This
week Post
12/02/02
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew
me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower
would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is
not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making
to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one
desires to be.
We can all be angels to one another. We can choose
to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper thatsays, "Go. Ask. Reach
out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith." We can
decide to risk that He is indeed there, watching, caring, cherishing us as we love and
accept love. The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels
will dance.
- Joan Wester Anderson, author
Every man has his own destiny; the only
imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest
aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in
them, and try to follow where they lead.
It is not the language of the painters but the
language of nature to which one has to listen.
- Vincent van Gogh(1853 -1890)Dutch painter
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the
world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The
saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
There are two lasting bequests we can give our
children: one is roots. The other is wings.
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and
drive than it does on intelligence.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by
stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not
one is so highly prized as that of character.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's
yours?
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a
broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Fanatic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in
doubt. It is when we are not sure that we are doubly sure.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
American theologian
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what
to overlook.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible
objections must be first overcome.
- Jules Lederer (1917?-1999) American businessman
Every choice carries a consequence. For better or
worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not
exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment,
why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?
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