There is nothing in which birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and still leave a landscape as it was before.
-Robert Lynd
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When something bad happens to us, we can see it as a major disaster that will affect us forever. Or we can look at it as a disappointment that we will find a way around.
Mike Todd, the movie producer, said it this way:
I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. [...]
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Patience is the art of doing something else in the meantime.
-Anonymous
Patience is out of place in the quicksand.
-Dagobert D. Runes
How can we know if a situation calls for patience or action?
Describe an incident from your life that involved patience. Or explain one of the quotations, using some specific examples.
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If you can’t write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don’t have a clear idea.
-David Belasco
State Mr. Belasco’s thought in another way, beginning with “A clear idea…” Have you ever discovered, through writing or talking that you hadn’t worked out an idea enough to express it clearly? Explain that experience [...]
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If you love me, tell me so. The realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
-Helen Hunt Jackson
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Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move to stars to pity.
-Gustave Flaubert
Language sometimes fails us when we try to express deep feelings. Words can’t match the power of our emotions. When this happens, what other ways [...]
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it becomes to find anything to say.
-Samuel Johnson
Has anyone ever punished you with the “silent treatment”? How did that make you feel? What is the silent treatment intended to do to its “victim”?
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Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive, and irrational-but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
-Judith Viorst
To some people, certain practices have real power. But to most of us, superstitions are more like habits or family customs. Tell about a superstition, real or playful. Why do some people believe in superstitions?
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You never know what you can do without until you try.
-Franklin P. Adams
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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
Most of us are sorry when someone else has bad luck. But how do we feel when the unfortunate person is rich and powerful?Create a situation in which an important, [...]
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