July 2010
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IF... ~ Rudyard Kipling's Verse
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can...
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Puppies for Sale
A store owner was tacking a sign above his door that read “Puppies For Sale.”
Signs like that have a way of attracting small children, and sure enough, a little boy appeared under the store owner’s sign. “How much are you going to sell the puppies for?” he asked.
The store owner replied, “Anywhere from $30 to $50.”
The little boy reached in...
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June 2010
4 posts
“If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.”
– Katharine Hepburn
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A List of Fun Things to Do
Ask a stranger if you can try their ice cream cone
Ask for a picture from this person
Attach a video camera to a remote control car. Spy around
Balance something on a cat (not anything heavy or sharp)
Buy a Chia Pet and call it Chia Charlie
Color your hair green or die your hair hot pink
Every time you see an animal, make its noise.
For a whole day put a word at the end of...
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Life Struggles
A man found a cocoon of an emperor moth. He took it home so that he could watch the moth come out of the cocoon. On the day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the moth for several hours as the moth struggled to force the body through that little hole. The moth seemed to be stuck and appeared to have stopped making progress. It seemed as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go...
May 2010
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YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW
There are two days in every week about which we should not worry.
Two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension.
One of these days is yesterday with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we performed. ...
“The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled”
– John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist
Money As Debt
The international food shortage
Recently, a worldwide survey was conducted and the only question asked was:
“Would you please give your honest opinion about the solution to the food shortage in the rest of the world?”
The survey was, not surprisingly, a huge failure. Because:
In Africa they didn’t know what “food” meant.
In Eastern Europe they didn’t know what “honest” meant.
In Western Europe they didn’t know what...
“Everybody is somebody else’s weirdo.”
– @kkoolook
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The Little Rules of Life
Sing in the shower. Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated. Watch a sunrise at least once a year. Leave the toilet seat in the down position. Never refuse homemade brownies. Strive for excellence, not perfection. Plant a tree on your birthday. Learn 3 clean jokes. Return borrowed vehicles with the gas tank full. Compliment 3 people every day. Never waste an opportunity to...
Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Spoon boy: Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
April 2010
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Cosmos
There are some hundred billion (10^11) galaxies, each with, on the average, a hundred billion stars. In all the galaxies, there are perhaps as many planets as stars, 10^11 x 10^11 = 10^22, ten billion trillion. In the face of such overpowering numbers, what is the likelihood that only one ordinary star, the Sun, is accompanied by an inhabited planet? Why should we, tucked away in some...
Another View...
The world is meaningless, there is no God or gods, there are no morals, the universe is not moving inexorably towards any higher purpose. All meaning is man-made, so make your own, and make it well. Do not treat life as a way to pass the time until you die. Do not try to “find yourself”, you must make yourself. Choose what you want to find meaningful and live, create, love, hate, cry,...
March 2010
5 posts
“For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps...”
– Clark Moustakas
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
– Goethe (via minimalmac) (via ticci)
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“The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.”
– H. G. Wells (via kkoolook)
February 2010
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There is more fight within us than we know...
If I would leave any thought with someone I would say never doubt yourself. No matter what people say, no matter what you may think sometimes, never doubt yourself. If you believe in yourself you will succeed far more than you will fail. He who possesses a quiet kind of faith in his ability to perform a task already has the task half completed. Believe in yourself despite setbacks, despite the...
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“When the bird and the book disagree, always believe the bird.”
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“風 Swift as the wind
林 Quiet as the forest
火 Conquer like the fire
山 Steady as...”
– Sun Tzu
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“There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent...”
– George Carlin
January 2010
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“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
– George S. Patton
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six keys to success...
Attitude Bloom where you are planted. You have a choice to get back up after temporary set backs. Attitude is a small thing that makes a big difference!
Direction If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. Write your short term goals down on paper. I have discovered and continue to discover that putting your dreams and goals down on paper lock in or...
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Attitude in Life
The attitudes that you choose to carry in life have a major impact on such important consequences as how happy you are, or whether realize your goals. For example, if you choose to persist in life, you will likely one day reach your goal. However, if your attitude is to give up after initial attempts, your path to your goal may be more likely thwarted. Thus, the following advice tries to summarize...
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“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.”
– John N. Mitchell
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On the Muddy Road
Tanzan and Ekido were once traveling together down a muddy road. A heavy rain was falling. As they came around a bend, they met a lovely girl in a silk kimono and sash, unable to cross at an intersection.
“Come on, girl,” said Tanzan at once. Lifting her in his arms, he carried her over the mud.
Ekido did not speak until that night when they reached a lodging temple. The he could no...
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“Things do not change; we change.”
December 2009
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Recipe for a Happy New Year
Take 12 fine, full-grown months; see that these are thoroughly cleansed from all old memories of bitterness, rancor, hate, and jealousy. Cut these months into 30 or 31 equal parts. (This batch will keep for one year. Do not attempt to make more than one batch at a time-many people spoil the entire lot in this way.) Prepare one day at a time as follows: Into each day, put 12 parts of faith, 11 of...
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“Joy, happiness … we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A...”
– May Sarton
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The Poems of Goethe →
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“Get Off of My Cloud.”
– The Rolling Stones
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Why did the chicken cross the road?
Plato: For the greater good. Aristotle: To fulfill its nature on the other side. Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.
Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as achicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road,but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contendwith such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the...
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