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Hold fast to dreams
Dreams Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. –Langston Hughes Response: Dreams carry us forward … Continue reading
Posted in Experience, Happiness, Hope, Life, Poetry
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a different way of life
What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperation, Culture, Hope, Humanity
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I believe in human beings
I believe in human beings, but my faith is without sentimentality. I know that in environments of uncertainty, fear, and hunger, the human being is dwarfed and shaped without his being aware of it, just as the plant struggling under … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Experience, Hope, Humanity, People
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Makes them kind themselves
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work … Continue reading
Imagination makes us infinite
“How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind! The spiritual eye sees not only rivers of water but of air. It sees the crystals of the rock in rapid sympathetic motion, giving enthusiastic obedience to the … Continue reading
Posted in Happiness, Hope, Humanity, Imagination, Nature
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Hope is a thing with feathers
“Hope” is the thing with feathers — That perches in the soul — And sings the tune without the words — And never stops — at all — And sweetest — in the Gale — is heard — And sore … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Fear, Hope, Poetry
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What is essential about you?
Well, what is essential about you? And who are those who have helped you become the person that you are? Anyone who has ever graduated from a college, anyone who has ever been able to sustain a good work, has … Continue reading
Posted in Friendship, Hope, Humanity, Love, Thanks
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The beginnings
The beginnings of all things are small. Ominium Rerum Principia Parva Sunt. –attributed to Cicero Response: There is no shame in being at the beginning. When we start school, we are not expected to know everything all ready, just as … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Hope, Learning
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There is much that is fair
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. –J. … Continue reading
Many strokes
Many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timber’d oak. –William Shakespeare, Henry VI(c. 1591) Response: Stubbornness and Perseverance don’t always pay off, but if we continue to strive for our best, we can achieve things … Continue reading
