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Teri · Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 7:26 am Post subject:

Don't make a tragedy of a simple failure. Study your capabilities first, and if you have overrated their strength, try again, going more slowly. ~Minna Thomas Antrim

Teri · Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2020 7:53 am Post subject:

Faith gets help from the other four-truths — happiness, wisdom, and knowledge. ~Althea Warren

Teri · Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 7:55 am Post subject:

Doubts and fears are the heaviest burdens. ~James Lendall Basford

JohnT · Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 8:34 pm Post subject:

"Pain, no matter how slight, has a magical way of filling whatever container it finds --- much like happiness but apparently more often."

--- a short passage from "Cold Storage, Alaska", a novel by John Straley.
John Straley (born 1953) lives in and writes from Sitka, Alaska.

Teri · Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 5:52 am Post subject:

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with. ~Robert Brault

Teri · Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2020 6:57 am Post subject:

In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past. ~Alexander Smith

JohnT · Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2020 11:07 am Post subject:

"Real love is a leaping outside of the narrow confines of my needs and desires, and an embrace of the other’s good for the other’s sake. It is an escape from the black hole of the ego, which tends to draw everything around it into itself."

--- Morning meditation today by Robert Barron (born 1959)
Robert Barron is an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He is the founder of the Catholic ministerial organization Word on Fire.

Teri · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 5:51 am Post subject:

The library: home to the original information superhighway — the Dewey Decimal System. ~Lorre & Molaro

Teri · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 6:02 am Post subject:

The sun works in my veins like wine, like wine! ~Amy Levy

Teri · Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 6:41 am Post subject:

Oh! if it be to choose and call thee mine,
Love, thou art every day my Valentine.
~Thomas Hood

JohnT · Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 6:58 am Post subject:

We live in an America that ever more starkly is divided between big, prosperous economic centers and decaying hinterlands.

--- a quote from an opinion column today by Mark Lane, Daytona Beach News-Journal (regarding a 'State of the County' presentation). His opinion: We are in the uncomfortable position of tettering either way.

Teri · Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2020 6:29 am Post subject:

In day-time we investigate, but at night believe. ~Henry James Slack

Teri · Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2020 5:02 am Post subject:

How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine. ~Wayne Dyer

JohnT · Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2020 8:23 pm Post subject:

A Wisdom way of knowing . . . requires the whole of one’s being and is ultimately attained only through the yielding of one’s whole being into the intimacy of knowing
and being known. . . . It doesn’t happen apart from complete vulnerability and self-giving.

--- Cynthia Bourgeault
Cynthia Bourgeault is an Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally known retreat leader.

Teri · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2020 6:21 am Post subject:

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. ~Thomas Jefferson