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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 18 2005, 02:37 PM (93 Views) | |
| CalRed | Feb 18 2005, 02:37 PM Post #1 |
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I have been asked to do this for a friend. What To Forget If you would increase your happiness and prolong your life, forget your neighbor's faults. Forget all the slander you have ever heard. Forget the temptations. Forget the fault finding, and give a little thought to the cause which provoked it. Forget the peculiarities of your friends, and only remember the good points which make you fond of them. Forget all personal quarrels or histories you may have heard by accident, and which, if repeated, would seem a thousand times worse than they are. Blot out as far as possible all the disagreeables of life; they will come, but will only grow larger when you remember them, and the constant thought of the acts of meanness, or, worse still, malice, will only tend to make you more familiar with them. Obliterate everything disagreeable from yesterday; write upon today's clean sheet those things lovely and lovable. Clyde N. |
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Something instead of Nothing? "I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing." Alan Sandage | |
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| Colo_Crawdad | Feb 18 2005, 02:55 PM Post #2 |
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But. . . ., but . . ., but . . ., If I did that, I'd have been left without a reason to vote against John Kerry in the last election. On edit, I ought to say that I really liked the post.
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| "WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US." --- Pogo | |
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| TexasShadow | Feb 18 2005, 03:04 PM Post #3 |
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Jane
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I think it's called "forgiveness"
most people think forgiving is about the person you are forgiving, but it's mostly about yourself. forgiving someone means getting rid of negative stuff in yourself. as long as you hold a grudge in any way, the burden is on you, not the target of your grudge. it's bothering you, not him/her. |
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| cmoehle | Feb 18 2005, 03:06 PM Post #4 |
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Forgive but never forget is a good motto. |
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Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. --Barry Goldwater | |
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| DanHouck | Feb 18 2005, 03:09 PM Post #5 |
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Land of Enchantment NM
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But Lowell, you would have ALSO been left without a reason to vote against "W".
Nice post CalRed. Dan |
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| sylley2000 | Feb 18 2005, 03:50 PM Post #6 |
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Sylvia, Grand Bend ON
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Great post CalRed!
Sylvia |
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