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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #90

The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and… thanks to this artifice, we manage to endure the burdens of the past.
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #61

Humor is falling down the stairs if you do it while telling [someone else] not to.
-Kenneth Bird

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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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“…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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“If you wish to know what a person is…” #1

If you wish to know what a person is, place him in authority.
-Yugoslav proverb

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“…wonderous days, surprising days” #4

Those who love the young best stay young the longest.
-Edgar Z. Friedenberg

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You and Other Human Souls #7

I think it is not well for any of us to allow personality to submerge in any way our own.
-Olive Schreiner
What you dislike of yourself do not like for me.
-Spanish proverb
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Trees and Flowing Water #2

I achieve a shining serenity if I reach the edge of a body of water.
-Kurt Vonnegut
All his life he was to find the sight and sound of flowing water one of the greatest solacements of grief.
-Elizabeth Goudge
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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #37

Eighty percent of life is showing up. Day by day, year by year…
-Ellen Goodman

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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
Time Wars
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