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Practitioner's Corner for September
Jean Parcher, RScP,
This month we offer quotations on two subjects for you to ponder; the first
subject, in recognition of our topic for the month, is FORGIVENESS; the second,
recognizing their power, gives a nod to ATTITUDES.
Forgiveness
Forgiveness is love in its most noble form.
-Anon
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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-Paul Boese
"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is
broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."
-Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings, 1964
"What power has love but forgiveness?
In other words by its intervention what has been done
can be undone.
What good is it otherwise?"
-William Carlos Williams, Pictures from Brueghel, 1962
(For your information, Google provides 4,800,000 entries for the word
?forgiveness?! )
Attitudes
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute
that a victim is in the neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in
every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are
not.
-- Andre Gide
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their
lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
-- William James
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more
open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being
crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Marston
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time;
serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns
have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson
Hurray for cartoons! (and chocolate!)
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in Love and Light
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