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“How do you make a life?…” #10
Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. -David Lloyd George You have to be careful about being too careful. -Beryl Pfizer Crossing a chasm in life might be making a commitment to marry or have a child, borrowing enough money to do something right, starting…
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“How do you make a life?…” #11
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. -Frank Lloyd Wright On Architecture Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. -Vida D. Scudder The Privilege of Age
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“How do you make a life?…” #12
When I’ve had a rough day, before I go to sleep I ask myself if there isn’t something more I can do right now. If there isn’t, I sleep sound. -L. L. Colbert
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“How do you make a life?…” #13
But you must remember that everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost, and wonders never cease. -Muriel Spark Loitering with Intent Replace “artist” with a more general word for “person.” Does the quote still make sense?
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“How do you make a life?…” #14
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing. -W. Somerset Maugham
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Like a Cat on the Stove-Lid: On Learning #1
We should get out of an experience only the wisdom that was in it-and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits on the hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on the hot stove-lid again…but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain What might be some…
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Like a Cat on the Stove-Lid: On Learning #2
No one can really become educated without having pursued some study in which he [or she] took no interest-for it is part of the education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. -T. S. Eliot
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Like a Cat on the Stove-Lid: On Learning #3
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge Good advice usually works best when preceded by a bad scare. -Al Batt Are you usually willing to take advice? Or do you seem to need to learn everything by your…
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Like a Cat on the Stove-Lid: On Learning #4
Education is of the hand as well as of the head and heart. Some of the gray matter seems to be in the fingers, which had better be familiar with their hidden wisdom. -Mark Van Doren LiberalEducation Knowing includes knowing how to do, whether in poetry or in mechanics, whether with levers or with laws;…
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Like a Cat on the Stove-Lid: On Learning #5
Have you learned lessons only of those who admire you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves againest you, and disuted the passage with you? -Walt Whitman