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Happy Halloween 2024!!
May you and each of you have the happiest and spookiest of Halloween this year! From my family to yours, Happy Halloween 2024!!
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged 2024, Family, Happy, Happy Halloween, Spooky, Thought For the Day, You and Each of You
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First Principles: If We Can Prevent the Government From Wasting the Labors of the People, Under the Pretence of Taking Care of Them, They Must Become Happy
“If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.” – Thomas Jefferson (1802)
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Care, First Principles, Government, Happy, Labor, Pretense, Prevent, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Waste
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On the Journey of Fatherhood
On the Journey of Fatherhoodby Michael DoyleAsked about how fatherhood is ratedIt has seemed to me somewhat understatedI could not have imagined the journeyThat it has been in all of its totalityWhen you talk about consequences and moralityFatherhood is the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abundant, Becoming, Believe, Birth, Boast, Consequences, Content, Daddy, Daughters, Destined, Discern, Every Time, Father, Fatherhood, Filled, Forever Knowing, Gift, Given and Received, Glowing, Grown, Happy, Heaven Above, Hugged Tight, Imagine, Journey, Last Breath, Learn, Lessons, Lifetime, Lives, Love, Masterpiece, Matter, Mature, Money, Morality, Most, My Heart, Nature, Parents, Pictures, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Rated, Rich, Right, Soul, Step By Step, Superstar, Talk, Think, Totality, Understated, Wealth
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Thought For the Day: The Purpose of Life Is Not To Be Happy. It is To Be Useful, To Be Honorable, To Be Compassionate, To Have It Make Some Difference That You Have Lived and Lived Well
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
First Principles: The Greater Part of Our Misery Or Unhappiness Is Determined Not By Our Circumstance But By Our Disposition
“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.” – Martha … Continue reading
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Tagged Cheerful, Circumstance, Deteermine, Disposition, First Principles, Greater Part, Happy, Learn, Martha Washington, Misery, Situation, Unhappiness
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The Secret Woes of Regret
The Secret Woes of Regretby Michael DoyleKept silence about better daysAre still remembered for the better waysWe once so happily lived inBefore the days of blood and drunken sinsWe clean the ship’s hull on the beachTo gain that extra knot … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Attention, Beach, Better Days, Better Way, Better Ways, Blind, Blood, Breach, Dead Men, Died, Dread, Dreams, Drunken Sins, Fair Weather, Faith, False Promises, Forget, Friends, Gamble, Gold, Happy, Honor, Integrity, Intention, Knot, Legendary, Lied, Life, Loss, Men, Misdeed, Mystic Power, November's Rain, Pain, Pirate, Pirates, Plunder, Poetry and Poems, Prevails, Ramble, Regret, Remember, Require, Secret, Ship's Hull, Silence, Strong Wind, Suffering, Tales, Tears, Truth, Woe, Yesterday
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