Category: courage
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Happy Fourth of July!
This Fourth of July, we must vow to do what we can to ensure that Democracy in our country is awake. Walt Whitman once said: “We have frequently printed the word Democracy. Yet I cannot too often repeat that it is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawaken’d.”
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Do your part
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world,” Anne Frank once said. We recently discussed a book about Anne Frank at a Girl Scout summer book club meeting. –Joy
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Keep it from happening again
“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again,” Anne Frank once said. We recently discussed a book about Anne Frank at a Girl Scout summer book club. –Joy
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Living two lives
Sylvie, a character in Ann Napolitano’s book Oh Beautiful, realizes that she has been “compartmentalizing herself for a long time.” She was keeping secrets, living one life with some people and another life with William, being one person sometimes and another person at other times. Who was she? What did she want? I have compartmentalized.…
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No secrets
In the book Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano, William is hospitalized after he tries to commit suicide. His psychiatrist tells him that his mantra must be: “No bullshit. No secrets.” That’s good advice for all of us.
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Cease being afraid
I am cleaning! Throwing away papers. But, I found this quote that’s worth keeping—and repeating. “I would like…to see us take hold of ourselves, look at ourselves and cease being afraid,” Eleanor Roosevelt once said. –Joy
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Allow all ideas
“If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own,” the author Kurt Vonnegut once said.
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To make sense of the world
“The interconnectedness of the seemingly unrelated is how we make sense of the world,” write Einar and Jamex de la Torre in the words that accompany their art exhibit at the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa.
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To cope with life
“We do need humor to cope with the absurdity of human reality,” write Einar and Jamex de la Torre in the words that accompany their art exhibit at the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa.
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To enjoy life
“If we enjoy the absurdity of life, we will enjoy it more,” write Einar and Jamex de la Torre in the words that accompany their art exhibit at the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa.