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Teri · Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:20 am Post subject:

Youth is when you are allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you are forced to. ~Bill Vaughn

JohnT · Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2021 10:24 pm Post subject:

“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”

― Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

JohnT · Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:54 pm Post subject:

"Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive"

– song lyrics by the Bee Gees, popularized in the movie 'Saturday Night Fever'

JohnT · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 4:05 pm Post subject:

“When you speak to yourself, let you interior dialogue be confident, optimistic, and visionary. Dare to live the life most people only fantasize about.”

– Matthew Kelly, The Rhythm of Life

JohnT · Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2021 7:38 am Post subject:

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

– Aesop (died 546 BC)
Aesop was a Greek storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.

JohnT · Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:47 pm Post subject:

"Mercy and grace and compassion
They're only words without action..."

– from a hymn heard today
– by Citizen Way

JohnT · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 10:17 am Post subject:

"Looking to the common good is much more than the sum of what is good for individuals. It means having a regard for all citizens and seeking to respond effectively to the needs of the least fortunate. . . ."

– Pope Francis, from "Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future"

JohnT · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 10:03 pm Post subject:

"And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us
but what stands before us
We close the divide because we know, to put our future first,
we must first put our differences aside"

– a few lines from the poem read by Amanda Gorman at the Inauguration yesterday

JohnT · Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2021 11:26 pm Post subject:

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

– Desmond Tutu (born 1931) is a South African Anglican cleric and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg then the Archbishop of Cape Town. In both cases being the first black African to hold the position.

Teri · Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2021 8:24 pm Post subject:

“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”― Aaron Lauritsen

Teri · Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2021 8:13 am Post subject:

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.~Benjamin Disraeli

Teri · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 8:38 am Post subject:

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. ~Oscar Wilde

JohnT · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 10:00 pm Post subject:

"Going out of your way for someone is still the straightest path."

– unknown

Teri · Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 8:39 am Post subject:

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art. ~Charles McCabe

Teri · Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2021 8:41 am Post subject:

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty- five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.~Douglas Adams [/b]