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Thought For The Day: Wishing For Peace Doesn’t Make It So
“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.” – William R. Inge
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Thought For the Day: Love Makes the Happiness of Another Essential
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Things Unwise In A Family Are Unwise For A Nation
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.” – Adam Smith There is a lot to be said for this quote from Adam Smith. If things would be wise … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Be the Light of Love
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. , A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches Be the light that shines on … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Which Way To Go, Depends On Where You Want To Be
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat. ‘I don’t much care where -‘ said Alice. ‘Then it doesn’t matter … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice In Wonderland, Cheshire Cat, Choice, Destination, Difficult Decisions, Direction, Lewis Carroll
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Thought For the Day: Music Says What Cannot Be Said But Must Be Expressed
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” Victor Hugo, From Hugo’s Work William Shakespeare (1864), Part 1, Book II, Chapter IV
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Thought For the Day: It Is Okay To Contradict Oneself
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large — I contain multitudes.” – Walt Whitman Whitman’s ‘Song of Oneself’ can be found here to read in its entirety: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/whitman/song.htm Human beings are complex. Even the … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Complexity, Contradictions, Multitudes, Oneself, Poet, Poetry, Song of Oneself, Walt Whitman
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Thought For The Day: God Endowed Us With Reason; Use It
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” – Galileo Galilei A lot of people assume, and probably because they … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Act Worthy of Yourselves
“The man who meanly will submit to wear a shackle, contemns the noblest gift of heaven, and impiously affronts the God that made him free. Ease and prosperity (though pleasing for a day) have often sunk a people into … Continue reading
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