There are no precedents: You are the first you that ever was.
-Christopher Morley
Inward Ho
We are each so much more than what some reduce to measuring.
-Karen Kaiser Clark
Once you label me, you negate me.
-Soren Kierkegard
Category: And all is always now
“We are each of us unique.” #7
People don’t want to be understood-I mean not completely. It’s too destructive. Then they haven’t anyting left.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Bring Me a Unicorn
No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another’s happiness.
-Graham Greene
Some people believe they can “read you like a book.” They also think they know what’s best for another and think nothing of making decisions or plans for that person. Do you know anyone like this? Write a vignette or skit illustrating the person’s behavior. Why do you suppose he or she assumes the right to run another person’s life?
“We are each of us unique.” #8
Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feeling of which one is capable oneself.
-Andree Gide
It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbor’s mind and to find out how different the scenery there was from that of his own.
-William James
Many of us persist in the belief that people are pretty much the same, that we share similar values, viewpoints, goals, and emotional needs and attachments. This belief results in many surprises-usually disapointments. What kinds of situations can this belief create? How can a person find out what another’s feelings and values are?
“But we are more than logical” #1
If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
-Jacques Cousteau
“But we are more than logical” #2
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller
“But we are more than logical” #3
Anyone who angers you conquers you.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny
A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each of these quotations could be true for the same person-but in different situations. When might each be appropriate? How could each be abused?
“But we are more than logical” #4
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough.
-Bede Jarrett
House of Gold
“But we are more than logical” #5
Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away ust below the conscious level.
-Dr. Joyce Brothers
How to Get Whatever You Want Out of Life
“Something tells me” needs only decent attention and confidence to tell us much more.
-Henry S. Haskins
Intuition allows us to take shortcuts when forming conclusions or making decisions. Everyone has intuition. Some people pay more attention to it than others and in time learn to trust in their intuitive powers.Do you consider yourself an intuitive person? Or do you always approach problems and decisions in a step-by-step, analytical way? Have you ever talked yourself out of following your inuition-only to regret it later?
“But we are more than logical” #6
Cherish your emotions and never undervalue them.
-Robert Henri
The Art Spirit
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
-W. B. Yeats
“But we are more than logical” #7
Envy eats nothing but its own heart.
-German proverb