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I'll start with three quotes from the very inspiring Helen Keller as noted in "Your Year of Healing" book by Amit Sood, MD:
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched -- they must be felt with the heart."
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
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“The longer a tea bag stays in a cup the stronger the tea gets. The longer you sit in God’s word, the stronger your faith.”
I’m not sure who penned that. Just live/love it!
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1 ReactionLearn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
-Pythagoras
If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.
-Heraclitas
Okay, maybe you are wondering what is with these Greek God quotes.
I am reading a fantastic book by Evy Poumpouras, a former secret service agent to the president, now teaching criminology in NYC. The book. "Becoming Bulletproof" is a highly recommended read for all. Not only does she teach one to be more aware of their surroundings while out and about, but she also has strategies that can be used in one's personal life/personal relationships. I am already instituting some of her wisdom into my life, and it works.
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Trivia re: quote often attributed to Edmund Burke - 'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" actually was from Philosopher John Stuart Mill, who delivered an 1867 inaugural address at the University of St. Andrews and stated: “Let not anyone pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.”
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3 Reactionsin reply to @speechless623 Kind of like, " If you can do no good, do no harm."
-Kurt Vonnegut
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'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" - “Let not anyone pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.”
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5 ReactionsYet fear is an important feeling isn't it? Have no fear but fear itself( E. Roosevelt). I agree however, with your quote. When we begin to feel that fight or flight response, it is important to pay attention to it and decide which option to take, as opposed to simply being fearful, if that makes sense.
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6 ReactionsLife isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.
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11 ReactionsThere are walls of a prison cell that we all can see; it's the walls around our imagination that are harder to notice but need to be demolished through constant questioning and dialogue before they impoverish our growth and flourishing .
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3 ReactionsWhen you focus on the good, the good gets better.
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8 ReactionsBe a rainbow in someone's storm.
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