The Resolute Woman

Category: advice

  • Peace

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    I wish peace for the world. The world needs peace, but that peace is difficult to achieve. “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures,” John F. Kennedy once said. –Joy

  • Problems

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    “I am an old man now and have had a great many problems. Most of them never happened,” Mark Twain once said. I found this quote in the book Into the Silent Land by Martin Laird. Joy

  • Buy a lot of books

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    We should buy a lot of books, says Umberton Eco, Italian writer and philosopher. There are those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it, Eco says. “They simply apply the consumer mentality to books. That is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love…

  • Happiness

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    I’m still cleaning, and I’ve found lot of bookmarks—additions for my bookmark collection. Some are decorated with bits of wisdom. Here’s one I like. “Happiness is found along the way—not at the end of the journey.” –Joy

  • The Shawnee’s Golden Rule

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    “Do not kill or injure your neighbor, for it is not he or she that you injure. You injure yourself.” This is the Shawnee Tribe’s Golden Rule. The Golden Rule “means this: Treat people the way you would like to be treated. It’s golden because it’s so valuable—and a way of living your life that’s…

  • Buddhism’s Golden Rule

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    “Do not do to others what would hurt you.” This is Buddhism’s Golden Rule. The Golden Rule “means this: Treat people the way you would like to be treated. It’s golden because it’s so valuable—and a way of living your life that’s so simple, it shines,” says the grandfather in Ilene Cooper’s children’s book The…

  • Hinduism’s Golden Rule

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    “This is the sum of duty: to do nothing to others which would cause them pain.” This is Hinduism’s Golden Rule. The Golden Rule “means this: Treat people the way you would like to be treated. It’s golden because it’s so valuable—and a way of living your life that’s so simple, it shines,” says the…

  • Islam’s Golden Rule

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    “Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you.” That’s Islam’s Golden Rule. The Golden Rule “means this: Treat people the way you would like to be treated. It’s golden because it’s so valuable—and a way of living your life that’s so simple, it shines,” says the grandfather in Ilene Cooper’s children’s book The…

  • A valuable rule

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    Judaism says: “What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow humans.” The Golden Rule “means this: Treat people the way you would like to be treated. It’s golden because it’s so valuable—and a way of living your life that’s so simple, it shines,” says the grandfather in Ilene Cooper’s children’s book The…

  • The Golden Rule

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    “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” “It means this: Treat people the way you would like to be treated. It’s golden because it’s so valuable—and a way of living your life that’s so simple, it shines,” says the grandfather in Ilene Cooper’s children’s book The Golden Rule.