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Saturday, October 21st, 2006Where the river is deepest, it makes least noise. Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do. You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well-hammered yourself. You must know something of everything and everything of [...]
The Little Boy
Friday, October 20th, 2006Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky There was once a very active boy who fell and broke his leg. He could run again in [...]
A Taxi Driver Story
Friday, October 20th, 2006Twenty years ago, I drove a cab for a living. When I arrived at 2:30 AM, the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window. Under these circumstances, many drivers would just honk once or twice, wait a minute, then drive away. But, I had seen too many impoverished people [...]
Golden Quotations For Life I
Friday, October 20th, 2006Smile a little, Help a little, Push a little, The world needs you. Work a little, Wait a little, Hope a little, And don’t get blue. Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains [...]
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