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«Rather than denying problems, focus inventively, intentionally on what solutions might look or feel like...Our mind is meant to generate ideas that help us escape circumstantial traps / if we trust it to do so. Naturally, not all hunches are useful. But then you only need a single good idea to solve a problem.»
Author: Marsha Sinetar
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«Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.»
«Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.»
Author: John Muir
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civilized, fountains, Going Home, irrigate, irrigates, mountain, necessity, nerve, parked, Parks, reservation, Reservations, rivers, River Went, shaken, the Mountain, Thousands, timber, timbered, timbers, tired, useful, wildness
«The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Life
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compassionate, honorable, lived, useful
«Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
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Wisdom
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discipline, instruction, practical, Precepts, real life, school, School of, so far, theory, The school, useful
«The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.»
«Sometimes the best way to be useful is to get out of somebody's way.»
«The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons»
«There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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accomplished, anxious, battle, charities, charity, concerning, confess, confessing, contented, difficulties, Faith in the Future, fears, forsake, forsakes, forsaking, Good Neighbors, grace, health, helpful, Hope and Faith, move, needs, neighbor, neighboring, nines, Nine Lives, overcome, patience, remove, requisites, sins, support, The Good Neighbor, toil, toiled, toiling, useful, wealth
«To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Life
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Beautiful Thing, contemplate, contemplated, courageous, for one, one-man, useful
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