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Kathrine Switzer: Running
Ever since I began running when I was thirteen, there was a palpable difference between the days I ran and those I didn’t: My running days had more significance. Missing a day wasn’t a major tragedy or anything – sometimes you can’t help it or you just don’t feel like it. A day I didn’t…
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John Ciardi: Courage of their confusions
“It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions. ” John Ciardi
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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Prophet
“If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.”—Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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Anne Bronte: Sensitive heart
“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind. ” —Anne Bronte
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Melody Beattie: Gratitude
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and…
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Betty Rollin: Feminists and sex objects
“Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object; the difference is, that that is not all she longs to be. ” Betty Rollin
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Margaret Cho: Privacy and security
“Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary. ” —Margaret Cho.
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Aristotle: Foolish corner
“There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.” —Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE).
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Carl Friedrich Bahrdt: Holy and inalienable
The freedom to share one’s insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes. —Carl Friedrich Bahrdt
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Heidi Neck: Entrepreneurial
Organizations are not entrepreneurial; people are.” — Heidi Neck, professor of entrepreneurial studies, as quoted at SmartBlog on Leadership.
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William Hazlit: More concern and uneasiness
“The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.” —William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830).
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Plato: Real tragedy of life
“We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” —Plato.
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Benjamin Franklin: Marriage and love
“Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Bebe Neuwirth: True to themselves
“People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well. ” —Bebe Neuwirth.
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Terry Brooks: Constantly put to test
“We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making. ” —Terry Brooks
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Kristin Armstrong: Running
“I love waking up rested and ready to meet the new year in the finest way possible – running into it.” —Kristin Armstrong, Oui, Mile Markers blog, Runner’s World.com.
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German Proverb: Anger
“Anger without power is folly.” German Proverb
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Lucille Ball: Do you want something done?
“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. ” —Lucille Ball.
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Cokie Roberts: Algebra and prayer
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. —Cokie Roberts
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Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer
Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness. —Mahatma Gandhi
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Mark Twain: Profanity and prayer
“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.” —Mark Twain.
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Soren Kierkegaard: Prayer
“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.” —Soren Kierkegaard
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Madalyn Murray O'Hair: An atheist and prayer
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. Madalyn Murray O’Hair
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Masaru Emoto: Love and gratitude
“Love tends to be a more active energy, the act of giving oneself unconditionally. Gratitude is a more passive energy, a feeling that results from having being given something.” —Masaru Emoto.
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Kristin Armstrong: Clear the fog
“I ran solo for 1.5 hours in the mist and it felt like ten minutes. I thought. I prayed. I breathed. The fog outside did not clear, but the fog inside certainly did.“ —Kristin Armstrong, Mile Markers blog, Runner’s World.com.
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Meister Eckhart: Prayer
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” —Meister Eckhart.
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Dwight L Moody: Great and little things
“There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things. ” Dwight L Moody Related articles Prayer (cpkidd09.wordpress.com)
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Jeff Cooper: A smart man and a wise man
“A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half. ” —Jeff Cooper.
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W Carol Burnett: Words
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. —W Carol Burnett Related articles Words Count(blogyourpassion.wordpress.com) Wise Words (thekeyofkels.com) Poem: A Trampoline of Words (poeticparfait.com)
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Irish Proverb: Wisdom
“Everyone is wise until he speaks.”Irish Proverb
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Jewish proverb: Wisdom
“Do not be wise in words – be wise in deeds.” –—Jewish proverb Related articles W is for Watermelon and Wisdom!(feetfirstbook.wordpress.com) Proverbs 9 – The Way of Wisdom(graceofourlord.com) It is What Comes Out of a Man that Makes Him ‘Unclean’(smritidisaac.wordpress.com) The Book of Wisdom(thisonewillbeourpeace.wordpress.com) Proverbs 16 – Commit Your Work to the Lord(graceofourlord.com) The Wisdom…
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Benjamin Franklin: Advice
“Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it. ” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Afranius: Wisdom
“The wise man will love all others will desire.” Afranius
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Augustus William Hare: Two pieces of dead wood
“The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.” —Augustus William Hare.
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Lawrence Durrell: Jokey way
“We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point. “ —Lawrence Durrell, novelist, poet, and playwright (1912-1990).
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David Starr Jordan: Wisdom, skill and virtue
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it. ” —David Starr Jordan.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Just and unjust
“A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident. ” —Mahatma Gandhi
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Robert Green Ingersoll: Justice
“The triumph of justice is the only peace.” —Robert Green Ingersoll.
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Bernard Berenson: Consistency
“Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. ” — Bernard Berenson
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Earl Warren: Spirit and form
“It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ” Earl Warren
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Voltaire: Crime and fear
“Fear follows crime and is its punishment. ” —Voltaire.
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John Naisbitt: New leader
“The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver. ” John Naisbitt
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Indira Gandhi: Actively repose
“You must be still in the midst of activity, and be vibrantly alive in repose.” Indira Gandhi
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Reinhold Niebuhr: Democracy and justice
“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ” —Reinhold Niebuhr.
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Albert Einstein: Life
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein.
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Giuseppe Antonio Borgese: Necessary and possible
“It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.” —Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, Italian writer.
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Seneca: Progress
“ The greater part of progress is the desire to progress. ” — Seneca.
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Lauren Fleshman: Failure
When you recognize that failing doesn’t make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things. Lauren Fleshman, American track and field athlete
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William Irwin Thompson: Destiny and fate
“If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you. ” —William Irwin Thompson
