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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. R. D. Laing

World Insanity Insane Adjustment Rational Perfectly

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. Robert Louis Stevenson

Best Travel World Our Wilderness Find Friend Travelers Travels Honest

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. Robert Louis Stevenson

Nature Quality Weary Old Men Beauty Trees Changes Air Claim Spirit Something Makes Forest Hearts Wonderfully Subtle Much

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson

Great Travel Affair Go Sake Move Anywhere

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. George MacDonald

Politics Best Nature Men Govern Want Elected Should

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know. R. D. Laing

Think Know

I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow. Gordon Ramsay

Looking Looking Back Sit Busy Too Back Spilt Constantly Over Like Cry Looking Forward Sort Always Cow Next Forward Milk

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. Andrew Carnegie

Man Mind Entitled Own Else Possession Ability Take He His May Anything Anything Else Which Justly Full Who

We can all fight against loneliness by engaging in random acts of kindness. Gail Honeyman

Kindness Loneliness Fight Random Against Engaging Acts

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again. Sheena Easton

Life Love Funny Good People Love Life Lesson Enjoy Funny Way Way Stuff Over Supposed While Again Us Teaching Now

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. James G. Frazer

Other Distance Once Severed Has-Been Physical Magic Contact Principle Continue Been After Which Act Each Things Second

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy World Kings Sure Should Full Things Number

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. Adam Smith

World Money Wealth First All Things Purchase Purchased Silver Price Labour Gold Paid Original Originally Things

There is little success where there is little laughter. Andrew Carnegie

Success Laughter Where Little

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. David Hume

Few Nothing More Governed Surprising Than Which Many

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly. George MacDonald

Trust Few Delights Equal Whom Utterly Presence

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. R. D. Laing

Thoughts Change Think Our Range Shapes Fail Failing Until Because Limited How Little Notice Deeds

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall. Saint Patrick

When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.' William Wallace

Truth Best Me You Son Liberty Mind Uncle Live Carefully Inculcated Tell Never Priest Since Learned Boy Proverb Any Which Then Ever Things Bond Kept Slavish

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. Andrew Carnegie

Fool Will Dare He Cannot Bigot Reason Slave

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. Andrew Carnegie

Future Care Will Duty More Take Take Care Itself Little Your

Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project. Anne Grant

Journey You Grief World Confusion Hopeless Sense Rebuild Unknown Project Outer Outer World Both Feel Major Perhaps Without Hallmark Territory Transition Might Your Helpless Map Inner

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