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The crucial question, then, is this: Is there any help to be found in the religion of Jesus that can be of value here? It is utterly beside the point to examine here what the religion of Jesus suggests to those who would be helpful to the disinherited. That is ever in the nature of special pleading. No man wants to be the object of his fellow’s pit
... See moreHoward Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
Simple is good.”
Jim Henson
Jim Henson
A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to
... See moreViktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
How to avoid cynicism:
Act in ways opposite to your instinct. If you hate something, find out more about it. Again ask 'What is this?', 'Who made this?', 'Who is this for?' Genuinely. Never stop doing this"
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This very obvious fact—that each generation is taught by an earlier generation—must be kept very firmly in mind. . . . None can give to another what he does not possess himself. No generation can bequeath to its successor what it has not got.
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
If it was hard work that counted, the donkey would own the farm.
“Everything has a home.” Clutter collects when things have strayed from their home and got mixed up with everything else.