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“And if you can’t help them at least don’t hurt them.” (LEO BUSCAGLIA)

Togetherness. From "I" and "me” to "us" and we. Your relationships will be as vital and alive as you are. If you re...

14 May, 2023

The human tongue is a beast that few can master (ROBERT GREENE)

In the court of Louis XIV, nobles and ministers would spend days and nights debating issues of state. They would confer, argue, make...

13 May, 2023

Everything happens only for a limited number of times, and a very small number, in fact (PAUL BOWLES)

Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the...

12 May, 2023

Why I love literature (TZVETAN TODOROV)

If someone asks me why I love literature, the answer that I immediately think of is that literature helps me live. I no...

11 May, 2023

“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.” [(M. AURELIUS) Daniel Klein]

“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.” MARCUS AURELIUS, ROMAN EMPEROR AND PHILOSOPHER (AD 121–180), STOIC If...

10 May, 2023

Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied (DANIEL KLEIN)

The goods of the mind are at least as important as the goods of the body. Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, (1872 - 1970), Logician, Humanist One of the things Russell...

08 May, 2023

Niccolo Machiavelli: “Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions”

t is not unknown to me how many men have had, and still have, the opinion that the affairs of the world are in such...

07 May, 2023

THE IDLE THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE FELLOW (JEROME K. JEROME)

ON BEING IDLE   Now, this is a subject on which I flatter myself I really am au fait. The gentleman who, when I was young,...

06 May, 2023

Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. (DON MIGUEL RUIZ)

Gossip is black magic at its very worst because it is pure poison. We learned how to gossip by agreement. When we were...

05 May, 2023

If you become animal-like, then boredom disappears (OSHO)

If you become animal-like, then boredom disappears. So you will find that people who live a very animalistic life are less bored. Eating, drinking,...

04 May, 2023