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“Sweet, sour, bitter, pungent…”#1

Sweet, sour, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.
-Chinese proverb
Think life. Think kinds of experiences. Why must all be tasted?

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“But we are more than logical” #1

If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
-Jacques Cousteau

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #45

The present contains all there is. It is holy ground.
-Alfred North Whitehead

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“If you wish to know what a person is…” #4

To know a [person], observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.
-Charles Caleb Colton

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #23

What a strong narrowing of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.
-Samuel Johnson

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“…wonderous days, surprising days” #5

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
-James Thurber

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #23

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
-Swedish proverb

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Trusting in Time #3

Just as we challenged the “bigger is better” theory in the late ’sixties and concluded that small is O.K., it’s time to realize that faster isn’t better. Slower may be more humane.
-Jeremy Rifkin
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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #25

Celebration is forgetting in order to remember. A forgetting of ego, of problems, of difficulties. A letting go.
-Matthew Fox

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #86

So long as there’s a bit of a laugh going, things are alright. As soon as this infernal seriousness, like a greasy sea, heaves up, everything is lost.
-D. H. Lawrence

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