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Clarity is obtained when you can separate your sleep dreams, your fears, your fantasies and your reality. ~P.J. Varsalona |
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." ~e.e. cummings |
"All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself." ~Ralph Ellison |
"The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune." ~Boris Pasternak |
Teaching is not always about passing on what you know, it is about passing on who you are.
Julia Loggins |
"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier." - Mother Teresa |
Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time.
Some people bear three--all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. Edward Everett Hale |
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
~Walt Disney |
"The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday"
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"Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have—and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up." — James Belasco and Ralph Stayer |
"The nature and structure of belief systems is important from the perspective of an informational theorist because beliefs are thought to provide the cognitive foundation of an attitude. In order to change an attitude, then, it is presumably necessary to modify the information on which that attitude rests. It is generally necessary, therefore, to change a person's beliefs, eliminate old beliefs or introduce new beliefs." — Richard Petty and John Cacioppo |
"Change has a bad reputation in our society. But it isn't all bad — not by any means. In fact, change is necessary in life — to keep us moving ... to keep us growing ... to keep us interested . ... Imagine life without change. It would be static ... boring ... dull." — Dr. Dennis O'Grady |
"Life is not the amount of breaths you make, it's the moments that take your breath away." -Hitch |
Sins of the Father
by W.D. Ehrhart Today my child came home from school in tears. A classmate taunted her about her clothes, and the other kids joined in, enough of them to make her feel as if the fault was hers, as if she can't fit in no matter what. A decent child, lovely, bright, considerate. It breaks my heart. It makes me want someone to pay. It makes me think—O Christ, it makes me think of things I haven't thought about in years. How we nicknamed Barbara Hoffman "Barn," walked behind her through the halls and mooed like cows. We kept this up for years, and not for any reason I could tell you now or even then except that it was fun. Or seemed like fun. The nights that Barbara must have cried herself to sleep, the days she must have dreaded getting up for school. Or Suzanne Heider. We called her "Spider." And we were certain Gareth Schultz was queer and let him know it. Now there's nothing I can do but stand outside my daughter's door listening to her cry herself to sleep. "Sins of the Father" by W.D. Ehrhart, from The Bodies Beneath the Table. © Adastra Press |
"A heart can be broken, but it will keep beating just the same." - Fanny Flagg |
"Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own loveless ness. And the loveless never find love, only the loving find love. And they never have to seek for it." - D.H. Lawrence |
"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence." - David Byrne |
"And think not you can Direct the course of love, For love, If it finds you worthy, Directs your course" - Khalil Gibran |
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. - Robert M. Pirsig
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