We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling. -John Churtom Collins
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It would be just like programmers to shorten 'the year 2000 problem' to 'Y2K'-- exactly the kind of thinking that created this situation in the first place. -Steven C. Meyer Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love -Mother Teresa Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void. -Jean Baudrillard A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless -- for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. -Washington Irving Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend...when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth. -Sarah Ban Breathnach Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. -Douglas William Jerrold When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. -Jewish Proverb "What is the goal of an arguement? To win the fight OR to restore peace? Consider which is the most desirable outcome
and align yourself with the steps which go there." ~ Jennifer Kruse The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred. -Francois De La Rochefoucauld The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences. -Henry Ward Beecher Hard-work is the cure for everything except disease -Greg Evans The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates. -David Mamet This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul. -Walt Whitman As long as you leave everything out on the basketball court, you can go into the locker room and feel good about yourself and that's important.............. -Allen Iverson Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any. -George Santayana As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness. -John F. Kennedy There are no tragedies, just facts not recognized in time. -William D. Montapert Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company. -John Gay You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. -Sir Edmund Hillary What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. -Samuel Johnson The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement. -Unknown Source The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. -Thomas Paine In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. ~ Albert Einstein |
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