heardaboutthisone

Stories to amuse, provoke thought, or provide a laugh...

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Perspective

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Can there be anything worse than blindness? Oh yes...for the most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. ...
Saturday, May 30, 2015

Understanding

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Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. ...
Friday, May 29, 2015

The source of greatness

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Buried deep within each of us is a spark of greatness, a spark than can be fanned into flames of passion and achievement. That spark is not ...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Engagement

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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form m...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

The Search for Truth

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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Re...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Decisions

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It isn't really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much more impor...
Monday, May 25, 2015

In Whose Image?

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. - Voltaire
Sunday, May 24, 2015

Paradox

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The greater the happiness, the greater could be the sadness. The more exciting the achievement, the more devastating could be the failure. T...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Changing History

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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all tho...
Friday, May 22, 2015

The next step

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. - Erica Jong
Thursday, May 21, 2015

Progress

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Progress, however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Trivia

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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cann...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

What is Valued

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What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humour and timing, their ability to listen, t...
Monday, May 18, 2015

Perspective

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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. - Ph...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

Understanding

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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things. - V...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Value

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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, b...
Friday, May 15, 2015

Influence

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One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on until the soul of human experience breathes o...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Doubting Oneself

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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure c...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Understanding

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There are some things you don't have to know how it works - only that it works. While some people are studying the roots, others are pic...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Which side of the Ledger?

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The Bible gives us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. One list of human stories is used as examples - do what these people...
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Husband and Father, teacher and student of life, love, philosophy, spirituality. Seeking to be an authentic follower of Jesus in a hectic world, in community with others.
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