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The desire to believe the best in people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reverse for friends. —Mary McCarthy— How often we find ourselves treating our acquaintances with exquisite courtesy, while our friends and loved ones get our yawns, our sulks, our tantrums. We may pride ourselves on treating everyone alike, but […]
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Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. —Langston Hughes— Our dreams the the invitations to preform the dance we’ve been gifted with. Dreams are full of purpose. They mean to inspire us, acting as markers along the the paths to our destination. Had we no dreams, […]
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The Oran, as elsewhere, for lack of time and thinking, people have to love one another without knowing much about it. —Albert Camus— What is time for us? How often we say, ” I don’t have time the for—” meaning our marriages, our friends, our children, our hobbies, our parents, ourselves. Just what is important, […]
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There’s a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. — Pearl Bailey— None of us is all good or all bad. Each of us take pride in some of our actions and suffers shame for others. To be human guarantees upheavals; we are assured […]
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Memories, like olives, are an acquired taste. — Max Beerbohm— We’ve all learned to like different things as we’ve grown; different flavors, different colors, different music. There’s no such thing as naturally liking hockey or jazz; even if we’re barely aware of doing so, we had to discipline ourselves to find the pattern of reward […]
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Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet. —Mary Catherwood— Conversation does not always assure, or even imply, self-revelation. Trading words is easily, frequently,and safely done; however, it doesn’t introduce us to one-another that resides within. Knowing one another can only be fostered by soul-baring. Each of us […]
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The mind is a baby giant who, more provident in the cradle than he knows, and hurled his paths in life all round him, like playthings… . —Robert Frost— Sometimes we are bewildered by the options open to us. We feel we have no way of knowing which course would be best. But when we […]
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The worst sin against our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity. — George Bernard Shaw— The greatest Gift we can give is rapt attention to one another’s existence. Of one thing we can be certain: we each are in this world by design. […]
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The solution to my life occurred to me one evening while I was ironing a shirt. —Alice Munro— We all receive flashes of illumination, messages likes shafts of lightning from one part of our brain to another. This is the answer! This is the meaning of life! Mathematicians tell stories of equations solved in a […]
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Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized. —Frances Ridley Havergal— Self-confidence is not a given in our lives. It must be developed, often painstakingly, one task, one account, one deadline at a time. And each day that we court indecision and doubt, we erode not only this development in process but the level of self-confidence that […]