Thinkin'

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Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:14 am

Just thinkin' ... and wanted to post, but no clear category already set for this stuff here on TG ...
here 'tis, this did me some good, let's start 2012 on a good path ... (love those 3 dots ! ... )
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Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:50 am

Carry this card in my wallet and have for 15 years. Nice. Thx.


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Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:19 am

Any clear evidence as to who wrote this and why and when?


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Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:22 am

....from BusinessBalls.com:

Desiderata by max ehrmann

The common myth is that the Desiderata poem was found in a Baltimore church in 1692 and is centuries old, of unknown origin. Desiderata was in fact written around 1920 (although some say as early as 1906), and certainly copyrighted in 1927, by lawyer Max Ehrmann (1872-1945) based in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Desiderata myth began after Reverend Frederick Kates reproduced the Desiderata poem in a collection of inspirational works for his congregation in 1959 on church notepaper, headed: 'The Old St Paul's Church, Baltimore, AD 1692' (the year the church was founded). Copies of the Desiderata page were circulated among friends, and the myth grew, accelerated particularly when a copy of the erroneously attributed Desiderata was found at the bedside of deceased Democratic politician Aidlai Stevenson in 1965.

Whatever the history of Desiderata, the Ehrmann's prose is inspirational, and offers a simple positive credo for life.



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Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:28 am

Here's my 2 cents worth for all parents and those who work with young people:

On Children - Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.


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Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:18 am

And just to be wicked Pierre, National Lampoon's version...

"And remember two wrongs don't make a right, but three do!"



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Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:12 am

Yes, some men are wicked, Chris !
I actually prefer National Lampoon's satire to the commercial recording (cheesy, y'know?).
The original text is timeless, I'm sure you agree.
Oh, nice Gibran text ;)

By the way, I would choose to err on the side of "Cosmic Muffin" rather than "Hairy Thunderer" :silly:
But maybe that could be a subject for a poll ?


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Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:38 am

This is all good stuff...


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Sun Dec 18, 2011 6:00 pm

May I throw in Kipling?

IF.....


IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!


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Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:46 pm

Kipling's If is often mentioned in the same breath as Desiderata Sam, thanks, like that.

Here's one I use a lot:

Pay attention to your thoughts, because they will become your words.
Pay attention to your words, because they will become your deeds.
Pay attention to your deeds, because they will become your habits.
Pay attention to your habits, because they will become your character.
Pay attention to your character, because it will become your destiny.
~The Talmud


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