--Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I'm Gonna Kill Santa Claus
3 years ago
Saturday, March 02, 2013
Saturday Afternoon Quote
“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.”
Friday, March 01, 2013
Friday Afternoon Quotes
“There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.”
--Ajahn Chah
“If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you’ll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.”
“The only reason we don’t open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else’s eyes."
“If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you’ll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.”
--Paulo Coelho
“The only reason we don’t open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else’s eyes."
--Pema Chodron
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
I was surprised to find this on CNN...
Cuts too deep? No, not deep enough
An excerpt:
Politicians have been trying to outdo each other in deploying what the neoliberal Washington Monthly founder Charles Peters coined in 1976 as the "firemen first" principle -- the notion that "the public will support (the Clever Bureaucrat's) valiant fight against the budget reduction only if essential services are endangered. Thus, C.B. always picks on teachers, policemen, firemen first."
An excerpt:
Politicians have been trying to outdo each other in deploying what the neoliberal Washington Monthly founder Charles Peters coined in 1976 as the "firemen first" principle -- the notion that "the public will support (the Clever Bureaucrat's) valiant fight against the budget reduction only if essential services are endangered. Thus, C.B. always picks on teachers, policemen, firemen first."
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Monday, February 25, 2013
Monday Afternoon Quote
"Unhappiness is rooted in the ageless conflict between what we want and what we already have. In order to achieve happiness, we must either have our wants and desires routinely satisfied or fundamentally change our concept of want. All too often, when our current wants are attained, a new set of wants appear and thus a vicious cycle of want and unhappiness ensues. Therefore, the key to happiness ultimately lies in our ability to simply want what we already have. By being thankful for what we have been given, we are never left wanting, we are always satisfied and happiness becomes a reality.”
--David Chase Taylor
Sunday, February 24, 2013
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