Tag: problems
member name: Bill Allin
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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 28, 2006 09:27 PM EST --
"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
- Nicholas Butler, American educator (1862–1947)
Nothing about our lives that could . . .
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February 08, 2007 03:55 PM EST --
"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you . . .
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August 25, 2006 04:58 PM EDT --
"A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved."
- Charles Kettering, American industrialist
While this quote has no place in the chambers of legislature, where elected representatives want . . .
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January 24, 2008 06:53 PM EST --
Some people find fault like there is a reward for it.
- Zig Ziglar
Let's first off make a major distinction between finding fault and offering ways and means for correction and improvement. Finding . . .
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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 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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August 02, 2006 03:39 PM EDT --
Shadow owes its birth to light.
- John Gay, poet and dramatist (1685-1732)
Without light, we know nothing about shadow. On the other hand, without shadow, we have no means of evaluating or appreciating . . .
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June 29, 2006 07:02 PM EDT --
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your
hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your . . .
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June 30, 2006 07:40 PM EDT --
The purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone they become no more than beasts.
- Saint Sophia
Though Saint Sophia lived in the dying days of the . . .
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July 10, 2006 05:07 PM EDT --
"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."
- George Lois
The reference is to creative thinking, not so much creative . . .
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October 05, 2006 07:53 PM EDT --
"Education will never be as expensive as ignorance."
- Anonymous
I must veer away from my usual practice and express this clearly as my personal opinion.
Most, if not all, of the ills . . .
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November 06, 2006 05:34 PM EST --
Illness is in part what the world has done to a victim, but in a larger part it is what the victim has done with his world.
- Karl Menninger, psychiatrist (1893-1990)
If you are reading this message, . . .
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October 02, 2006 09:15 PM EDT --
"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind."
- Maya Angelou, writer, actor (1928- )
The need for change seems to be on the minds of many people these days.
We . . .
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March 02, 2008 08:35 PM EST --
"He only did what he had to do," a line from Waylon and Willie's Poncho and Lefty , stands out from among the others as my earworm of the day plays over and over in my head.
I don't . . .
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March 23, 2008 05:49 PM EDT --
We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castenada, mystic and author (1925-1998)
We get out of life what we want, what we put effort into creating for . . .
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March 04, 2007 06:12 PM EST --
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
- Margaret Halsey, novelist (1910-1997)
A refusal to be defeated does not necessarily mean a refusal to admit making a . . .
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May 30, 2006 04:44 PM EDT --
"No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it."
- Charles M. Schulz
The only problem you can't walk away from is death. While I can understand why people would want to . . .
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July 14, 2006 05:30 PM EDT --
"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."
- Thomas Szasz, Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry at . . .
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July 22, 2006 06:46 PM EDT --
If you want to have friends, be friendly;
if you want to be trusted, be honest;
if you want to be loved, be loving;
if you want to be safe, be brave.
- Gil Hardwick
The world is as bad as you think it . . .
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