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Love your life
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. |
| 2006-03-22 |
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The Love Letter (III)
When I arrived I found her sitting on the stoep. She looked lonely and pathetic, and for the first time I wondered why no man had ever taken her and looked after her and loved her. |
| 2006-03-13 |
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The Love Letter (II)
I was always a little in awe of Great-aunt Stephina Roos. Indeed, as children we were all frankly terrified of her. |
| 2006-03-13 |
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The Love letter(I)
I was always a little in awe of Great-aunt Stephina Roos. Indeed, as children we were all frankly terrified of her. |
| 2006-03-13 |
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What will matter?
Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. |
| 2006-03-13 |
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Why do you have to listen to me?
I am rebelling against the idea that the world is the way the world is, and there"s not a damned thing I can do about it. |
| 2006-03-13 |
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Love and Time
Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all of the others, including Love. |
| 2006-03-13 |
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The Power of Silence
What did you not say yesterday? Were there things you wish you had said but held back? Did you corral certain words, certain sentences, and hold them for another opportunity? |
| 2006-03-13 |
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The Fishermen
There was a group called "The Fisherman's Fellowship". They were surrounded by streams and lakes full of hungry fish. |
| 2006-03-13 |
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Sportsmen's Values
A veteran springboard driver, defeated by his compatriot in the finals of a world championship, offering congratulations to the victor in a warm embrace and waving a tearful farewell to the audience. |
| 2006-03-13 |
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Run Through the Rain
She had been shopping with her Mom in Wal-Mart. She must have been 6 years old, this beautiful brown haired, freckle-faced image of innocence. |
| 2006-03-13 |
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Not a Chance to Regret
A short while ago when life was simple and all that mattered was friends and having fun. There were two sisters that lived life just as gracefully as possible. |
| 2006-03-13 |
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Magical coat
My l4-year-old son, John, and I spotted the coat simultaneously. It was hanging on a rack at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass |
| 2006-03-13 |
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I Never Write Right
When I was fifteen, I announced to my English class that I was going to write and illustrate my own books. |
| 2006-03-13 |
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Five Balls Of Life
This was written by the CEO of Coca-Cola Brian G. Dyson.It was used as Georgia Tech's Commencement Address. |
| 2006-03-13 |
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