Ideas won’t keep…

Rosiness or Gloomy Gay: On Viewing the World #8

Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges.
-Sir Walter Scott

Related posts:

1. Rosiness or Gloomy Gay: On Viewing the World #9 Our workplace and schools operate on the conventional assumption that...
2. Rosiness or Gloomy Gay: On Viewing the World #7 It always seems to be raining harder than it really...
3. Rosiness or Gloomy Gay: On Viewing the World #6 Each of us carries a word in his heart, a...
4. Rosiness or Gloomy Gray: On the Viewing the World #5 Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see...
5. Rosiness or Gloomy Gray: On the Viewing the World #4 Ask yourself what your predominant fault is: you have discovered,...

Posted in And all is always now, Rosiness or Gloomy Gray: On Viewing the World | No Comments »

“Ideas won’t keep…” #18

If you’re going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
-Marie Osmond

Related posts:

1. “Ideas won’t keep…” #48 So long as there’s a bit of laugh going, things...

Tags: laugh, Marie Osmond, Something
Posted in "Ideas won't keep..." | No Comments »

“…wondrous days, surprising days” #47

The illusion of control and order is what listmaking is all about. But who or what is in control here-the list maker or the list? Lists can be task masters creating their own kind of tyranny!
-Marilyn Gardner

Related posts:

1. “Ideas won’t keep…” #42 Games provide rules and create a reassuring artificial order. If...
2. “…wondrous days, surprising days” #25 Celebration is forgetting in order to remember. A forgetting of...

Tags: control, illusion, Lists, Marilyn Gardner, order, tyranny
Posted in "...wondrous days surprising days" | No Comments »

“Ideas won’t keep…” #8

When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay one to yourself.
-Mark Twain

Related posts:

1. “Ideas won’t keep…” #5 Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions....
2. “…wonderous days, surprising days” #8 Work and play are words used to describe the same...
3. “Sweet, sour, bitter, pungent…” #6 Many a small thing has been made large by the...
4. Like a Cat on the Stove-Lid: On Learning #1 We should get out of an experience only the wisdom...
5. You and Other Human Souls #3 Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions....

Tags: compliment, Mark Twain, way
Posted in "Ideas won't keep..." | No Comments »

Trees and Flowing Water #7

It is a position not to be controverted that the earth, in its natural and uncultivated state, was… to be the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.
-Thomas Paine
Agrarian Justice

Related posts:

1. Trees and Flowing Water #8 Mountains are the scribblings of time on the surface of...
2. Trees and Flowing Water #6 The need is not for humanity to learn to manage...
3. Trees and Flowing Water #5 New places offer more than geographical change. They also offer...
4. Trees and Flowing Water #4 Be at peace now and let the tide carry you...
5. Trees and Flowing Water #3 The cure for anything is salt water- sweat, tears, or...

Posted in And all is always now, Trees and Flowing Water | No Comments »

“…wondrous days, surprising days” #50

Shame is not living up to your own expectations. Guilt is not living up to the expectations of others.
-Jay Lefer, M. D.

No related posts.

Tags: Guilt, Shame
Posted in "...wondrous days surprising days" | No Comments »

“…wondrous days, surprising days” #70

We should not make light of the troubles of children. They are worse than ours, because we can see the end of our troubles and they can never see the end.
-William Middleton

Related posts:

1. “…wondrous days, surprising days” #93 From all accounts, the world has been getting worse and...
2. “Ideas won’t keep…” #68 Babies of all nations are alike until adults teach them....

Tags: end, light, William Middleton
Posted in "...wondrous days surprising days" | No Comments »

“Ideas won’t keep…” #35

Personality is to a person what perfume is to a flower.
-Charles M. Schwab

Related posts:

1. You and Other Human Souls #7 I think it is not well for any of us...
2. “Ideas won’t keep…” #69 I am bigger than anything that can happen to me....
3. “If you wish to know what a person is…” #4 To know a [person], observe how he wins his object,...
4. “Ideas won’t keep…” #77 Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. -Lewis Mumford I...

Tags: Charles M. Schwab, flower, perfume, person, Personality
Posted in "Ideas won't keep..." | No Comments »

“Ideas won’t keep…” #71

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
-Euripides (c. 480-405 B.C.)

No related posts.

Posted in "Ideas won't keep..." | No Comments »

“Sweet, sour, bitter, pungent…” #3

The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift.
-Pierre Corneille
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than its value.
-Charles Dudley Warner
We’ve all had experience giving and recieving gifts, and many opportunities to observe others doing the same. Recreate a scene from memory, or create an original [...]

Related posts:

1. “Sweet, sour, bitter, pungent…” #7 The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. -Henry Kissinger...
2. “Sweet, sour, bitter, pungent…” #6 Many a small thing has been made large by the...
3. “Sweet, sour, bitter, pungent…” #5 Praise: something a person tells you about yourself that you...
4. “Sweet, sour, bitter, pungent…” #4 Never slap a king unless you intend to kill him....
5. “Sweet, sour, bitter, pungent…” #2 A good time to laugh is any time you can....

Posted in "Sweet, sour, bitter, pungent...", And all is always now | No Comments »