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How much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. —Eric Hoffer— Our sense of how someone else perceives us is a compelling influence in our lives. At such times we’ve often chosen not to rely on our personal power, which can forge the posture we want […]
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop next time. —Kathrine Hepburn— Good habits are easily formed as bad ones. It’s quite likely that most of our daily activities are routine. With little need for forethought, we make our necessary motions every day. And if we […]
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. —Francis Bacon— Each day we hope for accomplishment and satisfaction, and we’ll achieve these when we scale our hopes to our real capacities. There’s no more satisfying feeling than finishing a project we’ve set up ourselves, tailored to our abilities, and worked at with […]
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The distance doesn’t matter; only the first step is difficult. —Mme. du Deffand— Life continually presents us with opportunities for achieving what we desire. “Only the first step is difficult.” Each time we sense the possibility of a new direction in our lives, we are being given a chance to grow. Sometimes the first step […]
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There are many ways to live and grow as there are people. Our own ways are the only ways that should matter to us. —Evelyn Mandel— Letting other people grow, develop, live their own experiences as they must takes courage and acceptance of the knowledge that our responsibility in this life is to our own […]
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Breaking through the foreground which is the Playboy’s Playgroung means letting out the bunnies, the bitches, the beavers, the squirrels, the chicks, the pussycats, the cows, the nags, the foxy ladies, the old bats and biddies so they can at last begin naming themselves. —Mary Daly— Racial and sexual stereotyping, casual putdowns that consign another […]
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Our age can be determined by the ways in which we allow ourselves to play. —Louis Walsh— Too few of us laugh as heartily as we might. We often fail to see the humorous side of our lives. So we respond gravely to most situations, certain that a serious perspective is called for. When we […]
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There is no cardinal who does not aspire to the papacy. —Stendahl— When we think of it, there is something truly remarkable in fact that practically all human beings want to be better than they are. what a hopeful reading of the human race—four billion people, all eager to improve themselves! For many of the […]
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Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separateness—the false sense of isolation that only exists in your imagination. —Jeraldine Saunders— We are only alone in our minds. In reality, we are each contributing and necessary parts offering completion to the wholeness of the universe. Our very existence guarantees […]
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He that knew all that learning ever writ Knew only this—that he knew nothing yet. —Aphra Behn— It’s true that the more information we have about the world, the more clearly we see the shape of what we don’t know. It’s also true that we don’t need to learn anything at all in order to […]