The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle
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Hi everyone, this Monday is Labor Day in my country and it is a national holiday. Since we…
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Forever is composed of nows.
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson is right. Life is one now after another and they go flying by with many of us just watching them go past. The tough part is that we can’t slow them down or save them. Every one we don’t use is a missed opportunity.…
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Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
Dr. Seuss
One of the things I like about you and our other readers is that we get to share some laughter almost every day. It took me a while to realize that there was no value in taking life too seriously. A few years…
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“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
Voltaire
I wonder sometimes how many roadblocks we throw up that keep us from a happier life. Some of us seem to be so self-critical that we lose our confidence and start to stagnate. As I have said before I am shocked…
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yesterday I suggested that we all would benefit by investing some of our time in introspection. Too many of us are inundated with hundreds of things coming our way each day,…
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Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow, if you see it and believe it you will achieve it”
Mary Giuseffi
The other day I shared with my Facebook friends an article from the New…
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If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.
Don Herold
As you know there are a lot of things I don’t understand and one of the hardest for me is why…
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
James Openheim
As you probably know by now I believe that happiness is as much our subjective view of our daily life as it is what goes on around us. If we start with a positive outlook we are…
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“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett,
I know we have often talked about how important a positive attitude is to leading a happy and productive life. I…
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There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.
Author Unknown
Yesterday I suggested that as we age we need…
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If I have failed today I will get up and keep trying because a brand new day can become a fresh new start.
Veronica Saenz
I had lunch with an old friend the other day who was bemoaning the fact that there was so…
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Yesterday wore me out so this morning I am sending you what I wrote eleven years ago today.
Ray’s Daily first published on August 15,…
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“Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.”
Rodolfo Costa
I was talking to a friend yesterday who may be at one of life’s…
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“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”
W. M. Lewis
Lately I have been advocating that no matter what our age we need to make sure we don’t stagnate by hiding in…
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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud
I have been getting a lot of positive comments on the Daily lately as well as picking up a number of new readers for which I am grateful. Over the fourteen years I have been doing the Daily I have come to believe that while the grass is not always…
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Stop being self-absorbed, get out of your cocoon, and search for a purpose that will add meaning and excitement in your life.
Senora Roy
I am just beginning to realize that some of us have a cocoon around us. A cocoon that has been constructed by convention, tradition,…
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“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
Walt Whitman
Yesterday I told a friend that I had been to a cardiologist on Wednesday where he reviewed my status as follow-up to my open heart surgery. I continue to have some…
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
I read a simple story yesterday that I will share with you in a minute. As I read it I thought about the people I know in Kiwanis, the Salvation Army and others who I really regard. Stories such as this one could be written about…
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“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
C.S. Lewis
My Cardiac rehab is a little more difficult than I expected it to be, mainly because my body seems to want to remind me that it is not as young as I think I am. I see one of my main…
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
Denis Waitley
I have found that people my age and those who have passed the mid-life point often feel…
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