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Quote for Today: Cecelia Ahern
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August 3, 2017 by katmcdaniel

Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes. Sometimes, people discover you, even though they’ve been looking at …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: A Place Called Here, attention, awareness, Cecelia Ahern, discovery, here, humanity, mindfulness, missing, paradox, perspective, relationships, self, vision
Quote for Today: Vilayanur Ramachandran
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May 10, 2017 by katmcdaniel

We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: angels, apes, body, craving, Creation, humanity, odd, paradox, reality, self, sophistication, soul, transcendence, Vilayanur Ramachandran
Quote for Today: Ellen Hopkins
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May 5, 2017 by katmcdaniel

Empty is the perfect state of being. Nothing inside to anchor you. Nothing inside to chain you down, keep you …
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Category: history, Quote for Today | Tags: being, detachment, Ellen Hopkins, empty, freedom, humanity, letting go, openness, paradox, perfection, self
Quote for Today: Onyi Anyado
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March 17, 2017 by katmcdaniel

Your comfort zone is not that comfortable. ―Onyi Anyado John Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781

Category: Quote for Today | Tags: better, change, comfort, familiar, growth, humanity, limits, Onyi Anyado, paradox, self, trap, uncomfortable, unknown, zone
Quote for Today: Lionel Shriver
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March 11, 2017 by katmcdaniel

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can’t have that they don’t think for a second …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: allure, Checker and the Derailleurs, desire, driven, forbidden, humanity, Lionel Shriver, paradox, unexamined life, value, want, yearning
Quote for Today: Doris Lessing
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January 25, 2017 by katmcdaniel

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: ‘You …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: conformity, culture, Doris Lessing, history, humanity, indoctrination, paradox, prejudice, school, self, society, system, teaching, The Golden Notebook
Quote for Today: Isaac Asimov
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January 23, 2017 by katmcdaniel

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: belief, coercion, humanity, ignorance, imagination, Isaac Asimov, leaders, library, paradox, repression, school, The Roving Mind, thinking

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