Don’t compete when you can’t-let out and, unless circumstances change profoundly, stay out.
-Robert Heller
You must do the same thing you think you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Here are two opposing points of view. What does each one mean? Which do you think is wiser? Explain your answer, making up examples to prove your point.
Don’t climb a tree to look for fish.
-Chinese proverb
Don’t fish for strawberries at the bottom of the sea.
Anonymous
Whether we want love, a kind word, an honest answer, help, or even a special tool, we should look for it in likely places. If we look in unlikely places, we waste a lot of time and just end up, hurt and disappointed, without finding what we want.
Have you ever “climbed a tree to look for fish”? What did you learn? Where will you look next time?
If you miss seven balls out of ten, you’re battling three hundred, and that’s good enough for the Hall of Fame. You can’t score if you keep the bat on your shoulder.
-Walter B. Wriston
Personality is to a person what perfume is to a flower.
-Charles M. Schwab
Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can’t bring down.
-Olive Schreiner
Blow not against the hurricane.
-Proverb
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
-Racheal Carson
A new school. A new friend. A new home. A new stepparent or family. Any new start can be difficult. It’s a CHANGE, and change makes everything uncertain for a while. It gets easier as you keep going, though, and the new thing becomes more familiar.
Write about what’s new in your life of the life of someone you know. What still seems uncertain?
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analze our own bad points.
-Francoise Sagan
If you treat every situation as a life-and-death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.
-Dean Smith quoted by Fran Tarkenton
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive, and irrational-but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
-Judith Viorst
To some people, certain practices have real power. But to most of us, superstitions are more like habits or family customs. Tell about a superstition, real or playful. Why do some people believe in superstitions?
Grudge: the heaviest thing you can carry.
-Anonymous
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick
When you carry a grudge, you give a part of your life-your energy, memory, and enjoyment-to someone who has wronged you. Every time you think of the person or incident, you punish yourself by reliving the experience.
Think of an old hurt that is taking up room in your life and write a farewell letter to it. Tell it about the wonderful things that you are going to give your energy and attention to instead. Give your letter a firm ending.