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- Perhaps losing integrity with yourself is the greatest stress of all, far more hurtful to us than competition, time pressure, or lack of respect. Our…
- Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time, people laugh as often as…
- When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The less time we…
- This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. it certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was very young. I…
- There are few master teachers in life. ... But there are many who can listen to life so well that they can hear the vastness…
- It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis.
- We bless the life around us far more than we realize. Many simple, ordinary things that we do can affect those around us in profound…
- Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar…
- For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From them I have…
- Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or exerting our will…
- Most of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us to suspend disbelief, to recognize…
- Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life's events "behind us" and get on with our…
- Wisdom comes most easily to those who have the courage to embrace life without judgment and are willing to not know, sometimes for a long…
- I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we…
- Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar…
- The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each…
- It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle