LIFE - and words to help deal with it whatever your gender...

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Finds us farther than to-day.

Trust no Future, however pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, act, in the living Present!
Heart within, and God overhead!

-- Longfellow.

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Our acts make or mar us,--we are the children of our own deeds.-- Victor Hugo.

Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.-- Beecher.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.--Willis.

God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.-- T. L.Cuyler.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.-- Phillips Brooks.

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of an angry man.-- Plutarch.

He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.--Seneca.

Men in rage strike those that wish them best.-- Shakespeare.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.-- W.R. Alger.

A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.-- Ruskin

A man who is proud of small things shows that small things are great to him. -- Madame de Girardin

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.-- Auerbach.

Who escapes a duty avoids a gain.--Theodore Parker.

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Sometimes quotes are about all we can handle...
THE WORDWRIGHT

Posted by Bill Venrick at 3:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

In my limited world of communication a platform of thought occurred to me: "Communication is essential to life and essentials must be noted and observed if we are to be aware of our place in life and giving others the same rights to which we believe we are entitled." The Wordwright

The following selected quotes, though many, can be a treasure trove of thoughts to cultivate one’s thinking and eventually build an awareness within our minds so we can make choices in life which will serve as foundations or no less than guidelines for our daily interchange with other human beings. Of course, some of these are more terse than detailed and some could even be called harsh but words are what we make of them. And unfortunately, that too can create problems or issues until dictionaries are revised to reflect how words are used or abused – some of us cannot wait that long to figure out what others are trying to say. May I just suggest you glean or garner what you can from these assorted quotations?

"What you have to attempt -- to be yourself. What you have to pray for -- to become a mirror in which, according to the degree of purity of heart you have attained, the greatness of life will be reflected."
Dag Hammarskjöld

"The Lord loves the artless, the candid, the childlike. He cannot work with those who argue or bargain or plead or excuse themselves."
A. W. Tozer

"It is the image of Christ the Christian looks for and loves; and this does not consist in being exact in a few items, but in general devotion to the whole truth as far as known."
--Alexander Campbell (1837)

"We all live under the same sky, but we don't have the same horizon."
--Konrad Adenauer

"You cannot choose your battlefield,
The gods do that for you,
But you can plant a standard
Where a standard never flew."
--Nathalia Crane, The Colors, ca 1925

"When lies are repeated often enough, even wise men begin to accept them."
Ben Ames Williams, House Divided, 1947

"Many Christians never get beyond Bethel. God is in their thoughts, but He is not first."
A.W.Tozer, Of God & Men, 1960

"Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?"
Source Unknown

"The righteous need no tombstones; their words are their monuments."
TALMUD, Persahim, 119a

"...God can work his will even through men and women who share in the frailties of moral character."
F. LaGard Smith, from page 63 of The DAILY BIBLE

"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better."
Anonymous

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
Rodin

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."
Barry LePatner

"Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others."
Unknown

"When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats."
-- Claude Swanson

"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."
-- Edith Sitwell

"He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God."
Proverbs 14:31

"They were men before they were monuments."
Unknown author, overheard on Book TV (Cspan)

"Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that."
Neil Postman, in Technopoly (The Surrender of Culture to Technology)

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