Tag Archives: believe

Circumstances

Posted on October 12, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.  I don’t believe in circumstances.  The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t … Continue reading →

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We are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life

Posted on September 22, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. John Berger, The Sense of Sight, … Continue reading →

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I believe a leaf of grass…

Posted on September 16, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Walt Whitman

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I believe

Posted on September 8, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

I believe in pink.  I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.  I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.  I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.  I believe that happy girls are the prettiest … Continue reading →

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The whole world is an enigma

Posted on August 31, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

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Yes, I will try to be

Posted on August 26, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

Yes, I will try to be.  Because I believe that not being is arrogant. Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it

Posted on July 22, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.  Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.  Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.  … Continue reading →

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In trying to make other people happy

Posted on June 24, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. Robert S. Lynd

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There can be no happiness

Posted on June 22, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark, The Journey’s Echo

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Important to the friendship

Posted on June 2, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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