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Rule #62: No Profit Without Risk

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Certitude, Change, Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Feel, Ferengi, Freedom, Grow, Learn, Nothing, Philosophy, Profit, Quotes, Risk, Rules of Acquisition, Slave, Sorrow, Star Trek, Suffering on August 15, 2025| Leave a Comment »

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.

— Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia

[I believe the actual Ferengi “Rule of Acquisition” #62 is: “The riskier the road, the greater the profit” which is the Earth equivalent of “No profit without risk.” — kmab]

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The Honor Is To Serve

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Altruism, Contentment, Dalai Lama, Greed, Happiness, Ignorance, Pain, Peace, Philosophy, Quotes, Satisfaction, Selfishness, Service, Suffering on July 14, 2025| Leave a Comment »

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.

— Dalai Lama

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Where There Is Love

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Destruction, Giving, Hatred, Life, Love, Mahatma Gandhi, Philosophy, Quotes, Resentment, Revenge, Suffering on July 11, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Shadows Follow

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Buddha, Carts, Joy, Life, Oxen, Philosophy, Quotes, Shadows, Suffering, Thinking, Thought on January 11, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draw it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.

— Buddha

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Good Practice

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Action, Buddha, Concentration, Effort, Livelihood, Mindfulness, Paths, Philosophy, Quotes, Speech, Suffering, Thought, Understanding on July 31, 2024| 2 Comments »

If we want to end suffering, we should practice the 8 fold paths. These 8 fold paths include:
1.	Right Understanding
2.	Right Thought
3.	Right Speech
4.	Right Action
5.	Right Livelihood
6.	Right Effort
7.	Right Mindfulness
8.	Right Concentration

— Buddha

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What If I Don’t Want To Know Myself?

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Leo Tolstoy, Limitations, Philosophy, Quotes, Suffering on August 24, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Without suffering we know neither our limitations, nor ourselves.

— Leo Tolstoy

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Tinges…

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Animals, Behaviour, Carl Sagan, Eating Flesh, Feeling Pain, Philosophy, Quotes, Suffering on July 7, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and ‘animals’ is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.

— Carl Sagan

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Why #45 Is Always Crying

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #CryBabyDonald, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Hell, Love, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Suffering, The Brothers Karamazov on September 24, 2020| 2 Comments »

Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
From: “The Brothers Karamazov“

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A Moment To Rejoice

Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Dorothy Day, Faith, Gifts From God, God, Hunger, Philosophy, Poverty, Quotes, Rejoice, Suffering, The Catholic Worker, War on September 10, 2020| 2 Comments »

There is poverty and hunger and war in the world. And we prepare for more war. There is desperate suffering with no prospect for relief. But we would be contributing to the misery and desperation of the world if we failed to rejoice in the sun, the moon and the stars, in the rivers which surround this island on which we live, on the cool breezes of the bay, on what food we have and on the benefactors God sends.

— Dorothy Day
Appearing in: “The Catholic Worker” (newspaper)
Dtd: July-August 1940

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Change Is Law

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Change, Freedom, Law, Philosophy, Quotes, Reality, Socrates, Suffering on June 1, 2018| Leave a Comment »

If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.

― Socrates

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Sometimes The Truth Hurts

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Bob Marley, Getting Hurt, On The Value Of Others, On Truth, Philosophy, Quotes, Suffering on May 6, 2015| Leave a Comment »

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

— Bob Marley

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Learning Bitter

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged American Shaolin, Chinese Proverb, Fools, Learning, Lessons, Matthew Polly, Philosophy, Price, Quotes, Suffering on March 1, 2013| Leave a Comment »

To suffer and learn a lesson, one pays a high price, but a fool can’t learn any other way.

— Traditional Chinese Proverb
Found in: “American Shaolin“, by Matthew Polly

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Pillars Of Learning

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Benjamin Disraeli, On Learning, Philosophy, Pillars, Quotes, Seeing, Studying, Suffering on February 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Two Philosophies

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Knowledge, Lead.Learn.Live, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Philosophy, Quotes, Suffering on June 8, 2012| Leave a Comment »

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist

[Originally quoted at one of the blogs I follow: Lead.Learn.Live — kmab]

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