Tag: help
member name: Bill Allin
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August 16, 2006 08:14 PM EDT --
Compared to the unimaginable immenseness of all that we know exists, you are an insignificant speck. Indeed, the whole planet on which you carry on your life is like one grain of sand on an ocean beach. . . .
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October 27, 2006 07:10 PM EDT --
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
- Robert Lynd, writer (1879-1949)
Aye, there's the rub.
How can I help others with their suffering if I . . .
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November 12, 2006 06:09 PM EST --
A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.
- Chinese proverb
I hasten to mention that this article is not about minerals. The quote refers to people.
Having said that, the part . . .
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November 15, 2006 08:18 PM EST --
"Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, . . .
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November 23, 2006 05:53 PM EST --
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
- Dan Quayle, former US Vice President
Life is not black and white, good or bad, in or out.
Vice President Quale was vilified by the media . . .
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January 23, 2008 08:18 PM EST --
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
- Mitch Hedberg, stand-up comic
Good line. Seems like one you would laugh . . .
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February 28, 2008 05:59 PM EST --
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman . . .
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March 08, 2008 06:06 PM EST --
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick, American clergyman (1878-1969)
While this advice holds great importance to those about to retire or who . . .
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March 12, 2008 09:36 PM EDT --
"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies."
- Nelson Mandela, civil rights icon, former president of South Africa (b.1918)
Resentment, bitterness, holding . . .
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March 18, 2008 07:07 PM EDT --
"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling . . .
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February 24, 2007 07:43 PM EST --
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
- William James
This statement will mean little or nothing to most people who have not . . .
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December 09, 2007 02:52 PM EST --
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
I can do this.
Some may think it's impossible, . . .
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January 03, 2008 09:46 AM EST --
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves and the world around us.
- Socrates , Greek philosopher (470 BCE-399 BCE)
Socrates didn't really . . .
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July 28, 2008 09:11 PM EDT --
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
- Bill Watterson, comic strip artist (1958- ), in his comic strip Calvin & Hobbes
If only...
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October 30, 2006 09:34 PM EST --
"There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving . . .
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January 23, 2008 06:32 PM EST --
Stuff You Probably Didn't Want To Know About The US Surgeon General
Created in 1871, the post of Surgeon General of the United States was the top position in the Marine Hospital Service. . . .
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April 04, 2008 08:23 PM EDT --
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself. . . .
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April 20, 2008 08:44 PM EDT --
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
- Thomas A Kempis, German ecclesiastic (1380-1471)
Let him that would move the world . . .
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April 17, 2009 08:35 AM EDT --
Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks
naturally upon what he owes to others, rather than on what he ought
to expect from them.
- Elizabeth de Meulan Guizot, French author . . .
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March 28, 2008 07:51 PM EDT --
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity. Successful men/women act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, . . .
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