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Some Days, Don’t You Just Wonder?

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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
-Mark Twain

Resiliency means recognizing that chaos occurs in our own mind and we can react accordingly. In other words: Chaos is not the problem, it’s how we respond to it that makes the difference between balance and imbalance.
-Chip Weiner

Fetter strong madness in a silken thread.
-William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act V, sc. 1

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.
-Tony Blair

Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.
-John Le Carre

Sunday Quotes: Silliness

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There is a finite end to this life, and we’re all going to face it, and a little silliness can help.
-Alan Thicke

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein

Don’t be afraid to look silly.
-Tara Strong

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
-Ralph Steadman

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
-Christopher Morley

 

 

 

Sunday Quotes: Graciousness

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Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone: Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in our own.
-Adam Lindsay Gordon

It’s called gracious professionalism. The idea is to be open and help more people learn.
-Chuck Gosdzinski

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
-Anthony J. D’Angelo

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
-William J. Bennett

Realize that when you get older, you either get senile or become gracious. There’s no in-between. You become senile when you think the world short-changed you, or everybody wakes up to screw you. You become gracious when you realize that you have something the world needs, and people are happy to see you when you come into the room.
– Carlos Santana

Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.
-William Shakespeare

Sunday Night Quotes: Parenting

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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. -Plato

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they’re gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that’s a joy. -Liam Neeson

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise. -Allan Bloom

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. -H. Jackson Brown

(“Sometimes, it’s hard to know what to do in life”, I said.)
Yeah…but that’s what I have you for. -Maggie Caselli