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…you must remember that an arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. —Abigail Adams— Sway is built into tall buildings so they won’t break. Rigid structures are never as strong as flexible ones. The strongest minds are also the most nimble, the most ready to change […]
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We are apt to call barbarous whatever departs widely from our own taste and apprehension. But soon [we] find the epithet of reproach retorted on us. —David Hume— Judging others is a hazardous game that’s likely to backfire. Labeling others is a form of judgment. It’s a way of sticking people into pigeonholes and saving […]
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Life is curious when it is reduced to its essentials. —Jean Rhys— Life is always reduced to its essentials. We’re frail creatures: without water and shelter, we can’t survive. We may not think of our lives in these minimalist terms, but accidents of many kinds can disrupt our fragile web of protection. It makes sense, […]
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Every outlook, desirable or undesirable, remains possible for anyone, no matter what his present outlook is. —Dr. George Weinberg— The attitude with which we greet the day, approach a situation, or respond to a friend or co-worker is fully within our control. We exercise absolute control over little in our lives, but our attitudes represent […]
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Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities. —Sue Atchley Ebaugh— Our dreams invite us to broaden our horizons to reach beyond our present goals. They are much more than whims. They are probably calling us to those opportunities for which our talents have been readied. Most of us need this encouragement to attempt […]
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Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase. —Charles Dickens— The mysterious thing about “treasures of the heart” is that they are “countless—boundless, self-renewing, inexhaustible. When we love and are loved, trust and are trusted, this reciprocal relationship gives us […]
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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults. —Evelyn Waugh— If we expect children to behave as adults, of course we will find them tiresome. If we expect water to be milk, we will be continually disappointed. But since we can control and direct our expectations why should we set ourselves […]
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The best thing for you, my children, is to serve God from our heart, without falsehood or shame, not giving out to people that you are one thing while, God forbid, in your heart you are another. —Gluckel of Hameln— We pray for wholeness of the spirit: to be able to live cleanly, with no […]
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it. —George Bernard Shaw— Desire is strong; we all feel it. Desire can impel us toward positive, life-enhancing experiences, or it can fasten on vain and unproductive ends. Material things will never satisfy desire; only a […]
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What most of us want is to be heard, to communicate. —Dory Previn— The need to know that we count in the lives of others, that our presence has not gone unnoticed, is universal. Few of us are blessed from birth with full knowledge of our connectedness to all life. Instead, we falter and fumble […]