Saturday, February 22, 2014

Source

"Life longs to return to its source. The source, however, can only be found in the land of childhood. Where one as family can receive directions from the unconscious. Not only he is childish, who remains a child too long but also he who parts himself from his childhood and supposes it has therewith ceased to exist. For he does not know that everything pertaining to the psyche has a double face. The one looks forward, the other looks back. It is ambiguous and therefore symbolic, like all living reality." - Carl Jung

Anger

"Anger, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces." - Seneca

Discontent

"Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress in individuals and in nations." - Bert Auerbach

Intellect

"No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest - it is your own mind that has to acquire it." Anonymous

Responsibility

"With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on hand gun purchases; and it is just plain common sense that there be a waiting period to allow local law enforcement officials to conduct background checks on those who wish to buy a handgun." - Ronald Reagan

Self

"The individual must control the deepest perception of himself, lest he be overwhelmed by the forces of negativity and defeat in those around him." - Anonymous

History

"By understanding history we learn to understand the world. No people can survive without memory. History is the memory of the people - interesting, exciting, dangerous." - R.H.

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Lawmakers

"When the legislature has spoken; the public interest has been declared in terms - well-nigh, conclusive." - Justice William Douglas

Law

"Our nation is founded on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny." - John F. Kennedy

Philosophy

"True philosophy is an ascending from the things which flow, and arise, and fall to things that are forever the same." - Anon

Participation

"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good." Mohandas Gandhi

Physical Fitness

"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have." - Winston Churchill

Milestone

"The average High School teacher will have taught approximately five thousand students during his or her lifetime." - William Alexander

Bank

"The treasures of the intellect are permanent." - Thoreau

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Before The Oil Spill

"The sun sparkled on the ocean and white sand. Now and then a sea gull flew across the sky or swept downward to the waves. Soft, fleecy little clouds were floating beneath the blue of heaven, and the whisper of the water was the only sound." - P. Webling

Solitude

"The day, with the work God gave me to do, is done, and now He has given me the night, quiet and soothing, for rest. I will, therefore, trust myself - body and spirit - into His loving, tender care, through the mystery of sleep. As flood tides from the ocean fill each bay and inlet, so power and love and peace can fill my life to overflowing as I rest quietly, serenely, patiently, bravely, lovingly, with confidence and perfect faith." - Anonymous

Self

"The pure, simple self at the hour of waking - and the first thing it sees - is the grotesque image in the distorting mirror of yesterday." - Anonymous

A New Frontier

"We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier. Beyond that frontier are uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered pockets of ignorance and prejudice, unresolved questions of poverty and surplus." - John F. Kennedy

Principle

"Let us cling to our principles as the mariner clings to his last plank - when night and tempest close around him." - Adam Woolever

Failure

"We constantly underestimate difficulties, over promise results, and avoid any evidence of incompatibility and conflict, thus repeatedly creating the conditions of failure out of a desperate desire for success." - D.P. Moynihan

A Shrinking Middle Class...?

"We are losing our middle class, and a shrinking middle class is a threat to the stability of America and to world democracy itself." - R.T. Kiyosaki

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Prophecy

"Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." - Holy Bible

Truth

"We must sail sometimes with the wind, sometimes against it; but we must sail and not drift or lie at anchor." - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

Perfectionism

"Whoever thinks a perfect work to see, thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be." - Pope

Violence

"Guns don't cause crime any more than flies cause garbage." - National Rifle Association

Act Of War

"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." - John F. Kennedy

Admonition

"God has forecast eternal destruction for all those who reject his salvation." - C.D. Windsor

Diplomacy

"We must never neglect any work of peace that is within our reach; however small." - Adlai E. Stevenson

College

"An educated man is one who can entertain an idea, entertain another person and entertain himself." - E.P. Hovey