Tag Archives: Quote

Spirals

Posted on March 10, 2021 by hernibs

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. ~Madame de Staël French novelist 1766-1817

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Just What I Wanted

Posted on March 6, 2021 by hernibs

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. ~Ben Stein

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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria … Continue reading →

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Tell It

Posted on March 2, 2021 by hernibs

We have enough people who tell it like it is – now we could use a few who tell it like it can be. ~ Robert Orben

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Compassion

Posted on February 28, 2021 by hernibs

Like honesty, compassion may be expressed through verbal means but its basic form of communication is silence. ~ Clark E. Moustakas

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World View

Posted on February 25, 2021 by hernibs

Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists. ~ Marcel Proust

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Regrets

Posted on February 24, 2021 by hernibs

Don’t regret the past, just learn from it. ~Ben Ipock

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Figuring Life Out

Posted on February 23, 2021 by hernibs

You look at where you’re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you’ve been and a pattern seems to emerge. ~Robert M. Pirsig

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Circumstantial Evidence

Posted on February 15, 2021 by hernibs

Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of man. ~Benjamin Disraeli

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Tradition

Posted on February 14, 2021 by hernibs

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes—our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. ~ Gilbert … Continue reading →

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Prayers For Doing What Is Right

Posted on February 12, 2021 by hernibs

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings … Continue reading →

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Listening To Both Sides

Posted on February 11, 2021 by hernibs

Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides. ~ Frank Tyger.

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Positive Results

Posted on February 4, 2021 by hernibs

Positive thoughts precede positive results. ~Matshona Dhliwayo

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Correcting Past Mistakes

Posted on January 21, 2021 by hernibs

To undo mistakes is always harder than not to create them originally, but we seldom have foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Planning My Day

Posted on January 5, 2021 by hernibs

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ~E. B. White

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