The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. – Charlie Chaplin [Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin] (1889 – 1977) (Image by Momentmal from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. – George Sand (1804 – 1876) / (Simplicity is a…) (Image by 139904 from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech… More »
Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve. – Charlie Chaplin [Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin] (1889 – 1977) / (Simplicity is the…) (Image by photosforyou from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it! – Charlie Chaplin [Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin] (1889 – 1977) (Image by Momentmal from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google… More »
The trouble is you won’t fight. You’ve given in, continually dwelling on sickness and death. But there’s something just as inevitable as death, and that’s life. Life, life, life. Think of all the power that’s in the universe, moving the… More »
Swing, little girl, / Swing high to the sky. / And don’t ever look at the ground. // If you’re looking for rainbows, / Look up to the sky. / You’ll never find rainbows, / If you’re looking down. //… More »
Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it. – Martin Luther King， Jr. (1929 – 68) (Image by Jens Junge from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. – Martin Luther King， Jr. (1929 – 68) (Image by John Hain from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King， Jr. (1929 – 68) (Image by Jae Rue from… More »
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.… More »
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