Wednesday, January 14, 2009

The Truth


Photo: by Cyndi (Mr. Dickie at The Gaylord Hotel - Prince Georges County, MD, Dec 2008)

We are all like children who first repeat the unquestionable "truth" told to us by our grandmothers, then the "truth" told to us by our teachers, and then, when we become older, the "truth" told to us by prominent people. (After Ralph Waldo Emerson in A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy, 12 January)

The more you understand about why you behave in the ways that ... [you do], the more equipped you will be to fix your behavior. (Dr. Phil McGraw, The Ultimate Weight Solution, p. 135)

To try to change outward attitudes and behaviors does very little good in the long run if we fail to examine the basic paradigms from which those attitudes and behaviors flow. (Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, p. 28)

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. (Eleanor Roosevelt in The Art of the Possible by Alexandra Stoddard, p. 23)

      • We enjoyed seeing the photographs posted on Facebook by Alfonso and Cecelia in Panama. Social networking is fun.

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