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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung
Friday, December 29, 2006
Thursday, December 28, 2006
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11. Never say of anything, "I have lost it"; but, "I have returned it." Is your child dead? It is returned. Is your wife dead? She is returned. Is your estate taken away? Well, and is not that likewise returned? "But he who took it away is a bad man." What difference is it to you who the giver assigns to take it back? While he gives it to you to possess, take care of it; but don't view it as your own, just as travelers view a hotel.
The Enchiridion
By Epictetus
Translated by Elizabeth Carter
11. Never say of anything, "I have lost it"; but, "I have returned it." Is your child dead? It is returned. Is your wife dead? She is returned. Is your estate taken away? Well, and is not that likewise returned? "But he who took it away is a bad man." What difference is it to you who the giver assigns to take it back? While he gives it to you to possess, take care of it; but don't view it as your own, just as travelers view a hotel.
The Enchiridion
By Epictetus
Translated by Elizabeth Carter
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
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I want to say to you, Help yourself, so you can help someone else.
James Brown
I want to say to you, Help yourself, so you can help someone else.
James Brown
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
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10. With every accident, ask yourself what abilities you have for making a proper use of it. If you see an attractive person, you will find that self-restraint is the ability you have against your desire. If you are in pain, you will find fortitude. If you hear unpleasant language, you will find patience. And thus habituated, the appearances of things will not hurry you away along with them.
The Enchiridion
By Epictetus
Translated by Elizabeth Carter
10. With every accident, ask yourself what abilities you have for making a proper use of it. If you see an attractive person, you will find that self-restraint is the ability you have against your desire. If you are in pain, you will find fortitude. If you hear unpleasant language, you will find patience. And thus habituated, the appearances of things will not hurry you away along with them.
The Enchiridion
By Epictetus
Translated by Elizabeth Carter
Monday, December 25, 2006
Friday, December 22, 2006
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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
-- Harold B. Melchart
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
-- Harold B. Melchart
Thursday, December 21, 2006
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8. Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.
The Enchiridion
By Epictetus
Translated by Elizabeth Carter
8. Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.
The Enchiridion
By Epictetus
Translated by Elizabeth Carter
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a person bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because one does not feel them, but because the person is of high and heroic temper.
-- Aristotle
The beauty of the soul shines out when a person bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because one does not feel them, but because the person is of high and heroic temper.
-- Aristotle
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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7. Consider when, on a voyage, your ship is anchored; if you go on shore to get water you may along the way amuse yourself with picking up a shellish, or an onion. However, your thoughts and continual attention ought to be bent towards the ship, waiting for the captain to call on board; you must then immediately leave all these things, otherwise you will be thrown into the ship, bound neck and feet like a sheep. So it is with life. If, instead of an onion or a shellfish, you are given a wife or child, that is fine. But if the captain calls, you must run to the ship, leaving them, and regarding none of them. But if you are old, never go far from the ship: lest, when you are called, you should be unable to come in time.
The Enchiridion
By Epictetus
Translated by Elizabeth Carter
7. Consider when, on a voyage, your ship is anchored; if you go on shore to get water you may along the way amuse yourself with picking up a shellish, or an onion. However, your thoughts and continual attention ought to be bent towards the ship, waiting for the captain to call on board; you must then immediately leave all these things, otherwise you will be thrown into the ship, bound neck and feet like a sheep. So it is with life. If, instead of an onion or a shellfish, you are given a wife or child, that is fine. But if the captain calls, you must run to the ship, leaving them, and regarding none of them. But if you are old, never go far from the ship: lest, when you are called, you should be unable to come in time.
The Enchiridion
By Epictetus
Translated by Elizabeth Carter
Monday, December 18, 2006
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Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.
-- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English Author
Friday, December 15, 2006
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6. Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own. If a horse should be prideful and say, " I am handsome," it would be supportable. But when you are prideful, and say, " I have a handsome horse," know that you are proud of what is, in fact, only the good of the horse. What, then, is your own? Only your reaction to the appearances of things. Thus, when you behave conformably to nature in reaction to how things appear, you will be proud with reason; for you will take pride in some good of your own.
The Enchiridion
By Epictetus
Translated by Elizabeth Carter
6. Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own. If a horse should be prideful and say, " I am handsome," it would be supportable. But when you are prideful, and say, " I have a handsome horse," know that you are proud of what is, in fact, only the good of the horse. What, then, is your own? Only your reaction to the appearances of things. Thus, when you behave conformably to nature in reaction to how things appear, you will be proud with reason; for you will take pride in some good of your own.
The Enchiridion
By Epictetus
Translated by Elizabeth Carter
Thursday, December 14, 2006
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If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.
-- A. Neilen
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
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5. We are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things. Death, for instance, is not terrible, else it would have appeared so to Socrates. But the terror consists in our notion of death that it is terrible. When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.
The Enchiridion
By Epictetus
Translated by Elizabeth Carter
5. We are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things. Death, for instance, is not terrible, else it would have appeared so to Socrates. But the terror consists in our notion of death that it is terrible. When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.
The Enchiridion
By Epictetus
Translated by Elizabeth Carter
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
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Most of us miss out on life's big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel. Oscars. Tonys. Emmys. But we're all eligible for life's small pleasures. A pat on the back. A kiss behind the ear. A four-pound bass. A full moon. An empty parking space. A crackling fire. A great meal. A glorious sunset. Hot soup. Cold beer.
Most of us miss out on life's big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel. Oscars. Tonys. Emmys. But we're all eligible for life's small pleasures. A pat on the back. A kiss behind the ear. A four-pound bass. A full moon. An empty parking space. A crackling fire. A great meal. A glorious sunset. Hot soup. Cold beer.
-- Anonymous
Monday, December 11, 2006
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4. When you are going about any action, remind yourself what nature the action is. If you are going to bathe, picture to yourself the things which usually happen in the bath: some people splash the water, some push, some use abusive language, and others steal. Thus you will more safely go about this action if you say to yourself, "I will now go bathe, and keep my own mind in a state conformable to nature." And in the same manner with regard to every other action. For thus, if any hindrance arises in bathing, you will have it ready to say, "It was not only to bathe that I desired, but to keep my mind in a state conformable to nature; and I will not keep it if I am bothered at things that happen.
The Enchiridion
By Epictetus
Translated by Elizabeth Carter
4. When you are going about any action, remind yourself what nature the action is. If you are going to bathe, picture to yourself the things which usually happen in the bath: some people splash the water, some push, some use abusive language, and others steal. Thus you will more safely go about this action if you say to yourself, "I will now go bathe, and keep my own mind in a state conformable to nature." And in the same manner with regard to every other action. For thus, if any hindrance arises in bathing, you will have it ready to say, "It was not only to bathe that I desired, but to keep my mind in a state conformable to nature; and I will not keep it if I am bothered at things that happen.
The Enchiridion
By Epictetus
Translated by Elizabeth Carter
Saturday, December 9, 2006
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire
Thursday, December 7, 2006
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3. With regard to whatever objects give you delight, are useful, or are deeply loved, remember to tell yourself of what general nature they are, beginning from the most insignificant things. If, for example, you are fond of a specific ceramic cup, remind yourself that it is only ceramic cups in general of which you are fond. Then, if it breaks, you will not be disturbed. If you kiss your child, or your wife, say that you only kiss things which are human, and thus you will not be disturbed if either of them dies.
By Epictetus
Translated by Elizabeth Carter
3. With regard to whatever objects give you delight, are useful, or are deeply loved, remember to tell yourself of what general nature they are, beginning from the most insignificant things. If, for example, you are fond of a specific ceramic cup, remind yourself that it is only ceramic cups in general of which you are fond. Then, if it breaks, you will not be disturbed. If you kiss your child, or your wife, say that you only kiss things which are human, and thus you will not be disturbed if either of them dies.
The Enchiridion
Translated by Elizabeth Carter
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
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I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort.
I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort.
-- Elizabeth T. King
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
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2. Remember that following desire promises the attainment of that of which you are desirous; and aversion promises the avoiding that to which you are averse. However, he who fails to obtain the object of his desire is disappointed, and he who incurs the object of his aversion wretched. If, then, you confine your aversion to those objects only which are contrary to the natural use of your faculties, which you have in your own control, you will never incur anything to which you are averse. But if you are averse to sickness, or death, or poverty, you will be wretched. Remove aversion, then, from all things that are not in our control, and transfer it to things contrary to the nature of what is in our control. But, for the present, totally suppress desire: for, if you desire any of the things which are not in your own control, you must necessarily be disappointed; and of those which are, and which it would be laudable to desire, nothing is yet in your possession. Use only the appropriate actions of pursuit and avoidance; and even these lightly, and with gentleness and reservation.
The Enchiridion
By Epictetus
Translated by Elizabeth Carter
By Epictetus
Translated by Elizabeth Carter
Monday, December 4, 2006
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One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
-- Sigmund Freud
Sunday, December 3, 2006
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1. Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.
1. Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.
The things in our control are by nature free, unrestrained, unhindered; but those not in our control are weak, slavish, restrained, belonging to others. Remember, then, that if you suppose that things which are slavish by nature are also free, and that what belongs to others is your own, then you will be hindered. You will lament, you will be disturbed, and you will find fault both with gods and men. But if you suppose that only to be your own which is your own, and what belongs to others such as it really is, then no one will ever compel you or restrain you. Further, you will find fault with no one or accuse no one. You will do nothing against your will. No one will hurt you, you will have no enemies, and you not be harmed.
Aiming therefore at such great things, remember that you must not allow yourself to be carried, even with a slight tendency, towards the attainment of lesser things. Instead, you must entirely quit some things and for the present postpone the rest. But if you would both have these great things, along with power and riches, then you will not gain even the latter, because you aim at the former too: but you will absolutely fail of the former, by which alone happiness and freedom
are achieved.
Work, therefore to be able to say to every harsh appearance, "You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be." And then examine it by those rules which you have, and first, and chiefly, by this: whether it concerns the things which are in our own control, or those which are not; and, if it concerns anything not in our control, be prepared to say that it is nothing to you.
The Enchiridion
By Epictetus
Translated by Elizabeth Carter
Saturday, December 2, 2006
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The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.
-- Margaret Fontey
Friday, December 1, 2006
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When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
-- Samuel Goldwyn
Thursday, November 30, 2006
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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
-- William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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Great hopes make great people.
-- Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) English Historian
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
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No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
-- Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Albanian Missionary
Monday, November 27, 2006
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You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
-- Harriet Woods (1927-) American Politician
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Ursula K. Le Guin
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
Monday, November 20, 2006
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It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
--Euripides (480-406 BC) Greek Playwright
Sunday, November 19, 2006
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I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find...that truth is basically simple - and feels good, clean and right.
-- Chick Corea (1941-) American Jazz Musician
Thursday, November 16, 2006
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
-- Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) American Inventor
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
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"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
-- Maya Angelou
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
-- Maya Angelou
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
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Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.
-- Euripides (480-406 BC) Greek Playwright
Monday, November 13, 2006
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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain
Sunday, November 12, 2006
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He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.
-- Epictetus (55-135 AD) Greek Philosopher
Saturday, November 11, 2006
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
-- Aristotle
Friday, November 10, 2006
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People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ....When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.
-- Julian Simon (1933-1998) American Academic
Thursday, November 9, 2006
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"It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited."
-- Lewis B. Smedes
"It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited."
-- Lewis B. Smedes
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
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Get up stand up for your rights !
- Robert Nesta Marley - (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) Freedom Fighter
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
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Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.
-- Brendan Francis [Behan] (1923-1964) Irish Author
Monday, November 6, 2006
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
-- Aristotle
Sunday, November 5, 2006
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True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
-- Louis Nizer (1902-1994) American Lawyer
Saturday, November 4, 2006
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I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer
Thursday, November 2, 2006
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Courage is grace under pressure.
-- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American Writer
-- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American Writer
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
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The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
-- Bernard Meltzer (1914-) American Law Professor
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
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Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Dramatist and Poet
Monday, October 30, 2006
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An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- -- Mohandas Gandhi
Sunday, October 29, 2006
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All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.
-- Harrison Ford (1942-) American Actor
Saturday, October 28, 2006
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A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.
-- Arnold H. Glasow
Friday, October 27, 2006
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Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
-- Elizabeth Stone
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
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Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer
Monday, October 23, 2006
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Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
--Thomas Paine (1737-1809) British-American Writer
Sunday, October 22, 2006
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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
--Herbert Kaufman
Friday, October 20, 2006
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr
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- When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
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There are many ways to measure success; not the least of which is the way your child describes you when talking to a friend.
There are many ways to measure success; not the least of which is the way your child describes you when talking to a friend.
--Unknown
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
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Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
-- Alonzo Newton Benn
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Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
-- Alonzo Newton Benn
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Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
-- Alonzo Newton Benn
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
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When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in our soul spurs us to climb, and to seek the mountain view.
When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in our soul spurs us to climb, and to seek the mountain view.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Monday, October 16, 2006
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
--Bette Davis (1908-1989) American Actress
Saturday, October 14, 2006
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
A Return To Love - Marianne Williamson
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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. - Buddha
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. - Buddha
Friday, October 13, 2006
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The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates. -- Thomas Szasz (1920-) American Psychiatrist
The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates. -- Thomas Szasz (1920-) American Psychiatrist
Thursday, October 12, 2006
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Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.
Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.
-- John C. Bogle (1929-) American Investor
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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I love the "person"* that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
I love the "person"* that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
-- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) British-American Writer
*Paine said, "man."
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright
Sunday, October 8, 2006
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Let us move on, and step out boldly, though it be into the night, and we can scarcely see the way.
-- Charles B. Newcomb
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. -- Aristotle
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. -- Aristotle
Saturday, October 7, 2006
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
-- J.B. Priestly (1894-1984) English Author
Friday, October 6, 2006
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Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
-- Alexis Carrel
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
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It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to
half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness
for fear of what might happen.
-- Herodotus (485 - 425BC) Greek Historian
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
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The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.
-- Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) American Inventor
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams
Monday, October 2, 2006
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All high achievers plan their work and work their plan, for they are keenly aware that "luck" is most often being prepared to take advantage of a situation.
-- Unknown
Saturday, September 30, 2006
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The important thing is to stop lying to yourself. A man who lies to himself and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize the truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself as well as for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal, in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.
-- Dostoevsky
-- Dostoevsky
Thursday, September 28, 2006
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The greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising up every time we fall.
-- Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese Philosopher
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
-- Longfellow
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
--Arabian Proverb
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Courtesy is simply doing unto others what you would like them to do unto you.
-- Anonymous
Sunday, September 24, 2006
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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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Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.
-- F.W. Faber
Saturday, September 23, 2006
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Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every person has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which we all have some.
-- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English Novelist
Friday, September 22, 2006
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
-- William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
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Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
-- Epictetus
Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
-- Epictetus
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"Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way."
-- Eileen Caddy
"Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way."
-- Eileen Caddy
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
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Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.
-- Sextus Propertius (50BC-16AD) Roman Poet
Monday, September 18, 2006
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Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) Russian Novelist
Sunday, September 17, 2006
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Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
-- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English Author
Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
-- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English Author
Saturday, September 16, 2006
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The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for people to see by. The saint is the one who walks through the dark paths of the world, them self a light.
-- Felix Adler
Thursday, September 14, 2006
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. -- Aristotle
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
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-- Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
-- Epictetus (55-135 AD) Greek Philosopher
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The world is good-natured to people who are good natured.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
-- Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
-- Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957)
Friday, September 8, 2006
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A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm, that after they have lost all they are sure to lose in mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt and support them through great actions.
-- Julius C. Hare (1795-1855) English Cleric
Thursday, September 7, 2006
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if one is to be ultimately at peace with oneself. What a one can be,one must be.
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The nearest way to glory -- a shortcut, as it were -- is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be - quoted in Cicero, 44 BC.
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
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It is a glorious achievement to master one's own temper.
-- Anonymous
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
Monday, September 4, 2006
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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Sunday, September 3, 2006
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The main fuel to speed the world's progress, is our stock of knowledge; the brakes are our lack of imagination and unsound social regulations of these activities. The ultimate resource is people - especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty - who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefit, and so inevitably they will benefit the rest of us as well.
Saturday, September 2, 2006
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
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The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.
CHECK-IN
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Roberto, my brother, has been e-mailing me these positive quotes each day for the last three years. I forward them to people who say they do the same. I guess we are all creating ripples of positive vibrations, together.
Amazing it was to me, when I began to realize that Roberto, who sends these quotes to only three people each day, could effect so many others. Imagine the possibilities!
Where Roberto gets them? I have no idea. Surely, like most other information these days, the quotes are easy enough to find here on the Internet. However, I've found there is a big difference between the vibe of retrieving them oneself, and the positive vibrations that accompany receiving them from someone who cares , and then in turn sharing the positive vibe with others.
Sometimes I adjust them for gender neutrality.
Enjoy the game!
Amazing it was to me, when I began to realize that Roberto, who sends these quotes to only three people each day, could effect so many others. Imagine the possibilities!
Where Roberto gets them? I have no idea. Surely, like most other information these days, the quotes are easy enough to find here on the Internet. However, I've found there is a big difference between the vibe of retrieving them oneself, and the positive vibrations that accompany receiving them from someone who cares , and then in turn sharing the positive vibe with others.
Sometimes I adjust them for gender neutrality.
Enjoy the game!
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