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Today's Quotations –  FRUSTRATION:

 


One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interest of longer purposes.

Helen Merrell Lynd, On Shame and the Search for Identity



The only way to escape from ultimate frustration for every living intelligence ... lies through this formula: ''I am life'' or what is practically the same thing, ''I am Man.''

H. G. Wells, Anatomy of Frustration 1936



In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

Rolo May, Man's Search for Himself



A life without frustrations is not to be imagined otherwise than a fanciful dream. ... Frustration pertains to the very nature of the human situation. ... There is no reason why a man should do ''as he pleases.

Rudolf Alliers, Perspectives on a Troubled Decade, 1950



Let the gods do it is back of a shocking number of frustrations.

Anonymous, Meditations in Wall Street

 

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  Today's Word – SALUBRIOUS
   

 


sa·lu·bri·ous adjective Conducive or favorable to health or well-being. [From Latin sal¿bris, from sal¿s, health.]

We passed a fortnight in these perambulations: my health and spirits had long been restored, and they gained additional strength from the salubrious air I  breathed, the natural incidents of our progress, and the conversation of my friend.

Frankenstein.
By Mary Shelley


Definition from American Heritage Dictionary

 

 

Today's Fact

 


FACT

Tons of Toads

Toads are remarkably prolific, most laying 20,000 eggs in a single clutch, with the giant toad producing as many as 100,000 eggs at a time. The eggs, typically laid in water, are laid in strings, the male fertilizing them as they are extruded. The eggs hatch into tailed aquatic larvae, known as tadpoles. These metamorphose into the adult form in a few weeks.

Several types of toads do not reproduce in water. The Nectophryne species lay eggs on land and do not have a free-swimming tadpole stage. The Nectophrynoides fertilization is internal and birth is given to fully formed toadlets.

SOURCE:Grolliers


 
And God said, "Let the waters swarm with fish and other life. Let the skies be filled with birds of every kind."

Genesis 1:20

 

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Today's SMILE

 

A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)

  
   

 

 

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

Joseph Addison

 

A FEW SMILES   


Heaven is Great

Two fellows who died recently and were walking the golden streets of God's celestial realm. There was more beauty and more splendor and more joy there than they had ever dreamed imaginable.

One of them turned to the other and said, "Isn't this wonderful?"

The other replied, "Yes, and to think we could have gotten here ten years sooner if we hadn't eaten all that oat bran."

David A. Rinke II, Funny Pages Mailing List

Exactly WHY?

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Because the Western Eurocentric Male dominated human-race entered its world, removed its culture and relegated it to a life of domestic subservience in which it was forced to perform such tasks as crossing the road (which is symbolic of humanity's rape of the natural world) for the sole purpose of entertaining it's oppressors. However, the fowl would no longer stand for such injustice, and refusing the derogatory title of "chicken", is rebelling against a system that has forced it to take part in such things as contemplating whether it preceded its own child, the egg. As such it needed to carry it's message to other suffering fowl, who all happened to be on the other side of the road.

FROM: mgm2_ss@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Malcolm Mead)

Two men were walking home after a Halloween party and decided to take a shortcut through the cemetery just for laughs. Right in the middle of the cemetery they were startled by a tap-tap-tapping noise coming from the misty shadows. Trembling with fear, they found an old man with a hammer and chisel, chipping away at one of the headstones.

"Holy cow, Mister," one of them said after catching his breath, "You scared us half to death -- we thought you were a ghost! What are you doing working here so late at night?"

"Those fools!" the old man grumbled. "They misspelled my name!"

FLYING SAUCER

A flying saucer was low on fuel, so it landed near a local gas station.

On its side were the letters "UFO." The gas station attendant was stunned, but his curiosity got the best of him.

"Does that stand for Unidentified Flying Object?" he asked.

"No," one of the other-worldly travelers responds.

"It stands for "Unleaded Fuel Only."

THE SIN OF LYING

A minister told his congregation, "Next week I plan to preach about the sin of lying. To help you understand my sermon, I want you all to read Mark 17."

The following Sunday, as he prepared to deliver his sermon, the minister asked for a show of hands. He wanted to know how many had read Mark 17.

Every hand went up.

The minister smiled and said, "Mark has only 16 chapters. I will now proceed with my sermon on the sin of lying."

TRUE FACT ...

Humans begin laughing at two to three months of age. Six year olds laugh about 300 times per day, while adults laugh from 15 to 100 times per day.

SOURCE: NYT, Dr. William F. Fry, Stanford University

 


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