Dealing With your Anger!

"An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape, the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage."

Lucy Lippard, Overlay

A Letter From Fred - "Oh Sweet Lorraine" An Inspiring Story of Love!

Mr Rogers ALWAYS has good Insights!

"At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person.  Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job.  Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds.  Life is for service."

Fred Rogers

(a.k.a., "Mister Rogers")

Did you start your day with a song? Jimmy Durante thinks it is a good idea!

Start Your Day with a Song

You gotta start off each day with a song

Now even when things go wrong

You'll feel better, you'll even look better I'm here to tell you that you'll be a go-getter

Now the way that you shake my hand

Will tell me how I stand

Now isn't it better to go through life with a smile and a song

Then walking around life with a face, 11 miles long

Now you know that you can't go wrong

If you start off each day with a song

Jimmy Durante

From the Quote of the Week Files; August 26, 2013

It is now time to leave your world of tension, anxiety and doubt.  So please sit back, slow down your pulse, and tune into today's Quote of the Week! 

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“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.”

The Buddha

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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.”

Thomas Merton

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Wishing you a most BEAUTIFUL day, wherever this may find you!

Some thought about Money from Arne Garborg

"It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; knowledge, but not wisdom; glitter, but not beauty; fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; leisure, but not peace. You can have the husk of everything for money, but not the kernel."

Arne Garborg

Nine requisites for contented living by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nine requisites for contented living:

1. Health enough to make work a pleasure.

2. Wealth enough to support your needs.

3.Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.

4. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.

5. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.

6. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.

7. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.

8. Faith enough to make real the things of God.

9. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A Nudge from e.e. cummings

"To be nobody - but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."

e. e. cummings

From the Quote of the Week Files; August 19, 2013

So what happens when a Recycled Quote of the Week Classic and the Word for the year meet?  Perhaps some insight? A nudge? A reminder?

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The poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling was a featured quote back in 2001 and as I was rereading it, this line jumped out at me...

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run

And it reminded me of my word for the year, 

525, 600 (as in minutes in a year)

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So the

 BIG reminder 

for me is to remember that each minute is "unforgiving" and when it is up, it is up! Always constant and always running! Coupled along Kipling's line, my other 

BIG reminder

 is that here are only 

525,600 minute

s in a year. Again always constant always running without being able to tack on a few seconds here in there.  By the way as of today, I've gone through 331,200 minutes. 

 

Hopefully this will nudge me to get more distance and make the most out of the remaining 194,400 minutes I have left this year!

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Links to YouTube videos, the poem If read by Dennis Hopper and the song, 525,600 Minutes from the play, Rent...

  http://youtu.be/M0ME8r3PrGE

http://youtu.be/-r2xXtSsPV0

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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!!!!

 

No More Excuses!!

Success according to Emerson

"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 little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.

This is the meaning of success."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Charlotte Eriksson Inspires with this Quote

“It's about personal development. It's about creating your own character and pushing it to the limit. It's about pushing yourself so far out of your own and everybody else's idea of who you are and what you're capable of, that you no longer believe in limits. It's about reaching beyond your so-called potential, because your potential is never where you or anyone else expects it to be, not even close. It's about being able to say with the last breath of your life “I used all my potential and all my talents and pushed myself to the limit. I could not have fought any harder.” 

Charlotte Eriksson; Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps

A Great Line from a Great Movie; It Nudges

"A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. Reach out. Take a chance. Get hurt even. But play as well as you can. Go team, go! Give me an L. Give me an I. Give me a V. Give me an E. 

L-I-V-E. LIVE! 

Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room."

Ruth Gordon as Maude in "Harold and Maude"