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5/21/2023

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Fears and Courage

5/20/2023

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Picture of wooded area in which is a sign reading, “Beware of the . . .” with the word for what to beware of having been bitten off by something with big teeth.

“Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” -Caroline Myss (born 1952)
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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” -Ambrose Redmoon (Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon (pseudonym of James Neil Hollingworth (1933 - 1996)))

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” -Vincent van Gogh (Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 - 1890))

“If you’re scared, just holler and you’ll find it ain’t so lonesome out there.” -Joe Sugden (Joseph ‘Joe’ Sugden (1870 - 1959))
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“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’ ‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.” -George R. R. Martin (George Raymond Richard Martin (born 1948)): “A Game of Thrones” (1 August 1996) novel

“I have lived my life according to this principle: If I’m afraid of it, then I must do it.” -Erica Jong (Erica Mann Jong (born 1942))

“Try to be fearless, because fear can inhibit you and keep you from a life.” -Miranda Weese
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“What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.” -Author Unknown

The Reality of Fear

You’re not scared of the dark;
     You’re scared of what’s in it.
You’re not afraid of heights;
     You’re afraid of falling.
You’re not afraid of the people around you;
     You’re afraid of rejection or mistreatment.
You’re not afraid of love;
     You’re afraid of not being lovable.

by Author Unknown

“Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.” -Alice M. Swaim (Alice Mackenzie Swaim)
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“I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.” -Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (1858 - 1919))

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” -Les Brown (Leslie Calvin ‘Les’ Brown (born 1945))
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“Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.” -Brendan Francis (Brendan Francis Aidan Behan (1923 - 1964))

“We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. ‘Oh, by getting up every time I fell down,’ he answered.” -David Seabury (1885 - 1960)

“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.” -Dorothy Thompson (1894 - 1961)
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“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.” -Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906): “An Enemy of the People” (1882), act 5

“To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.” -Teresa of Ávila (born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada (1515 - 1582))

“Action cancels fear.” -Silver Rose
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Fear is a slinking cat I find
     Beneath the lilacs of my mind.
-Sophie Tunnell (Sophia Letitia Tunnell (1884 - 1936))

“Fear is incomplete knowledge.” -Agatha Christie (Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (1890 - 1976))

“It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.” -Erica Jong (Erica Mann Jong (born 1942))
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“A lot of people are afraid of heights; not me, I’m afraid of widths.” -Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955)): “Steven Wright Special” (1985)

Heights Made Him Dizzy

There was a young fellow so frail
He could fly on a kite - as the tail.
     That gave him a view
     From Maine to Peru;
But when he looked down he turned pale!

by John Ciardi (John Anthony Ciardi (1916 - 1986))

“So what are you afraid of? What is holding you back? What is it that stands in your way?” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993): “Power of the Plus Factor: The Little Extra That Makes You a Winner” (1987)
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“You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.” -Dolly Parton (Dolly Rebecca Parton (born 1946))

“He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.” -William James (1842 - 1910)

“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” -Author Unknown
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“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” -Mary Anne Radmacher (born 1957)

“Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.” -Michael Pritchard

“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” -Seth Godin (born 1960)
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Do not let fear confine your life
     Inside a shell of doubt;
A turtle never moves until
     His head is sticking out.
-Charles Ghigna

“Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.” -Hannah Arendt (Johanna ‘Hannah’ Arendt (1906 - 1975))
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A psychologist, interviewed on the “Steve Allen Show,” announced that the only two instinctive fears in man are a fear of loud noises and a fear of falling. “I have a great fear,” replied Steve Allen (Stephen Valentine Patrick William ‘Steve’ Allen (1921 - 2000)), without missing a beat, “of making a loud noise while falling.”

“Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): “Journals” (1838 - 1859), ‘7 September 1851’

“FEAR is an acronym in the English language for ‘False Evidence Appearing Real.’” -Neale Donald Walsch (born 1943)
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“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.)

Overheard: I have discovered that I scream the same way whether I am about to be devoured by a great white shark or a piece of seaweed touches my foot.

“F.E.A.R. has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Risk.’ You decide.” -Author Unknown
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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” -Marie Curie (Marie Sklodowska-Curie (1867 - 1934))

“Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.” -Ruth Gendler (Janet Ruth Gendler, also known as J. Ruth Gendler (born 1954)) at www.ruthgendler.com

“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.” -Robert Anthony (Robert Newton Anthony (1916 - 2006))
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“The thing I fear most is fear.” -Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)): “Essais” (English: “Essays”) (1580), Book I, chapter 17

“First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt (Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)): “First Inaugural Address” (4 March 1933)

“Sometimes it takes courage - maybe all the courage you’ve got - to just live life.” -Douglas Preston: “The Lost Island”
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Overheard: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself . . . and spiders!

“If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65)

“Do what you fear and fear disappears.” -David J. Schwartz (David Joseph Schwartz, Junior (1927 - 1987))
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“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” -Anaïs Nin (born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (1903 - 1977)): “Diary” (1969)

“Happiness is a form of courage.” -Holbrook Jackson (George ‘Holbrook’ Jackson (1874 - 1948))
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“Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.” -Author Unknown: German proverb

“I laugh in the face of danger. And then I hide until it goes away.” -Author Unknown: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997 - 2003), season 1, episode 3: ‘Witch’ (17 March 1997); line spoken by character Alexander Lavelle ‘Xander’ Harris (portrayed by actor Nicholas Brandon)

“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” -Dorothy Bernard (Nora Dorothy ‘Dorothy’ Bernard (1890 - 1955))
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“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.)

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.” -Winston Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965)): “Great Contemporaries” (1937), ‘Alfonso XIII’

“Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” -Shirley MacLaine (pseudonym of Shirley MacLean Beaty (born 1934))
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“Courage is the most important of all the virtues . . . One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” -Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))

“Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.” -Author Unknown

“To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.” -Katherine Paterson (Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (born 1932)): “Jacob Have I Loved” (1980)
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“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Book of Psalms,’ Psalm 27, verse 1

“The phrase ‘do not be afraid’ is written in the Bible 365 times. That’s a daily reminder from God to live every day being fearless.” -Author Unknown

“I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown; and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back.” -Erica Jong (Erica Mann Jong (born 1942))
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“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.” [translation to English]
“Nil terribile nisi ipse timor.” [original Latin]
-Francis Bacon: “De Augmentis Scientiarum” (1623), Book II, Fortitudo

“Fear is nature’s warning signal to get busy.” -Henry C. Link (Henry Charles Link (1889 - 1952))

“When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.” -Stephen Richards
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910)): “Pudd’nhead Wilson” (1894), chapter 12: ‘Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar’

“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnegey (1888 - 1955)))

“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.” -Mignon McLaughlin (1913 - 1983): “The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook” (1981)
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“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” -Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

“Courage grows by daring, fear by holding back.” -Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)

“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” -Mary Tyler Moore (1937 - 2017)
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“Courage is following your conscience instead of following the crowd.” -Eric Harvey

14 October of every year is National Face Your Fears Day, and 17 days later, you can see what they look like, because on that day is Halloween!
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“To one who is afraid, everything rustles.” -Sophocles (496 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” -George Addair (George Washington Addair, Junior (1931 - 2012))
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“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.” -Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910): as quoted in John Cooke: “The Book of Positive Quotations” (2007), page 479

“Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.” -Aaron Hill (1685 - 1750)

“Give yourself a pat on the back each time you hang in there when you’re scared.” -Marilyn Barrick (Marilyn Cooper Barrick (1932 - 2007))
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“Courage from hearts, and not from numbers, grows.” -John Dryden (1631 - 1700): “Annus Mirabilis” (1667), stanza 76, line 304; type of work: poem

“Fears are nothing more than states of mind.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))

“You do not have to be fearless, just don’t let fear stop you.” -Charles Day (Charles Peckham Day (born 1976)): speech (May 2014) to graduating class of Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, United States of America
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“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.” -Titus Livius (also known simply as Livy (59 B.C.E. - C.E. 17.))

“If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)

Overheard: Don’t let your fears win.
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“Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))

“There is no courage without fear.” -Author Unknown

“The only known cure for fear is faith.” -Lena Kellogg Sadler (1875 - 1939)
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“Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

“We must travel in the direction of our fear.” -John Berryman (1914 - 1972)

“We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.” -Susan Jeffers (Susan Jane Jeffers (1938 - 2012)): “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway” (1987)
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“Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” -Bethany Hamilton (Bethany Meilani Hamilton-Dirks (born 1990))

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” -Tim Ferriss (Timothy ‘Tim’ Ferriss (born 1977))

“Be brave. Even if you’re not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.” -H. Jackson Brown (Harriett Jackson Brown, Junior (born 1940)): “Life’s Little Instruction Book” (1991)
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“Ultimately, we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.” -Marilyn Ferguson

“Stop letting fear rule your life.” -Author Unknown

“Courage is your greatest present need.” -Author Unknown
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“With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.” -Keshavan Nair

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Wisdom and Advice

5/13/2023

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Picture of a field of yellow flowering plants with snow-covered mountains in the distance, a blue sky with fluffy white clouds above, and a green leafy tree in the field, with the words, ‘What matters most are quotations and sayings that tell you what life is really about . . .,’ and the words, ‘. . . and this is a tree,’ next to the tree, and finally the words, ‘Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net’

“Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.” -Author Unknown

“Be excellent to each other!” -Author Unknown: “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” (1989) movie

“Pursue worthy aims.” -Solon (about 630 B.C.E. - about 560 B.C.E.)

Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you.
Trust, but don’t be deceived.
Be content, but never stop improving yourself.
-Author Unknown
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If wisdom’s ways you’d wisely seek,
     Five things observe with care:
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
     And how, and when, and where.
-Laura Ingalls Wilder (Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (1867 - 1957)): “Little Town on the Prairie” (1941), message from C. L. Ingalls to her daughter

“Don’t ever let anyone dull your sparkle.” -Author Unknown

“If you would know the road ahead, ask someone who has traveled it.” -Author Unknown

“Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.” -Ron Wild
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“Life is too important to be taken seriously.” -Author Unknown

“Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant. But the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.” -Author Unknown: Indian proverb

“Be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others.” -Jessi Lane Adams (pseudonym of Terri Guillemets (born 1973))

“Wisdom: Common sense in an uncommon degree.” -Author Unknown
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“Whoever said sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.” -Author Unknown

“Keep trying. Stay humble. Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” -Yogi Berra (Lawrence Peter ‘Yogi’ Berra (1925 - 2015))

“Write a wise saying, and your name will live forever.” -Author Unknown

“Don’t eat anything you shouldn’t.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.” -Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)

“Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise.” -Author Unknown: Welsh proverb

“What cannot be helped must be endured.” -Author Unknown: “Rob Roy” (7 April 1995) movie; words spoken by fictional character Mary MacGregor

“Spend time with those you love, because one of these days you will say either, ‘I wish I had,’ or, ‘I’m glad I did.’” -Author Unknown
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“Whatever advice you give, be brief.” -Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.))

“You must get good at one of two things: planting in the Spring or begging in the Fall.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009))

“It is traditional on these occasions for me to give you a bit of advice, which you will equally traditionally ignore.” -Philip Mountbatten (also known as Prince Philip (born 1921))

“Don’t ever slam a door; you might want to go back.” -Author Unknown
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“He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))

“The words you speak today should be soft and tender . . . for tomorrow you may have to eat them.” -Author Unknown

“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))

“Wise people carry their possessions within them.” -Author Unknown
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“Few persons have good enough sight to see their own faults.” -Author Unknown

“It’s possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.” -Lee Segall

“Don’t trust advice from a person who’s in trouble.” -Author Unknown

Accept a proverb out of Wisdom’s schools -
“Barbers first learn to shave by shaving fools.”
-John Wolcot (1738 - 1819): “Works” (1792)
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“Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg.” -Author Unknown

“A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.” -Sholom Aleichem (pseudonym of Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (1859 - 1916))

“A mountain shames a molehill until both are humbled by the stars.” -Author Unknown: proverb
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“Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.” -Author Unknown

“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.” -Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900))

“Wisdom isn’t the acquisition of knowledge. It’s knowing which knowledge is worth acquiring.” -Frank Tyger (1929 - 2011)

“One day you’ll just be a memory to some people. Do your best to be a good one.” -Author Unknown
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“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.” -David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931): “The Philosophy of Despair” (1902)

“Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.” -William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)

“Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.” -Felix Frankfurter (1882 - 1965)

“Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dearly for it.” -Author Unknown
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“Surround yourself with people smarter than you.” -Maggie Wilderotter

Wisdom Teaches

Wisdom teaches:
The fruits of silence;
The blessings of health;
The rewards of self-discipline;
The satisfaction of achievement;
The responsibility of power;
The beauty of nature;
The miracle of love;
The meaning of friendship;
The privilege of prayer;
The power of faith;
The joy of sharing;
The treasure of integrity.

by William A. Ward (William Arthur Ward (1921 - 1994))

“Work hard, dress well, and be nice to people.” -Author Unknown

“My parents told me, ‘Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.’ I tell my daughters, ‘Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.’” -Thomas Friedman
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“There are many who give advice, but few who offer guidance.” -Author Unknown

“If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, ‘Tell the truth.’ If I got three more words, I’d add, ‘All the time.’” -Randy Pausch (Randolph Frederick ‘Randy’ Pausch (1960 - 2008))

“The first step toward madness is to think oneself wise.” -Fernando de Rojas

“Remember, it’s not the fall that hurts you; it’s the stop at the end.” -Author Unknown
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Enjoy yourself,
It’s later than you think.
-Herb Magidson (1906 - 1986): “Enjoy Yourself” (1950) song

“Rise with the Sun and go to bed with the chickens.” -Author Unknown
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“Many receive advice; only the wise profit from it.” -Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)

“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.” -Aeschylus (525 B.C.E. - 456 B.C.E.)

“You will always find some Eskimos ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.” -Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909 - 1966): “Unkempt Thoughts” (1957)
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The road to wisdom?
     Well it’s plain and simple to express:
Err and err and err again
     but less and less and less.
-Piet Hein (1905 - 1996)

“Be wise to-day; ‘tis madness to defer.” -Edward Young (1683 - 1765): “Night Thoughts” (1742 - 1745), ‘Night 1, line 391
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“The surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness.” -Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592))
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“Never leave hold of what you’ve got until you’ve got hold of something else.” -Donald Herzberg
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“Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.” -Author Unknown: Swedish proverb

“Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.” -Edward Thorndike (Edward Lee Thorndike (1874 - 1949))
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“Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this Earth would be God’s Paradise.” -Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)

“If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ‘I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.’” -Ann Landers (pseudonym of Esther Pauline ‘Eppie’ Lederer (1918 - 2002))

“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all: This, too, shall pass.” -Ann Landers (pseudonym of Esther Pauline ‘Eppie’ Lederer (1918 - 2002))

Don’t cry over the past, it’s gone.
Don’t worry about the future, it hasn’t arrived.
Live in the present, and make it beautiful.
-Author Unknown
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“We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.” -Arthur Helps (1813 - 1875)

“Speak your mind but ride a fast horse.” -Author Unknown

“The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. That has been my secret, and I have never had any quarrels.” -Hannah Whitall Smith (1832 - 1911): as quoted in Logan Pearsall Smith, editor: “Philadelphia Quaker: The Letters of Hannah Whitall Smith” (1950), page 146

“Charity gives itself rich; greed hoards itself poor.” -Author Unknown: German proverb
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“If a man loves to give advice, it is a sure sign that he himself wants it.” -George Savile (also known as Lord Halifax (1633 - 1695))

“No man was ever wise by chance.” [translation to English]
“Nulli sapere casu obtigit.” [original Latin]
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))

“Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.” -Author Unknown

“If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.” -Joseph Marshall Wade (1832 - 1905)
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“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” -Robert Brault (born 1938)

“Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.” -Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett (1721 - 1771))

“Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul.” -Author Unknown

“It’s a small world. So you gotta use your elbows a lot.” -Author Unknown
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“Wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future, and profit from the past.” -Author Unknown

“Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.” -Sydney J. Harris (Sydney Justin Harris (1917 - 1986))

“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

Good Advice

Don’t shirk
     Your work
For the sake
     Of a dream;
A fish
     In the dish
Is worth ten
     In the stream.

by Author Unknown
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“We are wiser than we know.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” -Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)

“The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))

Keep your eye on the ball.
Keep your shoulder to the wheel.
Keep your nose to the grindstone.
Now try to work in that position.
-Author Unknown
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“The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.” -Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636 - 1711)

“Seek advice but use your own common sense.” -Author Unknown: Yiddish proverb

“Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you’re going to miss in the years ahead.” -Author Unknown
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“Whatever you are, try to be a good one.” -William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863): as quoted in Laurence Hutton’s memoir, ‘A Boy I Once Knew,’ serialized in “St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks” (March 1897), Volume 24, Number 5, page 413, column 2; also as quoted in Laurence Hutton: “A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs” (1898) autobiography

“Live, and be happy, and make others so.” -Mary Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851)): “Frankenstein” (1818), Chapter 8; line spoken by character Justine Moritz

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Adversities and Persevering

5/8/2023

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Picture of a raccoon climbing out of a garbage can that is in a park.

When your life is difficult, just remember this furry fellow, who lives in a garbage can. Of course, your expectations in life may be a little different than his . . .
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“If you are ever in real trouble, don’t panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it, and there must be humor in it somewhere.” -Louise Fitzhugh (1928 - 1974)

“Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever . . .” -Isak Dinesen (pseudonym of Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (1885 - 1962))

“Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.” -Katharine Hepburn (Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1907 - 2003))
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“Our way is not soft grass, it’s a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the Sun.” -Ruth Westheimer (born 1928)

“Some falls are means the happier to arise.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Cymbeline, King of Britain” (1609), Act IV, scene 2, line 2822; words of character Caius Lucius, general of the Roman forces

“Life is tough, but I’m tougher.” -Author Unknown
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“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” -Frank Leahy (1908 - 1973): as quoted in the “Daily Mail” (4 May 1954) newspaper of Charleston, West Virginia

“Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.” -Katherine Paterson (born 1932): “The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks” (1 January 1990)

“Determination, patience, and courage are the only things needed to improve any situation.” -Author Unknown
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“No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): ‘Sir Walter Scott,’ published in the “London and Westminster Review” (12 November 1838)

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.” [translation to English]
“Confragosa in fastigium dignitatis via est.” [original Latin]
-Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65)): “Epistles,” letter to Lucilius

“I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.” -Gillian Anderson (Gillian Leigh Anderson (born 1968))
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“The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)

“The highest grades of humanity have passed through the millstones more than once.” -Henry S. Haskins (Henry Stanley Haskins (1875 - 1940)): as quoted in Albert Jay Nock, editor: “Meditations in Wall Street” (1940), book originally published anonymously, page 92

“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” -Author Unknown
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“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.” -Charles Spurgeon (Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)): “The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes Thereon” (1889), ‘Proverbs,’ page 89

“Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.” -Marvin J. Ashton (Marvin Jeremy Ashton (1915 - 1994)): as quoted in “Ensign” (November 1984), page 22

“If things go wrong, don’t go with them.” -Roger Babson (Roger Ward Babson (1875 - 1967))
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“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles. But most of them never happened.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910)): as attributed in “Reader’s Digest” (April 1934) and in Alex Ayres, editor: “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain” (1987)

“People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.” -William Faulkner (William Cuthbert ‘Will’ Faulkner (1897 - 1962))

“No life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.” -Ellen Glasgow (1873 - 1945)
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“There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown helpless about them.” -Clare Boothe Luce (1903 - 1987)

“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.” -C. H. Spurgeon (Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892))

“Remember, if you ever get into a difficult situation, you can always count on your fingers and toes!” -Author Unknown
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“Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.” -John Updike (John Hoyer Updike (1932 - 2009))
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“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor can man be perfected without trials.” -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.))

“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” -Lou Holtz (Louis Leo ‘Lou’ Holtz (born 1937))

“Every adversity can make you bitter or better.” -Mary Kay Mueller (born 1953)
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“While troubles will come, they are always temporary - nothing lasts forever. Thus, there is the famous legend that King Solomon, the wisest man of all times, had a ring inscribed with the words, ‘This too shall pass.’” -Aryeh Kaplan (Aryeh Moshe Eliyahu Kaplan (1934 - 1983))

“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” -Bernice Reagon (Bernice Johnson Reagon (born 1942))

“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” -B. C. Forbes (Robert Charles ‘Bertie’ Forbes (1880 - 1954)): as quoted in “Forbes” (1958)
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“For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again.” -Author Unknown: “The Bible,” ‘Proverbs,’ chapter 24, verse 16

“The brook would lose its song if you removed the rocks.” -Author Unknown

Picture of a small green plant with a white flower, sprouting through a crack in black asphalt pavement.

“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” -Peter Marshall (1902 - 1949)
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“I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.” -Will Rogers (William Penn Adair ‘Will’ Rogers (1879 - 1935))

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940))

“If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.” -Author Unknown
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“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.” -Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.)): “Satires” (about 35 B.C.E. and 30 B.C.E.)

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.” -William E. Channing (William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)): “Self-Culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838” (1839), page 42

“Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.” -Shari R. Barr
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“People don’t ever seem to realize that doing what’s right’s no guarantee against misfortune.” -William McFee (1881 - 1966)

“I have never known anyone to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.” -Lou Holtz (Louis Leo ‘Lou’ Holtz (born 1937))

“Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.” -James Buckham (1858 - 1908): as quoted in Mary Allette Ayer, editor: “Keep up Your Courage: Key-Notes to Success” (1908)
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“There is no education like adversity.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

“Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.” -Arnold Glasow (Arnold Henry Glasow (1905 - 1998))

“The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune rises above it, more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction.” -Richard Chenevix Trench (known simply as Richard Trench until 1873 (1807 - 1886)): “An Essay Upon National Character” (1832), book I, part II, chapter III
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“Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn’t make me stronger.” -Lou Holtz (Louis Leo ‘Lou’ Holtz (born 1937))

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” -Molière (pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622 - 1673))

“What on Earth would a man do with himself if something did not stand in his way?” -H. G. Wells (Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946))
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“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” -Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774): “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766)

“He that falls to-day, may be up again to-morrow.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732), number 2097

“Life begins to become truly livable once we have learned how to get back up after we stumble and fall. The mastery of that knowledge may come about only following many falls but it finally comes to us and softens the pain and humiliation on each occasion that we stumble after that, and so we are able to face life with some courage because of what we have learned after falling. Everything eventually becomes easier with time and experience.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Strong men are made by opposition; like kites they go up against the wind.” -Frank Harris (born James Thomas Harris (1855 - 1931)): “Oscar Wilde” (1916), chapter 6, page 59

“If there is no struggle there is no progress.” -Frederick Douglass (pseudonym of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (1817 - 1895)): personal letter (30 March 1849) to Gerrit Smith

“The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that precedes the victory.” -Karen Bliss Livingston
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“I admire people who choose to shine even after all the storms they’ve been through.” -Author Unknown

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger (Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born 1947)) at http://www.schwarzenegger.com/

“Life has its peaks and its valleys.” -Author Unknown
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“When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a moment longer, never give up then - for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe (Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)): “Old Town Folks” (1869), chapter 39: ‘Last Days in Cloudland’

“Never let life’s hardships disturb you . . . no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.” -Nichiren Daishonen (1222 - 1282)
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“Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.” -Victor Hugo (Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885))

“If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.” -Solon (636 B.C.E. - 558 B.C.E.)

“Defeat is nothing but the first step to something better.” -Author Unknown
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“Fight the good fight with all thy might.” -John S. B. Monsell (John Samuel Bewley Monsell (1811 - 1875)): “Fight the Good Fight” (1863) hymn

“The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.” -Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)

“However hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better.” -Benjamin E. Mays (Benjamin Elijah Mays (1894 - 1984)): as quoted in Dorothy Winbush Riley: “My Soul Looks Back, ’Less I Forget” (1995)
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“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

“I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.” -J. C. Penney (James Cash Penney (1875 - 1971))
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“The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.” -William J. H. Boetcker (William John Henry Boetcker (1873 - 1962))

“Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.” -Robert Leighton (1611 - 1684)

“One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.” -George H. Allen (George Herbert Allen, Senior (1918 - 1990))
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“I’m glad for all that life has brought, because today I know that men must brave adversities if they would greater grow.” -Lawrence Hawthorne

“Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amidst joy.” -Felicia Hemans

“Those who turn back know only the ordeal, but those who persevere remember the adventure.” -Milo Arnold
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“With every victory over adversity, you grow in wisdom, stature, and experience. You become a better, bigger person each time you meet a problem.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))

“The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.” -Richard G. Scott
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“Endure, and preserve yourself for better things.” -Publius Vergilius Maro (also known simply as Vergil or Virgil (70 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.))

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” -Dolly Parton (Dolly Rebecca Parton (born 1946)): as quoted in Bob Phillips: “Phillips’ Book of Great Thoughts” (1993), page 264
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Stress and Anxiety

4/26/2023

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Picture of a frazzled-looking adult working at a computer screen and holding a notebook open on a desk, while a cat and a child are involved in mischief and excessively loud music is playing in the background.

“Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - about 347 B.C.E.))

“Stress does nothing but change reality into a big bad wolf while making us feel like little piggies.” -Author Unknown
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“If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn’t be so anxious.” -Mignon McLaughlin (1913 - 1983): “The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook” (1981)

“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” -Lou Holtz (Louis Leo ‘Lou’ Holtz (born 1937))

“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” -Lee Iacocca (Lido Anthony ‘Lee’ Iacocca (1924 - 2019))
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“I am pretty much 3 percent human and 97 percent stress.” -Author Unknown

“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” -Walter Anderson (born 1944)
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Stress can cause headaches as the body reacts by rerouting blood flow to other parts of the body, in preparation for survival through the instinctive fight or flight mechanism.

“If you feel like you’re losing everything, remember trees lose their leaves every year, and they stand tall and wait for better days to come.” -Author Unknown
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Recognize Stressors
- Chaotic surroundings and disruptive people.
- Noises, particularly startling and alarming noises.
- Vibrations or swaying from under our feet or objects such as machinery.
- Lights that are too bright, too dim, flickering, flashing, or unnaturally colored.
- Smells, including offensive odors and air pollutants.
- Constant dealings with strange, hostile, or abnormal people.
- Lack of familiar and comfortable stimuli, particularly that found in nature, in friendship, in a good home, and in a good work environment.
- Having no place to ‘get away from it all’ in order to de-stress.
- Having no plans or workable ideas for dealing with difficult circumstances and difficult people.
- Being mistreated by people, as for example, being bullied, being lied to, being lied about, being blamed, or being ridiculed.
- Maladaptive methods for attempting to deal with stress can create additional stress, as for example, overeating, withdrawing from all human contact, or turning to electronic devices for comfort.
Can you think of other stressors to add to this list?

Chronic stress can cause the brain to flood with powerful hormones that are meant for short-term emergency situations. However, chronic exposure is also believed to damage, shrink, and rapidly age brain cells.

How to Handle Stress
- Take a moment, sometimes to do nothing, but even better, to do some simple task that can be done without much thought, such as cleaning a table top or putting away clean laundry.
- Talk to someone or make a plan for dealing with the situation, or better yet, do both if possible.
- Go for a walk. You will get away from your surroundings which have become a reminder of the situation, you will get some beneficial exercise, and you will get some relaxing mental stimulation from the sights and sounds and other sensations of the outdoors environment.
- Close your eyes for a few seconds and breath and relax your tense muscles.
- Drink a glass of water.
What can you add to this list?
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“Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.” -Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894): as quoted in Tryon Edwards, editor: “A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern” (1891), page 22

During stress, eye pupils dilate, referred to as ‘mydriasis,’ to gather more visual information about a situation. This is one of the many automatic, or instinctual, actions built into us to ensure survival.

The word ‘stress’ was originally an engineering term. It was adopted for use as a medical term by a scientist named Hans Selye. Mr. Selye found that lab rats became sulky and sickly when he upset them by trying to catch them by cornering them and snatching at them. This activity broke down their resistance to ailments. Because no medical term for this phenomenon existed in the 1930’s, he used the word ‘stress’ to describe it.
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The word ‘stress’ is derived from the Latin word ‘stringere’ meaning ‘to draw tight.’

“The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.” -Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.): as attributed in Darius Lyman: “The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: from the Latin” (1856): “Sententiae,” Maxim 388

“You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.” -Gaius Julius Phaedrus (lived in about C.E. 1st century)

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” -William James (1842 - 1910)

While stress does not turn hair gray, stress can cause hair loss. Telogen effluvium, the medical term for hair loss, can begin up to three months after a stressful event.

“Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day, you’re doing just fine.” -Charlotte Eriksson
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“There are two times when I feel stress - day and night.” -Author Unknown

“Stress-Buster Tip: Do yourself a favor. Overlook at least two things today.” -M. J. Ryan
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“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.” -Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)

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Stress Management

A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, “How heavy is this glass of water?” Answers called out ranged from 20 grams to 500 grams.

The lecturer replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it. If I hold it for a minute, that’s not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you’ll have to call an ambulance. In each case, it’s the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.”

He continued, “And that’s the way it is with stress management. If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won’t be able to carry on. As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again. When we’re refreshed, we can carry on with the burden.”

“So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down. Don’t carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you’re carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can. Relax; pick them up later after you’ve rested.”

“Enjoy your life!”

by Author Unknown

The hyper-arousal of the body’s stress response system can lead to chronic insomnia.

“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” -Sydney J. Harris (Sydney Justin Harris (1917 - 1986))

“Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.” -William R. Inge (William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954))

“When we are distressed, going outside for some fresh air, taking a walk in the park, or wandering deep into the woods quickens our attention, bringing us instantly into the present. Being outdoors provides mental space and clarity, allowing our bodies to relax and our hearts to feel more at ease. Putting ourselves in the midst of something greater than our personal dramas, difficulties and pain - as we do when we walk in the open plains, hike in rarefied mountain air, or ramble on an empty beach - can give us a sense of space and openness, lifting us out of our narrow selves. Similarly, gazing up at the vast night sky helps us see our problems and concerns with greater context and perspective. The natural world communicates its profound message: things are okay as they are; you are okay just as you are; simply relax and be present.” -Mark Coleman: “Awake in the Wild” (1 November 2006), page xv
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“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.” -Jane Wagner (born 1935): line written for use by Lily Tomlin (Mary Jean ‘Lily’ Tomlin (born 1939)) in standup comedy acts

“Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.” -Herbert Gasser
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“I read some article, which said that the symptoms of stress are impulse buying, eating too much, and driving too fast. Are they kidding? That’s what I call a perfect day.” -Author Unknown

“You have probably heard of ‘contagious’ or ‘infectious’ smiles. There is a reason for this - when you smile, it tends to make others around you smile. Even in the most stressful times, a roomful of smiles can brighten everybody’s mood.” -Author Unknown
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“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.” -Thích Nhất Hanh (born 1926 as Nguyễn Xuân Bảo)

“It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be difficult to carry out but most of us could do it if we tried. At any rate we should moderate the pace at which we are living. If we remain at high gear, at top pressure, we are bound to suffer from fatigue and strain.” -Robert J. McCracken
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“The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.” -William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)

“Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.” -Fulton J. Sheen (Fulton John Sheen (1895 - 1979)
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“Being on the tightrope is living. Everything else is just waiting.” -Karl Wallenda

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.” -David Allen

“Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.” -Loretta Laroche

Did you know that stress can make you fatter? Stress can make losing weight and maintaining the right weight much harder. Why? Because when we are stressed, we instinctively eat more foods and foods high in calories in order to build up our energy, including our energy reserves that are stored as body fat, to be prepared for action. Unfortunately, these days there isn’t much action of the sort we were programmed for long ago, such as running from animals that want to eat us, or running to catch animals we want to eat. But there is good news! Laughing actually reduces stress, so get out there and do some serious laughing. Laughing allows people to live well and be healthier by handling stress better.
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“Never hurry; take plenty of exercise; always be cheerful, and take all the sleep you need, and you may expect to be well.” -James F. Clarke

“Without stress there is no growth.” -Author Unknown
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“Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest.” -Author Unknown

“Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.” -Fulton John Sheen (1895 - 1979): “On Being Human” (1982)
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“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” -C. H. Spurgeon (Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892))

“Just because we’re in a stressful situation, doesn’t mean that we have to get stressed out. You may be in a storm. The key is, don’t let the storm get in you.” -Joel Osteen (born 1963)
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“Storms don’t last forever.” -Author Unknown

“Outer chaos, inner peace . . . all is well.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.” -Jane Wagner (born 1935): “The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe” (1985), line of fictional character Trudy, portrayed in stage productions by actress Lily Tomlin (Mary Jean ‘Lily’ Tomlin (born 1939))

“Even the darkest night will end and the Sun will rise.” -Victor Hugo (Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885)): “Les Misérables” (1862)
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“Don’t stress, just do your best.” -Author Unknown

Do you need an antidote to stress and anxiety? Laughing strengthens the immune system by releasing health-enhancing hormones such as cortisol, epinephrine, and adrenaline, which can lower stress.
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S.T.O.P.

When feeling overwhelmed, simply S.T.O.P.:
Stop, or momentarily pause in whatever you are doing.
Take a slow, deep breath.
Observe your thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations.
Proceed with a one-simple-thing focus.

by Author Unknown
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“In stressful times it’s okay to not be perfect. It’s okay to cut yourself some slack. Because right now, you might not be your best self. But you are growing, and you are trying your best, and that is good enough.” -Ashley Hetherington

Bad stress is believed to make people physically sick from its resulting headaches, muscle fatigue and a lowered immune system response that can create an increased susceptibility to infections and diseases. Bad stress is believed to make people mentally sick from its resulting anxiety, worry, depression, and troubled thoughts. Stress is believed to degrade our entire systems. We become like trapped animals - trapped in circumstances by bad stress, we instinctively try every means to escape, and finding none, we wear ourselves down and tire ourselves out, exhausting ourselves and yet failing to recognize that it is the bad stress that is harming our bodies and minds.
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How to Stress Less

1. Focus on what you can control.
2. Go for a walk.
3. Make something.
4. Talk to friends and family.
5. Breath.
6. Look for new opportunities.
7. Exercise.
8. Treat yourself.
9. Daydream.
10. Change your daily routine.
11. Go to bed earlier.
12. Smile more often.

by Author Unknown

And when things start to happen,
Don’t worry. Don’t stew.
Just go right along.
You’ll start happening too.
-Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991)): “Oh, The Places You Will Go” (1990)

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Changing and Adjusting

4/22/2023

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Picture of a happy smiling Sun looking down from the sky and the words, ‘Change Your Life, Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net.’

“If you would like to change things in your life that seem too big to change all at once, could you be happy changing them a little at a time?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” -attributed to William James (1842 - 1910)

“Any day we wish, we can start the process of life change.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com

“It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way.” -Henry F. Harrower
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Lucy: Do you think anybody ever really changes?
Linus: I’ve changed a lot in the last year.
Lucy: I mean for the better.
-Charles M. Schulz (Charles Monroe ‘Sparky’ Schulz (1922 - 2000)): “Peanuts” comic strip

“Never assume that you’re stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.” -Ralph Marston (Ralph Seymour Marston, Junior (born 1955)) at https://GreatDay.com/

“There is yet time enough for you to take a different path.” -Author Unknown
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“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” -Okakura Kakuzō (also known as Okakura Tenshin (1862 - 1913)): “The Book of Tea: Japanese Harmony of Art, Culture, and the Simple Life” (1906)

“Sometimes we must make a choice, to take a chance, or our lives will never change.” -Author Unknown

“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” -Mandy Hale (born 1978) at https://mandyhale.com
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To change one’s life:
Start immediately.
Do it flamboyantly.
No exceptions.
-William James (1842 - 1910)

“Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.” -Robin Sharma (born 1965)

“Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.” -Author Unknown
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“Life is like an ever-changing kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.” -Sharon Salberg

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978): as quoted in the “Christian Science Monitor” (1 June 1989)

“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.” -Herbert Ottl
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“Never be afraid to try something new - remember, it was amateurs who built the Ark and professionals who built the Titanic.” -Author Unknown

“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” -John Henry Newman (1801 - 1890): “The Development of Christian Doctrine” (1834)

By Changing Your Thinking

By changing your thinking,
     You change your beliefs;
When you change your beliefs,
     You change your expectations;
When you change your expectations,
     You change your attitude;
When you change your attitude,
     You change your behavior;
When you change your behavior,
     You change your performance;
When you change your performance,
     You change your life.

by Author Unknown
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“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” -Carol Burnett (Carol Creighton Burnett (born 1933))

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963))

“It’s never too late to change your life.” -Author Unknown
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“If you want things to change, you have to change. If you want things to be better, you have to be better.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” -Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi (1869 - 1948))

Affirmation: I want to change my life.
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“Change is the only evidence of life.” -Evelyn Waugh (Arthur Evelyn Saint John Waugh (1903 - 1966))

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” -Henri Bergson (Henri-Louis ‘Henri’ Bergson (1859 - 1941))

“Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” -Mandy Hale (born 1978) at https://mandyhale.com
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“Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.” -Richard Hooker (1554 - 1600)

“Change is the only thing that will make things different.” -Author Unknown

“Once you make the decision to change, all kinds of things happen.” -Charles S. Dutton
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“Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon . . . everything’s different.” -Bill Waterson (William Boyd ‘Bill’ Waterson II (born 1958)): “Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes”; type of work: cartoon

“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” -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.))

Picture of an orange, black, and white Monarch Butterfly in the midst of flowers with yellow centers, white petals, and dark green leaves and dark green stems, and the words, ‘If Nothing Ever Changed, There Would Be No Butterflies.’

“Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)

“The only thing constant in life is change.” -François de La Rochefoucauld (also known as François Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680))

“Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.” -Alvin Toffler (1928 - 2016)
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“Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” -Rob Siltanen: “Think Different” (1997 - 2002) advertising campaign for Apple, Inc.

“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com

“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.” -Gurdjieff (1873 - 1949)
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“The nature o’* things doesn’t change, though it seems as if one’s own life was nothing but change. The square o’ four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man’s miserable as when he’s happy; and the best o’ working is, it gives you a grip hold o’ things outside your own lot.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880)): “Adam Bede” (1859)
*o’: of

“I guess some people never change. Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.” -Author Unknown

“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” -John Cage (John Milton Cage, Junior (1912 - 1992))

“Change is not difficult, it is the resistance to change that is difficult.” -Author Unknown
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“The only thing certain is nothing is certain.” -Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

“In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” -Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

“Changes happen, and life gets worse and better, and life somehow goes on.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Times will change for the better when you change.” -Maxwell Maltz (1899 - 1975)
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“Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by those involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.” -Gerald Brenan (1894 - 1987)

“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?” -C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963))

“Old ways won’t open new doors.” -Author Unknown
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“Our only security is our ability to change.” -John Lyly (1554 - 1606)

“There is nothing permanent except change.” -Heraclitus of Ephesus (544 B.C.E. - 483 B.C.E.) (513 B.C.E.)

“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation.” -Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797): letter (1792) to Hercules Langrishe

“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.” -Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)

“To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Believe and succeed.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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“All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward!” -Author Unknown

“Change is possible for nearly everyone; consider the wolf, which preys upon sheep, and then consider the domestic dog derived from it, which herds and protects sheep. However, any marked change is a process requiring time and sustained, deliberate effort.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.” -John Locke (1632 - 1704)

“Change almost always represents improvement of the human condition. Constancy almost always represents stagnation. In any event, change is certain. There’s no point in complaining about it. Natural history teaches that survival in a changing world does not depend on physical strength or on high intelligence. Survival depends on the ability to change.” -Alex Sanders

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895 - 1983))
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“All things are only transitory.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

“The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” -Charles F. Kettering (Charles Franklin Kettering (1876 - 1958))

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))

“If you want any part of your life changed, forget about what you’re going to do this year and begin with this moment.” -Author Unknown
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“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those opening a new road.” -Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778)): as quoted in Ben Ray Redman, editor: “The Portable Voltaire” (1949)

“Change is inevitable. Because it is driven by expanding knowledge and technology, it is accelerating at a speed never seen before.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com

“Change is inevitable . . . except from vending machines.” -Author Unknown

“To the fearful, change is threatening because they worry that things may get worse. To the hopeful, change is encouraging because they feel things may get better.” -Buck Rogers
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“Change is difficult but often essential to survival.” -Lester Louis Brown

“All is change; all yields its place and goes.” -Euripides (484 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)

“If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.” -Author Unknown

“Change before you have to.” -Jack Welch (John Francis ‘Jack’ Welch, Junior (born 1935))
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“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” -Ed Foreman (born 1933)

“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)): “The Razor’s Edge” (1943)

“In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.” -Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)
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“It only takes one person to change your life - you.” -Ruth Casey

“Turn over a new leaf.” -Thomas Dekker

“Be okay with where you are, even if you know you want to change.” -Author Unknown
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“Welcome change.” -Author Unknown

“Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963))

“Someday change will be accepted as life itself.” -Shirley MacLaine (pseudonym of Shirley MacLean Beaty (born 1934))
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Kindness and Good Deeds

4/19/2023

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Picture of a person offering a handful of seeds to a pigeon.

“From now on, your kindness will lead you to success.” -Author Unknown
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“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” -Teresa of Calcutta (also known as Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (1910 - 1997)))

“It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you.” -Cort Flint (Cort Ray Flint, Junior (1915 - 1983))
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“Help other people for no reason.” -Author Unknown

“The whole worth of a kind deed lies in the love that inspires it.” -Author Unknown: “The Talmud”
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Kind Hearts

Kind hearts are the gardens,
     Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the flowers,
     Kind deeds are the fruits.

Love is the bright sunshine
     That warms into life,
For only in darkness
     Grow hate and strife.

Take care of your garden,
     And keep it from weeds,
Fill, fill it with flowers,
     Kind words and kind deeds.

attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

“Kind words are the music of the world.” -Frederick William Faber (1814 - 1863)
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“Let us be kinder to one another.” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963))

“Never underestimate the difference a kind word can make. It may seem like nothing but it could change everything. Then what was given for free becomes priceless.” -Anna Grace Taylor at www.AnnaGraceTaylor.com

“A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.” -George D. Prentice (George Dennison Prentice (1802 - 1870))
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“Kind words, kind looks, kind acts, and warm handshakes, these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles.” -John Hall

“The fastest way to lift your spirits is to lift someone else’s.” -Author Unknown
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“Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.” -Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744): “Epilogue to the Satires (1738),” dialogue I, line 136

Be Kind

Be kind in all
You say and do
That others may
Be kind to you.

by Author Unknown
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“Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.” -Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

“The first rule of kindness is to be kind to yourself.” -Bryant McGill (born 1969)
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“A gentle word, a kind look, a good natured-smile, can work wonders and accomplish miracles.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” -Leo F. Buscaglia (Felice Leonardo ‘Leo’ Buscaglia (1924 - 1998)): “Born for Love: Reflections on Loving” (1992)

“The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.” -Marcus Porcius Cato (also known as Cato the Elder (233 B.C.E. - 148 B.C.E.))

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.” [translation to English]
“Ubicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus est.” [original Latin]
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))

“Caring people help others not because they expect a reward but because it is natural to show kindness.” -Author Unknown
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“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.” -William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)

“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.” -Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834): as quoted in “The Athenaeum” (4 January 1834), ‘Table Talk by the late Elia’

“Kindness is wisdom.” -Philip James Bailey (1816 - 1902)
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“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.” -Arthur Helps (1813 - 1875)

Picture of three brightly colored flowers and the words, ‘Thank You For Your Kindness.’

“Kindness makes you the most beautiful person in the world no matter what you look like.” -Author Unknown
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How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
-William Shakespeare: “The Merchant of Venice” (1596 - 1598), Act V, Scene 1, lines 2547 and 2548; line of fictional character Portia

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

“Plant kindness and gather love.” -Author Unknown
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“No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it merely passes through a multiplicity of ever-changing phases. Every good deed done to others is a great force that starts an unending pulsation through time and eternity. We may not know it, we may never hear a word of gratitude or recognition, but it will all come back to us in some form as naturally, as perfectly, as inevitably, as echo answers to sound.” -William George Jordan (1864 - 1928)

“Indulge yourself by being generous - help someone out, perform an act of kindness, offer a compliment. The person who will feel most uplifted by you having done so is . . . you.” -Paul Wilson: “The Little Book of Calm” (1996)
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“He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.” -William Penn (1644 - 1718): “Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims” (1682), number 441

There is in every human heart
     Some not completely barren part,
Where seeds of truth and love might grow,
     And flowers of generous virtue flow;
To plant, to watch, to water there,
     This be our duty, be our care.
-John Bowring (1792 - 1872)

“One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness - it is so often returned.” -Author Unknown
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“There are three rules of dealing with all those who come to us: 1. Kindness, 2. Kindness, 3. Kindness.” -Fulton J. Sheen (1895 - 1979)

“I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other than we are. How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!” -Henry Drummond (1851 - 1897)

“Whenever you feel that something as simple as a smile or a kind act will go unnoticed, do it anyway. You never know how much it might change someone else’s life.” -Erin Bishop
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“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.” -Johann von Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832))

That day is best wherein we give
A thought to others’ sorrows;
Forgetting self, we learn to live,
And blessings born of kindly deeds
Make golden our to-morrows.
-Rose H. Thorpe (Rose Hartwick Thorpe (born Rose Alnora Hartwick (1850 - 1939)))
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“No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.” -Aesop: “The Lion and the Mouse”

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.” -Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

“Do one good deed for another person every day.” -Author Unknown
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“Remember, there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” -Scott Adams (Scott Raymond Adams (born 1957)): as quoted in ‘A Kind Word’ published in “DNRC Newsletter #9” (December 1995)

“The kindness lavished on dogs, if evenly distributed, would establish peace on Earth.” -William A. Feather (William Arthur Feather (1889 - 1981)): as quoted in Ted Landphair (at VOA News): “Featherisms” (6 October 2008)

“Kindness is more than a thought, it’s an action.” -Author Unknown
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“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.” -Henry Clay (1777 - 1852): “The Great Compromise” (1850)
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“Kind words produce their own image in men’s souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.” -Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)

“A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” -Basil (C.E. 330 - C.E. 379): as attributed in Reverend Elon Foster’s “New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations” (1877), ‘Second Series,’ page 395

“One kind word can change someone’s entire day.” -Author Unknown
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Do it this very moment!
     Don’t put it off, don’t wait!
There’s no use in doing a kindness
     If you do it a day too late.
-Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
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“A good deed brightens a dark world.” -Author Unknown

Picture of a man holding an elderly woman’s hand to support her as she crosses a doorstep and goes down one step.

“Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle.” -Charles F. Glassman (born 1959): “Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life” (2009) at https://www.CharlesGlassmanMD.com/
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“The greatness of a man can nearly always be measured by his willingness to be kind.” -George W. Young

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the Sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstandings, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.” -Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)

“Kind words don’t cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” -Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.” -Teresa of Calcutta (also known as Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (1910 - 1997)))

Overheard: Have you done your good deed for the day?
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“Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept their lot calmly, even if people roll a few stones upon it.” -Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965): “Out of My Life and Thought” (1949)

“Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.” -William Congreve (1670 - 1729)

“Be kind. Everyone you meet is carrying a heavy burden.” -Ian MacLaren (pseudonym of John Watson (1850 - 1907)): as quoted in Dale Turner (Dale Emerson Turner (1917 - 2006)) at https://www.reverenddaleturner.org/: ‘Quiet Wounds: Be Kind, the Pain is Heavy’ published in “The Seattle Times” (21 July 1984), Page A-8, Column 4; newspaper of Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, believing that one day someone might do the same for you.” -Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer (1961 - 1997))

“I will take time today to stop and give a gift to someone needy, smile at a stranger, or help a small child. I will take the time to do at least one thing that I usually find myself too busy to do, and I will inwardly smile at myself, taking time the time to experience the feelings of my own kindness.” -Ruth Fishel
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“Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.” -Frederick William Faber (1814 - 1863)

“To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

“Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August Sun.” -Kent Nerburn (Kent Michael Nerburn (born 1946))
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Do not take lightly small good deeds,
     Believing they can hardly help.
For drops of water, one by one,
     In time, can fill a giant pot.
-Patrul Rinpoche (1808 - 1887)

“Honey catches more flies than vinegar.” -Giovanni Torriano (about 1609 - about 1666): “Italian Proverbs” (1666)

“Small acts of kindness restore hope in times of darkness.” -Jordan Rosenfeld (Jordan E. Rosenfeld) at https://jordanrosenfeld.net
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“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?” -J. M. Barrie (James Matthew Barrie (1860 - 1937)): “The Little White Bird” (1902), Chapter 4

“The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.” -Gaspard Dughet (also known as Gaspard Poussin from his association with Nicolas Poussin, his brother-in-law who taught him to paint; surname also spelled as Doughet (1615 - 1675)): as quoted in Alfred Armand Montapert, compiler and editor: “Distilled Wisdom” (1964), ‘Deeds,’ page 95

“One good turn deserves another.” -Gaius Petronius Arbiter (C.E. 27 - C.E. 66)
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“It’s a greater accomplishment to be kind than to be brilliant.” -Joseph Telushkin (born 1948): “Words That Hurt” (15 April 1996), page 126

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.” -Henry James (Henry James, Junior (1843 - 1916))

“The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.” -Author Unknown

“Kind people are the best kind of people.” -Author Unknown
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“Do one good deed each day . . . and on some days do as many as you possibly can!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“You never know what someone is going through. A few nice words can help a person a lot more than you think.” -Author Unknown

“The good that you do in this world for others will eventually find its way back to you, as echo returns to sender.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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The good deed you do today
     For a brother or sister in need
Will come back to you some day
     For humanity’s a circle in deed.
-Robert Alan Aurthur (1922 - 1978)

“Even a smile is a good deed.” -Shari Arison
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Appearances and Looks

4/12/2023

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Picture of a young woman looking into a mirror.

“Some of the most beautiful women I have ever met tell me, ‘I hate myself when I look in the mirror.’ I hear that again and again” -Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
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“To all the girls who think they’re fat because they’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful ones; it’s society who’s ugly.” -Marilyn Monroe (pseudonym of Norma Jean Mortenson (1926 - 1962))

“Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.” -David Herbert Lawrence (1885 - 1930)

“I used to be very self-conscious. I used to wish I was pretty. My cousin Georgia always taught me that if you smile, people will like you. Sometimes people will say something you don’t like, and you get angry a bit, but you just smile. You let it go by, even if you really would like to choke ’em. By smiling, I think I’ve made more friends than if I was the other way.” -Ella Fitzgerald (Ella Jane Fitzgerald 1917 - 1996)
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“Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you’re delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that’s what’s made them radiantly attractive.” -Mignon McLaughlin (1913 - 1983): “The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook” (1981)

“Won’t you come into my garden? I would like my roses to see you.” -Richard B. Sheridan (Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816))
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Keep up appearances; there lies the test;
     The world will give thee credit for the rest.
-Charles Churchill (1731 - 1764): “Night” (1761), lines 311 and 312

“Real beauty isn’t about symmetry or weight or makeup; it’s about looking life right in the face and seeing all its magnificence reflected in your own.” -Valerie Monroe (Valerie J. Monroe, Senior (born 1950))
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“A plain face is often surprisingly beautiful by reason of an inner light.” -Henry E. Walbery

“Do not judge others by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat.” -Author Unknown: Scottish proverb
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“Beauty isn’t about having a pretty face. It’s about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.” -Author Unknown

Beauty to no complexion is confined,
     Is of all colors, and by none defined.
-George Granville (1666 - 1735)

“First impressions are the most lasting.” -Jonas Hanway (1712 - 1786): “A Journal of Eight Days Journey” (1756)
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“Beauty isn’t something on the outside. It’s your insides that count! You gotta eat green stuff to make sure you’re pretty on the inside.” -Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka, and Toshihiro Kawabata: “Animal Crossing: Wild World” (2005)

“Some of you may feel that you are not as attractive and beautiful and glamorous as you would like to be. Rise above any such feelings, cultivate the light you have within you, and it will shine through as a radiant expression that will be seen by others.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))
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“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.” -John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)

Body Dysmorphic Disorder is a body image condition that causes some people to imagine they presently have, or will later develop, physical deformities. Most people with the condition are not all that different from other people in appearance; it is just that their perception of themselves is erroneously distorted by inner or outer influences. BDD is also known by the term ‘dysmorphophobia,’ which is derived from the Greek words ‘dys’ meaning ‘abnormal,’ ‘morphe’ meaning ‘form,’ and ‘phobos’ meaning ‘fear.’ The good news is that the condition can be treated through therapeutic psychological counseling and by other methods.
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He: My, what lovely eyes you have!
She: I am glad you like them. They were a birthday present.
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“Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.” -E. H. Chapin (Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814 - 1880))

She is not fair to outward view
     As many maidens be;
Her loveliness I never knew
     Until she smiled on me:
Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,
     A well of love, a spring of light.
-Hartley Coleridge (David Hartley ‘Hartley’ Coleridge (1796 - 1849)): “Poems” (1851), ‘She Is Not Fair’
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“If there were no beauty in the observer then he would not find beauty outside. The mere fact that beauty is seen proves that there is beauty already present in the state of being the observer.” -Shantanand Saraswati

“I am not beautiful like you. I am beautiful like me.” -Author Unknown
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“Appearances often deceive.” -Author Unknown: English saying

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)): “The Kreutzer Sonata” (1889)

“The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.” -Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)

“Physical differences are what make it possible for our friends to find us in a crowd.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.” [translation to English]
“La beauté n’est que la promesse du bonheur.” [original French]
-Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle (1783 - 1842)): “De L’Amour” (English: “On Love”) (1822), chapter 17, footnote
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“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for example.” -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900): “The Stones of Venice” (1853), Volume I, chapter II, section 17

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” -Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990): “The Twits” (1980)

“Outer beauty pleases the eye. Inner beauty captivates the heart.” -Mandy Hale (born 1978): “The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass” (2013)
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The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,
     but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
It is the caring that she lovingly gives,
     the passion that she knows.
-Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993)

“The beauty does not live out there; the beauty’s in my eyes.” -Jonathan Lockwood Huie (born 1945)

“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” -Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626): “Essays” (1625), ‘Of Beauty’

Picture of a mirror with the words, ‘Warning: Reflections in this mirror may be distorted by socially constructed ideas.’

The Ugly Duckling Syndrome

“The Ugly Duckling” is a story about someone who was not really ugly at all; he was just different. The other ducks teased and pecked at him with their beaks until the ugly duckling flew away. He wandered around for a year, and was treated as an outcast everywhere. In the Spring, he saw a group of swans on a lake, and wanted very much to join them. As he swam out toward them, he was astounded to notice his reflection in the water - he was a swan! The other swans welcomed him warmly, and found him to be beautiful.

Like many fairy tales, “The Ugly Duckling” was created with a lesson, or moral, in mind, if we will listen or read with the idea of finding it.

Most of us go through times when we feel different from those around us. These can be painful and lonely times, but it does not mean there is anything wrong with us. Like the ugly duckling, we will come into a time and place when we will be loved. All the pain and loneliness we have felt will one day be a fading memory.

“I never dreamed of so much happiness when I was the ugly duckling.” -Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875): “The Ugly Duckling” (11 November 1843)

Her very frowns are fairer far
     Than smiles of other maidens are.
-Hartley Coleridge (David Hartley ‘Hartley’ Coleridge (1796 - 1849)): “Poems” (1851), ‘She Is Not Fair’

“You know who’s beautiful? Read this first word.” -Author Unknown
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“You were created in God’s image. God makes no mistakes. To put yourself down for the way you are is to insult God’s handiwork. You are beautiful.” -Author Unknown

“You are beautiful inside and out.” -Author Unknown
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“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.” -Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626): as quoted in Edward Bulwer-Lytton: “Falkland” (1827)

“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” -Sophia Loren (pseudonym of Sophia Sciccoloni (born 1934))
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“Trust not too much to that enchanting face.” -Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro, also known as Virgil (70 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.)): “Eclogues” (37 B.C.E.), Book II, line 17 (as translated by John Dryden)

What do you think makes a person good-looking?
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“I’m not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren’t straight, the voice sounds like a mafioso pallbearer.” -Sylvester Stallone (Sylvester Enzio Stallone (born 1946 as Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone))

“Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is or what it means can never be said.” -George Santayana (Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás (1863 - 1952)): “The Sense of Beauty” (1896), page 267
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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” -Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (1855 - 1897): “Molly Bawn” (1878)

“The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.” -Christian Bovée (Christian Nestell Bovée (1820 - 1904))
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“Common-looking people are the best in the world. That is the reason the Lord made so many of them.” -Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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“Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.” -Jane Seymour (pseudonym of Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg (born 1951))

“I used to look in the mirror and feel shame; I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.” -Drew Barrymore (Drew Blyth Barrymore (born 1975))
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“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.” -Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler (1914 - 2000))

“I cannot tell you how many times people have come up to me to compliment me on my lavish figure.” -Miss Piggy, as quoted in Henry Beard: “Miss Piggy’s Guide to Life” (1981)

“It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike.” -Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682): “Religio Medici” (1643), Part II, Section 2
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“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.” -Eleanor Roosevelt (Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962))

“Always try to look your best, because you never get a second chance to make a first impression, and first impressions are lasting impressions.” -Author Unknown
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“Your beauty should not come from outward adornment . . . Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘1st Peter,’ chapter 3, verses 3 and 4

“Beauty starts in your head, not in your mirror.” -Joubert Botha
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“A woman deserves no credit for her beauty at twenty, but at sixty, her beauty is of her own doing.” -Author Unknown

“It helps to have a rather odd face like mine. People always recognize you.” -Elsa Lanchester (Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (1902 - 1986)) at http://elsalanchester.freeservers.com/main.htm
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“There are no ugly women, there are women who do not know how to look pretty.” -Jean de La Bruyère (1645 - 1696)

“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.” -Sophia Loren (pseudonym of Sophia Sciccoloni (born 1934))
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O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us
     To see oursels as ithers see us!
-Robert Burns (1759 - 1796): “To a Louse” (1786)

In Standard English, the above lines would be as follows:
And would some Power the small gift give us
     [The ability] To see ourselves as others see us!

“Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.” -Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)
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Never judge someone
     By the way he looks
Or a book by the way it’s covered;
     For inside those tattered pages,
There’s a lot to be discovered
-Stephen Cosgrove (born 1945)
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“If being beautiful in the eyes of the Creator means being ugly in the eyes of the created, then it’s worth it.” -Author Unknown

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature. But beautiful old people are works of art.” -Marjorie Barstow Breenbie
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“You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.” -Anouk Aimée (pseudonym of Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus (born 1932))
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“The appearances of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.” -Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
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Appearances and Looks Quiz
- What is the meaning of the word ‘beauty’?
- What is the meaning of the phrase ‘inner beauty’?
- Why might you not want to answer your door dressed and groomed sloppily?

“I’m beautiful in my own way because God makes no mistakes.” -Author Unknown

Appearances and Looks Quiz Answers
- Beauty is the quality of being pleasing to the mind.
- Inner beauties are virtues such as goodness, politeness, and caring.
- Always answer the door dressed and groomed well, because you never know when you might be greeting the Queen or the President.

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” -Confucius (K’ung Fu-tzu or K’ung Ch’iu (about 551 B.C.E. - about 479 B.C.E.))

“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.” -David Hume (1711 - 1776)
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“I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.” -Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

“People who are ‘animated’ are more attractive.” -Author Unknown
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“It’s not the face, but the expressions on it. It’s not the voice, but what you say. It’s not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.” -Stephenie Meyer (born 1973): “The Host” (6 May 2008)

“A beautiful thing is never perfect.” -Author Unknown

“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” -Coco Chanel (Gabrielle Bonheur ‘Coco’ Chanel (1883 - 1971))
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“That’s the thing about inner beauty: Unlike physical beauty, which grabs the spotlight for itself, inner beauty shines on everyone, catching them, holding them in its embrace, making them more beautiful too.” -Author Unknown

“Anyone is automatically a lot more attractive when they’re funny.” -Author Unknown

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Efforts and Benefits

4/6/2023

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“You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)

“Dig where the gold is unless you just need some exercise.” -John M. Capozzi: “Why Climb the Corporate Ladder When You Can Take the Elevator” (1994)
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“Much effort, much prosperity.” -Euripides (480 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)

“I believe people who work 12 hours a day should go home with bigger loaves of bread than people who work 8.” -Michael Levine
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“Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing yourself to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.” -Mary Lou Retton (Mary Lou ‘Lou’ Retton (born 1968))

“When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
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“Always take a job that is too big for you.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)

“Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.” -H. Jackson Brown, Junior (Harriett Jackson Brown, Junior (born 1940))
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“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)

“Who knows whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.” -Erich Fromm (Erich Seligmann Fromm (1900 - 1980))
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“The more we do the more we can do.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)

“Efforts can have some amazing benefits.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” -Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (1858 - 1919))

“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))
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All that you do, do with all your might -
Things done by half are never quite right.
-Author Unknown

“Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.” -Adam Smith (1723 - 1790): “The Wealth of Nations” (1776)
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“The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.” -Luc de Clapiers (1715 - 1747)

“Labor is the great producer of wealth; it moves all other causes.” -Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)
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“All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, ‘try harder.’ And if that doesn’t work, try harder still!” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” -Richard Bach (Richard David Bach (born 1936))
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“Energy, even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed, will move mountains.” -Hosea Ballou (1771 - 1852)

“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” -William Faulkner (William Cuthbert ‘Will’ Faulkner (1897 - 1962))
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“The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.” -Denis Waitley (Denis E. Waitley (born 1933))

“It’s true that the willing horse gets the heaviest load. It is also true that he develops the strongest muscles and gets the most oats.” -Author Unknown
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“We work to become, not to acquire.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915)): “A Thousand and One Epigrams” (1911)

“You get what you work for, not what you wish for.” -Author Unknown
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“No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.” -Charles Kendall Adams (1835 - 1902)

“There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.” -Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819 - 1881)

“Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the tradeoff they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.” -Lou Holtz (Louis Leo ‘Lou’ Holtz (born 1937))
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“The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior (1841 - 1935)

“There’s no substitute for hard work.” -John Wooden (John Robert Wooden (1910 - 2010))

“In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Chance is not. Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912): “As a Man Thinketh” (1902), ‘Visions and Ideals’
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“The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.” -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

“He that would eat the fruit, must climb the tree.” -Author Unknown: Scottish proverb

“He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.” -Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)

“Whatever you give to life will return to you - multiplied! This applies to our daily thoughts, feelings, and actions, be they positive or negative, uplifting or depressing.” -Frederick W. Babbel (Frederick William Babbel (1915 - 2001))
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“Work is the grand cure for all maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind - honest work, which you intend getting done.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

“The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.” -Thomas Cowan (Thomas ‘Tom’ Cowan (born 1969))
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“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.” -Calvin Coolidge (John Calvin ‘Calvin’ Coolidge, Junior (1872 - 1933))

“If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.” -Xun Kuang (also known as Hsun Tzu, Xun Zi, and Xunzi (about 310 B.C.E. - about 235 B.C.E.))
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“Getting the most out of life is giving life your most.” -Janice Markowitz

“There is no excellence anywhere without labor. We would think a man foolish indeed who would say, 'I am willing that my business should prosper or that my farm should yield plentifully but I’ll not stir a peg.' But he is no more foolish than the man who says, 'I am willing that God should bless me abundantly but I shall not do anything toward that end myself.' We must consistently rely upon the help of the Lord but we will not make any progress or meet with any success unless we put forth an earnest effort.” -Charles W. Nibley (Charles Wilson Nibley (1849 - 1931))

“If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you.” -Michael Jordan (born 1963)

“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)
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“Hard work pays off.” -Author Unknown

Without Pains,
No Gains.
-Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 6360

“Nobody ever found a buried treasure without digging for it. Most success is beneath the surface. Dig every day.” -George W. Cummings, Senior: as quoted in Paul D. Cummings: “Lessons at the Fence Post” (November 1996)
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“It’s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.” -Claude M. Bristol (Claude Myron Bristol (1891 - 1951))

“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.” -John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)

“Nobody gets to run the mill by doing run-of-the-mill work.” -Thomas J. Frey

“If you’re not willing to put in the effort, don’t expect anything in return.” -Author Unknown
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If little labor, little are our gains;
Man’s fortunes are according to his pains.
-Robert Herrick (about 1591 - 1674)

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.” -Liane Cordes: “The Reflecting Pond: Meditations for Self-Discovery” (1981), page 89
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“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are stacked against you.” -Arnold Palmer (Arnold Daniel Palmer (1929 - 2016))

“Men will get no more out of life than they put into it.” -William J. H. Boetcker (William John Henry Boetcker (1873 - 1962))

“Nothing will work unless you do.” -Maya Angelou (Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))

“Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.” -Edward H. Harriman (Edward Henry Harriman)
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“It is better to wear out than to rust out.” -Frances E. Willard (Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (1839 - 1898))

“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.” -Roger Bannister (Roger Gilbert Bannister (1929 - 2018))

“Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.” -Lowell Thomas (Lowell Jackson Thomas (1892 - 1981))
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“Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): as quoted in Horace Smith: “The Tin Trumpet” (1859)

“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.” -Joseph Joubert (1754 - 1824)

“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.” -Jonas Salk (1914 - 1995)
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“Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work.” -Booker T. Washington (Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856 - 1915))

“I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do. I learned that at a young age.” -Christine Marie ‘Chris’ Evert (born 1954)

“Four little words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: A little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.” -A. Lou Vickery

“Do more than you’re supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.” -Bill Sands (born 1953)

“I’ve got a theory that if you give one-hundred percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” -Larry Bird (Larry Joe Bird (born 1956))
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Impossible and Possible

3/24/2023

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Picture of a person standing on a cloud and pushing away the letters i and m from the word impossible to make the word possible, with the Sun shining brightly between the i m and the p o s s i b l e .

“I’ve always had the feeling that nothing is impossible if one applies a certain amount of energy in the right direction. If you want to do it, you can do it.” -Nellie Bly (pseudonym of Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (1864 - 1922))

“Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
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“You can’t pick a lock with a pickle, you can’t cure the sick with a sickle, pluck figs with a figment, drive pigs with a pigment, nor make your watch tick with a tickle. You can’t slacken your gait with a gaiter, you can’t get a crate with a crater, catch moles with a molar, or bake rolls with a roller. But you can get a wait from a waiter.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “Sunshine Magazine”

“Never let the word ‘impossible’ stop you from pursuing what your heart and spirit urge you to do. Impossible things come true every day.” -Robert Cooper
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“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.” -Vince Lombardi (Vincent Thomas ‘Vince’ Lombardi (1913 - 1970))

“Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.” -Author Unknown
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“I’m always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.” -Vincent van Gogh (Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 - 1890)): letter (1885) to Anthon van Rappard

“When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.” -Nancy Coey
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“I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.” -Wernher von Braun (Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun (1912 - 1977))

“What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.” -Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963)
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“I believe anything is possible. Research into quantum physics proves that a system changes simply by someone observing it. Therefore, all you have to do is be awake and aware of your environment, and that enables you to transform everything around you. It sounds like hocus pocus, but scientists are coming to realize that just thinking about something can make it happen. Turns out maybe faith can move mountains.” -Christine Anderson

“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.” -Louis Brandeis (Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856 - 1941))
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“Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were attempted.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)

“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ ‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’” -Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898)): “Through the Looking-Glass” (1872), chapter 5

“Things that are impossible just take longer.” -Ian Hickson
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“Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.” -Doug Larson (Douglas Lincoln ‘Doug’ Larson (1926 - 2017))

“What is impossible today that if made possible would change everything?” -Joel Barker
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“If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.” -William Lyon Phelps (William Lyon ‘Billy’ Phelps (1865 - 1943))

“The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.” -Fridtjof Nansen (1861 - 1930): as quoted in the “Listener” (14 December 1939)
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“The impossible is often the untried.” -Jim Goodwin

“It is our duty as human beings to proceed as though the limits of our capabilities do not exist.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 - 1955)
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“The impossible: What nobody can do, until somebody does.” -Author Unknown

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” -Arthur C. Clarke (Arthur Charles Clarke (1917 - 2008))
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“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” -Alexander of Macedonia (also known as Alexander the Great (356 B.C.E. - 323 B.C.E.))

“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” -John Heywood (about 1497 - 1580): “The Proverbs of John Heywood” (1546)
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“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.” -Richard M. DeVos (Richard Marvin DeVos, Senior (1926 - 2018))

“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.” -Robert H. Goddard (Robert Hutchings ‘Bob’ Goddard (1882 - 1945))

Words ‘That’s impossible, Someone like you can’t, Just give up, You can’t do that, Don’t even try, You can’t do it, and then written on a piece of paper stuck over them the words, I CAN DO IT.

“Nothing is impossible; the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” -Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993)

“You can do the impossible, because you have been through the unimaginable.” -Christina Rasmussen (born 1972)
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“‘Impossible’ is not a scientific term.” -Vanna Bonta (1953 - 2014): ‘Space’ published in “The Space Review” (25 October 2004)

“It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities.” -Marcus Aurelius (also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 180))

“When someone tells you that you can’t do something, perhaps you should consider that they are only telling you what they can’t do.” -Sheldon Cahoon
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“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” -Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226)

“What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.” -Charles Alexis Henri Clerel de Tocqueville
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“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” -Author Unknown

“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” -Jamie Paolinetti (born 1964)

“There is no limitation other than what you think.” -Kenneth Mills

“Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.” -Robert Schuller (Robert Harold Schuller (1926 - 2015))
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“Impossible only defines the degree of difficulty.” -Author Unknown

“You have to believe in the impossible.” -Howard Head
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“What is possible? What you will.” -Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare: “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers” (1827)

“We have no limits - we create them in our mind.” -Bud LaBranche

“Everything is always impossible before it works.” -Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)

“To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born.” -A. P. Gouthey (Aldolph Philip Gouthey (some sources may show Adolph Philip Gouthey) (1892 - 1963))
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“The impossible is possible if you want it to be.” -Author Unknown

“Nothing is impossible.” -Author Unknown

“All things are possible until they are proved impossible. Even the impossible may only be so, as of now.” -Pearl S. Buck (Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known as Sai Zhenzhu (1892 - 1973)): “A Bridge for Passing” (1962)
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“So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.” -Norton Juster (born 1929): “The Phantom Tollbooth” (1961)

I May, I Might, I Must

If you will tell me why the fen*
appears impassable, I then
will tell you why I think that I
can get across if I try.

by Marianne Moore
*fen: a wetland or often flooded area
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“You cannot make a silk purse of a sow’s ear.” -Stephen Gosson (1554 - 1624): “The Ephemerides of Phialo” (1579)

“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.” -George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” -Author Unknown: Adidas print advertisement published in “ESPN” (1972) magazine, as attributed in John C. Maxwell (John Calvin Maxwell (born 1947)): “The Difference Maker” (2006), page 53

“Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.” -Edwin Land (Edwin Herbert Land (1909 - 1991))
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“Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.” -Cherie Carter-Scott (born 1949)

“Anything in life is possible if you make it happen. And it’s never too late.” -Jack LaLanne (François Henri ’Jack’ LaLanne (1914 - 2011))
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“What is now proven was once only imagined.” -William Blake (1757 - 1827): “Proverbs of Hell” (1790 - 1793)

“When someone tells you it can’t be done, it’s more a reflection of their limitations, not yours.” -Author Unknown
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“Impossible is only an opinion.” -Author Unknown

An animation showing the word impossible changing into the phrase, 'I'm possible!'

“There is a better way to spell ‘impossible’: ‘I’m possible.’” -Author Unknown
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“I dwell in possibility.” -Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

“To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.” -Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
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“Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.” -J. K. Rowling (Joanne Kathleen ‘Jo’ Rowling (born 1965))

“Nothing is impossible to industry*.” -Periander (about 625 B.C.E. - 585 B.C.E.)
*industry: hard work.
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“Nothing is impossible: there are ways which lead to everything; and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.” -François de La Rochefoucauld (also known as François Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680))

“Only one who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.” [translation to English]
“Sólo el que ensaya lo absurdo es capaz de conquistar lo imposible.” [original Spanish]
-Miguel de Unamuno: “Vida de D. Quijote y Sancho: Según Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: Explicada y Comentada por Miguel de Unamuno” (1905), pages 175 and 176

“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.” -André Gide (André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869 - 1951))
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“Never tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the Moon.” -Paul Brandt

“If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.” -Jesus of Nazareth: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Mark,’ chapter 9, verse 23

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” -Charles R. Swindoll (Charles Rozell ‘Chuck’ Swindoll (born 1934))

“Think of the thing you cannot do, and then do it.” -Author Unknown
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“What ‘exists’ is only a small part of what is ‘possible.’” -Pere Alberch (born Pere Alberch Vie (1954 - 1998))

“Every noble work is at first impossible.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): “Past and Present” (1843), Chapter XI: ‘Labour’

“Do not suppose that, if you find something hard to achieve, it is beyond human capacity; rather, if something is possible and appropriate for man, assume that it must also be within your own reach.” -Marcus Aurelius (also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 180)): “The Meditations” (C.E. 167)

“It’s going to be difficult, but difficult is not impossible.” -Author Unknown
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“Either I will find a way, or I will make one.” -Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” -Tommy Lasorda (Thomas Charles ‘Tommy’ Lasorda (born 1927))

“Impossibility simply means ‘I’m possibility.’” -Monsieur Nana Adom
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“It is certain because it is impossible.” [translation to English]
“Certum est quia impossibile.” [original Latin]
-Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus (also known simply as Tertullian (about C.E. 155 - about C.E. 240))

“Nothing is impossible to the man who can will and then do; this is the only law of success.” -Mirabeau (Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (1749 - 1791))

“All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible.” -Frank Richards
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“That which is impossible today will be possible tomorrow.” -Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky

“To believe a Business impossible, is the Way to make it so.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 5138

“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia” (1759), Chapter 12

“Once you stop dismissing something as unattainable, then you start working on its development.” -Jerome Pearson
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“The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.” -Arnold Palmer (Arnold Daniel Palmer (1929 - 2016))

“And all may do what has by man been done.” -Edward Young (1683 - 1765): “Night Thoughts” (1742 - 1745), Night VI, line 606

“You can’t roller-skate in a buffalo herd, but you can be happy if you’ve a mind to.” -Roger Miller (Roger Dean Miller, Senior (1936 - 1992))

“Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.” -Charles Dickens (Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 - 1870)): “David Copperfield” (1849 - 1850)

“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” -Walt Disney (Walter Elias ‘Walt’ Disney (1901 - 1966)): as attributed in Derek Walker: “Animated Architecture” (December 1982), page 10

We are MFOL! . . . wishing you many trouble-free days as you make your way through a world in which more and more is possible all the time . . .

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