Walt's World of Wisdom
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Wisdom 41
Peace is the only passion
that includes in its dreams
the happiness of everyone else.
Walt Hopkins
Comment: With thanks to Alphonse Karr, who said: "Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one that includes in its dreams the happiness of some one else."
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Wisdom 42
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
E. M. Forster
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Wisdom 43
If we wish to secure peace for ourselves,
we must start by championing it for others.
Dalai Lama
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Wisdom 44
Learning is not a spectator sport.
Donald Blocher
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Wisdom 45
And what else?
Rosemary Hopkins
Source: Our conversation the night we first met.
Comment: This is Rosemary's response when a client says to her: "I'm an INFP" or "I'm a manic-depressive" or "I'm disabled" or any other single label that limits rather than expands the possibilties.
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Wisdom 46
Children must be taught how to think,
not what to think.
Margaret Mead
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Wisdom 47
Momentum is more important than position.
David Osborne
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Wisdom 48
"Men work together," I told him from the heart,
"Whether they work together or apart."
Robert Frost
Source: "The Tuft of Flowers" from The Complete Poems of Robert Frost
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Wisdom 49
God, give us grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
courage to change
the things that should be changed,
and the wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Source: This is the original version of Niebuhr's prayer. Unlike the watered-down version that talks only of things that CAN be changed, the original seeks to change the things that SHOULD be changed. That does take courage.
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Wisdom 50
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone;
therefore we are saved by love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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