Things Learned Along the Way
by blondie 431 Replies latest jw friends
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blondie
Prolonged illness can make one a good doctor.--Chinese proverb AUTHOR: Lesley Hazelton QUOTATION: When depression is stigmatized as illness and weakness, a double bind is created: If we admit to depression, we will be stigmatized by others; if we feel it but do not admit it, we stigmatize ourselves, internalizing the social judgment?. The only remaining choice may be truly sick behavior: to experience no emotion at all. -
xenawarrior
This was sent to me in greeting card form by a dear friend. I love the words.
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars....
~Jack Kerouac
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blondie
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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blondie
- FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth.
- An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth:
- the perigee of his eccentric orbit.
When David said: "All men are liars," Dave,
Himself a liar, fibbed like any thief.
Perhaps he thought to weaken disbelief
By proof that even himself was not a slave
To Truth; though I suspect the aged knave
Had been of all her servitors the chief
Had he but known a fig's reluctant leaf
Is more than e'er she wore on land or wave.
No, David served not Naked Truth when he
Struck that sledge-hammer blow at all his race;
Nor did he hit the nail upon the head:
For reason shows that it could never be,
And the facts contradict him to his face.
Men are not liars all, for some are dead.Bartle Quinker- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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jgnat
If you eat a frog first thing in the morning, the rest of your day will be wonderful.
Mark Twain
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jgnat
I want people to leave (therapy) feeling calmer, kinder, and more optomistic. I want them to be more intentional in their choices, and, in many cases, less impulsive in their appetites.
Quoted in Letters to a Young Therapist by Mary Pipher
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