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Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
John Lennon

  • Created Nov 17 •



  • Daily Celebrations ~ Voltaire, A Busy Solitude ~ November...

    Rated 05:56am • 1 review • philosophy, philosopher, quotes, poet, dramatist • dailycelebrations.com







    ""The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude." ~ Francois Voltaire"


    Poet, dramatist, and philosopher Francois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) was born in Paris on this day * November 21 )and took the pen name Arouet de Voltaire when he was 24.

    "Appreciation is a wonderful thing," he wrote, "it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

    A pioneer of free thought who inspired Thomas Jefferson and America's revolutionary founders, Voltaire was an outspoken enemy of every injustice. He used his pen to criticize the power of the French monarchy and the Church which landed him in the Bastille prison twice.

    "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," said the defender of freedom.

    At 32, he was exiled to England. Upon his return to France in 1729, he wrote a book praising English culture which the French interpreted as criticism and he was exiled again.

    "Life is a point between two eternities," he believed.

    He retired to the stately chateau in Ferney, a Swiss town near the border and helped transform the small town into a thriving European intellectual center. There he wrote Candide (1758), his famous novel about a young man who naively believed whatever happens is always for "the best of all possible worlds" and that the secret to happiness was to "cultivate your own garden."

    "Think for yourself," he said. "And let others enjoy the privilege of doing so, too."

    Happiness thrives in busy solitude.

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  • The power of words

    Rated 04:31am • 5 reviews • inspiration, motivation, quote, story, poem • colindunbar.com







    Consider the words of Rudyard Kipling and you can understand the true power of words...
    "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

    I've been fascinated with words for as long as I can remember, and after reading my first copy of Think and Grow Rich, I began a life-long journey into the power of words. When words are read not only as groups of characters, but as thoughts or emotions, the real power of words can help, inspire, encourage, and motivate us.

    Although it's more than 20 years since my daughter was born, I can still remember that day, when the doctor shouted: "It's a girl!" Those 3 words changed my life. And that's the power of words.

    And there's the handwritten note given to me by my son with the words, "I love you Daddy". Nothing comes close to words like these!

    One of my favorite passages from The Power of One by Bryce Courtney is this:

    'Always listen to yourself, Peekay. It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you will grow stronger. If you are right you have taken another step towards a fulfilling life.' "




    Am I the Lion
    By Colin Dunbar


    King of the beasts -
    And yet entrapped, I am.

    In this cage of iron and stone;
    with another, yet I am alone.

    In this cage I am cared for,
    but the thing I long for even more -
    To be free and wild;
    I am no better than a kitten -
    watched over by his parents.

    I can roar, and I can growl;
    but to avail, I may never prowl
    the wild open spaces -
    Free and wild.

    Am I really the lion?

    Or am I a tamed house kitten.
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  • Hang on to each other

    Rated 04:12am • 2 reviews • inspiration, sympathy, story • colindunbar.com








    Hang On To Each Other
    Author Unknown

    Too often we feel alone. But there is always someone ready to take our hand. There is a beautiful story of an overworked nurse who escorted a tired, young man to her patient's bedside. Leaning over and speaking loudly to the elderly patient, she said, "Your son is here."

    With great effort, his unfocussed eyes opened, then flickered shut again. The young man squeezed the aged hand in his and sat beside the bed. Throughout the night he sat there, holding the old man's hand and whispering words of comfort.

    By morning's light, the patient had died. In moments, hospital staff swarmed into the room to turn off machines and remove needles. The nurse stepped over to the young man's side and began to offer sympathy, but he interrupted her.

    Peaceful and relaxing
    "Who was that man?" he asked.

    The startled nurse replied, "I thought he was your father!" "No, he was not my father," he answered. "I never saw him before in my life."

    "Then, why didn't you say something when I took you to him?"

    "I realized he needed his son and his son wasn't here," the man explained. "And since he was too sick to recognize that I was not his son, I knew he needed me."

    Mother Teresa used to remind us that nobody should have to die alone. Likewise, nobody should have to grieve alone or cry alone either. Or laugh alone or celebrate alone.

    We are made to travel life's journey hand in hand. There is someone ready to grasp your hand today. And someone hoping you will take theirs.

    Remember to hang on to one another!


  • Carl Jung

    Created 08:25pm •







    "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
    and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not
    balanced by sadness."

    -- Carl Jung


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  • Balthasar Gracians "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

    Rated 07:57pm • 1 review • philosophy, quotes, aphorism • balthasargracian.com







    The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    "Aphorism #6
    A Man at his Highest Point.

    We are not born perfect: every day we develop in our personality and in our calling till we reach the highest point of our completed being, to the full round of our accomplishments, of our excellences.

    This is known by the purity of our taste, the clearness of our thought, the maturity of our judgment, and the firmness of our will.

    Some never arrive at being complete; somewhat is always awanting: others ripen late.

    The complete man, wise in speech, prudent in act, is admitted to the familiar intimacy of discreet persons, is even sought for by them."


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    In the 1600s, Balthasar Gracian, a jesuit priest, wrote 300 aphorisms on living life effectively called "The Art of Worldly Wisdom." The book stays relevent to modern day society and has been used such as Machiavelli's "The Prince" or Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" as a guidebook for everything from business to sports.


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  • Wealth, Success And Love

    Rated 07:36pm • 1 review • relationships, story, love, inspiration • homewithgod.com










    Wealth, Success And Love

    A woman came out of her house and saw 3 old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said "I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat."

    "Is the man of the house home?", they asked. "No", she said. "He's out." "Then we cannot come in," they replied.

    In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened. "Go tell them I am home and invite them in!" The woman went out and invited the men in.

    "We do not go into a House together", they replied.

    "Why is that?" she wanted to know.

    One of the old men explained: "His name is Wealth," he said pointing to one of his friends, and said pointing to another one, "He is Success, and I am Love." Then he added, "Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home."

    The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed. "How nice!!," he said. "Since that is the case, let us invite Wealth. Let him come and fill our home with wealth!"

    His wife disagreed. "My dear, why don't we invite Success?"

    Their daughter-in-law was listening from the other corner of the house. She jumped in with her own suggestion: "Would it not be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!"

    "Let us heed our daughter-in-law's advice," said the husband to his wife. Go out and invite Love to be our guest."

    The woman went out and asked the three old men, "Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest." Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other two also got up and followed him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: "I only invited Love, Why are you coming in?"

    The old men replied together: "If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would've stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever he goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!"

    Author Unknown


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  • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/MagrittePip...

    Rated 06:54am • 1 review • painting, art • wikimedia.org






    Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte
    (21 November 1898     - 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images. His intended goal for his work was to challenge observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality and force viewers to become hypersensitive to their surroundings.






    The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images 1928-29) is a series of paintings by Rene Magritte, the most noted of which is famous for its inscription Ceci n'est pas une pipe , French for this is not a pipe. The paintings are currently housed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles, California, and at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas.

    The picture shows a pipe. Magritte painted below the pipe: "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (This is not a pipe). The painting is not a pipe, but rather an image of a pipe. As Magritte himself commented: "The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture 'This is a pipe,' I'd have been lying!"

    Magritte extends the style and effect in his 1930 painting The Key to Dreams.



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  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Magritte_TheSonOfMan.jpg

    Rated 06:39am • 1 review • art history, painting, surrealism, belgian • wikipedia.org










    The Son of Man (French: Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter Renee Magritte.

    Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. The painting consists of a man in a suit and a bowler hat standing in front of a small wall, beyond which is the sea and a cloudy sky. The man's face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple. However, the man's eyes can be seen peeking over the edge of the apple. Another subtle feature is that the man's left arm appears to bend backwards at the elbow.

    About the painting Magritte said,

    At least it hides the face partly. Well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It's something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.



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  • Pierre Carrier-Belleuse

    Rated Nov 20 • 1 review • painting • ricci-art.com









    by Pierre-Carrier Belluese



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