Happiness... is Knowing YOUR Boundaries

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Think_n_See

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Feb 15, 2005, 1:13:18 AM2/15/05
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It is important that people know what you stand for. It's equally
important that they know what you won't stand for.
~Mary Waldrop

But I don't know
how I would live with myself,
what I'd forgive of myself
if you don't go.
~Suzanne Vega, "Caramel"

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful
the friends you choose for you will become like them.
~W. Clement Stone

You get what you tolerate.
~John Brady

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are
feared; but only men of character are trusted.
~Unknown

He that cannot decidedly say, ''No,'' when tempted to evil, is on the
highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt
him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.
~Joel Hawes

Don't do anything you wouldn't be willing to explain on television.
~Arjay Miller

What you tolerate will not change but what you do not tolerate, will
change.
~Alexandra Margaret Iserhoff

You deserve what you tolerate.
~Duke Anderson

Wall_Of_Optimism

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Feb 28, 2005, 11:32:39 PM2/28/05
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too,
can become great.
--Mark Twain

May Your Life Be Like Arithmetic:

Joys Added -
Sorrows Subtracted -
Friends Multiplied -
Love Un-Divided
--Unknown

Think_n_See

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Mar 16, 2005, 12:17:56 AM3/16/05
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A friend of mine gave me this great book "If You Want to Write"
by Brenda Ueland. It's so simple, so pleasant. Ms. Uelands
describes the book as being about anything you want to do
creatively and derive huge pleasure from - for her, it's writing.

In one segment, Ms. Ueland (it feels right to refering to her as
Ms. Ueland - there's something about her style that suggests
she would like being called that) talks about how feeling the
dark parts of life is necessary and great because then you can
face those parts, and grow to discover and know those parts
of yourself.

In particular, writing about an author like Chekhov:

"Great men feel and know everything that mean men feel,
even more clearly, but they seem to have made some kind
of an ascension, and these evil feelings, though they still
understand them sympathetically, no longer exert any
power over them."
~ Brenda Ueland

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