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Memory is the power to gather roses in the winter. — Anonymous— What a marvelous capacity we each have to capture and savor the bliss of past moments. They serve to comfort us while we’re enduring the pain of the present. However, it’s the present experience that has called us to attention. Within its […]
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Who cannot give good counsel? ‘Tis cheap it cost them nothing. —Robert Burton— Other people’s problem’s are so easy to solve. Isn’t it amazing how much better we are at their lives than our own? Of course, other people’s lives don’t hook us emotionally, by means of love or guilt or precious delusions. We can […]
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I am determined to maintain the perpendicular position. —Lucy Stone— Perpendicular lines make right angles; they make possible extensions of both height and breadth. Right angles are weight-bearing. We speak of asserting something “squarely,”making perpendiculars. People who speak their minds freely and assert their individuality feel perpendicular; the corners they create, by their points of […]
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. —H.D. Thoreau— Conscious, careful selection of those activities, situations, or people to whom we’ll devote attention is all that separates centered, serene people from harried men and women. All of us are bombarded by myriad requests from some […]
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How much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. —Eric Hoffer— Our sense of how someone else perceives us is a compelling influence in our lives. At such times we’ve often chosen not to rely on our personal power, which can forge the posture we want […]
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop next time. —Kathrine Hepburn— Good habits are easily formed as bad ones. It’s quite likely that most of our daily activities are routine. With little need for forethought, we make our necessary motions every day. And if we […]
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. —Francis Bacon— Each day we hope for accomplishment and satisfaction, and we’ll achieve these when we scale our hopes to our real capacities. There’s no more satisfying feeling than finishing a project we’ve set up ourselves, tailored to our abilities, and worked at with […]
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The distance doesn’t matter; only the first step is difficult. —Mme. du Deffand— Life continually presents us with opportunities for achieving what we desire. “Only the first step is difficult.” Each time we sense the possibility of a new direction in our lives, we are being given a chance to grow. Sometimes the first step […]
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There are many ways to live and grow as there are people. Our own ways are the only ways that should matter to us. —Evelyn Mandel— Letting other people grow, develop, live their own experiences as they must takes courage and acceptance of the knowledge that our responsibility in this life is to our own […]
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Breaking through the foreground which is the Playboy’s Playgroung means letting out the bunnies, the bitches, the beavers, the squirrels, the chicks, the pussycats, the cows, the nags, the foxy ladies, the old bats and biddies so they can at last begin naming themselves. —Mary Daly— Racial and sexual stereotyping, casual putdowns that consign another […]