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from one of my favorite authors..........I think she is a permie at heart:)

'Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.'
Barbara Kingsolver

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. " - Kurt Vonnegut

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"It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity." - Salman Rushdie

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"Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine.
They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world,
are the ones who do…”
- Jack Kerouac

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"Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well." - Richard Leakey

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an Edward Abbey quote that I ran across in my notebook where I write down things that interest me and then never find them again except accidently........

"If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate them. Neither to serve nor to rule. That was the American Dream"

I think the idea could be more universal than just for America but the thought is a sound one.

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Wouldn't you love to spend a morning having coffee with him?

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"Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings." - A. Hoffman

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"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete" Buckminster Fuller

I don't think this is quoted here yet....it always makes me think of the permaculture movement that is trying to lead by example.

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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"Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so." Doris Lessing

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete" Buckminster Fuller

Bucky was always thinking outside of the box. He saw a different reality than most.

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"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm." -Florence Nightingale

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"Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we’re hooked on." -Kurt Vonnegut

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"Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

- Ernest Hemingway

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“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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"Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we—because we don’t question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted." -Rose Wilder Lane

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"Writing is a dangerous profession. There is no telling what hole you may rip in society's carefully woven master narrative." - Danielle Orner.

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"On first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative — full realization for all individuals."-Buckminster Fuller

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I am having a little trouble reading my writing in my notebook on this one...I think I have it correct:)

"A person disposed to anger will more and more easily erupt in anger at any provocation.
But a person disposed to kindness will more and more easily respond with loving kindness at a similar provocation. The attitude with which we respond to an object of experience, with anger or with kindness, will not only influence our inner nature but also progressively reshape the causal field, the sources of provocation outside ourselves."

Andrew Olendzki-Director at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, editor of Insight Journal

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
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for any of us who have had days when we despise our bodies, for no damn good reason..

"You are not your bra-size, nor are you the width of your waist, nor are you the slenderness of your calves. You are not your hair color, your skin color, nor are you a shade of lipstick. Your shoe-size is of no consequence. You are not defined by the amount of attention you get from males, females, or any combination thereof. You are not the number of sit-ups you can do, nor are you the number of calories or carbs in a day. You are not the number on your blood sugar meter. You are not the hair on your legs. You are not a little red dress. You are no combination of these things.

You are the content of your character. You are the ambitions that drive you. You are the goals that you set. You are the things that you laugh at and the words that you say. You are the thoughts you think and the things you wonder. You are beautiful and desirable not for the clique you attend, but for the spark of life within you that compels you to make your life a full and meaningful one. You are beautiful not for the shape of the vessel, but for the volume of the soul it carries."

-unknown (I normally don't like posting unknown quotes but really couldn't find this one's author)

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“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.” -Flannery O'Connor

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"Until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex; But eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, Stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories and make peace with them."
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"The world cannot be discovered
by a journey of miles,
no matter how long,
but only by a spiritual journey,
a journey of one inch,
very arduous and humbling and joyful
by which we arrive at the ground at our feet,
and learn to be at home."

Wendell Berry

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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"Weird clothing is de rigeur for teenagers, but today's generation of teens is finding it difficult to be sufficiently weird. This is because the previous generation of teens, who went through adolescence in the sixties and seventies, used up practically all the available weirdness." -PJ O'Rourke

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From ecological chef Dan Barber in The Third Plate: Our job is not to support the farmer. It's to support the soil that supports the farmer.
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"The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, a flowing from point to point. If something dams the flow, order collapses. The untrained miss the collapse until too late. That's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences." -Frank Herbert

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“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
― T.E. Lawrence

[We can update this one to include female day dreamers also - Me]

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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
Maya Angalou (from "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings")

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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wayne stephen wrote:"The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, a flowing from point to point. If something dams the flow, order collapses. The untrained miss the collapse until too late. That's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences." -Frank Herbert

"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."
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This one might be a bit purple for some people... But oh well.

"This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief. "

- Rumi

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"I'm a realist, but I'm also a dreamer. And I'm not just a dreamer, I'm a hopeaholic." - Gloria Steinem

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“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” ~ Robin Sharma

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"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
– Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

― Mark Twain

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Here are a couple of my favorites

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regrets. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. ~Mary Anne Radmacher

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, comfort the dying, set a bone, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”―Henry David Thoreau

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“Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure—fearlessness and achievement.”-Joseph Campbell
from A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

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A few short ones today.

"In chaos, there is fertility." - Anais Nin

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." - Virginia Woolf

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I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.

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"What outsiders define as 'poverty', to many Ozarkers means a life resistant to absolute dependence on a money economy, a cleaving to ways that are as self-sufficient as possible." -Robert Flanders

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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