Tag Archives: Person

Thought For the Day: In A World of Fugitives, the Person Taking the Opposite Direction Will Appear To Run Away

Posted on September 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.” – T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)

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Thought For the Day: When One Person Is Missing the Whole World Seems Empty

Posted on September 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.” – Pat Schweibert, Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss

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Thought For the Day: It’s Like, At the End, There’s This Surprise Quiz: Am I Proud of Me? I Gave My Life To Become the Person I Am Right Now. Was It Worth What I Paid?

Posted on June 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“It’s like, at the end, there’s this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?” – Richard Bach, writer (b. 23 Jun 1936)”

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First Principles: Where An Excess of Power Prevails, Property of No Sort Is Duly Respect. No Man Is Safe In His Opinion, …Person,…Faculties… Or His Possessions

Posted on May 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Happiness Depends More Upon the Internal Frame of A Person’s Own Mind Than On the Externals In the World

Posted on April 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind than on the externals in the world.” – George Washington

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First Principles: It Has Been A Source of Great Pain To Me To Have Met With So Many Among My Opponents Who Had Not the Liberality To Distinguish Between Political and Social Opposition

Posted on March 16, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Be At War With Your Vices, At Peace With Your Neighbors, and Let Every New Year Find You A Better Man

Posted on December 31, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.“ – Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac (1775)

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Waking To the Smell of Coffee

Posted on October 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Waking To the Smell of Coffeeby Michael DoyleWhat if life could be seenBy every single human beingPut out as if a streaming movie?Would we still want to be you and me?Or is this an awful possibilityAnd we’d want to buy … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A Person May Cause Evil To Others Not Only By His Actions But By His Inaction, and In Either Case, He Is Justly Accountable To Them For the Injury

Posted on October 12, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.” – John Stuart Mill, in On Liberty

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First Principles: A Generous Person Will Prosper; Whoever Refreshes Others Will Be Refreshed

Posted on October 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.” – Proverbs 11:25

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