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Sharing a burdened heart with another who has the wisdom, strength, and knowledge to carry it, frees us from its weight long enough to focus on solutions. —Liane Cordes— Our obsession with a problem, keeps it a problem, any incessant problem, keeps it a problem. Our focus on it destroys the balanced perspective that is […]
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Our ordinary minds try to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is interests only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge only of something much better: that we can become oak trees. —E.F. Schumacher— Most of us struggle […]
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If we try to hard to force others to live in our world, because we think it is the real world, we are doomed to disappointment. —William Glasser, M.D.— The desire to control other people, all situations and each outcome to benefit ourselves is a human compulsion, and one destined to foster frustration. Our need […]
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It seems that there is a direct connection between creative thought and involvement in life and the production of epinephrine by the adrenal gland. When the challenge stops, the supply is turned off; the will to live atrophies. —Norman Cousins— Living on the fringes of activities is a choice we can make. Always holding back, […]
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…he yearned to package for each of the children, the grandchildren, for everyone, the joyous certainty, that sense of mattering, of moving and being moved, of being one and indivisible with the great of the past, with all that freed, ennobled. —Tillie Olsen— In childhood we glimpse the dear connectedness of life. The delicious that […]
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Persons who habitually drink water become as fine gourmets on the subject as wine drinkers on wine. —Alexander Dumas— How fortunate are those among us who have the ability to turn things around—to transform liabilities into assets. Life deals them lemons; they make lemonade, lemon pie, candied lemon peel. They seem to be able to […]
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By education most have been misled So they believe, because they we’re bred. The priest continues what the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man. —John Dryden— In the early years it often seems to the growing human child that most of civilization consists of saying “No!” Parents and teachers sometimes act […]
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It was only after the advent of the white man that we met people who did not understand the uniqueness of human beings. —Good Day— Human beings have been known to act toward other people as though they were things, objects, instead of subjects like ourselves. Men sometimes act this way toward women; parents towards […]
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Patience is a particular requirement Without it you can destroy in an hour what it might take you weeks to repair. —Charlie W. Shedd… Enjoying the moment, in its fullest, makes possible a peaceful and patient pace. Progress is guaranteed if our minds are centered, in the present, on the only event deserving of our […]