Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
I COLLECT QUOTES. . . Here are some of my favorites
by Terry 84 Replies latest jw friends
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neat blue dog
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Dagney
So many...
Stop looking in the rear view mirror...it's not where you are going. (Told to me by kindly exJW on here.)
Most people are doing the best they know how. When we know better, we do better.
You can't change what you don't acknowledge.
The Four Agreements...I use daily;
-Be impeccable with your word.
-Don't take anything personally. (Hard to do)
-Don't make assumptions. (Really hard to do.)
-Always do your best.
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neat blue dog
I made an ass of myself.
Joseph Rutherford: The Watchtower, October 1, 1984, p. 24
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Twitch
Max Ehrmann, "Desiderata"Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
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talesin
Twitch, I thought of Desiderata, love, love, love it!
Read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.
~ Walt Whitman from Leaves of Grass
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"No one should be forced to worship in a way that he finds unacceptable or be made to choose between his beliefs and his family." -- AWAKE!, July 2009, p. 29. -
Quarterback
"If you don't play a sport, be one.
If you don't play squash, eat one"
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talesin
Hi, QB ... *waves* spaghetti squash is great with homemade sauce and parm! :P
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talesin
Terry, there are so many good ones in your list, I picked a section, but it's by no means inclusive of *all* the ones I really liked. Thanks, some are real keepers. x
This one:
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You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.
People are more what they hide than what they show.
Don’t listen to what people say, watch what they do.
Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.
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