“…wondrous days, surprising days” #58
December 17th, 2007 by mpottleEvery misery I miss is a new blessing.
-Izaak Walton
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Rosiness or Gloomy Gray: On the Viewing the World #4
December 8th, 2007 by mpottleAsk yourself what your predominant fault is: you have discovered, in a misguided but clearly identified state, your greatest resource.
-Antonin G. Sertillanges
Try it! Looking at something from a different perpective can be very revealing.
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“Ideas won’t keep…” #69
December 10th, 2007 by mpottleI am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.
-Charles Fletcher Lummis
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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #92
December 13th, 2007 by mpottleYou just have to learn not to care about the dust-mice under the beds.
-Margaret Mead
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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #85
December 16th, 2007 by mpottleWhat people mean by stress is simply the condition of being human, and I will not recommend and meddling with that by medicine or any other profession.
-Lewis Thomas, M. D.
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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #24
December 17th, 2007 by mpottleIt is the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold which has cost us, among other good things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give.
-Agnes Repplier
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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #84
December 16th, 2007 by mpottleIf you can’t fight and you can’t flee, flow.
-Robert Eliot
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“Ideas won’t keep…” #21
December 13th, 2007 by mpottleWhen a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him or her by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
-E. W. Howe
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Trees and Flowing Water #4
December 9th, 2007 by mpottleBe at peace now and let the tide carry you into calm water. That is all you have to do for the moment.
-Elizabeth Goude
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Trees and Flowing Water #8
December 9th, 2007 by mpottleMountains are the scribblings of time on the surface of the land…. Here man does not matter, does not count…The steam, the trout, the mountains, go on with or without me, dancing, as they have for so long, to time’s madder music-rhythms older than interstellar dust.
-Harry Middleton
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