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Life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. —Oscar Wilde— Villains get punished and heroes triumph in well-made plays and books. In life it’s not easy to say who’s who; most of us are heroic sometimes and villainous other times. Our lives are an uneven […]
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…The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances —Martha Washington— A light heart eases a hard struggle. A sense of humor takes the sting out of troubling circumstances. Likewise, a hateful attitude takes the luster out of the brightest moments. We have the power to control the […]
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If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction. —Emma Goldman… Many people form primary relationships before they’ve had a chance to live alone, to be on their own, to test themselves out in the world. Sometimes, in fact, it’s fear of testing themselves out […]
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. —Thomas Jefferson— Opportunities abound us each day of our lives for respectful, thoughtful actions toward others. It’s within our power […]
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Gentleness is not a quality exclusive to women. —Helen Reddy— Our option for how we responded to the men and women in our lives are vast. Being critical is one option open to us. Indifference and gentleness are others. The way we treat others reveals our own state of being. When we feel at peace, […]
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Geese lower their heads when flying over a bridge, no matter how high its arches may be. —Julius Ceasar Scaligaer— Old fears oppress us. They can hamper our growth; we learn nothing from them. Yet many of us continue to be afraid, for reasons we have long since forgotten, or never knew. Our bodies sometimes […]
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A liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness. —Adrienne Rich— All human interactions are built on agreement. Language itself depends on agreement: we agree, broadly, on the meaning of friend, blue, danger, cold. We agree on times of meeting, rules of procedure, and appropriate behaviors for many situations. To lie is to break some of […]
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A truly total history would cancel itself out—its product would be nought. —Claude Levi-Strauss— The world has been as rich and as varied as it is at this very moment. Wealth and poverty, joy and pain, peace and struggle, have existed side by side. The history of human life has been the history of each […]
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We only do well the things we like doing. —Colette— When you were a child, did you feel you had to do everything you were told to do? If you didn’t preform all tasks well, did you feel something was wrong with you? When we were young, many of us were never told we were […]
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Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. —Carlos Castaneda— Our conscience, desires to be heard every step of the way today. And the choice to listen is easy if we’ve developed trust in those messages […]