"I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier."

-- Dave Brubeck

#Growing Up Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Kids Quotes

“We don't let the past determine the future unless we allow it too.”
“Satanism represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates!”
“Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.”
“I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.”
“There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in modern times: the love of nature, the love of animals, the sense of social compassion, the sense of the spiritual dangers of affluence.”

Source : Henryk Skolimowski (1993). “A Sacred Place to Dwell: Living With Reverence Upon the Earth”, HarperElement
“Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.”
“The more tightly you cling to your faith, the looser your grip is on reality.”
“My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.”

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