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If I Had My Life To Live Over
by Erma Bombeck The following was written by the late Erma Bombeck after she found out she had a fatal disease. If I had my life to live over, I would have talked less and listened more. I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the sofa faded. […]
I’m mostly glad I’m tall!
The long and short of it: men can be elevated to power Susan Biggar I KNEW Barack Obama was going to win the US presidential election. Why? Quite simply: he was taller. At 185.4 centimetres, Obama towered 15 centimetres over his opponent, John McCain. And height matters. Reports suggest that in the 19 American presidential […]
Self-esteem
Sam Keen (To a Dancing God) writes about his search for self-esteem. He got a PhD but being called ‘Doctor’ or ‘Professor’ didn’t give it to him. He asked God ‘What can I do that will give dignity/meaning to my life?’ Answer: nothing; these are given and received out of God’s grace. There in the […]
The Sun, Love and God
During the Second World War a hopeful person scratched these words on to ‘I believe in the sun, even if it does not shine; I believe in love, even if I do not feel it; I believe in God, even if I do not see him’.
Speech
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. – John Andrew Holmes
Give away what you have learned
‘The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned, is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.’ (Annie Dillard) ‘Sir, My husband, T S Eliot, loved to recount how one evening he stopped a taxi. As […]
Generosity
“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1000 miles or so. Like everything else […]
Running to stand still
My wife and I recently returned from a holiday to the south island of New Zealand. As we were travelling around that beautiful country, I started to see how much we always seem to have to ‘fill in’ time, how we always have to be ‘doing’ something. The first question we often ask someone we […]
Just for Today
Just for today, I will try to live through this day only, and not tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do something for twelve hours that would appall me if I felt that I had to keep it up for a lifetime. Just for today, I will be happy. This assumes to […]
Wisdom
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. ~ Albert Einsten “To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” — G.K. Chesterton Many people die […]
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