Wisdom Quotes tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2009-12-27://1 2010-01-31T01:01:48Z Quotations to challenge and inspire Movable Type Pro 4.32-en Jean Jacques Rousseau tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4184 2010-02-08T13:45:00Z 2010-01-31T01:01:48Z Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.... Jone Lewis Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

]]> George Santayana tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4183 2010-02-07T13:45:00Z 2010-01-31T01:01:48Z Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.... Jone Lewis Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

]]> William Blake tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4182 2010-02-06T13:45:00Z 2010-01-31T01:01:47Z As a man is, so he sees.... Jone Lewis As a man is, so he sees.

]]> George Washington Carver tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4261 2010-02-05T14:00:00Z 2010-02-01T21:49:05Z Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.... Jone Lewis Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

]]> Mohandas K. Gandhi tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4181 2010-02-05T13:45:00Z 2010-01-31T01:01:47Z Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.... Jone Lewis Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

]]> Thich Nhat Hanh tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4281 2010-02-04T19:23:46Z 2010-02-04T19:24:51Z This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself.... Jone Lewis This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.

]]> Pema Chodron tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4280 2010-02-04T16:18:04Z 2010-02-04T16:24:47Z A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no compulsiveness. We don't overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.... Jone Lewis A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no compulsiveness. We don't overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.

]]> Mohandas K. Gandhi tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4180 2010-02-04T13:45:00Z 2010-01-31T01:01:47Z What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?... Jone Lewis What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

]]> Solomon Short tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4229 2010-02-04T11:00:00Z 2010-01-31T22:59:43Z The hard questions always have more than one right answer. The easy questions have no answers at all. That's the universe's way of keeping things balanced.... Jone Lewis The hard questions always have more than one right answer. The easy questions have no answers at all. That's the universe's way of keeping things balanced.

]]> Solomon Short tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4228 2010-02-03T21:00:00Z 2010-01-31T22:57:32Z Bad luck is universal. Don't take it personally.... Jone Lewis Bad luck is universal. Don't take it personally.

]]> Christopher Hitchens tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4279 2010-02-03T20:22:20Z 2010-02-03T20:23:02Z It's a big cultural task to separate the cultural achievement that religion laid claim to from the claims of religion itself. No one's going to deny the role of religion in, for example, architecture or devotional painting. The poetry of... Jone Lewis It's a big cultural task to separate the cultural achievement that religion laid claim to from the claims of religion itself. No one's going to deny the role of religion in, for example, architecture or devotional painting. The poetry of John Donne or George Herbert strikes me as having been produced by people who probably really believed what they were saying. I have to be impressed.

]]> Christopher Hitchens tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4278 2010-02-03T20:18:32Z 2010-02-03T20:21:20Z We have a need for what I would call "the transcendent" or "the numinous" or even "the ecstatic," which comes out in love and music, poetry, and landscape. I wouldn't trust anyone who didn't respond to things of that sort.... Jone Lewis We have a need for what I would call "the transcendent" or "the numinous" or even "the ecstatic," which comes out in love and music, poetry, and landscape. I wouldn't trust anyone who didn't respond to things of that sort. But I think the cultural task is to separate those impulses and those needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.

]]> W. E. B. Du Bois tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4179 2010-02-03T13:45:00Z 2010-01-31T01:01:47Z All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.... Jone Lewis All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

]]> Robert G. Ingersoll tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4165 2010-02-03T13:00:00Z 2010-01-30T16:21:50Z There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.... Jone Lewis There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

]]> Oprah Winfrey tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4269 2010-02-02T14:00:00Z 2010-02-01T21:49:05Z Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.... Jone Lewis Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

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