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The Painful Reality of Perfectionism
The Painful Reality of Perfectionismby Michael DoyleThere is a need to face eventuallyWhether painful or not, the realityThat however much we have optimismThere is no such thing as perfectionismAt least so much as actually be perfectThere is only really the … Continue reading
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To Keep Growing
To Keep Growingby Michael DoyleIn the first end, we objectifyWhat we were once taught to deify But being nothing but the average manWe still seek to do the best we canWe get so very much wrongTrying to model ourselves and … Continue reading
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Tagged Average Man, Belong, Best We Can, Better Sort of Man, Bias, Brother, Change Our Ways, Deify, Desperate, Do and Say, Each Step, Equality, Error, Father, Feeling, Find, First End, Foothold, Forward, Get It Right, Greater Truths, Growing, Imprinted Ways, In the End, Keep, Keep Growing, Knowing, Learning, Life Lived Well, Long Way, Longing, Love, Lover, Meaning, Misunderstand, Model, Nothing, Objectify, Poetry and Poems, Rearrange, Repent, See, Seek, Shame, Sins, Standing, Strong, Taught, Toward, True Society, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: Optimism Is the Faith That Leads To Achievement. Nothing Can Be Done Without Hope and Confidence
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
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Tagged Achievement, Confidence, Done, Faith, Helen Keller, Hope, Nothing, Optimism, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Nothing Is So Contagious As Opinion, Especially On Questions Which, Susceptible of Very Different Glasses, Beget In the Mind A Distrust of Itself
“Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.” – James Madison (1790)
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Tagged Contagious, Different Glasses, Distrust, First Principles, James Madison, Mind, Nothing, Opinion, Question, Susceptible
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Thought For the Day: Nothing Can Bring You Peace But Yourself. Nothing Can Bring You Peace But the Triumph of Principles
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tagged Nothing, Peace, Principles, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thought For the Day, Truimph, Yourself
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Echo of Love
Echo of Loveby Michael DoyleIn love, there’s no honorable mentionNor is it really a process of eliminationIt comes down to a concrete decisionAt least if you have the right intentionIf your head is really spinningIt might be that you’re finally … Continue reading
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Tagged Bliss, Brought, Clear, Comes Around, Concrete Decision, Crown, Echo, Evermore, Eyes, Falling Down, Feel, For Rich Or For Poor, Forever, Found, Hand In A Glove, Head, Heart and Mind, Heart Shatters, Honorable Mention, In Love, Kiing, Kiss, Know, Lack, Late, London Bridge, Love, Mean, Nothing, Nothing To Fear, One True Being, Only One, Poetry and Poems, Process of Elimination, Queen, Recognize, Right Intention, Right One, Satisifed, Secret, Shine, Soon, Spinning, To the Moon and Back, Told, Truly In Love, Truly Matters, Walls, Weight, Winning, Without, Without A Doubt, World Spin
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The Love In Your Eyes
The Love In Your Eyesby Michael DoyleWe look for love in the life we embraceWe struggle to find our footing in this placeThere is nothing left for us to explainHow it is that we’ve walked past life’s painThe struggles that … Continue reading
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Tagged Accidental Kiss, Angst and Doubt, Blindness, Bound, Celestial Skies, Close, Comes Our Way, Embrace, Explain, Eyes, Fall In Love, Feeling, Feelings, Footing, Found, God Given, Keep, Kept, Kindness, Know, Left Behind, Life, Life's Pain, Love, Love In Your Eyes, Muzzle, Not For Play, Not That Deep, Nothing, Openly Say, Place, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Purpose, Puzzle, Question, Raw, Real, Reflect, Replace, Reveal, Say, Seals the Deal, Secret, Shining Star, Slip Out, Smile, Somehow, Struggle, Tear, Tears Wept, This World, Top of the World, Tortured Mind, Truth, Walked Past, Watch, Way, Wish, Worry
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Thought For the Day: There Is Nothing Worse Than A Sharp Image of A Fuzzy Concept
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” -Ansel Adams, photographer (20 Feb 1902-1984)
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Tagged Ansel Adams, Fuzzy Concept, Nothing, Photograph, Sharp Image, Thought For the Day, Worse
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First Principles: Nothing Is More Certain Than That A General Profligacy and Corruption of Manners Make A People Ripe For Destruction
“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction.” – John Witherspoon (1776)
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Tagged Certain, Corruption, Destruction, First Principles, General Profligacy, John Witherspoon, manners, Nothing, People, Ripe
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