Tag: Words of Wisdom
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Weekly Word of Wisdom

Why Tolerate? When I’m forced to tolerate issues in my present situation, I look for the benefits of tolerating them, because I know tomorrow will become the now and those issues would have lessened or disappeared altogether. As with anything in life, toleration comes with unfavorable and favorable results. The unfavorable is: feeling you have
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Weekly Word of Wisdom
Alone in a Corner When I was a little boy, teachers ridiculed me and I was often told to stand in a corner. I felt ashamed of myself; then one day a kindly Angel took me, by the hand, to a mirror. “Look at yourself, you are beautiful, you need never be ashamed of yourself;
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The Vicissitudes of Life

“Oh! That the vicissitudes of life would come, A preamble to a higher elevation To worlds more real and dear From whence we derive more virtue and pleasure!” ENOCH JOHN Friday, February 15, 2008 * I suppose that you and I would better understand the meaning of vicissitudes of life as mishaps, troubles and woes
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Trust Yourself, You Did The Right Thing
For what it’s worth I have found there is some commonness in the severity levels of events and how we humans respond to them. One scale said that the following events stressed humans more than others (Laid out in order of their severity): Death of a loved one. Divorce. Moving. Major illness or injury.
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Don’t Die Too Soon – continued
Continued from previous publication. (click for link) One grey rainy morning at the age of seventy one (I had just been retired from my job of twelve years with no more than handshake and thirty days’ notice pay!) gazing out of the window, I wondered, fearfully what was going to become of me. I
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Whiffle Golf
Three young men waited for the club secretary’s selection of a fourth player to join them in the Wednesday Club Competition. “Meet Roger Forsythe, he’s looking to join some young blood.” A smiling club secretary greeted them. Roger’s face lit up as he faced the group. “Love playing with young blood; won many a prize