Food for Thought

Food for Thought

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"It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it."

 -Jodi Picoult

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"Leisure is the mother of philosophy."

                               - Thomas Hobbes

Photo Credit: Joy Rickson

Don't forget to schedule time for absolutely nothing.  Your brain craves it...

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"Very well, then, let us live while we live, and enjoy to the fullest whatever of adventure or pleasure each new day brings, since any day may be our last, and we shall be dead for a considerable while."
                                                           
                                                                                    -Jefferson Turck
                                                                                                The Lost Continent by
                                                                                                Edgar Rice Burroughs

Remember...

Bringing them home...

Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth. ~W.J. Cameron

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Arlington National Cemetery

Who kept the faith and fought the fight;
The glory theirs, the duty ours.

                                                                       ~Wallace Bruce

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(Picture credit: Wisdom.org)

Attitudes are contagious.  Is yours worth catching?

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Love one another and you will be happy.  It's as simple and as difficult as that.

- Michael Leunig

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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb

Picture credit: Cheezburger

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Today's Food for Thought was sent to me by Superman. He's become a huge fan of The Art of Manliness...if you haven't heard of it, you're missing something fabulous.

This is one of the posters you can buy at The Art of Manliness.

So, what do you stand for?

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"Strength does not come from winning
Your struggles develop your strength.
When you go through hardship
and decide not to surrender,

that is strength."

Faith and Trust and Pixie Dust?

They're all worthwhile, but why is it that so few of us remember to pay homage to the value in and results of hard work?  All nighters, continuing education, over-time, dedication, going the extra mile, doing the right thing, taking pride in your performance, above and beyond, day in and day out...whatever you call it, it is not a secret formula, available to only a select few. 

Just wondering...

"The heights by great men reached and

kept, were not attained by sudden

flight, but they, while their companions

slept, were toiling upward in the night."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Food for Thought - Families

"...I see it as a parable of our time; his journey is part of the larger one I'm writing about.  It is a story about finding your place in the universe.  Not just the one out there, but the one in your home, your family, your community, and your world.  By no small measure, my son's story (and in large part each of our stories) reflects how, when untethered from a larger familial purpose, we can become dangerously unmoored, floating precipitously from one external referent to another in search of self."

-- Harriet Fasenfest - A Householder's Guide to the Universe --as she ponders the significance of familial purpose or lack thereof on our quality of life for both her son and the rest of us.
(emphasis mine)

Have you ever thought about "familial purpose"?  Superman and I have been thinking a lot about it this past year (just not with that phrase).  Do we have a larger familial purpose?  What is our family's larger goal?  Why do so many families seem to fracture, often before the children are raised?  Are we working together and engaging in "parallel work"?  What is the real reason we do all that we do?    These are just some of the things we spend time thinking about.   What about you?  Have you ever actually tried to quantify your larger familial purpose?    Does the idea strike a chord in you?

Happy thinking...

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Aber Falls Walk - Wales

 
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

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"You must take personal responsibility.

You cannot change the circumstances,

the seasons, or the wind, but

you can change yourself"

- Jim Rohn

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"He, who every morning plans the
transactions of the day, and follows that
plan carries a thread that will guide him
through a labyrinth of the most busy life"
- Victor Hugo

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 (The view off our deck - 11/27/2010)

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

- Helen Keller

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"You are a living magnet. What you

attract into your life is in harmony

with your dominant thoughts."

- Brian Tracy

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"When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in."

Aeschylus

Have you ever noticed that when you are living life with enthusiasm, greeting each new challenge with eagerness, that things just seem to go your way?  I think there is something to that whole idea of you get out of something what you put into it.  

No, I not suggesting that you suddenly start following Greek gods, but I think Aeschylus' observation is still worthwhile, more than 2500 years later. 

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"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this:  decide what you want."

-Ben Stein

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