Monday, October 24, 2005
And Which One Are You?
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." C. S. Lewis
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Friday, October 21, 2005
Without Sorrow, Can There Be Joy?
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. Golda Meir
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Thursday, October 20, 2005
On Life's Changes
an approximate quote from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King "How do you pick up the threads of an old life left behind? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand that there is no going back? That there are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
More on Pity and Its Right Use
"Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it: or else for ever and ever the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.... "... The passion of Pity... the ache that draws men to concede what should not...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
A Couple of Quotes on Leadership
In calm waters, every ship has a good captain. Swedish proverb Leadership is the art of getting someone to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Monday, October 17, 2005
On the Misuse of Pity
Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But.... It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity. C.S. Lewis The Great Divorce
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Sunday, October 9, 2005
On Learning from Mistakes
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. Barry LePatner
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Thursday, October 6, 2005
On Personal Change
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. James Gordon, M.D.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2005
An Interesting and Inspiring Statistic
When I start to feel like a failure, I like to remember the following little tidbit that I read somewhere several years ago: Every article in National Geographic Magazine is accompanied by about thirty pictures, taken by some of the best photographers in the world. Those thirty "successful" shots...
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Sunday, October 2, 2005
On Government
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. William H. Borah
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