Ideas won’t keep…

Trees and Flowing Water #8

Mountains 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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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #83

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-Booker T. Washington

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #64

Hope well and have well.
-Proverb
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet
-Isaac Bashevis Singer

Staying hopeful keeps your spirits up. When you believe good things will happen, you watch for an opportunity and grab it when it’s offered.
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“Ideas won’t keep…” #44

Those who have free seats at the play hiss first.
-Chinese proverb

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Trees and Flowing Water #4

Be 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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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #40

I am not an early riser. The self-respect which other [people] enjoy in rising early I feel due me for waking up at all.
-William Gerhardi

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“But we are more than logical” #7

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.
-German proverb

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #51

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
-Richard Bach

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“But we are more than logical” #3

Anyone who angers you conquers you.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny
A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each of these quotations could be true for the same person-but in different situations. When might each be appropriate? How could each be abused?

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Like a Cat on the Stove-Lid: On Learning #1

We should get out of an experience only the wisdom that was in it-and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits on the hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on the hot stove-lid again…but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
-Mark Twain

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