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12/12/2023

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Inquisitiveness And Curiosity

12/11/2023

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“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” -William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
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“When you’re curious, fun has a way of just showing up.” -Margret Rey (Margret Elizabeth Rey (born Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein (1906 - 1996))) and H. E. Rey (Hans Augusto Rey (born Hans Augusto Reyersbach (1898 - 1977))), words of character Curious George at https://www.curiousgeorge.com/

“Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.” -Bryant McGill (Bryant H. McGill (born 1969))
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“Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.” -Lovelle Drachman

“I am curious about everything, and I always want to learn something new.” -Margret Rey (Margret Elizabeth Rey (born Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein (1906 - 1996))) and H. E. Rey (Hans Augusto Rey (born Hans Augusto Reyersbach (1898 - 1977))), words of character Curious George at https://www.curiousgeorge.com/
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“When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.” -Walt Disney (Walter Elias ‘Walt’ Disney (1901 - 1965))

“She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small mysterious world of the ground. In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis.” -Nancy Price
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“Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious . . . and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” -Walt Disney: as quoted in the ending credits of the movie “Meet the Robinsons” (2007) and also in Jane Sutcliffe: “Walt Disney” (2009), page 45

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“The moment that one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious and awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” -Henry Miller (Henry Valentine Miller (1891 - 1980))

“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.” -James Stephens (1880 - 1950): “The Crock of Gold” (1912), page 41
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“Be aware of wonder. And then remember the, “Dick and Jane,” books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - look.” -Robert Fulghum (Robert Lee Fulghum (born 1937))

“Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.” -Bernard Baruch (1870 - 1965)

“Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.” -Pema Chödrön (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936)
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Inquisitive Lad

There once was a boy of Bagdad,
An inquisitive sort of a lad.
He said, “I will see
If a sting has a bee.”
And he very soon found that it had!

by Author Unknown

“Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it.” -Sudie Back (Sudie Elizabeth Back Sattler (born 1973))

“A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.” -Frederick Seitz (1911 - 2008)
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“A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): as quoted in James Boswell, editor: “Life of Samuel Johnson” (1791), Volume I: ‘Letters to and from Dr. Samuel Johnson’

Patrice: You’re a real curiosity - did you know that?
Shaun: Well, thank you, though I doubt if you shall ever solve me.

“The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.” -Isaac Asimov (1919 - 1992)
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“Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.” -Sophocles (496 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” -Zora Neale Hurston (1891 - 1960): “Dust Tracks on a Road” (1942), Chapter 10: ‘Research,’ page 143

“Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity” -Author Unknown

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of vigorous minds.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): “The Rambler” (1750 - 1752), No. 103 (12 March 1751)

“There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.” -Robert Lynd (Robert Wilson Lynd (1879 - 1949))

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“Curiosity is the forerunner of discovery.” -Richard Duke

“Man is incurably curious; his desire to know and to understand is the mainspring of invention, discovery, civilization, progress, the driving force, which leads then to learning.” -Author Unknown
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“Leave no stone unturned.” -Euripides (about 480 B.C.E. - about 406 B.C.E.): “Heraclidae” (about 428 B.C.E.)

“To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: ‘Leave no stone unturned.’” -Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)

“The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.” -Tom Brown, Junior (born 1950): “The Tracker” (1978)

“He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.” -Tom J. Connelly
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“Curiosity makes scientists of us all.” -Alan Howard Cottrell (1919 - 2012)

“The Quest Quotient has always interested me more than the Intelligence Quotient.” -Eugene S. Wilson (Eugene Smith ‘Bill’ Wilson, Junior (1905 - 1981)): as quoted in “Reader’s Digest” (April 1968)

“If you are curious, you’ll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.” -Erno Rubik
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“I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery, than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969): “Riverside Sermons” (1958)

“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.” -Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

“People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.” -Leo Rosten (1908 - 1997)

Elmo: Who crossed the road and left everyone wanting an explanation?
Eva: The chicken.
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“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.” -Eleanor Roosevelt (Anna Eleanor ‘Eleanor’ Roosevelt (1884 - 1962))

“Being curious is like giving yourself a present whenever you want one.” -Author Unknown

“When curiosity turns to serious matters, it’s called research.” -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (also known as Marie Ebner von Eschenbach (1830 - 1916))

“I’m naturally curious, and I’ve always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.” -Anne Sweeney
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“Curious people are interesting people; I wonder why that is.” -Bill Maher

“Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.” -James Cameron (born 1954)

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“Never lose your curiosity.” -Author Unknown
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“One half of the World wonders how the other lives.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 3758

“Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.” -Frederick Seitz (1911 - 2008): in an interview (3 September 1997) for the George C. Marshall Institute
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“Increasingly, I feel curiosity and an eagerness to learn is the most crucial skill in life. If you’re not curious, I’m not sure if there is much others can do to help you. But if you’re eager to learn, even if you aren’t particularly talented, then so much is possible.” -James Clear

“A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.” -Smiley Blanton

“Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.” -Françoise Sagan
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“Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It’s accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.” -David McCullough

“All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer sight to almost everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and brings to light many differences between things.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.): “Metaphysics,” Book I, chapter 1: opening paragraph

“The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.” -Anatole France (pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault (1844 - 1924))

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“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in nature.” -Freya Stark (Freya Madeline Stark (1893 - 1993))

“Be guided by wonder and curiosity rather than be imprisoned by fear and doubt.” -Author Unknown
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“Curiosity is a mind in search of knowledge.” -Anatole France (pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault (1844 - 1924))

“Curiosity is life.” -Mark Parker

“Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive - it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there?” -L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942)): “Anne of Green Gables” (June 1908), Chapter 2; line spoken by fictional character Anne

“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” -Leo Burnett (1891 - 1971)
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“Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.” -Linus Pauling (Linus Carl Pauling (1901 - 1994))

“Be curious, not judgmental.” -Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” -Martin H. Fischer

“What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be ‘curiosity’.” -Eve Arnold (1912 - 2012)
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“Curiosity is the real teacher.” -Anatole France (pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault (1844 - 1924))

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” -Carl Sagan (Carl Edward Sagan (1934 - 1996))
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“‘Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice.” -Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898)): “Alice in Wonderland” (1865), Chapter II

“Follow your curiosity.” -Author Unknown

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Clowns And Clowning

12/8/2023

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“I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.” -Diane Cilento

“Life is better with clowns.” -Author Unknown
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What is a clown? A clown is an entertainer who wears colorful makeup and clothes, plays practical jokes, sometimes has props such as a unicycle, a noisemaker, or a trained animal, and uses physical acting, such as dancing or falling down, for comedic effect to entertain audiences and get laughs.
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“A clown’s makeup and character, that’s all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.” -Emmet Kelly (Emmett Leo Kelly (1898 - 1979)): as quoted in “The Greeley Daily Tribune” (21 June 1975)

“Things happen for a reason. Except for clowns. There’s no reason for clowns.” -Author Unknown

“I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.” -Ernest Borgnine
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“I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.” -Tim Duncan

“I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, ‘Wow, this is exciting, I’m a little bit nervous.’” -Nathan Fillion (born 1971)

Chuckles the Clown: Why did Jolly the Clown cross the road?
Giggles the Clown: To be funny on the other side!
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Happy clowns bring happiness wherever they are seen, and not the horrors of the creepy clowns that make people fearful or the depression of the sad clowns that make people feel bad. True clowns perform for the benefit of others; they spread joy. Send in the happy clowns!
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“I only come to life when there are people watching.” -Red Skelton (Richard Bernard ‘Red’ Skelton (1913 - 1997))

“A clown’s only goal is to make the audience forget their troubles, if only for a moment.” -Author Unknown
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“I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown.” -Charlie Chaplin (Charles Spencer ‘Charlie’ Chaplin (1889 - 1977)): as quoted in “The Observer” (17 June 1960)

“The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.” -Miguel de Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 - 1616)): “Don Quixote” (1605)

Baggy Trousers

Baggy trousers
     Nose, bright red,
A silly hat
     Upon his head.
Squirting flower
   Spinning tie,
A teardrop falling
     From his eye.
Elastic braces
     Going twang,
His car exploding
     With a bang!
A patchwork coat
     Those flapping shoes,
A painted smile
     To chase the blues.
Making us laugh
     And banish that frown,
The simple duties
     Of a clown.

by Pip the Clown (written for Bluey the Clown)

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If you’ve ever wondered what’s inside the really big clown shoes . . . well, now you know . . . really big clown feet!
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A man went to a doctor, and said, “Doc, sometimes I feel like a clown - what should I do?” The doctor replied, “Don’t worry, it’s nothing serious!”
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Peachy the Clown: How does Jokey the Clown like her eggs?
Pinky the Clown: Funny side up!

“A clown sees life simply, without complications.” -George Bishop
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“If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you’ll just be the thirteenth clown.” -Adam Walinsky

Sarah: What are clown suits made from?
Matilda: Polyjester.
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The word ‘clown’ is possibly derived from the Icelandic word ‘klunni’ meaning ‘clumsy person.’

“Yesterday, a clown held a door open for me. I thought it was a nice jester.” -Author Unknown
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There are believed to be more than 20,000 clowns in the world today. The most famous ones have their faces painted onto chicken eggs or goose eggs, which are then displayed in collections in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The tradition was started in the United Kingdom in about 1946.

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Signs That You Might Be a Clown
- You attract crowds wherever you go.
- People compliment you on your big shoes, bright-red nose, and painted-on smile.
- You share your ‘home on wheels’ with a trained seal, a fortune teller, a trapeze artist, and a magician.
- You spend every free minute practicing your routine - in fact, you do not have a moment to spare in your life.
- You have been to more birthday parties than the “Happy Birthday” song has.
- You put sprinkles on everything: ice cream, chicken soup, oatmeal - and you have even thought about putting sprinkles on sprinkles.
- Even your name draws smiles and laughs.
- You will cry yourself to sleep tonight because you think you did not make enough people happy today.
- When someone says he would like to be clown, you are tempted to tell the person, “You might think that being a clown is just fun all day, but many hours of hard work go with the job.” But you don’t, and instead, you do something silly.
- You cannot imagine any other kind of life.

Laughy the Clown: Why does Snoozy the Clown wear loud socks?
Smiley the Clown: So his feet won’t fall asleep!
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“I just want to be known as a clown, because to me, that’s the height of my profession. It means you can do everything - sing, dance, and above all, make people laugh.” -Red Skelton (Richard Bernard ‘Red’ Skelton (1913 - 1997))

“I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids’ parties for about three years.” -Hugh Jackman (Hugh Michael Jackman (born 1968)): as quoted in “‪The Advocate,” No. 898 (16 ‪‪September 2003), page 46
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“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” -Carl Sagan (Carl Edward Sagan (1934 - 1996)): “Broca’s Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science” (1979)

Clowns spelled backwards is snwolc.
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“People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I’m a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really.” -Gary Oldman (Gary Leonard Oldman (born 1958))

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A Prayer for Clowns

God bless all clowns
Who star in the world with laughter
Who ring the rafters with flying jest,
Who make the world spin merry on its way
And somehow add more beauty to each day.

God bless all clowns
So poor the world would be
Lacking their piquant, hilarity,
The belly laughs, the ringing lovely mirth
That makes a friendly place of Earth.

God bless all clowns -
Give them a long good life.
Make bright their way - they’re a breed apart!
Alchemists most, who turn their hearts’ pain
Into a dazzling jest to lift the heart.
God bless all clowns.

by Author Unknown

The nickname for a clown is a Joey, after the English actor, comedian, dancer, and pantomime performer Joseph Grimaldi (1778 - 1837).

“For several years now, the clown has taken on great importance, as part of the search for what is laughable and ridiculous in man. We put the emphasis on the rediscovery of our own individual clown, the one that has grown-up within us and which society does not allow us to express.” -Jacques Lequoc (1973)
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A big part of the rodeo clowns’ job is to distract agitated beasts so that thrown horse riders and thrown bull riders can make it to safety without being trampled, chomped, butted, or gored by the animals. Rodeo clowns also do comedy routines to keep crowds entertained between competitions. If you feel comfortable around large animals and you know something about animal nature, and if you want to live a life of danger and have people laugh at you, become a rodeo clown!
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Gladys: I’m starting a clown shoe business.
Candice: That will be no small feat.

“This place is just a few clowns short of a circus.” -Author Unknown
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National Clown Week was signed into law on 2 August 1971 by American President Richard Milhous Nixon. It has since become International Clown Week, and is observed from 1 August to 7 August of every year.

“The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?” -Angela Carter
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Do clowns wear really big socks?

“If by chance some day you’re not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I’ve said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.” -Red Skelton (Richard Bernard ‘Red’ Skelton (1913 - 1997))

Jess: I’d like to take over the clown’s job!
Jeff: Those are some mighty big shoes to fill!
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A Few Of The Many Types Of Clowns
- Birthday party clowns
- Carnival clowns
- Circus clowns
- Event clowns
- Grand opening clowns
- Random clowns
- Rodeo clowns
- Spokesperson clowns
- Street performer clowns
- Visiting clowns
What kind of clown would you like to be?

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Founded by Herb Metz in 1983, the World Clown Association is an organization for clowns, jugglers, magicians, and face painters. They hold annual conventions, mainly in the United States. They have scholarships for people interested in attending clowning schools, personal liability insurance, and a newsletter. For the location and date of the next clown convention and more visit https://worldclown.com/.

Overheard: I’ve often wondered what shoe stores clowns go to.
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In the early 1970’s, an American doctor named Hunter Doherty ‘Patch’ Adams started the practice of clowning for patients in hospitals, which helps patients recover faster and lightens the gloominess often associated with hospital stays.

Are you a clown? Are you a clown costume maker? Are you a clown school operator? Do you write skits for clowns? Are you a talent agent who helps clowns find gigs? Do you make portrait paintings of clowns? Do you sell clown supplies? Are you in any way associated with clowning and clowns? If so, you probably need a website to let people know. Visit www.Weebly.com to find out how you can make a website without a whole lot of difficulty or cost. Be sure to let them know you found out about them from www.MakeFunOfLife.net.

Margaret: What protects clowns from the sun?
Maggie: The Bozone layer!

Holy Trinity Church in London, England is dedicated to clowns. The church has a stained-glass window depicting Joseph Grimaldi, who was a major influence on modern clowning. It also has an altar rail where clowns can kneel and pray, and a clowns gallery with items from famous clowns. Once a year, clowns from all over the world attend Holy Trinity Church in makeup and costume for a special service, asking God’s blessing on all clowns everywhere. Holy Trinity Church is in a section of London often described as economically depressed, and the citizens are pleased that clowns have their church in an area where laughter is needed the most.

A Clown’s Blessing

May your nose be red and shiny,
     And your smile always bright.
May your cheeks be nice and rosy,
     Your eyes sparkle in the light.
May your shoes be always too big,
     Your costume be perma-pressed,
Your heart overflow with laughter,
     Each time you’re clownishly dressed.
May face paint be at the ready,
     And your balloons be ‘easy-blow.’
May children run to greet you,
     Wherever you may go.

by Author Unknown
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Sunny the Clown: Where was Jelly the Clown when the lights went out?
Sparkles the Clown: In the dark!

The Clown’s Prayer

As I stumble through this life,
     help me to create more laughter than tears,
dispense more happiness than gloom,
     spread more cheer than despair.

Never let me become so indifferent
     that I will fail to see
the wonders in the eyes of a child,
     or the twinkle in the eyes of the aged.

Never let me forget that my total effort
     is to cheer people, make them happy,
and forget momentarily,
     all the unpleasantness in their lives.

And in my final moment,
     may I hear You whisper:
“When you made My people smile,
     you made Me smile.”

by Author Unknown
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Anna: Which clown wears the biggest shoes?
Hannah: The one with the biggest feet, of course!

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Love

12/4/2023

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Picture of the word ‘love’ repeated in pink and blue cursive letters as a background over which are the words, ‘“Humor And Inspiration And Learning About Love” Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont - Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net.’

“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” -Willa Sibert Cather (born Wilella Sibert Cather (1873 - 1947))

“You don’t have to be perfect to be worth loving.” -Harold S. Kushner (Harold Samuel Kushner (born 1935))

Book of Love

If I could read you like a book,
     And if I chanced to steal a look,
I wonder if I’d find that you
     Were just as faithful, and as true
In chapter four, page sixty-seven
     As you were on page eleven?

by Author Unknown
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“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” -Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991))

Melissa: Do you love me with all your heart?
Fred: Uh-huh.
Melissa: Do you think I am the most beautiful woman in the world?
Fred: Uh-huh.
Melissa: Am I the only one for you?
Fred: Uh-huh.
Melissa: Oh, you say the most wonderful things!

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” -Robert A. Heinlein (Robert Anson Heinlien (1907 - 1988)): “Jubal Harshaw” (1961)

“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Venus and Adonis” (1593), line 821; type of work: narrative poem

Knock, knock!
Who’s there?
Olive.
Olive, who?
Olive you!
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“The course of true love never did run smooth.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1595 - 1596), Act I, scene i, line 140; words of fictional character Lysander

“The course of true love . . . gathers no moss.” -Author Unknown: “The Philadelphia Story,” character Margaret Lord speaking to character Macaulay Connor

“Love is a verb.” -Clare Boothe Luce (1903 - 1987)

“The heart that loves is always young.” -Author Unknown
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“Love is the reward of love.” -Johann Friedrich von Schiller (Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805))

“Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.” -Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

“Love is space and time measured by the heart.” -Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

“Love is never without some thorns.” -Author Unknown
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“No one is perfect until you fall in love with them.” -Author Unknown

Perfect Love

They walked in the lane together,
     The sky was covered with stars;
They reached the gate in silence,
     He lifted down the bars.

She neither smiled nor thanked him,
     Because she knew not how;
For he was a farmer’s son,
     And she, a Jersey cow.

by Author Unknown
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“To love and be loved, is to feel the Sun from both sides.” -David Viscott (David Steven Viscott (1938 - 1996)): “How to Live with Another Person” (1974)

“Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that the person will love you back. Do not expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts but if it does not, be content it grew in yours.” -Author Unknown
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“I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.” -Edmond Rostand (1868 - 1918)

“We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.” -Bernard of Clairvaux (C.E. 1090 - C.E. 1153)

“Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.” -Euripides (about 480 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.): “Orestes” (408 B.C.E.), line 298, as translated by William Arrowsmith

“To be loved, be lovable.” [translation to English]
“Ut ameris, amabilis esto.” [original Latin]
-Publius Ovidius Naso (also known simply as Ovid (43 B.C.E. - C.E. 17)): “Ars Amatoria” (English: “The Art of Love”), Book II, line 107

“We miss so much out of life if we don’t love. The more we love the richer life is - even if it is only some little furry or feathery pet.” -L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942)): “Rainbow Valley” (1919), Chapter 20

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Lovebirds are small parrots. The male and female birds are identical in plumage, or feather color and pattern, and they are monogamous, being faithful for life to just one other bird. The word ‘lovebirds’ is commonly generalized to any pair of small birds, as well as humans . . . because, as it turns out, love isn’t just for the birds . . .
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“What we love, we shall grow to resemble.” -Bernard of Clairvaux (C.E. 1090 - C.E. 1153)

“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.” -Haruki Murakami (born 1949) at https://www.harukimurakami.com/

“All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.” -Julie Andrews
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“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” -Erich Segal

“The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.” -Maria V. Snyder (born 1973)

“What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.” -Pearl Bailey (Pearl Mae Bailey (1918 - 1990)): as quoted in “Weekly World News” (25 April 2005)

“We don’t love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.” -Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973)

“Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881))

“Love is metaphysical gravity.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895 - 1983))

“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” -Elizabeth Bowen (Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen (1899 - 1973))
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“I think . . . if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))

Together

Because we do
     All things together
All things improve,
     Even weather.

Our daily meat
     And bread taste better,
Trees are greener,
     Rain is wetter.

by Paul Engle (1908 - 1991)
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People have made a silly pastime of holding a daisy and plucking off its petals while saying, “He loves me, he loves me not,” or “She loves me, she loves me not.” Supposedly, the last petal has the answer - but how would a flower know?

“Just because someone does not love you the way you want him or her to, does not mean they do not love you with everything they have got.” -Author Unknown
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“The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.” -Victor Hugo (Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885))

Treasure the love you receive above all,
It will survive long after,
Your gold and good health have vanished.
-Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))

“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778))

“When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.” -Author Unknown
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“It’s love that makes the world go ’round.” -W. S. Gilbert (William Schwenck Gilbert (1836 - 1911))

Jared: How do you mend a broken heart?
Annie: With ticker tape.

“We loved with a love that was more than love.” -Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849): “Annabel Lee”; type of work: poem

“He was happy and unhappy all at once. He was in love.” -Petra Mathers: “Victor and Christabel” (1993)
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“Whoever loves much, does much.” -Thomas à Kempis (meaning Thomas of Kempen (born Thomas Hammerken (about 1379 - 1471))): “Of the Imitation of Christ” (1418), Book I, chapter xv

“Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love, because a heart can break, but a circle goes on forever.” -Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky (1911 - 1987))

“To love someone means to see him as God intended him.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881))

“Hearts are wild creatures. That’s why our ribs are cages.” -Author Unknown
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“We are most alive when we’re in love.” -John Updike (John Hoyer Updike (1932 - 2009))

Phrase, ‘I Love You,’ repeated in different colors, over which in larger letters is the sentence, ‘What Does It Mean?’ and the words, ‘Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net.’

“Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; It does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” -Paul of Tarsus: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘First Corinthians,’ chapter 13, verses 4 through 8

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861): “Sonnets from the Portuguese” (1850)

“Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.” -Bette Davis (Ruth Elizabeth ‘Bette’ Davis (1908 - 1989)): “The Lonely Life” (1962), chapter 19
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“The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.” -Helen Hayes (Helen Hayes MacArthur (born Helen Hayes Brown (1900 - 1993)))

Love wasn’t put in your heart to stay.
Love isn’t love until you give it away.
-Michael W. Smith

“What power has love but forgiveness?” -William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
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“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” -Bess Myerson (1924 - 2014)

“Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.” -Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, also known as Madame de Staël (1766 - 1817)): “Corinne” (1807), Book 8, Chapter 2

Do you love me?
     Or do you not?
You told me once,
     But I forgot.
-Elena Helms
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“Love creates an ‘us’ without destroying the ‘me’.” -Leo Buscaglia (Felice Leonardo ‘Leo’ Buscaglia, also known as Leo F. Buscaglia (1924 - 1998))

“Love one another.” -Jesus of Nazareth: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘John,’ chapter 13, verses 34 and 35

“I’m bananas for you - let’s never split!” -Author Unknown
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“I love you right up to the Moon - and back.” -Sam McBratney: “Guess How Much I Love You” (1994)

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold.” -Zelda Fitzgerald (born Zelda Sayre (1900 - 1948))

I Love You!

I love you, I love you,
     I love you, I do.
But don’t get excited -
     I love monkeys, too!

by Author Unknown

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - 347 B.C.E.): “The Symposium”

“If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.” -Author Unknown
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“Perfect love casts out fear.” -Uell Stanley Andersen (1917 - 1986)

“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.” -Nicholas Sparks

“True love isn’t so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially - even, or perhaps especially, when you don’t feel like it.” -William R. Mattox, Junior
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“To acquire love, fill yourself up with it until you become a magnet.” -Charles Haanel (1866 - 1949)

“We can only learn to love by loving.” -Iris Murdoch (Jean Iris ‘Iris’ Murdoch (1919 - 1999))

“Who ever loved that lov’d* not at first sight?” -Christopher Marlowe (Christopher ‘Kit’ Marlowe (1564 - 1593)): “Hero and Leander,” ‘First Sestiad,’ line 176
*love’d: loved

“Love at first sight is a great time saver.” -Author Unknown
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“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.” -Teresa of Calcutta (also known as Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (1910 - 1997)))

“Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi (13th century): as quoted in Helen Schucman: “A Course in Miracles” (1976), Chapter 16: ‘The Forgiveness of Illusions, page 162

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” -Sam Keen (born 1931)
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“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.” -Sophocles (496 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)

“A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.” -Viktor Frankl (Viktor Emil Frankl (1905 - 1997)): “Man’s Search for Meaning” (1946)

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!” -Victor Hugo (Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885))

“Love is by far the most important thing of all.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com/

“The secret of health, happiness, and long life: If you simply learn how to accept and express love, you will live longer . . . be happier . . . grow healthier. For love is a powerful force.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))

“To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.” -Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845): “Lady Holland’s Memoir” (1855), ‘Of Friendship’

I loved you yesterday,
     I love you still -
I always have,
     I always will.
-Author Unknown

“Real love stories never have endings.” -Richard Bach (Richard David Bach (born 1936))

“Do all things with love.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” -eden ahbez (George Alexander Aberle (1908 - 1995)): “Nature Boy” (1948) song

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Fortune Cookies

11/27/2023

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Picture of several fortune cookies in bright red, orange, yellow, pink, and blue, and the words, ‘“Humor And Inspiration And Learning About Fortune Cookies” Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont - Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net.’

Remember to fulfill the promises you made to yourself.

You will prosper in the field of wacky inventions.

You will be rewarded for your patience and understanding.

Japanese Fortune Cookies, also known as tsujiura senbei, or fortune crackers, are larger than American Fortune Cookies, and are made of a batter containing sesame and miso rather than vanilla and butter as their American counterparts are. The strip of paper bearing the fortune for Japanese Fortune Cookies is placed in an outside fold or crease of the cookie instead of being hidden inside.

Next time, try the orange fried noodles with beef and broccoli.
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You make delicious soups.

An attractive, smart, and loving person will be coming into your life.
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Fortune cookies were first invented in Japan, then modified slightly upon their arrival in America, and are now a common dessert item in American-style Chinese restaurants. So, in other words, the fortune cookie is an immigrant to the United States of America that has adapted itself well to its new homeland and has become famous and successful in ‘the land of freedom and opportunity.’

Believe in yourself and you will succeed.
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An American Fortune Cookie is a thin crisp cookie usually made of flour, sugar, butter, vanilla, and sesame seed oil, which is shaped into a container that ‘holds a fortune inside.’

Good news will soon come to you.

Perhaps the fortune you seek is in another cookie?
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The ‘fortune inside a fortune cookie’ is a strip of paper with a saying, proverb, prediction, humorous statement, advice, scripture, or other information printed on it. Some fortune cookie messages include lucky numbers for use in picking lottery numbers or in other games of chance (gambling).

A new perspective will come with the new year.
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Boomerangs are coming back.

A person is never too old to learn . . . or too young.
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Treat yourself well.

Stop searching afar; happiness is just next to you.
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American Fortune Cookies are now served in Chinese restaurants all around the world, except in China, where the cookies are regarded as a cultural intrusion.

Ask a friend to join you on your next adventure.
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He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

Work methodically on one problem at a time.
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You always bring others happiness.

What if you could have fortune cookies printed with a message you choose for your event, business, cause, or anything else? You can, and you can even have the fortune cookies in colors and flavors. Did you know that you can serve fortune cookies as a snack with tea or coffee, not just as a dessert item after meals? Visit Fancy Fortune Cookies at https://www.fancyfortunecookies.com/Custom-Fortune-Cookies-s/50.htm.
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Patient work produces fine goods.

Beauty surrounds you because you create it.
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About time I got out of that cookie.

A new wardrobe brings great joy and change to your life.
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A novice at the first attempt, adept at the second.

Good things are coming your way, especially if you stay here and order dessert.
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This Fortune Cookie Examined By INSPECTOR NO. 2-14.

You are busy, but you are happy.
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It is worth reviewing some old lessons.

A light heart carries you through hard times.
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You find great energy and you will be able to get many things done.

Your eloquence has a persuasive impact.
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You will be surprised by a loud noise.

If you eat an entire box of fortune cookies, anything is possible.
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You are magnetic in your bearing.

I cannot talk right now. Even fortune cookies need to sleep sometime!
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A golden egg of opportunity falls into your lap this month.

Determination is what you now need.
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A leader is powerful to the degree he empowers others.

Good things are being said about you.
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Feed moderately on wholesome foods - garden herbs surpass rich dishes.

All your hopes, dreams, and fears are the beginning of the future.
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Your work will be recognized and suitably rewarded.

Your home is the center of great love.
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If you can read this, you do not need glasses.

Someday everything will all make perfect sense.
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Good to begin well, better to end well.

Discover the power within yourself.
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New ideas could be profitable.

Good things take time.
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Your next meeting will be more productive.

Never kiss an elephant on the lips.
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A signature reveals a person’s character . . . and sometimes even their name.

Someone you care about seeks reconciliation.
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You may be hungry later, so order takeout now.

The best year-round temperature is a warm heart and a cool head.
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Only eat fresh fish, fresh vegetables, and ripened rice.

Do something new each day.
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A cheerful message is on its way to you.

Pass no day idly, youth does not return.
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There is dew for every blade of grass.

There are customers for all sorts of goods.
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You will think for yourself when you stop letting others think for you.

Your mind is your greatest asset. Guard it well.
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You will soon be crossing the great waters.

You are about to become $12.95 poorer ($9.95 if you had the buffet).
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The first step to better times is to imagine them.

You cannot open a book without learning something.
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You will soon witness a miracle.

The truly generous share, even with the undeserving.
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I am very fortunate to be a cookie. My friend was a ham sandwich, and he did not fare so well.

Decide what you want and go for it.
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You are a practical person with your feet on the ground.

You must play the game to win.
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Allow your mind to absorb new knowledge.

When you see an opportunity, act.
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Emulate what you admire in others.

You are stunningly attractive.
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You do not need the answers to all of life’s questions.

All of the efforts you are making will ultimately pay off.
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You will travel far and wide, both for pleasure and business.

Your difficulties will strengthen you.
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Some dream of great fortunes, while others dream of great fortune cookies.
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Your biggest virtue is your modesty.

You will be successful in your work.

Living with a commitment to excellence will take you far.
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You are a person of another place and time.

Is there a time limit on fortune cookie predictions?
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Great distances are covered one step at a time.

Your first love has never forgotten you.
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Relatives are coming to visit.

It is a great year for those who are cheerful and optimistic.
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Allow compassion to guide your decisions.

Dedicate yourself with a calm mind to the task at hand.

You will make changes for the better.
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You are a very fortunate cookie, because you are able to make money and hold on to it.

Be cautious of cookies bearing fortunes.
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You have charm and a winning personality.

Tell them before it is too late.
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The best is yet to come . . . dessert!

A dream you have will come true.
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There is mutual love between people of a creed, mutual jealousy between people of a trade.

You will succeed because most people are lazy.
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Best to keep your plans secret for now.

You will be called upon to help a friend in trouble.
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Generosity can repay itself sooner than you might imagine.

It is the beautiful bird that is caged.
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You are one smart cookie!

Your dreams are worth your best efforts to achieve them.
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The seeds of an idea you planted long ago finally blossom.

You have the incredible power to write your own fortune, but you first need a tiny strip of paper to write it on, like one of those that can be found inside a fortune cookie.
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Who is without flaw?

There are pictures in poems, and poems in pictures.
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You have been selected for a secret mission by someone at the North Pole.

To make a worthwhile person of yourself, you must toil; if you do not, you will not.
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You are heading in the right direction.

Expect great things and great things will come.
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Mountains And Hills

11/20/2023

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“When life gets tangled, there’s something so reassuring about climbing a mountain.” -Stacy Allison
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Jack: Why are mountains funny?
Jill: Because they are hill-arious!

“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” -Barry Finlay

Overheard: I would go and hike the hills . . . if only I were a little boulder!
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“When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.” -Author Unknown

No hill’s too steep
No mountain’s too tall
With hope and Faith
You can conquer them all.
-Helen Steiner Rice
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“Mountains know secrets we need to learn.” -Tyler Knott

“Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.” -Harold B. Melchart
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“Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.” -Werner Herzog

“Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.” -Author Unknown
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“The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem - he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.” -William A. Ward (William Arthur Ward (1921 - 1994))

“If you want to climb mountains, first practice on small hills.” -Author Unknown

The mountain with the longest name, at 85 letters in length, is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu in New Zealand.
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“Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.” -John Muir (1838 - 1914): “Our National Parks” (1901) ‘The Yellowstone National Park’

“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.” -Najwa Zebian (born about 1990)
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What is the difference between a mountain and a hill? A hill is a landform that is higher than the surrounding terrain and that is smaller than a mountain. Mountains were once defined as having steeper sides than hills and being more than 304.8 meters (1,000 feet) in height; however, this definition is no longer the generally accepted standard. At present, the only established difference between a hill and a mountain is that a hill becomes a mountain when someone names it as such.
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“When there’s a hill to climb, don’t think that waiting will make it smaller.” -H. Jackson Brown (Horace Jackson Brown, Junior (1940 - 2021))

The world’s smallest recorded mountain is Mount Wychproof in Australia’s Terrick Terrick Range, and it stands 148 meters (486 feet) above sea level. Imagine, if you will, a mountain so very nearly tiny that a genetically-modified super-sized kangaroo can jump over it in a single bound.

“Mountain climbing: scalesmanship.” -Frank Tyger (1929 - 2011)
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Due to gravity, mountains on Earth can be no higher than about 15,000 meters (about 590,550 feet).

“When you help someone up a hill, you’re that much nearer the top yourself.” -Author Unknown
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Mount Everest peaks at Earth’s highest-known land elevation above sea level. The mountain’s enormity was first declared in 1856 by a team assembled by India’s Surveyor General, who was also the mountain’s eponym, a British man named George Everest, who never actually saw the mountain. The official height of Mount Everest is 8,848.86 meters (29,032 feet) above sea level. By other measures, Mount Everest is 8.9 kilometers (5.5 miles) high. But wait, there’s more - due to the Earth’s shifting tectonic plates, Mount Everest appears to be growing taller by an astounding 4 to 5 millimeters every year!

“Because it’s there.” -G. H. L. Mallory (George Herbert Leigh Mallory (1886 - 1924)): explaining why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, when asked on an American lecture tour (1923), as quoted in John Hunt: “The Ascent of Everest” (1953) and D. Robertson (David Allan Robertson): “George Mallory” (1999)

Mount Everest is located in the Himalayas, the tallest and fastest growing group of mountains on Earth. Their growth is caused by the pressure exerted by two of Earth’s tectonic plates, called the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate, which collided millions of years ago and are still pushing against one another.

Evelyn: What was the tallest mountain before Mount Everest was discovered?
Madelyn: Mount Everest.

The Himalayas cover about one-tenth of the Earth’s surface.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.
-William Blake (1757 - 1827): “Gnomic Verses”

“Always be thankful for the little things . . . even the smallest mountains can hide the most breathtaking views.” -Nyki Mack
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A mountain on the Earth’s Moon, named Mons Huygens, stands about 4,572 meters (15,000 feet) tall. It will remain on the Moon only until we can build a spacecraft big enough to bring it back to Earth.

“One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.” -John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922)
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“Mountaineers are always free.” [translation to English]
“Montani semper liberi.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown

Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on land; however, the tallest mountain on Earth, measured from its base deep in the Pacific Ocean to its lofty peak way up in the clouds, is a dormant volcano that frequently has snow and skiers atop it, named Mauna Kea in the American state of Hawaii, measuring a total of 33,474 feet tall. We’re going to need underwater breathing apparatuses and more climbing rope.

“You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.” -Author Unknown
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Some of the tallest mountains in the world are completely underwater, so you would not climb them to reach their peaks, but lower yourself to them in a submersible vessel.

The tallest mountain in our solar system is Olympus Mons on Mars, at about 15.5 miles tall. By comparison, Earth’s tallest mountain, Mount Everest, is about 5.5 miles tall. Some people may want to go to Mars so that they can climb that mountain, and possibly it is for the same reason that the chicken is always wanting to cross the road.

“One cannot climb a mountain by a level road.” -Author Unknown: Norwegian proverb

“In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak; but for that you must have long legs.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900))

“Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder’s frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.” -Haruki Murakami
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“We live on an astounding planet, punctuated by mountains on every continent. The mere presence of mountain ranges has long drawn the human imagination as an invisible force. Some say mountains have a ‘psychic gravity’ enticing us into their grip. There is a magic among great peaks as a location of splendor, where changing light plays games with intense colors, affecting the tones of snow and ice and many gleaming ridge outlines.” -Fred Beckey (Friedrich Wolfgang ‘Fred’ Beckey (1923 - 2017)): “Fred Beckey’s 100 Favorite North American Climbs” (2011)

“The man at the top of a mountain didn’t just fall there.” -Author Unknown

“The great mountains of the world are a great remedy, if men but did know it, against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom’s fount. They are deep in time.” -E. R. Eddison (Eric Rücker Eddison (1882 - 1945))
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“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.” -Rene Daumal

“I’ve realized that at the top of the mountain, there’s another mountain.” -Andrew Garfield

“The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.” -Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805): “Wilhelm Tell” (1803), Act III, scene i

Meanwhile in Scotland, both mountains and hills go by the name ‘hills.’

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Phil: Run for the hills!
Josie: Why?
Phil: It’s good exercise!
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“One sunny Wednesday afternoon [Mother] took me to Peel Park. We sat on a high esplanade and looked far over the countless chimneys of northern Manchester to the horizon. On the skyline, green and aloof, the Pennines rose like the ramparts of paradise. ‘There!’ she said, pointing. ‘Mountains!’ I stared, lost for words.” -Robert Roberts (1906 - 1974): “A Ragged Schooling” (1976)

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you are climbing it.” -Andy Rooney (Andrew Aitken ‘Andy’ Rooney (1919 - 2011))

“Mountains are climbed one step at a time.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Whatever the struggle, continue the climb. It may be only one step to the summit.” -Diane Westlake
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“If you can’t climb the highest mountain any more, go to the closest hill. It is better than staying at the bottom thinking you can’t do it.” -Nico J. Genes
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“It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.” -Robert W. Service (Robert William Service (1874 - 1958))

“We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves.” -Todd Skinner

“The best view comes after the hardest climb.” -Vanessa Gendoma
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“Climb the mountain . . . so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” -David McCullough, Junior

“I learn something every time I go into the mountains.” -Michael Kennedy

“It’s easier to go down a hill than up it, but the view is much better at the top.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)

“The higher the mountains, the more understandable is the glory of Him who made them and who holds them in His hand.” -Francis Schaeffer

Edmund Percival Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people recorded to have reached Mount Everest’s summit, on 29 May 1953, as part of a team led by John Hunt.

“When Sir Edmund Hillary made the first conquest of Mt. Everest in 1953, his Sherpa bearers were almost all barefooted, even well above the snow line.” -Richard Frazine (Richard Keith Frazine (born 1947)): “The Barefoot Hiker” (1993)

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” -Edmund Hillary (Edmund Percival Hillary (1919 - 2008)): as quoted in “Reader’s Digest” (1993)

Monty: What did the climber say after reaching the top of the mountain?
Mandy: It’s all downhill from here!

Abe: Always hike with someone who is experienced with mountains.
Gabe: You mean like the Jolly Green Giant?
Abe: Do you know anyone who is a real person?
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“If you do not scale the mountain, you cannot view the plain.” -Author Unknown

Any American citizen can give whatever name the person chooses to any unnamed mountain or hill in the United States - if he or she can find one.

“If you don’t climb the mountain, you can’t see the view.” -Author Unknown

“Climbing is a unique sport presenting mental and physical stress that you learn to overcome by operating close to your limits. Sometimes your limits are higher than you realize. Of course you recognize your limits in climbing by falling off the rock.” -Eric G. Anderson

“To the summit.” [translation to English]
“Ad alta.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown

“God gives us mountains so we can learn how to climb.” -Author Unknown
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“Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.” -Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963)

“The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, and of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains.” -John Muir (1838 - 1914)

“No one ever climbed a hill by just looking at it.” -Author Unknown
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“Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch - they may keep together some way up - but at length they part company, and rise into individual peaks. So is it with great men.” -J. C. and A. W. Hare (Julius Charles Hare (1795 - 1855) and Augustus William Hare (1792 - 1834))

You’re off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So . . . get on your way!
-Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991)): “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” (1990)

“Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.” -Confucius (a fifteenth-century Portuguese Jesuit scholars’ rendering of the Chinese name K’ung Fu-tzu or K’ung Ch’iu into Classical Latin (English: Master K’ung) (about 551 B.C.E. - about 479 B.C.E.))

“Only if you’ve been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.” -Richard Nixon (Richard Milhous Nixon (1913 - 1994)): speech (9 August 1974)

Chester: What’s funnier, mountain ranges or beaches?
Caroline: Mountains, of course - they’re ‘hill areas’!

“Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.” -John Muir (1838 - 1914)

“Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery of why we climb.” -Greg Child

“You never know what’s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.” -Tom Hiddleston (Thomas William ‘Tom’ Hiddleston (born 1981))
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“The mountains are calling and I must go.” -John Muir (1838 - 1914)

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Beginnings And Starting

11/14/2023

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You can begin now . . . from wherever you are in life . . .

“This is the start of something wonderful.” -Author Unknown
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“Mighty things from small beginnings grow.” -John Dryden (1631 - 1700)

No matter our age or where we’ve been
or what we’ve said and done,
Each sunrise is a reminder
that we’ve only just begun.
-Author Unknown
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“The word ‘begin’ is full of energy. The best way to get something done is to begin. It’s truly amazing what tasks we can accomplish if only we begin.” -Clifford Warren (about 1932 - 2009)

“For what it’s worth . . . it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)): “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (1922)
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“Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve got.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com

“The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.” -Robyn Davidson (born 1950)
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“Everything must have a beginning.” -Author Unknown

“It is time to get moving. Your spirits will lift accordingly.” -Author Unknown
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“The hardest step of any worthwhile endeavor is always the first step. The second hardest step is the one you take after every fiber in your body says, ‘Quit!’ but you know in your spirit you must carry on.” -Al Argo

“You begin by always expecting good things to happen.” -Tom Hopkins (born 1944) at www.TomHopkins.com
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“He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!” [translation to English]
“Dimidium facti qui coepit habet; sapere aude; incipe!” [original Latin]
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.)): “Epistles” (about 20 B.C.E. and 14 B.C.E.), Book I, epistle ii, lines 40 and 41

“Sometimes it is really hard to get going. We put off things we do not want to do, or we are afraid to try. We occasionally feel overwhelmed by the size of a job to be done, like cleaning out the cellar or reading a long book for a class. But think a minute. If Beethoven had thought about how complicated it would be to write his Ninth Symphony, with all the instruments and voices and notes to blend together, do you really think he would ever have started? But he did not get overwhelmed. He sat down and wrote just one small note, and then another, and third. It took him months, but writing one note led to a second and, one note at a time, he completed it. We begin the same way with whatever tasks we have ahead of us. Each tiny bit of progress helps us go on to the next part. We begin by reading one page of that book, or taking one box of junk from the cellar. That is all we have to do. The rest will follow almost on its own. The trick is to begin.” -Author Unknown
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“If I have work to do, the sooner started, the sooner through.” -Author Unknown

“Do it now, because sometimes ‘later’ becomes ‘never.’” -Author Unknown
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“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.” -William James (1842 - 1910)

“The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.” -Dave Weinbaum (born about 1952)

“If we wait for the moment when everything is ready, we shall never begin.” -Ivan Turgenev (Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 - 1883))

“As the dimensions of the tree are not always regulated by the size of the seed, so the consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)): “Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words” (1820), CLXXXVIII

“It doesn’t matter where you start. Only that you begin.” -Robin Sharma (born 1965)

“All glory comes from daring to begin.” -Eugene F. Ware (Eugene Fitch Ware (1841 - 1911)): “John Brown” poem, line 15; as published in James and Mary Ford, editors: “Every Day in the Year” (1902)

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.” -Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 - 1961)): “The Old Man and the Sea” (1952)
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“It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.” -Author Unknown: English proverb

“If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.” -David Viscott (David Steven Viscott (1938 - 1996))

“It is never too late, just as it is never too early.” -Author Unknown

“If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.” -Giordano Bruno (born Filippo Bruno (1548 - 1600)): as attributed in John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton: “The Cambridge Modern History” (1904), page 707
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“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” -Author Unknown: Dutch proverb

“The beginnings of all things are small.” [translation to English]
“Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.” [original Latin]
-Marcus Tullius Cicero (also known as Tully or simply as Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)): “De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum,” Book V, Chapter 58

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

“Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.” -John Henry Newman (also known as Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890))
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“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” -Joe Sabah: as attributed in Zig Ziglar: “Over the Top” (1994)

“Begin with the end in mind.” -Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey (1932 - 2012))

“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” -William Faulkner (William Cuthbert ‘Will’ Faulkner (1897 - 1962))
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“You can’t get much done by starting tomorrow.” -Author Unknown

“The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

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“Whether we make our start on a dusty highway or a tree-lined lane, or from someplace where roads don’t go . . . whether we travel for hours or days or years . . . we can get to someplace better.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“A good place to start is where you are.” -Charles Wolf, Junior

“I see now that the circumstances of one’s birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.” -Takeshi Shudo (1949 - 2010): “The Art of Pokemon, the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back!”; line spoken by fictional character Mewtwo
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“It isn’t where you came from; it’s where you’re going that counts.” -Ella Fitzgerald (1918 - 1996)

“It does not matter where you start from. You can have every advantage, or no advantages, or even seemingly every disadvantage. You can know a little or know a lot or know nothing or even know something or much that is not true. You can be a shining example of humanity or a lowly unknown nobody from nowhere. All that matters is that you make some kind of start, no matter how small, and work daily or at least as often as you are able, and not give up no matter what the world does or other people do or what the past has been or done to you or what present circumstances are or future circumstances might be. You can have times when you feel like quitting, and you may indeed pause or even quit - for a period of time, whether it is hours or days or years, and then resume when the time is right for you, not by waiting for the right time, but by making the time right, to continue on.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.” -Richard L. Evans (Richard Louis Evans (1906 - 1971))

“The secret to living the life of your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams today, in every little way you possibly can.” -Mike Dooley (born 1961) at https://www.tut.com/
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“You can’t cross the sea merely by staring at the water.” -Rabindranath Tagore (also known as Ravīndranātha Thākura, born Rabindranath Thakur (1861 - 1941))

“I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

“Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you’ve got, and fix it along the way.” -Paul Arden (1940 - 2008)

“It’s a job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish.” -J. R. R. Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892 - 1973))

“The start is what stops most people.” -Don Shula (Donald Francis ‘Don’ Shula (born 1930))
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“Making a start involves physics: An object at rest tends to remain at rest and an object in motion tends to remain in motion, unless acted upon by an outside force in either case. So the difficulty is only one of getting an object at rest - which is you, your circumstances, other people around you, and so forth, into a state of motion. Once in motion, or that is, having made a start, objects and courses of events have a known propensity to remain in motion.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“It will get easier once you make the initial push.” -Author Unknown
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“You don’t have to get it right. You just have to get it going.” -Mike Litman: as quoted in Chineme Noke: “There Is No Time Like the Present to Create Your Future” (March 2012), page 11

“Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.” -Alan Cohen (born 1946)

“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” -Stephen King (Stephen Edwin King (born 1947))
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“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” -Karen Lamb (born 1956) at www.karenlamb.com

“The beginning is the most important part of any work.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - about 347 B.C.E.): “The Republic” (about 380 B.C.E.), Book 2

“Don’t be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That’s only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.” -Olga Korbut (Olga Valentinovna Korbut (born 1955))

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” -Eckhart von Hochheim (also known as Meister Eckhart (1260 - 1327))
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“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” [variant translation to English]
“A journey of a thousand li* begins with a single step.” [translation to English]
Qiān lǐ zhī xíng shǐ yú zú xià. [original Chinese in English characters]
千里之行始於足下。[original Chinese in Chinese characters]
-Lao-tzu (about 604 B.C.E. - about 531 B.C.E.): “Tao-te Ching” (English: “The Way of Power”), section 64, line 12
*li: a unit of distance that has historically varied from 323 to 645 meters

“You can’t get anywhere unless you start.” -Author Unknown

“If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.” -Maurice Chevalier (Maurice Auguste Chevalier (1888 - 1972))

“Don’t wait for the perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect.” -Author Unknown
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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” -attributed to Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))

“Well begun is half done.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.): “Eudemian Ethics,” Book VII, 1238a.20, ‘Politics,’ Book V, 1303b.19-30

“So many fail because they don’t get started - they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))

“You don’t get to the finish line unless you start.” -Author Unknown
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“Begin and you’re halfway there.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))

“When was the last time you did something for the first time?” -John C. Maxwell (John Calvin Maxwell (born 1947)) at https://www.maxwellleadership.com/

“You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up for you.” -Barbara Sher (born 1935): “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It” (1995)

“First things first, but not necessarily in that order.” -Author Unknown: “Doctor Who” science fiction series

“The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.” -Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757 - 1804)

“Two little words that can make the difference: Start now.” -Mary C. Crowley
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“Begin anywhere.” -John Cage (John Milton Cage, Junior (1912 - 1992))

“It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.” -Henry James, Junior (1843 - 1916)

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” -Shunryu Suzuki (1904 - 1971)

“Take the first step, no more, no less, and the next will be revealed.” -Ken Roberts (born 1946): “A Rich Man’s Secret” (1995)
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“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” -Arthur Ashe (Arthur Robert Ashe, Junior (1943 - 1993))

“He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.” -Author Unknown

“The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things.” -Mike Dooley (born 1961) at https://www.tut.com/
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“No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.” -Channing Pollock (1880 - 1946)

“Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

“You already have all you need.” -James Cardinal Gibbons: “The Light of the Cross” (1905; 2 volumes)
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“Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes, work never begun.” -Christina Rossetti (Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894))

“Every really new idea looks crazy at first.” -Abraham Maslow (Abraham Harold Maslow (1908 - 1970))

“Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are.” -Robert Collier (1885 - 1950)
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“Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest height.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

“Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take a step.” -Naeem Callaway (Naeem D. Callaway (born 1979))

“As it turns out, now is the moment you’ve been waiting for.” -Lucinda Williams (born 1953)
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“Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success, may be crowded with grand possibilities.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1848 - 1924))

“And suddenly you just know it’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.” -Eckhart von Hochheim (also known as Meister Eckhart (1260 - 1327))
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Procrastination And Procrastinating

11/9/2023

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“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))

“I’m very busy doing things I don’t need to do in order to avoid anything I’m actually supposed to be doing.” -Author Unknown

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955))): “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living” (1948)

“If you want to get ahead in life, I’ve found that perhaps the most useless word in the world is tomorrow.” -José N. Harris

They said ‘procrastination’ was
The source of all my sorrow.
I don’t know what that big word means -
I’ll look it up tomorrow.
-Author Unknown

Procrastination, noun: the act of delaying or postponing something.
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Earl: Can you give me the definition of procrastination?
Lee: I will do it later.
Earl: You are right!

“procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday” -Don Marquis (Donald Robert Perry ‘Don’ Marquis (1878 - 1937)): “archy and mehitabel” (1927), ‘certain maxims of archy’

“Join the circus of chaos . . . juggling, stilt walking, and other skills for socially acceptable procrastination.” -Pat Murphy (Patrice Ann ‘Pat’ Murphy (born 1955))

“In delay there lies no plenty.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

“Procrastination is not laziness,” I tell him. “It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.” -Julia Cameron (Julia B. Cameron (born 1948)): “The Prosperous Heart” (2012)
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“It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I’m beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I’m happy at least that I didn’t wait twenty years.” -Paulo Coelho (born 1947)

“In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.” -Charles Baudelaire (Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867))

“The forces of procrastination, self-doubt, worry, cultural expectations, even family and friends, can hold your life in place, like Gravity.” -Matt Gersper

“Procrastination has robbed us of too many opportunities.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach (born 1947) at http://www.sarahbanbreathnach.com/

“A task left undone remains undone in two places - at the actual location of the task, and inside your head. Incomplete tasks in your head consume the energy of your attention as they gnaw at your conscience.” -Brahma Kumaris
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“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” -Will Rogers (William Penn Adair ‘Will’ Rogers (1879 - 1935))

“I’m going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!” -Sam Levenson (Samuel ‘Sam’ Levenson (1911 - 1980))

“Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.” -George Claude Lorimer (1838 - 1904): as quoted in George Horace Lorimer (1867 - 1937): “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son” (1902), ‘June 25, 189-,’ page 48
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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” -Anne Frank (Annelies Marie ‘Anne’ Frank (1929 - 1945)): “The Diary of a Young Girl” (1952)

“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.” -Jerry Alan West (Jerome ‘Jerry’ Alan West (born 1938))
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“A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.” -Bill Waterson (William Boyd ‘Bill’ Waterson II (born 1958))

Overheard: I bought a book titled “How to Stop Procrastinating,” and I have promised myself that someday, I am going to actually read it.
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“When we procrastinate, we also put a hold on happiness.” -Charles F. Glassman: “Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life” (2009)

“If you do it now, you won’t have to do it later.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Do not put your work off till tomorrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn.” -Hesiod (about 800 B.C.E. - about 720 B.C.E.)

“Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.” -Mason Cooley (1927 - 2002)
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“How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’.” -Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.” -Ivan Turgenev (Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 - 1883))

“I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung.” -Rabindranath Tagore (also known as Ravīndranātha Thākura, born Rabindranath Thakur (1861 - 1941))

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” -Stephen King (Stephen Edwin King (born 1947))
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“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time.” -Author Unknown

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65)): “Letters from a Stoic” (about C.E. 65), Letter 1, Verse 2

“I am a multi-tasking procrastinator . . . I can put off all kinds of things at once.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“What is deferred is not avoided.” -Thomas More (1478 - 1535): “Utopia” (1516)

“The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.” -Rita Emmett (1943 - 2019): “The Procrastinator’s Handbook: Mastering the Art of Doing It Now” (2000)
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He who postpones the hour of living rightly
Is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
[translation to English]
Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
Rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis.
[original Latin]
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.)): “Epistles,” Book I, epistle 2, lines 41 and 42

“Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable are the kind who do nothing.” -William Feather (William Arthur Feather (1889 - 1981))

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” -Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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“A procrastinator’s work is never done.” -Author Unknown

“By-and-by never comes.” -Augustine of Hippo (also known as Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (C.E. 354 - C.E. 430))

Overheard: Some tasks have to be put off dozens of times before they will completely slip your mind.
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Shun delays, they breed remorse;
     Take thy time while time is lent thee;
Creeping snails have weakest force,
     Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.
Good is best when soonest wrought,
     Linger’d labours come to nought.
-Robert Southwell (1561 - 1595): “Loss in Delay,” page 60, line 1; as quoted in William B. Turnbull, editor: “The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell” (1856)

“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” -Olin Miller (1918 - 2002)

“Things don’t get any easier by putting them off.” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)): “The Razor’s Edge” (1943)

“You may delay, but Time will not.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790)): “Poor Richard’s Almanack” (1758)

“Things dreaded require double time to accomplish them.” -James Lendall Basford (1845 - 1915)
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“What may be done at any Time will be done at no Time.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732), number 5500

“Nothing so perilous as procrastination.” -John Lyly (about 1554 - 1606)

“Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!” -Donald Gardner
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“One of these days is none of these days.” -H. G. Bohn (Henry George Bohn (1796 - 1884)): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)

“Every duty which is bidden to wait, returns with seven fresh duties at its back.” -Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875): “Sermons for the Times” (1855)

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” -Thomas Draxe (birth year unknown - 1618): “Adages” (1616)
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“The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.” -Josh Billings (pen name of Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818 - 1885)): “Josh Billings’ Wit and Humor” (1874), page 208

Procrastination is the thief of time:
     Year after year it steals, till all are fled,
And to the mercies of a moment leaves
     The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
-Edward Young (1683 - 1765): “Night Thoughts” (1742 - 1745), ‘Night 1,’ lines 394 through 397

“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” -Charles Dickens (Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 - 1870)): “David Copperfield” (1850) novel; words of character Mr. Micawber to character David Copperfield

“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.” -Pearl S. Buck (Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892 - 1973))

“Procrastination is a teardrop in the sands of time.” -Heath Byers

“Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

“I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.” -Stephanie Pearl McPhee, writer
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“The man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all . . .” -Jim Elliot (1927 - 1956)

Lose This Day Loitering

Lose this day loitering - ‘twill be the same story
     To-morrow - and the next more dilatory;
Each indecision brings its own delays,
     And days are lost lamenting o’er lost days,
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute -
     Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated -
     Begin it, and then the work will be completed!

By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 - 1832): “Faust,” Part 1 (1808) and Part 2 (1832)

“There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down - until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.” -George Sheehan (1918 - 1993)

“Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.” -Harry A. Hopf (Harry Arthur Hopf (1882 - 1949))
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“It has been a productive day - I got a lot of procrastinating accomplished.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Procrastination is a road-block in the path of success.” -Author Unknown

“One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.” -Paulo Coelho (born 1947)

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,
To-morrow’s Sun to thee may never rise.
-William Congreve (1670 - 1729): “Letter to Cobham,” line 61

“Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow.” -Gerald Vaughan

“Postpone not a good action.” -Author Unknown: Irish proverb
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All the Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin’ in the Sun,
Talkin’ bout the things
They woulda-coulda-shoulda done . . .
But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
All ran away and hid
From one little did.
-Shel Silverstein (Sheldon Allan ‘Shel’ Silverstein (1930 - 1999)): “Falling Up” (1996)

Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Butter.
Butter, who?
Butter late than never!
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“Don’t put off for tomorrow what you should do today.” -Aesop: “The Grasshopper and the Ants” (about 6th century B.C.E.)

“Someday is not a day of the week.” -Janet Dailey (Janet Anne Haradon Dailey (1944 - 2013))

“If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll get nothing done.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993): as quoted in Jerald Greenberg and Robert A. Baron: “Behavior in Organizations: Understanding & Managing the Human Side of Work” (1995), page 371
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“If and When were planted, and Nothing grew.” -Catherine Pulsifer (born 1927): “If and When” at https://www.QuotesChristian.com

“He who hesitates is last.” -Mae West (1892 - 1980)

“By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there’s no more future left for them.” -Roger L’Estrange (1616 - 1704)
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“The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

“If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.” -Thomas J. Vilord (Thomas Joseph Vilord (born 1975))
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“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.” -Robert Benchley (Robert Charles Benchley (1889 - 1945)): as quoted in Robert E. Drennan, editor: “The Algonquin Wits” (1968)

“By the street of By-and-By, one arrives at the House of Never.” -Miguel de Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 - 1616)): “Don Quixote” (1605)

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.” -Hunter S. Thompson (Hunter Stockton Thompson (1937 - 2005)): “The Proud Highway” (1997)
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“There is no avoidance in delay.” -Aeschylus (about 525 B.C.E. - about 456 B.C.E.): “Agamemnon” (about 458 B.C.E.)

“Procrastination can lead to undue stress! Do it, finish it, and have less stress in your life!” -Catherine Pulsifer (born 1927) at https://www.QuotesChristian.com

“If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.” -Rita Mae Brown (born 1944)

Overheard: I am just waiting to do my work at the last minute, because by then I will be older and wiser.

“Whatever can be done another day can be done today.” -Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)): “Essais” (“Essays”) (March 1580), Book 1, chapter 20

“Let’s get started while we’re still young!” -Author Unknown: words said by a man who was seventy-five years of age
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Playtime And Playing

11/6/2023

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“It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.” -Marcia Wieder

George knocked on the door of his friend’s house. When his friend’s mother answered he asked, “Can Albert come out to play?” “No,” said the mother, “It’s too cold.” “Well, then,” said George, “can his football come out to play?”

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882): “Journals”

“Surely all God’s people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them.” -John Muir (1838 - 1914): “The Story of My Boyhood and Youth” (1913), pages 186 and 187
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“My childhood may be over, but that doesn’t mean playtime is.” -Ron Olson

“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.” -Charles Schaefer

“Always jump in the puddles! Always skip alongside the flowers. The only fights worth fighting are the pillow and food varieties.” -Terri Guillemets (born 1973)

“Today I will do something just for the fun of it. I will find something to do that’s just for me, and I won’t worry about what I ‘should’ be doing. I will learn how to make myself feel good and enjoy life to the fullest.” -Melody Beattie (Melody Lynn Beattie (born 1948))
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“As astronauts and space travelers children puzzle over the future; as dinosaurs and princesses they unearth the past. As weather reporters and restaurant workers they make sense of reality; as monsters and gremlins they make sense of the unreal.” -Gretchen Owocki

“Play is the highest form of research!” -attributed to Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

“The true object of all human life is play.” -G. K. Chesterton (Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936)): “All Things Considered” (1908)

When Albert’s baby sister was born, his mother told him the baby would be nice to play with. After looking at it for a while, he complained, “Yes, but where are its wheels?”
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“Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.” -Evan Esar (born Esar Levine (1899 - 1995)): “Esar’s Comic Dictionary” (1943)

“Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.” -Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

“To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic.” -Hugo Rahner
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Riddle: What does the following mean? A maximum amount of purposeful activity and a minimum amount of disport and dalliance cause Jack to become a dim-witted, stagnant dunce of the male species.
Solution: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in James Howell (1594 - 1666): “Proverbs in English, Italian, French, and Spanish” (1659)

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,
All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.
-Maria Edgeworth (1768 - 1849): “Harry and Lucy Concluded” (1825)

“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.” -John Cleese (John Marwood Cleese (born 1939)): as quoted in Dale N. LeFevre: “Best New Games” (2002), page 9

Have you played today?
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“Children’s games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.” -Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592))

“Play: Instinctually guided unrestrained accelerated learning along unpredictable tangential paths leading to successful survival.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Imaginative play is a key that opens the doors of intuition.” -Frances Vaughan (1935)
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Playing Outdoors

What lovely things
     Outdoors I see!
The sun, a bird,
     A great big tree!
God put them there
     For you and me!

by Author Unknown
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“Work and play are an artificial pair of opposites, because the best kind of play contains an element of work, and the most productive kind of work must include something of the spirit of play.” -Sydney J. Harris (Sydney Justin Harris (1917 - 1986)): “On the Contrary” (1964), Chapter 7

As Johnny Went A-Walking

As Johnny went a-walking, a-walking, a-walking
As Johnny went-a-walking one fine day
He met a little neighbor, a neighbor, a neighbor
And they began to play:
First they played at horses, horses, horses
First they played at horses
Just this way:
They played at aeroplanes, aeroplanes, aeroplanes (and so on).
Then they played at bunnies, bunnies, bunnies (and so on).
Then they played at fire engines, fire engines, fire engines (and so on).

by Author Unknown

“Play is the exultation of the possible.” -Martin Buber (1878 - 1965)
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“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” -Leo Buscaglia (Felice Leonardo ‘Leo’ Buscaglia, also known as Leo F. Buscaglia (1924 - 1998))

Let’s play ‘airplane’! Let’s play choo-choo train! Let’s play tag - you’re it! Let’s play swamp monster! Let’s play dinosaurs! Let’s play hide-and-seek! Let’s play space aliens! Let’s play cops and robbers! Let’s play follow-the-leader! Let’s play dress-up! Let’s play store! Can you think of other games we can play? Which one is your favorite?
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“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” -Fred Rogers (Fred McFeely ‘Mister’ Rogers (1928 - 2003))

“To the art of working well a civilized race would add that art of playing well.” -George Santayana (1863 - 1952): “Little Essays” (1920)

“All play is associated with intense thought activity and rapid intellectual growth.” -N. V. Scarfe: ‘Play is Education’ article published in the “Childhood Education” (November 1962) journal, Volume 39, Issue 3, page 120
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“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

“Playing is working in a state of grace.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“The ability to play is essential to being a creative artist.” -Dewitt Jones
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Our minds need relaxation and give way
Unless we mix with work a little play.
-Molière (pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622 - 1673)): “The School for Husbands” (1661)

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - about 347 B.C.E.)

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” -Carl Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
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Overheard: I would like to run around in circles and flap my arms and do loud imitations of animal sounds - will you join me?

“In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.” -Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C.E. - C.E. 17 or 18)): “The Art of Love” (about C.E. 8)

“If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in adult life.” -Susanne Millar
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“It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.” -Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)): “Essais” (“Essays”) (1595), Book 1, chapter 23

“Play so that you may be serious.” -Anacharsis: as quoted in Aristotle: “Nicomachean Ethics” (about 350 B.C.E.)

“Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.” -May Sarton (pseudonym of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995))
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“Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.” -Diane Ackerman

Play

Housework can wait,
     My children need kisses.
They want me to play,
     I’ll put off the dishes.

When they’re grown,
     I’ll keep the house spic’n’ span . . .
But children grow fast so
     I’ll play while I can.

by Leslie Prest
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“When children pretend, they are using their imaginations to move beyond the bounds of reality. A stick can be a magic wand. A sock can be a puppet. A small child can be a superhero.” -Fred Rogers (Fred McFeely ‘Mister’ Rogers (1928 - 2003))

Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Wanda.
Wanda, who?
Wanda come over and play with me?
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“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.” -Heraclitus (Heraclitus of Ephesus (about 535 B.C.E. - 475 B.C.E.)) (500 B.C.E.)

“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.” -Joseph Chilton Pierce

“Having forgotten the importance of play or even how to play, we have invented professional sports leagues. Play is fun; sport as entertainment is vicarious fun, or fun minus the robust growth of mind and muscle and genuine camaraderie.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” -Alan Watts (Alan Wilson Watts (1915 - 1973)): “Essential Lectures of Alan Watts” (1973), Volume 1: ‘Work as Play’; type of work: audio recording

“Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn’t taste good.” -Lucia Capacchione

“Life is playfulness . . .We need to play so that we can rediscover the magic all around us.” -Flora Colao
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“Many children cannot play because they live in circumstances in which merely surviving is everything. By adulthood, they have had their play instinct suppressed so completely that they would actually have to relearn it. What is the solution to this?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Play keeps us fit physically and mentally.” -Stuart Brown
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“Play brings joy. And it’s vital for problem solving, creativity, and relationships.” -Margarita Tartakovsky

“The human urge to create comes from the play impulse.” -Carla Hannaford: “Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head”
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“The world is your playground. Why aren’t you playing?” -Ellie Katz

Henny: Why did the child cross the playground?
Penny: To get to the other slide!
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“Some days are simply meant for playing.” -Mary Anne Radmacher (Mary Anne Em Radmacher (born 1957)), website: https://www.maryanneradmacher.net/
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Every day, it is beneficial for all of us to get out of the little boxes in which we live, and away from the little screens we stare at for hours without end, and go outside - do you remember the place called ‘outside’? Sure you do! It’s where birds and squirrels and grasshoppers and people live and learn and grow and play and have fun! So why not head out there right now and . . . Make Fun Of Life!

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Encouragement And Praise

11/2/2023

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“Praise works with only three types of people; men, women, and children.” -Author Unknown

“Everybody likes a compliment.” -Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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“It’s always worth taking the trouble to praise people. I can’t last but a couple of days without food, but I can live for two months on a good compliment.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 -1910))

“I would like to compliment you on the fine job you are doing of complimenting me.” -Author Unknown

“You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windshield; it said ‘Parking Fine.’ So that was nice.” -Tim Vine (Timothy Mark ‘Tim’ Vine (born 1967))

“Celebrate what you want to see more of.” -Tom Peters (Thomas J. ‘Tom’ Peters (born 1942))

“A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage.” -John C. Maxwell (John Calvin Maxwell (born 1947)) at https://www.maxwellleadership.com/

Arnold Bennett, the British novelist, had a publisher who boasted about the extraordinary efficiency of his secretary. One day while visiting the publisher’s office, Bennett asked her: “Your boss claims you’re extremely efficient. What’s your secret?” “It’s not my secret,” said the secretary, “it’s his.” Each time she did something for him, no matter how insignificant, she explained, he never failed to acknowledge and appreciate it. Because of this, she took infinite pains with her work.

Flattery

’Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery’s the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to take a bit.

By Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745): “Cadenus and Vanessa” (1713)

“Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.” -Bernard Baruch (1870 - 1965): as attributed in William Safire and Leonard Safir: “Words of Wisdom: More Good Advice” (1989), page 294

“Giving encouragement to others is a most welcome gift, for the results of it are lifted spirits, increased self-worth, and a hopeful future.” -Florence Littauer

“Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that one never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.” -George Adams (George Matthew Adams (1878 - 1962))

“When your goal is to build people up, to make them feel better, to share in their joy, you too reap the rewards of their positive feelings. The next time you have the chance to correct someone, even if their facts are a little off, resist the temptation. Instead, ask yourself, “What do I really want out of this interaction?” Chances are, what you want is a peaceful interaction where all parties leave feeling good. Each time you resist ‘being right,’ and instead choose kindness, you’ll notice a peaceful feeling within.” -Richard Carlson (1961 - 2006): “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” (1997), page 37; website: https://dontsweat.com/

“The deepest principle in Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated.” -William James (1842 - 1910): letter (1896) to students who had sent to him a plant for Easter

“High praise indeed . . . comes from mountaintops!” -Author Unknown
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“Any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.” -Booker T. Washington (Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856 - 1915))

“People are in greater need of your praise when they try and fail, than when they try and succeed.” -Bob Moawad (Robert Abraham ‘Bob’ Moawad (1941 - 2007))
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“You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.” -Jim Stovall (born 1958)
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“Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.” -William Feather (William Arthur Feather (1889 - 1981)): “The Business of Life” (1949)

“Appreciate good people. They are hard to come by.” -Author Unknown

“The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.” -J. Allen Boone (John Allen Boone (1882 - 1965))
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“You are every lovely word I could possibly think of.” -Author Unknown

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“When someone does something well, applaud! You will make two people happy.” -Samuel Goldwyn (also known as Samuel Goldfish, born Szmuel Gelbfisz (1879 - 1974))
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“A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

“If you mean to profit, learn to praise.” -Charles Churchill (1731 - 1764): “Gotham” (1764), book II

“Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): “The Rambler” (6 June 1751)

“The people who are lifting the world onward and upward are those who encourage more than they criticize.” -Elizabeth Harrison (1849 - 1927)

“You can’t eat compliments.” -Charles M. Schulz (Charles Monroe ‘Sparky’ Schulz (1922 - 2000)): “Things I’ve Had to Learn Over and Over Again (Plus a Few Minor Discoveries)” (1984)

“Remember the compliments you have received and forget the rude remarks.” -Author Unknown
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“What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.” -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950): “John Bull’s Other Island” (1904), Act 4

“I have always said that if I were a rich man I’d hire a professional praiser.” -Osbert Sitwell (Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell (1892 - 1969))
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“Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.” -Arnold H. Glasow (Arnold Henry Glasow (1905 - 1999))

“Praise makes good Men better, and bad Men worse.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732), number 3918

“One kind word can change someone’s entire day.” -Author Unknown
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“Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free - and worth a fortune.” -Sam Walton (Samuel Moore ‘Sam’ Walton (1918 - 1992)): “Sam Walton: Made in America - My Story”

Compliment: A hug by way of words.
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“Fair words butter no parsnips.” -John Clarke (1596 - 1658): “Paroemiologia” (1639), page 21

“When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.” -John Henry Newman (1801 - 1890)

“What men and women need is encouragement . . . Instead of always harping on a man’s faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.” -Eleanor H. Porter (Eleanor Hodgman Porter (1868 - 1920)): “Pollyanna” (1913)
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“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

“Never let an opportunity pass to say a kind or encouraging word to another person.” -Author Unknown
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“Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.” -Jess Lair (1927 -2000)
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“When a proud Man hears another praised, he thinks himself injured.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734)

“Compliment people; magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.” -Joyce Meyer (born 1943 as Pauline Joyce Hutchison) at www.JoyceMeyer.org

Overheard: If you can’t get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
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“A compliment is verbal sunshine.” -Robert Orben (1927 - 2023)

“You have it easily in your power to increase the total sum of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))

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“The sweetest of all sounds is praise.” -Xenophon (430 B.C.E. - 352 B.C.E.) (about 380 B.C.E.)

“A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))

“Compliments are free of cost and obligation; indeed, they are ‘complimentary.’” -Author Unknown

“Encourage one another. Many times a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept people on their feet.” -Charles R. Swindoll (Charles Rozell ‘Chuck’ Swindoll (born 1934))

“Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.” -Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)

“Compliments are the gift of prosperity. I have learned to accept them graciously.” -Louise Hay (Louise Lynn Hay (1926 - 2017)) at www.louisehay.com

Some encouragement consists of praise combined with expectation, as for example, “You are always mommy’s little angel,” or “You are the best thing that has ever happened to this company.” So, there is the praise or compliment, plus the expectation, all melded into one. It is as though someone is being encouraged to do and be good, while his or her previous or present worth is being acknowledged.

“Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.” -Richard Carlson (1961 - 2006) at https://dontsweat.com/

“To encourage someone is literally to instill courage in someone.” -Author Unknown
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“We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.” -Edmund Gibson

“Most of us, swimming against tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement and we’ll make the goal. Say, ‘Thank you!’ whenever you think of it. Say, ‘Nice job!’ to that workman who put extra effort into his task. Say, ‘Atta boy!’ to the fellow who is struggling through in the face of odds. You’ll get a whale of a lot of joy out of life that way. And people will love you.” -Jerome P. Fleishman (1892 - 1953)
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“I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler’s truest and best reward.” -William Dean Howells (1837 - 1920)

“I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.” -Charles Schwab (Charles Michael Schwab (1862 - 1939))

“Encourage anyone who is trying to improve mentally, physically, or spiritually.” -H. Jackson Brown (Horace Jackson Brown, Junior (1940 - 2021))

“Be an Encourager: When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.” -Roy T. Bennett: “The Light in the Heart” (25 February 2016)

“Praise the young and they will blossom.” -Author Unknown: Irish proverb

“I’ve always thrived on the encouragement of others.” -Pattie Smith (Patricia Lee ‘Patti’ Smith (born 1946))
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“So often we think that to be encouragers we have to produce great words of wisdom when, in fact, a few simple syllables of sympathy and an arm around the shoulder can often provide much needed comfort.” -Florence Littauer (born Florence Chapman (1928 - 2020))

“It’s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.” -Malcolm S. Forbes (Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (1919 - 1990))
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“The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow into their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams.” -Sidney Madwed (1926 - 2013)

“Pointing out the good in others, helps us find the good in ourselves.” -Larry Lawrence (Larry Ray Lawrence (born 1947))

“Find the good - and praise it.” -Alex Haley (Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (1921 - 1992))

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