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Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error. —Friedrich Nietzsche— We’ve all known people to whom it was terribly important that we always be right. Perhaps some of us are those people, at least part of the time. Life under these conditions is an unrelenting struggle against sloppy thinking, dirt, carelessness, and […]
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Rudeness is a weak persons attempt at strength. —J. Matthew Casey— How others treat us indicates the self-assurance attained by those persons. Confident, content, self-respecting people are ably respectful to others. We often doubt our ability, either physical or intellectual, because someone has heaped criticism upon us. The converse is likewise true. How we treat […]
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Anyone can blame; it takes a specialist to praise. —Konstantin Stanislavski— True praise is a form of love. Mystics and saints have seen the whole living, breathing world as a hymn of praise to the Creator Spirit. This spiritual vision implies that praise is both a natural act and an art; simply being can be […]
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No person ever attempted to wrong another without being injured in return—someday, somehow, sometime. —William George Jordan— Whatever our actions today, they will repay us in kindness. Our choices will be many, as will our opportunities. Kindness fosters kindness. Respect elicits respect. A positive attitude clears the way for smooth sailing. We create the world […]
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Maybe if I listen closely to the rocks Next time, I’ll hear something, if not A word, perhaps the faint beginning of a syllable. —Phoebe Hanson— Everything in the world has something to say to us: rocks, garbage, even our disappointments and failures. For everything belongs to the vast, pulsating pattern that is the earth. […]
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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. —Thomas Carlyle— First things first. How much more simply life could evolve if we’d but focus our attention on the obvious situation confronting us, looking always for our direction from within the situation’s elements. […]
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The tail of the kite, it is true, seems to negate the kite’s function: it weights down something made to rise… —Cleanth Brooks— Without its tail, the kite would fly off in the lightest breeze. The tail serves as a rudder, to steady the kite and allow it to be directed. Every force needs a […]
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“Yes,” I answered you last night, “No” this morning, sir, I say. Colours seen by candle light Will not look the same by day.— Elizabeth Barrett Browning— Circumstances alter cases. We all know that important decisions require time and preparation, yet many of us take them impulsively or on inadequate information. When was the last […]
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To live in dialogue with another is to live twice. Joys are doubled by exchange and burdens are cut in half. —Wishart— We live in one another’s company for a reason. The talents any one of us are gifted with are most pleasurable when used to benefit many. And each of us is talented in […]
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People noticed and respected families that included many old people, knowing that in those families must be industrious, wise, and spiritual women who gathered good foods, prepared meats properly, and made daily offerings and prayers to the spirits. —May Louise Defender— Until the recent past, the health of her extended family was a woman’s responsibility. […]