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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
-Helen Keller0 -
People live with themselves. . . and don't know themselves. "Know thyself" means: devote time each day to studying yourself. . . ferreting out your weakness, working at self-improvement, purifying your immortal soul.
Israel S. Lipkin0 -
The desire to serve others is the highest impulse of the human heart
and the rewards of such service are beyond measure.
If you wish to taste this, then just do it. Just take one step...
You will see that the tyranny of self-concern, worry, and trivial pursuits
can be released from your life with that single step.
It doesn't really matter what you do, it only matters that you do it.
- Ganga Stone0 -
Trivia gem: at only 12% outdoor relative humidity, today was the driest day ever recorded in Chicago, since weather stats began being recorded. If your mold allergies or joint pain didn't bother you today, that's why. (No need to water the lawn, though--it'll rain by tomorrow night).
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What we hold in our hearts for others is the way we'll act toward them. A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge.
Joan Chittister0 -
Claiming self-reliance represents one of the most significant turning points in a human being's evolution. It signals the crucial shift from dependence on outer authority to reliance on inner knowing.
Alan Cohen0 -
You are here to evolve and make your consciousness high
You are here to dance, sing and celebrate life.
You are here to help others to make their life happy.
We are here not to compete, but to learn, evolve and excel.
We are not here to make divisions in the name of prophets and religions.
We are here to encompass the world with love and light.
- Amit Ray0 -
Love is a way of seeing and a way of being that honors God in everyone we meet. And it changes us in the most fundamental way. All we need to do is welcome the challenge of our relationships, training our eyes to look beyond human behavior to the Presence within. When we seek to live love, we discover through our interactions with others the divinity within ourselves. -Susan L. Taylor
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This Sat. night is a rare Andina & Rich show at Wishbone North on N. Lincoln Ave. in Chicago--and it's free. We've been admonished to draw an audience of 20-30 people, which is getting harder and harder as it is. But now, the weather report for Sat. night includes...wait for it...SNOW!!! (Granted, a "wintry mix," but still--on April freaking 27th, especially a week after it hit 80F)???!!! I guess we can always blame the weather for a crappy turnout: if this weather happened during winter, nobody'd bat an eyelash, but when nobody's prepared for it? Ferpity's sake, I just turned the water supply to the hose bib back on so the landscaper could seed and water the lawn. And all the lovely teacup-sized blossoms on my backyard magnolia got blown away last night. (Had to turn the heat back on too. GRRRR).
This relentless Chicago weather is getting kind of old. It's like the monster in a horror movie that you'd thought was dead, but then...
DIE, winter, DIE already!!!!!! (My apologies to the TV weather reporters for the obscenities I've been hurling at them. At least they can't see me giving them the finger).
Of course, when I have to be at a convention in Des Moines next weekend (sequestered in a hotel for 48 hrs.) it's gonna be back in the 70s again.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. -Victor Hugo
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Just to remind everyone ( laughing to myself Sandy ), I pick the quotes I use before I ever start reading and often it can seem prophetic or amusing to find that there may be some sort of fit. All the while, reading what you wrote Sandy I thought about the quote I was about to drop in. I'm not sure if we here will fall heir to the 'winter mix' but we are definitely going to get a huge share of rain in the up-coming week or so. I'll have my special lights on in here so I can have my sunshine and some sanity.
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Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.
Rumi0 -
Don't just get older, get better. Live realistically. Give generously.
Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily.
Charles R. Swindoll0 -
When your life is filled with the desire to see holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the VERY process of life begins to nourish your soul. Harold Kushner
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We got several inches of slushy slop that didn't start sticking till after nightfall. Amazingly, 13 people still came out to see us play. Stayed in all day with a stiff & sore back (all that shlepping of instruments and standing up to play for 2 hrs. took a bit of a toll. Having quality time with my kitties and heating pad. I can stand rain, though--my lawn & herb garden certainly need it.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. -Woodrow Wilson
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Watched the first two episodes of CBS' miniseries The Red Line last night. (No, I'm not a Game of Thrones fan). The name comes from the CTA elevated train line that runs from the Evanston border in the north, through my neighborhood and others on the North Side, past Wrigley Field, downtown as a subway, then up again through Chinatown, past Sox Park, the S. Side ghettoes along the Dan Ryan Expwy., ending at 95th St. on the far S. Side. It's a metaphor for the stratification of Chicago, with neighborhoods rich, trendy, middle-class, blue-collar and poor--and with rare exceptions, enclaves of one ethnic group or another (though Edgewater, my neighborhood, is more diverse than most in the city); and the different lives of those in those communities, and how the plot makes them intersect in various ways (albeit many of them clichéd). Plus, not only was much of it filmed in my neighborhood (no, this is not a Dick Wolf show), but the two main characters live in my neighborhood, one train stop south of me. The dad, played by Noah Wyle, is gay and white; he and his black doctor husband adopted a black daughter. The show starts with the black doctor mistakenly shot & killed by a rookie cop while trying to help the convenience store owner who'd been attacked in front of him. There are parallel story lines and families that intersect. It's more adventurous in its subjects than other TV drama series (co-directed & produced by Ava DuVernay), and while predictable in some of its modern stereotypes, it does star Wyle, whom I'd pay to see read Green Eggs & Ham.
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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us without.
Joseph Addison0 -
Destiny is not a matter of chance,
It is a matter of choice.
It is not something to be waited for,
But rather something to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan0 -
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
- J.B. Priestley -0 -
Just wanted to leave a little heads-up here. While I don't think it will make a substantial difference I am going to be working some this month ( three different time periods through the month ) so I could on some days be late getting the quote in here. I will start late tomorrow afternoon and this first run will be until the 14th. After that a week off and then work another week, and then the third time will only be a little three day interlude. I love being able to still come and share daily and look forward to it immensely.
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If I'm absent the next few days, it's because I'm headed to a science fiction in Des Moines to give a concert, and won't be home till Sun. night. Probably won't have time to post.
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We are all born with a belief in God. It may not have a name or face. We may not even see it as God. But it is there. It is the sense that comes over us as we stare into the starlit sky, or watch the last fiery rays of an evening sunset. It is the morning shiver as we wake on a beautiful day and smell a richness in the air that we know and love from somewhere we can't quite recall. It is the mystery behind the beginning of time and beyond the limits of space. It is a sense of otherness that brings alive something deep in our hearts. -Kent Nerburn
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The less I take the difficulties of my life as personal affront,
and the more I use them as an opportunity to learn and grow...
the easier I sleep at night.
- Mary Anne Radmacher0 -
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
- Thomas Merton0 -
Make friends with guilt. Guilt is a beautiful emotion that alerts us when something is wrong so that we may achieve peace with our conscience. Without conscience there would be no morality. So we can greet guilt cordially and with acceptance, just as we do all other emotions. After we respond to guilt, it has done its job and we can release it.
Glenn R. Schiraldi0 -
We see what we expect to see.
If we believe the world to be violent and ugly,
we see violence and ugliness.
If we believe the world to be a gift,
we see rainbows, and butterflies, and smiles,
and hear babies cooing, and roosters greeting the dawn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie0 -
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
- Anonymous0 -
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others.And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world. -Etty Hillesum
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