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Natural Style

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

Blaise Pascal

a Happy Marriage

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. - Tolstoy

a worthy goal

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

Victor Frankl

The Details

We think in generalities but live in detail.

Alfred North Whitehead

Look for the Helpers

When I was a boy and would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster" I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers-so many caring people.

Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers)

Rules and Faults

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults.

Homer

Miracle and Mystery

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

H. G. Wells

The Wall

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

William Glasser

When the door is closed

When God closes a door, he opens a window... And then pushes you right out.

The search

We learn more from looking for the answer to the question than we do from learning the answer itself.

Lloyd Alexander

The Play

Not Enough

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift

The Chains

This is when it happens

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

ee cummings