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[Cleo_Serapis]

"The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?"
- Oscar Wilde

"The pebble is the perfect creature, equal to itself, mindful of its limits."
- Zbigniew Herbert

"What we play is life."
- Louis Armstrong

"The sage himself never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved."
- Lao-Tzu

"What I am I am, and say not. Being is the great explainer."
- Henry David Thoreau

"....And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils."
- William Wordsworth

"No words can describe it
No example can point to it
Samsara does not make it worse
Nirvana does not make it better
It has never been born
It has never ceased
It has never been deluded
It has never existed
It has never been nonexistent"
-Dudjon Rinpoche, on AWARENESS

"A man is known by the silence he keeps."
-Oliver Herford

"All wisdom can be stated in two lines:
What is done for you - allow it to be done.
What you must do yourself - make sure you do it."
-Khawwas

"If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without."
-Henry Miller

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
-Confucius

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."
-Medgar Evers

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration."
-Thomas Edison

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
Thomas Jefferson

"The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
-Oscar Wilde

"This above {all;} to thine own self be true."
-William Shakespeare

[Cleo_Serapis]

That IS good advice Leigh Ann.

As I ponder those words, I think of this:
"A backbone needs to bend, not break."

I just made that up, but the sentiment is so true to life for me. Whenever anyone would say, "Grow a backbone, Lori!" I would cower, feeling inferior and afraid to speak up for myself (I'm speaking of folks that I've worked with at my day job here), feeling that my character was just ridiculed (years ago).

It didn't take long for me to realize that I was too fragile and insecure, so people took advantage. There are ways to help someone when in a vulnerable state of mind - breaking their confidence is not the way.

Anywho, here is a quote that one of my co-workers recently penned:

"As long as we are willing to learn from each other, the sky is not the limit, it is just the beginning!" ~ Carl Gamberdella