Last evening I had the rare pleasure of being reunited with an old and dear friend from my university years. Our friendship was forged not just at school, in fact he and a few friends and I went on a volunteer vacation in West Virginia where we spent our holiday renovating a poverty-stricken neighborhood. We …
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On Friendship
"But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end." ~William Shakespeare In a life of some 39 years I have encountered a great many people. No matter how rich, poor, tall, short, wise, foolish, serious, playful, famous, unknown, old, young, and so on they may be or …
The Best of Every Man
"I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher." ~ William Butler Yeats You are making a grave error if you love your friends and hate your enemies. Both love …
Nobility without Pride
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, Friendship without envy, Or beauty without vanity? Here, where grace is served with muscle And strength by gentleness confined He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent. There is nothing so quick, nothing more patient. …
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to no one.
I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. ~ Henry David Thoreau Who do you trust? I mean, who do you really trust, with your life? My guess is that you have a short list …
An Ode to my Friends on a Hot Summer’s Morn’
"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better." ~Plutarch Sympathy is the death knell of a good friendship. Empathy, on the other hand, is a restorative balm that heals life's cuts and scrapes. Sympathy says to another "you are right to …
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As above, so below.
You may have heard someone offer the encouraging words: "You need to do what you love to be happy" on occasion and while that may work for a precious few, we would be hard-pressed to construct a world where everyone simply did what they loved to do. It just isn't practical. That said, there is …
Real Friends and Unconditional Love
"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together...there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. I'll always be with you." - Winnie the Pooh Pooh's kind words are the words …
The Marriage of True Minds
To know love, you must give love, freely and without expectation of results. No matter what you face, love is the perfect point of departure. If you leave the shores of this moment or the next upon a dinghy of disdain, complaint or dissatisfaction, you will surely be crashed upon the rocks by the tides of discontent.
The Ass and his Purchaser: A valuable life lesson from Aesop
"The Ass and his Purchaser" by Aesop A man wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that he should try out the animal before he bought him. He took the Ass home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, upon which the new animal left all the others and at …
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Gregory Hake 