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My Personal Antidepressant(continued)(page 5) |
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Father's are large people Who frequently declare That "other children" eat their meals And sit straight on a chair. "Other children" wash their hands According to my father. They never yell, or lose their hats, Or fight, or be a bother. "Other children," Father says Speak when they're spoken to. They answer "please" and "thank you" The way I'm supposed to do. I'm sorry for my father, Just as sorry as can be; He knows such lovely children n' gets stuck with one like me. ~Zoa Sheuburne |
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Silence is not always golden -- Sometimes it's yellow. |
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You may have riches and wealth untold, Caskets of jewels and baskets of gold, But richer than I you will never be, For I had a mother who read to me. ~Thomas Carlyle |
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| What do you want, to love or to barter? ~Kung Fue | ||||||||
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| Self-Interrogation | ||||||||
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You agreed to accept Earth's sadness and pain, So when troubles come, Why do you complain? Know that all things Shall be for thy good, Have courage to face them, You promised you would. You were taught about sorrow Knew how it would be; Our Savior Lord suffered. Art thou greater than he? ~Hazel M. Thomsen |
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If I chose Not to bear this child That in me grows, Giving in To the well-respected And learned Philosophies of men, There would be No crash of thunder At my decision; No lightning burst Or loud condemning voice From heaven, Only bitter knowledge Forever after And the quiet pleased sound of Satan's laughter. ~Wanda Loveridge |
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Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. ~F. Bacon |
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For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better that good dreams, except they be put into acts; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground. ~Francis Bacon |
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As we take a stand against the evils of the day, such as abortion, homosexuality, intolerance, alcohol, drugs, dishonesty, immorality, etc, can we express our beliefs without clenching our fists, raising our voices, and promoting contention? ~Marvin J. Ashton April Conference 1978 |
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We need to be reminded that contention is a striving against one another, especially in controversy or argument. It is to struggle, fight, battle, quarrel, or dispute. Contention never was and never will be an ally of progress. Our loyalty will never be measured by our participation in controversy. Some misunderstand the realm, scope, and dangers of contention. Too many of us are inclined to declare, �Who, me? I am not contentious, and I�ll fight anyone who says I am.� There are still those among us who would rather lose a friend than an argument. How important it is to know how to disagree without being disagreeable. It behooves all of us to be in the position to involve ourselves in factual discussions and meaningful study, but never in bitter arguments and contention. ~Marvin J. Ashton April Conference 1978 |
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Only by pride cometh contention. ~Prov. 13:10 |
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Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook. ~William Arthur Ward |
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success. ~motto of William of Orange |
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| The Outward Reach | ||||||||
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In my seas of discontent, when winds come tumbling down, When skies are dark, and I am ankle deep in storm, Let me think of Peter shadowed in his doubts, but with faith enough to reach his hand to the light. I, too, can walk The waters of His strength. ~ Helen Mar Cook, August 1978 Ensign |
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If poetry were blocks of stone And songs were solid ice, I could cover up the desert And engulf the mountain heights. If all my hopes were cast in flesh And all my loves in bone, I could populate a universe By will and mind alone. But if my fears had voices� Were my angers strong of hand� They could crush that same young universe And hurl it to its end. O Father of all gifts and skills! Creator of my soul! Teach us the discipline of love, The truest self-control. |
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| The Background Music | ||||||||
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Strange, the times the Spirit finds me. Not always with bowed head and meditating. Not always in the solitude of sighing beaches, Nor where the stately organ thunders. It stirs within at such peculiar times -- In the hospital room of a dying friend, Or when Brother Miller's aged and shaking hand Grips the bench in front As he rises to bear his testimony. I can hear the distant tones of velvet strings When the eyes of Grandmother Wooley Stare back from the photograph And awaken within me a memory of things lost, Indeed, things never known, �Til now. And sometimes, a sudden answer to my prayer at Dawn Steals softly past the clutter of the Noon. |
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The medieval period: the most elegant moment of pain and courage and high asperations in the life of Western Man. ~John Gardner -- The Life and Times of Chaucer |
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The Lord's Prayer knows how small man is and how weak, when it asks the Lord not to lead us into temptation but deliver us from evil. And because evil is never banal and men so often are, men must not treat with evil on any terms -- for the terms are always the terms of evil and never those of man. Man becomes the instrument of evil when, ..., he thinks to harness evil to ambition ... and when he joins with evil to prevent worse. ~Peter Drucker |
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Sometimes the best helping hand we can get is a good firm push. ~JoAnn Thomas |
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The human nervous process is 90% concerned with stability. But life is not a stable process. Stability is for trees. For us, life is a process of risk and recovery. Each step we take is a risk. The ability to recover is our greatest quality. ~Moshe Feldenkrais |
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When people think of being cured, they think only of being as they were before. We don't go back. You can become a great deal better than you were before. It's up to you. ~Moshe Feldenkrais |
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I give myself up to those feelings of eternity which come naturally at the bedside of a cherished child drawing its last breath. At those supreme moments there is something in the depths of our souls which tells us that the world may be more than a mere combination of phenomena proper to a mechanical equilibrium brought out of the chaos of the elements simply through the gradual action of the forces of matter. ~Pasteur |
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Children seldom misquote you. In fact they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. ~quoted from Grit in Reader's Digest |
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| Beware of marrying a person whose clever at fixing things. You'll never get anything new. | ||||||||
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The lazy will always attribute genius to some inspiration that comes from mere waiting. ~Will Durant |
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A ship in the harbor is safe: but that's not what ships were built for. | |||||||
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politics without principle, pleasure without conscience, wealth without work, knowledge without character, business without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice. ~Mahawtma Gandi |
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The loving mother teaches her child to walk alone. She is far enough from him so that she cannot actually support him. She holds out her arms. Her face beckons like a reward, an encouragement. The child constantly strives toward a refuge in her embrace, little suspecting that in the very same moment he is emphasizing his need for her, he is proving he can do without her. ~Kierkegaard |
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We'll begin with a box and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox should be oxen not oxes; We speak of a brother and also of brethren, But though we say mother, we never say methren. The masculine pronouns are he, his, and him, But imagine the feminine she, shis and shim. So English, I fancy you all will agree, Is the silliest language you ever did see. ~(taken from the Reader's Digest) |
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The chief reason why the teachings of the sages are not more appreciated by the people is because scholars endeavor to show off their learning, rather that to make it their endeavor to live up to the teachings of the sages. ~Kaibaia Ekken |
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Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily that is not difficult to do. ~Charlotte Whitton |
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The prominent today are celebrities, not authorities. Authority commands by position, presence, or wisdom, while a celebrity makes himself agreeable to a public which can make, break or tire of him. ~Thomas Griffith |
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| Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. | ||||||||
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| An optimist is someone who tells you to cheer up when things are going his way. | ||||||||
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