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Raise Up In Praise To The Lord

Posted in Faith, Family and Friends, General Comments, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Andy Stanley, Faith, General Comments, Happy Birthday James, Joy, Philosophy, Pride, Quotes on April 7, 2026| 4 Comments »

Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.

— Andy Stanley

[Happy Birthday, son. …Like your sisters, you are a great source of pride and joy for us.

Love Always,
— Mum and Dad]

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Just Like Smiles, Hugs And Rainbows

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Dividing, Full Value, Joy, Mark Twain, Philosophy, Quotes, Sharing on February 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

— Mark Twain

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It’s YOUR Choice

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Action, Apathy, Choice, Despair, Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Growth, Happiness, Joy, Philosophy, Quotes, Stagnation, Tears on January 15, 2026| 2 Comments »

You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.

— Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia

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Keep Trying

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Always, Attitude, Despair, Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Hopeful, Joy, Life, Pain, Philosophy, Possible, Quotes, Wonder, Yes on September 16, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Say “yes” to life! “Yes” to wonder, to joy, to despair. “Yes” to pain, “yes” to what you don’t understand. Try “yes.” Try “always.” Try “possible.” Try “hopeful.” Try “I will.” And try “I can.”

— Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia

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Creating My Perfect Journey Without Extremes

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Creation, Departure, Dino Basli, Enemy, John Updike, Journeys, Joy, Perfectionism, Philosophy, Quotes, Return, Self-solitude, Well-Being on July 9, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.

— John Updike

The perfect journey is circular —- the joy of departure and the joy of return.

— Dino Basli

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Shadows Follow

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Buddha, Carts, Joy, Life, Oxen, Philosophy, Quotes, Shadows, Suffering, Thinking, Thought on January 11, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draw it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.

— Buddha

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My Spider-Sense Keeps Tingling

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Compassion, Frederick Buechner, Joy, Knowledge, Peace, Philosophy, Quotes, Skin on July 17, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

— Frederick Buechner

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A Butterfly Fluttering Its Wings In Brazil?

Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Butterflies, Carl Sagan, Chaos, Cosmos, Joy, Knowledge, Philosophy, Quotes, Science, Understanding, Wonder on June 6, 2024| 4 Comments »

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it’s forever.

— Carl Sagan

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The Marvel Of Ordinary Life

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Children, Crying, Death, Joy, Life, Philosophy, Pleasure, Quotes, The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents, William Martin, Wonder on May 23, 2024| 2 Comments »

Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.

― William Martin
From his book: “The Parent’s Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents“

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Try Sweating

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Express Yourself, Feelings, Hate, Joy, Laurie Halse Anderson, Love, Pain, Philosophy, Quotes, Thinking on April 28, 2024| 2 Comments »

Think about love, or hate, or joy, or pain – whatever makes you feel something, makes your palms sweat, or your toes curl. Focus on that feeling. When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You’d be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside — walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It’s the saddest thing I know.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

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Joy And Freedom

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Charlie Chaplin, Freedom, John Stuart Mill, Joseph Campbell, Joy, Laughter, Pain, Philosophy, Play, Pleasure, Quotes on April 27, 2024| 2 Comments »

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

— John Stuart Mill

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.

— Charlie Chaplin

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

— Joseph Campbell

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Fear, Favor, Joy

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Arthur Ashe, Confidence, Elon Musk, Fear, Hard Work, Hunger, Joy, Limits, Odds, Opponents, Philosophy, Queen Latifah, Quotes, Standards on February 6, 2024| Leave a Comment »

I’ve always approached things with hunger and just enough fear. Plenty of confidence, you know, but just enough fear to work extra hard. Paralyzing fear does nothing, but the kind of fear that makes you nervous enough to really be aware and focused? I like that kind of fear.

— Queen Latifah

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

— Elon Musk

You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.

— Arthur Ashe

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Joys

Posted in Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Age, At Seventy: A Journal, David Kanigan, davidkanigan.com, Edward Lindaman, Flowers, Joy, Light, May Sarton, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes, Thinking in the Future Tense: A Workout for the Mind on January 23, 2024| 4 Comments »

One thing is certain, and I have always known it — the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence,

— May Sarton,
From: “At Seventy: A Journal“

One of life’s most fulfilling moments occurs in the split-second when the familiar is suddenly transformed into the dazzling aura of the profoundly new.

— Edward Lindaman
From: “Thinking in the Future Tense: A Workout for the Mind“

[Both quotes were originally found at a blog I have been following for several years: davidkanigan.com
The specific link to the post is: https://davidkanigan.com/lightly-child-lightly-378/

The first was a blog post. The second was a response to a comment about the blog post. Please visit the original site if you have some spare time. — kmab]

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Thinking About My Sister

Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Bravery, Creating Yourself, Family, Finding Yourself, Fury, George Bernard Shaw, Happy Birthday Sis, Helen Keller, Jean de la Fontaine, Joy, Patience, Philosophy, Strength, Time on April 5, 2023| 2 Comments »

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

— Helen Keller

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.

— Jean de la Fontaine

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

— George Bernard Shaw

[Happy Birthday, Sis!! — kmab]

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Enjoying Life

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Joy, Laughter, Mary Anne Radmacher, Philosophy, Possibilities, Quotes, Windows on August 17, 2022| 2 Comments »

May your walls know joy, each room hold laughter and every window open to greater possibility.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

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