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What faults are those? Of others? Yes. Your own? Yes. If the fault you are angry about was an actual box, what would you find if you unwrapped it? What would be deep inside? Something you fear perhaps? If there is anger, fear is lurking behind it.
Quote by Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French writer
Oct
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I am starting a proverb series today.
I keep coming across quotes that have no author, and usually they are either too stupid for someone to take credit for or they are proverbs that have become connected with a particular culture.
Yesterday’s was the first variety, today’s is the second.
Doesn’t matter if it is a doctor, a wife, a husband, a kid, or a president you are waiting for, if you have to wait too long it’s easy to stew, and stewing makes for malevolent thoughts; anger, frustration, annoyance, etc.
It really does get down to trying to understand why you are angry at the delay. What is going to happen that is so bothersome? Missing a flight can be a pretty big drag for example. But I learned long ago, after being married to two women who both have a biological clock set at least 15 minutes behind the rest of the world, that in the end most delays aren’t really that big a deal and they aren’t worth getting crazy over.
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Quote is a French proverb
Sep
14
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Or else you will end up in a cemetery with no one visiting. Forgiveness and tolerance are the key to love among friends.
So, what faults do those letters represent in your mind?
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quote by Henry Brooks Adams, 1838-1918, American Writer
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I got busted stealing 5 cents worth of bubble gum when I was 14 years old. I got
pulled into the back of ‘Stoler’s Five and Dime’ by Mr. Stoler. In the time it took me
to walk back there I had already figured out what I was going to say, that it was my
very first time EVER to steal anything and I would never do it again…yada yada
yada. My second thought was that that was way to obvious and I am sure every other
kid who ever got caught by Mr. Stoler said the same thing. So, sure enough the very
first question he asked was ‘Have you ever stolen before?’. I answered ‘Yes’. That
was the truth. He then asked, ‘Have you ever stolen from this store before?’. I
answered ‘No’. That was a lie.
The police were called and I was brought down to the police station, no joke. The
policeman gave me the stink eye and made me feel I would be selling pencils on the
street corner the rest of my life, my sin had been so great. He also said Mr. Stoler
ALWAYS prosecutes. Gulp!
They called my father who came down and got me. When he arrived the police brought us
into a room and sat us down. He said that Mr. Stoler was NOT going to press charges
after all. My father asked why and the policeman said it was because I was the very
first kid Mr. Stoler had ever caught who admitted to having stolen before. Wow, my
instincts were right! I had made the right choice.
However, I don’t know if the next answer was the right choice or not, to lie about
stealing from his store. But I do know that admitting to the ‘little’ fault of
stealing before probably persuaded him I didn’t have a ‘larger’ one of stealing from
him.
My father, on the way home jokingly said ‘You know, if you were going to get caught
stealing something, couldn’t you have chosen something that was worth stealing, like a
TV or something?’
I did buy a TV once that was a real steal, but that was the last thing I ever stole.
Quote author – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French author & moralist (1613 – 1680)
Apr
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Hiding things makes so much sense, is so compellingly important to the addict, the
secret bearer, the flawed one. But in the end the secret will find it’s way out. It
may not show itself directly, but something wrong in the world will. Maybe it will be
anger and frustration with family or friends that isn’t deserved and doesn’t make
sense. Maybe it will be escapist behavior that threatens yourself and those around you,
or it might be an out and out full exposure of the secret when you least expect it.
But however the secret comes out, directly or not, holding onto it will affect your
life for the worse, not the better in the long run.
What faults are those? Of others? Yes. Your own? Yes. If the fault you are angry about was an actual box, what would you find if you unwrapped it? What would be deep inside? Something you fear perhaps? If there is anger, fear is lurking behind it.
