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Thought For the Day: See Every Problem As the Opportunity To Find A Solution
“I decided to see every problem as the opportunity to find a solution.” – Walt Disney
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Tagged Decide, Find, Opportunity, Problem, Solution, Thought For the Day, Walt Disney
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A Road of Traveled Story
A Road of Traveled Storyby Michael DoyleThis universe isn’t made of cosmic dustThough we all depend on God as we mustThis universe is a road of traveled gloryEach of us has our own part in this storyGiven our roles, we … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel, Answer, Beautiful Mind, Beauty, Blind, Broken Arrow, Challenges, Choice, Choices, Cosmic Dust, Crash, Cure, Dark, Days, Decision, Devil's Train, Door, Duty, Fate, Friends, God, Gypsy Tears, Hate, Hope, Hurt, Imprisoned, Life, Light, Love, Mine, Morning, Narrow, Night, Opportunity, Own Part, Poetry and Poems, Power, Prism, Refrain, Road, Roles, Shine, Sighted, Sky, Still Live, Story, Time, Traveled Story, True Love, Ugly, Universe, Veil, Voice, Walls, Ways, Weight, Years
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Thought For the Day: Art Should Be Like A Holiday: Something To Give A Man the Opportunity To See Things Differently and To Change His Point of View
“Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.” -Paul Klee, painter (18 Dec 1879-1940)
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Tagged Art, Change, Different, Holiday, Opportunity, Paul Klee, Point of View, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Falling Down Is Not A Failure. Failure Comes When You Stay Where You Have Fallen
“Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.” – Socrates I cannot help but like Socrates, who is quoted as saying that poets are the interpreters of the gods. We are not, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aspiration, Challenge, Come, Dust Ourselves Off, Encounters, Failure, Fallen, Falling Down, First Principles, Giving up, Gods, Grow, Growth Mindset, Humor, Interpreters, Lamp Filament, Learn, Life, Life's Journey, Mistakes, Motivation, Obstacles, Opportunity, Overcome, Perseverance, Personal Growth, Poets, React and Respond, Resilience, Rethinking, Setbacks, Significant Error, Socrates, Stay, Stepping Stones, Success, Suitable Approaches, Surrender, Think, Thomas Edison, Time To Time, Vain, Wise
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Thought For the Day: Courage Is the Greatest of All Virtues, Because If You Haven’t Courage, You May Not Have An Opportunity To Use Any of the Others
“Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.” – Samuel Johnson
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Tagged Because, Courage, Greatest, Opportunity, Samuel Johnson, Thought For the Day, Use, Virtues
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Social Justice Fallacies
Social Justice Fallaciesby Michael DoyleThere is something to be saidThough I have a given explanationIt’s been rolling around in my headAnd must be spoken for the good of this nationThere is no sense in pursuing ‘equity’It only serves to put … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Adapt, Best Society, Born, Brother, Cultivated Ability, Deilitating, Elude, Equal, Equality, Equity, Explanation, Face-To-Face, Factual Matter, Fairness, Fallacies, Forgot, Games, Genetic Determinism, Good, Good and Bad, Head, Ignore, Illusory, Increase, Legal, Live, Loss, Louse, Love, Maple, Me and You, Measure, Merit, Million Other Ways, Mind, Nation, Oak, Opportunity, Optimism, Overall Good, Overcome, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Potentiality, Poverty, Proved, Rolling Around, Room, Rule, Said, Serves, Shot, Social Justice, Society, Some, Spoken, Steadily Pursue, Trick, Truth, Utmost, Workday
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…Maybe Tomorrow…
…Maybe Tomorrow…by Michael DoyleTomorrow isn’t really about tomorrowSo much as it about avoiding sorrowThe kind that grows, and we borrowWhen we’re struck deep in our marrowWaiting for the moment’s opportunityWe push forward to relentlessly Filled with the confidence of dreamsThat … Continue reading
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Tagged As We Go, Avoid, Borrow, Choose, Confidence, Dreams, Grow, Marrow, Maybe, Moment, Movie of Our Life, Narration, Opportunity, Play, Poetry and Poems, Preparation, Relentlessly, Scenes, Screen, Show, Sorrow, Struck, Tomorrow
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First Principles: Therefore, As We Have Opportunity, Let Us Do Good To All People, Especially To Those Who Belong To the Family of Believers
“Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.” – Galatians 6:10
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The Path of Generosity
The Path of Generosityby Michael DoyleStanding on a mountain of epiphanyStill, wondering what might come for meThis is no moment of bumper-sticker fameSome of the things happening are a shameReaching out for all the unreachedBringing the resources so that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessings, Bumper-Sticker, Chance, Christmas Spirit, Church, Circumstances, Connection, Darkness, Embrace, Epiphany, Fame, Feed, Fish and Loaves, Five Thousand, Forge, Generosity, Give, Gospel, Gratitude, In Light Of, Live, Mount Kilimanjaro, Nobility, Opportunity, Paralable, Path, Poetry and Poems, Preach, Promise, Reach, Resurrection, Right Attitude, Satisfaction, Shame, Space, Speak, Spiritual Economy, The Lord, Tomorrow, Truth to Power, Unchurched, Understand, Unreached, Wonder
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The Influence of Pulp Fiction
The Influence of Pulp Fictionby Michael DoyleScience fiction without a snarkDidn’t just materialize out of the darkIn 1926, Hugo Gernsback, without a lot of gloryCame to publish the first Amazing StoriesFrom the cover of this first, we might knowThe Hugo … Continue reading →