One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. …
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In loving memory of Aunty Astra Da Costa Fare you well, my dear, I must be gone, And leave you for a while; If I roam away I'll come back again, Though I roam ten thousand miles, my dear, Though I roam ten thousand miles. So fair thou art, my bonny lass, So deep in …
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LARRY KING: Susan, you're single. In fact you say you've never been kissed. Now you're getting piles of fan mail. How will this change your life? SUSAN BOYLE: I won't be lonely. I certainly won't be lonely any more! LK: Will you date? Will you change the way you look? Your dress, your hair, your …
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. I try to increase …
"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope." – Noam Chomsky
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed." – Mahatma Gandhi "Find purpose, the means will follow." – Mahatma Gandhi
"My feeling about technique in art," John Barth told an interviewer in 1968, "is that it has about the same value as technique in love-making. That is to say, on the one hand, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and, on the other hand, so does heartless skill; but what you want is passionate virtuosity." – …
Three Poems of Shape and Motion - A sequence (1955) I was wondering if I could shape this passion just as I wanted in solid fire. I was wondering if the strange combustion of my days the tension of the world inside of me and the strength of my heart were enough. I was wondering …
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