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Mike Dooley

"You simply cannot give to the world all that you have to give to the world if you do not remain true to your own "selfish" desires. You have a unique set of precious values that can only be fulfilled by pursuing what drives you the most: your passions and dreams. Could Thomas Edison have tended to the downtrodden as Mother Teresa did? Could Albert Einstein have preached salvation as Martin Luther King Jr. did? Could Abraham Lincoln have built cars like Henry Ford? Always, the masses benefit from the individuals who insist on marching to the beat of their own drummer."

-- Mike Dooley

#Mother Quotes #Dream Quotes #Kings Quotes

“It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.”

Source : "Mind/Body Problems" by John Updike, www.newyorker.com. January 26, 2004.
“My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but Iâ€™m not a sad man, and I donâ€™t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I donâ€™t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.”
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature - if that word can be used in reference to man, who has â€˜inventedâ€™ himself by saying â€˜noâ€™ to nature - consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.”

Source : The Labyrinth of Solitude ch. 9 (1950) (translation by Lysander Kemp)
“The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th of March 1707 is hereby reconvened.”
“The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.”
“Always try to see yourself through God's eyes.”
“There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country.”
“For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors - between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.”

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