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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #81

Experienced time occurs when we are able to stop worrying about the past and the future long enough to live for a moment in the present, to feel and think and savor. It is this kind of time we feel lacking in our lives.
-Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #28

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brillant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
-Sir Winston Churchill
How do you feel about colors? Describe your favorite colors. Why do you like them? What kinds of colors do you least like? Why? Explain how wearing certain colors affects how [...]

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #48

So long as there’s a bit of laugh going, things are all right…
-D. H. Lawrence

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #53

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
-Anonymous

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“How do you make a life?…” #1

How do you make a life? Put one foot in front of the other. Make some choices. Take some chances.
-Ellen Goodman
Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case [...]

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #36

There are offences given and offences given but not taken.
-Izaak Walton

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #42

Games provide rules and create a reassuring artificial order. If nobody can quite figure out how to keep score in real life, everyone knows how to do it in games.
-Marilyn Gardner

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #51

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because, without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
The remarkable thing is that we really do love our neighbor as ourselves… We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves.
-Eric Hoffer

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #80

I still consider myself fairly young and the world around me is far different from the one I knew in high school or college. Electric typewriters and erasable paper represented the cutting edge of technology for me, and I’d never heard of Brie.
-Robert B. Lawton, S. J.

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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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