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 …
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Honor and Life
"Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life." ~ William Shakespeare I daresay this morning that virtually every unpleasant element aspect of the human condition came into being through the words and actions of men and women who held their lives more dear than their honor. …
Train of Thought
"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." ~ Will Rogers It was getting late and the conversations in German, French, English and Spanish were starting to wear on my already tired brain. The year was 1993 and I had just completed a bicycle tour around Bavaria with a friend of mine, Charlie (the …
The Top 7 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Life by Gregg Hake
Leonardo DaVinci once wrote, "Life well spent is long." Socrates wrote some 2,000 years earlier, "Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." To be sure, a life well lived is ideal, but optional. While I typically prefer to consider the positive attributes of any subject in order to provide stepping stones for …
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Wisdom: See the Miraculous in the Common!
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." To use time wisely you need wisdom. Short on wisdom? Ralph Waldo Emerson offers a powerful starting point: "The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." Is there anything more common than common things in this world? Ample opportunity to see the miraculous!
An evening thought…
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said "A man is related to all nature." Whether you look out over a beautiful scene or zoom in to enjoy the industriousness of a soldier ant, it is hard not to appreciate and relate in some way to the beauty and wonder of the natural world. I came across …
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