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Category Archives: Thought For the Day
First Anniversary
I want to take this moment to commemorate Aloha Promises Forever’s first anniversary of our blog. I say our because although Ally and my relationship has changed hugely, she has been and remains a source of encouragement and inspiration. Thank … Continue reading
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Tagged Aloha Promises Forever, Blog, Changes, First Anniversary, Gratitude, Journey
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Thought For the Day: Propaganda Infused On Children Is Difficult To Uproot
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” – Lenin
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Tagged Education, Lenin, Propaganda, Seed, Sown, Thought For the Day, Transform, Tyranny
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Thought For the Day: History Is A Novel
“History is a novel whose author is the people.” – Alfred de Vigny, poet, playwright, and novelist (27 Mar 1797-1863) I would go this one step further and say that the more I have learned about history, the more … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: The Concerns of Childhood Are Life Sized To Children
“Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.” – Margaret Atwood, novelist and poet (b. 1939)
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Thought For the Day: You Cannot Shake Hands With A Clenched Fist
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” – Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India (1917-1984)
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Tagged Clenched Fist, Handshake, Hope, Hostility, Indira Ghandi, Individuals, Love, Peace
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Thought For the Day: The True Heroes of This World Share Responsibility For Caring For Our Children
“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Community, Fred Rogers, Heroes, Issues, Problem Solvers, Responsibility, Responsive, Thought For the Day, World
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Thought For the Day: To Understand Is Not To Condone
“Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.” – Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author (23 Mar 1900-1980)
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Tagged Accept, Accusation, Condone, Discernment, Erich Fromm, Judgment, Others, Thought For the Day, Understanding
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Thought For the Day: Write Faster To Know the End of the Story
“One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter — who was a child at the time — asked me, “Daddy, why are you writing so fast?” And I replied, “Because I want to see how the … Continue reading
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Tagged Childhood, Imagination, Lous L'Amour, Rapid, Story, Thought For the Day, Unfold, Writing
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Thought For the Day: The Older We Are, the Clearer We Should See
“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” – Jean Paul Richter, writer (21 Mar 1763-1825)
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Tagged Clarity, Hourglass, Jean Paul Richter, Life, Sand, Thought For the Day, Time
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