Today's Word – FILIAL
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is
tangible.
- Hosea Ballou
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp experience. I know
no way of judging of the future but by the past.
- Patrick Henry
Experience surely teaches that there's a small but important difference between keeping
your chin up and sticking your neck out.
- Anonymous
Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can
be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the
consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be
exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes.
- Abraham Harold Maslow
The school of experience never changes; it always issues its diplomas on the roughest
grade of sandpaper.
- Anonymous
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
- Alfred North Whitehead
fil·i·al adjective 1. Of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter: filial
respect. 2.
Having or assuming the relationship of child or offspring to parent. 3. Genetics. Of or
relating to a generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation.
My filial fears,
be vain! and may the vaunts
And menace of the vengeful enemy
Pass like the gust, that roared and died away
In the distant tree: which heard, and only heard
In this low dell, bowed not the delicate grass.
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Definition from American Heritage Dictionary
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| "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 Best Heart The surgeon entered the room of his patient who was in
desperate need of a heart transplant. "You're in luck, Mr. Smith. We currently have
three hearts that match your tissue type, so I'd like you to choose which one you want us
to use: From: Bill's Punch Line
Cost of Surgery A doctor is standing next to another doctor in the cafeteria of a hospital and one
says, "I'm going to be operating on Mrs. Green this afternoon...it's going to cost
her twenty thousand dollars."
TOP TEN SIGNS YOU MAY NOT BE READING YOUR BIBLE ENOUGH: 10) The Preacher announces the sermon is from Galatians....and you check
the table of contents. From : A Time to Smile (Shared by Joanne Kull)
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. |
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