Tag: life
member name: Bill Allin
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September 25, 2006 10:01 PM EDT --
Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
- Virginia Satir
"Supposed to be?" Who said that? Who says, with authority, . . .
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July 22, 2006 06:09 PM EDT --
I only wanted to put her out of my misery.
The purpose of this article is not to convey my innermost feelings as I struggled to avoid the temptation to snuff out someone's life. It's to show how . . .
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September 17, 2006 04:58 PM EDT --
"Circumstances do not make the man, they merely reveal himself to himself."
- Epictetus, Greek/Roman philosopher (c.55 – c.135 C.E.)
This assumes the desire and willingness to find out . . .
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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 14, 2006 05:36 PM EST --
"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."
- Rita Mae Brown, American . . .
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July 20, 2006 01:32 PM EDT --
"People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
But, Bucky, people accept the usual ways of doing . . .
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August 26, 2006 11:32 AM EDT --
Everyone you meet seems normal until you really get to know them.
The better you know them, the more abnormal, or at least "different," they seem.
It's safe to conclude from this that no . . .
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October 25, 2006 09:27 PM EDT --
"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power."
- Shirley MacLaine, actor and positive thinker
And yet we do it.
Dwelling on the negative makes us the only species to do so and . . .
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December 02, 2007 06:19 PM EST --
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
- William Arthur Ward
People like people who try to bring out the best in them. They may resent the methods . . .
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December 04, 2007 07:26 PM EST --
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. And
few destroyers of trees ever plant any; nor can planting avail much toward
restoring our grand aboriginal giants. It took more . . .
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December 24, 2007 07:32 PM EST --
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
As I write this on the eve of Christmas Day, 2007, I am reminded that peace across our . . .
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July 18, 2006 09:51 PM EDT --
"It is never wise to seek or wish for another's misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang."
- Charley Reese, American commentator
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July 23, 2006 02:43 PM EDT --
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
- Mohandas K. ("The Mahatma") Gandhi
Note that the "Great Soul" did not advance the cause of . . .
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August 09, 2006 07:25 PM EDT --
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Such insight from a man whose life was a bit scrambled itself.
Let's take the quote . . .
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August 15, 2006 09:02 PM EDT --
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
- Carl Sandberg, American . . .
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August 31, 2006 08:35 PM EDT --
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller, best known for buckyballs and geodesic domes, disliked the common ways . . .
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September 13, 2006 06:12 PM EDT --
"Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who . . .
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September 16, 2006 07:21 PM EDT --
"If you don't run your own life, somebody else will."
- John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson of Glenwilliam (1844–1931)
This lesson should be taught to everyone. While many people today give . . .
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September 22, 2006 07:10 PM EDT --
"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."
- Vincent Van Gogh
I am convinced . . .
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September 24, 2006 05:16 PM EDT --
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
- Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)
The human body, especially the brain, has been likened to a sophisticated . . .
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