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Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
- Horace Greeley
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Is it ignorance or apathy?
Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
- Jimmy Buffett
Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- Carl Jung
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.
- Arnold J. Toynbee
The price of apathy towards public affairs
is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Chanting OM is sort of like MOOing backward.
- Anonymous
Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tradition is like a second-hand store.
It is best to sort carefully
between the treasures and the trash.
See everything with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People sort themselves into groups
of happy people and unhappy people
through two different, but complementary mechanisms,
influence and affinity.
I influence those around me
with my emotional state, either happy or unhappy.
At the same time, I feel an affinity
for others who are like me in some way -
in this case by sharing my emotional outlook on life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts
and grinding out conclusions.
- Charles Darwin
Many of us have been conditioned to trust others' opinions
more than our own, and I believe that sort of trust is excessive.
This is especially true with regard to authority figures -
doctors, lawyers, priests. I trust my doctor's intentions toward me,
but I don't blindly follow his suggestions
without checking other sources also.
He was trained to prescribe a pill for everything,
and does it with the best of intentions,
but I often choose to trust God's quiet voice inside me
rather than my doctor's medical advice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent.
Only no-mind is original and radical.
Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action.
The mind gives you a sort of stupor.
Burdened by the memories of the past,
burdened by the projections of the future,
you go on living - at the minimum.
You dont live at the maximum.
Your flame remains very dim.
Once you start dropping thoughts,
the dust that you have collected in the past,
the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young.
Your whole life becomes a flame,
and a flame without any smoke.
That is what awareness is.
- Osho
The basic thing nobody asks is
why do people take drugs of any sort?
Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live?
I mean, is there something wrong with society
that's making us so pressurized,
that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
- John Lennon
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Fear of death ... That's funny. I have that too.
My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.
- the movie Anything Else (2003)
Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke.
- Anonymous
Science is a wonderful thing
if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Albert Einstein
Any idiot can face a crisis.
It's the day-to-day living that wears you out.
- Anton Chekhov
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I cannot persuade myself that a
beneficent and omnipotent God
would have designedly created parasitic wasps
with the express intention of their feeding
within the living bodies of caterpillars.
- Charles Darwin
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute
with love, grace, and gratitude.
- Denis Waitley
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
Recognize that "suffering is optional," and develop daily habits
that support living a joyful and productive life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin
Hell is living with someone who complains, whines, and argues.
- Anonymous
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Paradox Of Living In The Moment is -
How To Be Happy Today AND Prepare For Tomorrow
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just as a man would not cherish living
in a body other than his own,
so do nations not like to live under other nations,
however noble and great the latter may be.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A consistent state of Serenity and Compassion
is living an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True religion is real living;
living with all one's soul,
with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Everyone is born a genius,
but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The most central ingredient in the recipe
for living Simply An Inspired Life
is to Make Joyful CHOICES.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When our thoughts - which bring actions -
are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white,
we are in a living hell.
That is as real as hell will ever be.
- George Washington Carver
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature and its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
My life is for living, not for worry or doubt,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I postpone death by living, by suffering,
by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
- Anais Nin
Get busy living or get busy dying.
- Stephen King
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
- Thomas Jefferson
I've chosen my life - now I want to start living it.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,
can only attain its full breadth and depth
if it embraces all living creatures
and does not limit itself to mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes
the greater part of his life getting his living.
- Henry David Thoreau
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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