity to discover who you are. But it seems as soon as... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Sending out the Disciples Luke 10 1: AFTER THESE THINGS THE LORD APPOINTED O... SWAMI DHYAN GITEN I never named anything I've written before no reason to since it would all have the s... ALLY CONDIE
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