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• Yourself

  By aaforringer on July 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

    To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.  e. e…. Read More ›

• Forgive

  By aaforringer on July 7, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge  over which he himself must pass.   George Herbert George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) was a Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest. Herbert’s poetry is associated with the writings of… Read More ›

• Events

  By aaforringer on July 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

    Man is affected not by events but by the view he takes of them.   Epictetus (55 AD – 135 AD) Epictetus (A.D. c. 55 – 135) was a Greek speaking Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis,… Read More ›

• Utility

  By aaforringer on June 30, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

    The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.   Edwin Way Teale (June 2, 1899 – October 18, 1980) was an American naturalist, photographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. Teale’s… Read More ›