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Difficulty Is Just the Beginning
In this modern world, it’s not a question of what’s painless. Nor is it of not having choices. It’s about making the choice to be and make a chosen relationship work. Maybe it’s always been that way? Difficulty Is Just … Continue reading
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Tagged Absuridities, Acceptable Business, Acceptance, Aground, Beginning, Better, Choice, Closer, Complication, Contemplation, Contempt, Difficult, Emotion, Equilibrium, Explore, Failure, Fosters, Implication, Indignity, Keeping Faith, Keys to the Kingdom, Kindness, Life, Love, Managed Unhappiness, Miracles of Fate, Modern World, Narcissism, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Relationship, Scold, Society, Steadfast, Time, Transformation, Truth, Wisdom, Work
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First Principles: Being Industrious and Well Employed Leads to Contentment
“When Men are employ’d they are best contented. For on the Days they work’d they were good-natur’d and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Employed, Encourages, Fault, First Principles, Good Nature, Idle, Ill Humor, Industrious, Mankind, Quarrel, Work
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Thought For the Day: Inspiration Comes From Work
“Just as appetite comes by eating so work brings inspiration.” – Igor Stravinsky, composer (1882-1971)
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Tagged Appetite, Composer, Eating, Igor Stravinsky, Inspiration, Thought For the Day, Work
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Thought For the Day: The Reward For Work Well Done Is the Opportunity To Do More
“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.” – Jonas Salk
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Tagged Excellence, Jonas Salk, More, Opportunity, Reward, Thought For the Day, Well Done, Work
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Thought For the Day: There Is Less Competition To Be Among Those Who Do the Work
“My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.” – Indira Gandhi … Continue reading
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Tagged Accomplish, Credit, Humility, Indira Gandhi, People, Thought For the Day, Toot One's Horn, Work
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Thought For the Day: Work Is the Greatest Pancea
“The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic — in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea — known to medical science is work.” – Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (15 Apr 1920-2012) … Continue reading
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Tagged Greatest, Medical Science, Panacea, Stimulant, Thomas Szasz, Thought For the Day, Tranquilzer, Work
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Thought For the Day: Live A Balanced Life
“Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.” – Robert Fulghum, author (b. 1937)
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Tagged Arts, Balance, Daily, Dance, Learn, Life, Music, Robert Fulgham, Think, Thought For the Day, Work
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Thought For the Day: Prayer and Work Together Get Us Through Our Days
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” – St Augustine Sage advice from a sage. Too often people choose to do either one or the other. Even more often we struggle hard as … Continue reading
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Tagged Days, Dependence, Prayer, Preparation, St Augustine, Thought For the Day, Work
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