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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #87

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
-Benjamin  Disraeli

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #84

If you can’t fight and you can’t flee, flow.
-Robert Eliot

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #26

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
-Joseph Fort Newton

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #30

To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.
-W. Macneile Dixon

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“We are each of us unique.” #5

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Tillich
The Eternal Now
…Nothing, nothing, nothing, is worthwhile when we have to do it all alone.
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“How do you make a life?…” #5

The definition of success is setting goals and achieving them.
-Susan Schenkel
Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours. 
-Doug Larson

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #11

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you… and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall tell you if you are happy.
-Henri Frederic Amiel

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“How do you make a life?…” #12

When I’ve had a rough day, before I go to sleep I ask myself if there isn’t something more I can do right  now. If there isn’t, I sleep sound.
-L. L. Colbert

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Of Stranded Dragons and Whitewashed Cows #1

A dragon stranded in shallow water furnishes amusement for the shrimps.
-Chinese proverb
When an elephant is in trouble, even a frog will kick him.
-Hindu proverb

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #92

You just have to learn not to care about the dust-mice under the beds.
-Margaret Mead

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