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Teri · Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 6:48 am Post subject:

In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other. ~Linda Ellerbee

JohnT · Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 1:49 pm Post subject:

I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.

--- Michael Bloomberg (born 1942)
Michael Bloomberg is an American politician, businessman, and author. Bloomberg was the mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013.

Teri · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2020 7:02 am Post subject:

Health and cheerfulness are brothers. ~Proverb

JohnT · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2020 8:33 pm Post subject:

Each lover has some theory of his own
About the difference between the ache
Of being with his love, and being alone:

--- opening lines of the poem "Are You There?" by W.H. Auden
Auden (1907 - 1973) was an English-American poet.

Teri · Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2020 7:08 am Post subject:

I have looked through the list of illnesses, and did not find cares or sad thoughts mentioned among them. That is a mistake, surely. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

JohnT · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 6:18 am Post subject:

“What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?”

--- Betrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, essayist, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate.

Teri · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 7:42 am Post subject:

Men usually take better care of their boots than of their stomachs. ~James Lendall Basford

JohnT · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 9:14 pm Post subject:

All prayer disciplines are somehow trying to get mind, heart, and body to work as one, which entirely changes one’s consciousness. “The concentration of attention in the heart—this is the starting point of all true prayer,” wrote St. Theophan the Recluse (1815–1894)

He was a Russian monk, bishop, and mystic.

---quoted today in a meditation by Richard Rohr, Francisan.

Teri · Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2020 7:11 am Post subject:

As a candle cannot burn without fire, so man cannot live without spiritual force. ~Ramakrishna

Teri · Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2020 8:28 am Post subject:

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child

Teri · Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2020 4:02 am Post subject:

Green is the prime color of the world... ~Pedro Calderón de la Barca

JohnT · Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2020 6:23 pm Post subject:

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

e. e. cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings (1894 - 1962) was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays.

Teri · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2020 6:17 am Post subject:

Where yellow dives into red the ripples are orange. ~Derek Jarman

JohnT · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:12 pm Post subject:

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943) is American biographer and historian.
Goodwin has written biographies of several U.S. presidents.

Teri · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 6:16 am Post subject:

Shadow, said Augustine, is the Queen of Colour. Colour sings in the grey. ~Derek Jarman