The Most of Yourself
I've recently come across a couple quotes I want to share. Add at will:
- Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- How do you measure success? To laugh often, and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a redeemed social condition, or a job well done; to know even one other life has breathed because you lived this is to have succeeded. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- This year we fought the law and the law won. Meatwad needs a new legal name, please advise. -GDub Ulitmate (Wildwood postcard)
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As "a metaphor for the complex and slippery layers of human memory: 'The onion has many skins. A multitude of skins. Peeled, it renews itself; chopped, it brings tears; only during peeling does it speak the truth.'" -Aug 13/20 edition of The Nation, review of Gunter Grass's Peeling the Onion
very refreshing ben:)
"Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate can not drive out hate; only love can do that." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Live every week like its shark week." - A dry erase board in my friend's living room
and as you remember from the foot licking snake incident... "red and yellow kills a fellow; yellow and black, cuts some slack."
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by Baruch Spinoza:
"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
The second is a longer one by Marcus Aurelius, from his MEDITATIONS:
"Though men may hinder you from following the paths of reason, they can never succeed in deflecting you from sound action; but make sure that they are equally unsuccessful in destroying your charitable feelings towards them. You must defend both positions alike: your firmness in decision and action, and at the same time your gentleness to those who try to obstruct or otherwise molest you. It would be as great a weakness to give way to your exasperation with them as it would be to abandon your course of action and be browbeaten into surrender. In either event the post of duty is deserted; in the one case through lack of courage, and in the other through alienation from men who are your natural brothers and friends."
-Rick Wyatt, friend and AFDC drum major http://www.afdc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1160
IEatTuna, DirtyDutchinger.
--spring break scrabble, Casa Spears
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