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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. —Florence Scovel Shinn— We plant the seeds of the bounty we’ll reap by every action we take. We teach others how to treat us by our treatment of them coupled of our […]
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The true use of our speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. —Oliver Goldsmith— Learning to communicate, for little children, means squeezing huge desires into little words, like”hurt” or “cookie.” We learn early that we’re only going to get part of what we want. Some of us never recover […]
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To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a constant state of suspension. —Kathleen Tierney Andrus— How tempting it is to make another person responsible for our happiness, and how absurd. To give such power means we’re at their mercy; […]
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If you want knowledge, you must take part in the practice of changing reality. If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. —Mao Tse-tung— Our language is poor in words that convey emotional meaning. To know, with intellect, is not the same as knowing […]
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. —Agnes Varda— We take life so seriously, certain that the situation confronting us, or at least the next one, will doom us. We gravely anticipate what lies ahead and assuredly we’ll experience what we expect. The power to lighten our load rests within. We’re only […]
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…What is in one’s life stays there until the end of one’s days. —Harrison Salisbury=== Young people often try to pretend they’re other than they truly are; they’re pleased to be taken for natives in a strange place, or tourist at home. People try to change their hair color, their body shape, or their voice—trying […]
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The evening star is the most beautiful of all stars. —Sappho— The first star in the evening sky shines with a special brightness, because it is the first. We see it as a signal; the first sign that afternoon has turned to evening. The first of anything is touched with special glamour; first love, a […]
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Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race (may) commit suicide by blowing up the world. —Henry Adams— One hundred years ago, Henry Adams foresaw the plight we’re in today. Some observers believe that people in positions of power won’t be able to refrain from the awful destruction […]
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Always I’ve found resisting temptation easier than yielding—it’s more practical and requires no initiative. —Alice B. Toklas— If temptation is easy to set aside, it can’t tempt us very strongly. The real, insidious temptations are the ones to which we yield unthinkingly: temptations to inertia, for example, or to stinginess or self-punishment. It’s part of […]
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…it wasn’t sin that was born on the day Eve picked an apple: what was born on that day was a splendid virtue called disobedience. —Oriana Fallaci— Liberty of conscience is precious to us. We need to feel that we are doing the right thing; sometimes, this may mean disobeying authority, as abolitionist, suffragists, and […]