Love

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Feb 142013
 

Love is patient,
love is kind.
It does not envy,
it does not boast,
it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others,
it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes,
always perseveres.
Love never fails.

But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

– The Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (New International Version)
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+13%3A4-8&version=NIV

What Constitutes Success?

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Feb 122013
 

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.

– Bessie A. Stanley, prize winning essay published in the Emporia Gazette of Emporia, Kansas on December 11, 1905

Versions and derivatives of this essay have frequently been mis-attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/06/26/define-success/

Ye who fight with monsters, take care

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Feb 092013
 

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

– Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/18463-whoever-fights-monsters-should-see-to-it-that-in-the

 

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