"I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."

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Josh Lanyon

#Renaissance Quotes #Philosopher Quotes

“Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.”

Source : "Song: "The Revolution" ("Gangsta's Paradise")". 1995.
“It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.”
“Iâ€™ve got...ways of tricking my brain into getting what I need out of it”
“In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.”
“We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.”

Source : Sam Keen (1980). “What to do when you're bored and blue”
“The universe is random. It's not inevitable. It's simple chaos. It's subatomic particles in endless, aimless collision. That's what science teaches us, but what is this saying? What is it telling us, when on the very night that this man's daughter dies, it's me who's having a drink with him? How can that be random?”
“Never let a short term desire get in the way of a long term goal.”
“I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.”

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