Tag Archives: Take

Thought For the Day: No Matter How Smart You Are, You’re Smarter If You Take the Easy Ways When They Are Available

Posted on March 28, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.” – Daniel Dennett

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Thought For the Day: One Step At A Time Is All It Takes To Get You There

Posted on December 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.” – Emily Dickinson Happy Birthday, Emily, the Queen of American Poetry!

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Thought For the Day: When You Leave This Earth, You Can Take With You Nothing That You Have Received – Only What You Have Given: A Full Heart, Enriched By Honest Service, Love, Sacrifice and Courage

Posted on September 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received – only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.“– St. Francis of Assisi

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Moments In Joe Rogan’s Mind

Posted on August 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Moments From Joe Rogan’s Mindby Michael DoyleLife is the near-death experienceIn which you always stay aliveThe truth of this is felt by preferenceEven when uncertain that you’ll surviveThe backhand data feels a little missingBut no matter how, it feels a … Continue reading →

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First Principles: We Must Take Human Nature As We Find It, Perfection Fails Not To the Share of Mortals

Posted on July 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.” – George Washington (1786)

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Growing Our Intimacy

Posted on March 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Growing Our Intimacyby Michael DoyleWe have so little time for introspectionAs we approach life with our expectationsSometimes it’s an easy flow of conversationOther times, we’re micro-managing our destinationBeing present and being openly hereIs the experiment of what might disappearAs our … Continue reading →

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Cornerstone

Posted on September 25, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Cornerstoneby Michael DoyleI have a cornerstoneOn which I build my lifeThe Rock of my foundationIs Christ the LordAs the holder of the keysOf our proclaimed oathDeclaring the truthIn every step we takeI link hands in prayerAs part of the ChurchTo … Continue reading →

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Self-Stirred To Capability

Posted on April 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Self-Stirred To Capabilityby Michael DoyleStepping up to live and serveI walk in more blessings than I deserveIn this faith, I grow and growLiving more love than I might knowGuilt and innocence is our cultureLitigious in nature is what we nurtureCaught … Continue reading →

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First Principles: To Take From One…Is To Violate Arbitrarily the First Principle of Association, the Guarantee To Everyone the Free Exercise of…Industry

Posted on August 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: I Think I Was Wrong…About the Path that Inflation Would Take

Posted on June 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“I think I was wrong … about the path that inflation would take.” – Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen No kidding? In the country where I grew up (the United States) when a person failed this badly at their job and … Continue reading →

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