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Desiderata by Max Ehrmann

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December 4, 2022

Desiderata   Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.   Avoid loud …

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A loving heart

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January 10, 2017

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” Charles Dickens

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Friendship

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September 29, 2016

“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” Cicero

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Serious

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April 30, 2016

“Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.” Eckhart Tolle

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Demand

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April 30, 2016

“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.” Friedrich Nietzsche

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Sympathetic

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April 21, 2016

“Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.” Euripides

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Honour

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April 17, 2016

“Rather fail with honour than succeed by fraud.” Sophocles

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Abuse

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April 17, 2016

“Abuse does to its victim, what a compass with no needle does to a navigator.” Kelly Hartland

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Guilty Pleasure

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March 27, 2016

“Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.” Euripides

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Anger

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March 27, 2016

“Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.” Eckhart Tolle

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Cause and Effect

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March 21, 2016

“The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.” Ovid

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Knowledge and Wisdom

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March 19, 2016

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” Isaac Asimov

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Walking with a friend…

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March 5, 2016

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” Helen Keller

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Feeling

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December 6, 2015

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.” Helen Keller

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Prejudices

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November 30, 2015

“Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason, they cannot be destroyed by logic.” Tryon Edwards  

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None

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November 5, 2015

“There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is no greater disaster than greed.” Lao Tzu

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Raise Your Words

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November 1, 2015

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” Rumi

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Lose

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October 30, 2015

“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.” Eckhart Tolle

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Bear and Endure

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October 25, 2015

  “Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.” Ovid

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Dignity

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September 26, 2015

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.” Aristotle

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