Today's Quote: Desmond Tutu

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You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

~ Desmond Tutu

Today's Quote: Eleanor Roosevelt

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We can establish no real trust between nations until we acknowledge the power of love above all other power.  We cannot cast out fear and therefore we cannot build up trust.  Perfectly obvious and perfectly true...

~  Eleanor Roosevelt

Today's Quote: Proverbial Wisdom

 

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The fire is winter's fruit.

~ Arabian proverb

 

Today's Quote: Vicki Corona

 

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

~Vicki Corona

Today's Quote: John Grisham

 

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In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

 

~ John Grisham 

Today's Quote: Robert Louis Stevenson

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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Today's Quote: Virginia Woolf

 

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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

~ Virginia Woolf

Today's Quote: Ulysses S. Grant

 

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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

~ Ulysses S. Grant

Today's Quote: Proverbial Wisdom

 

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It is always the impossible that happens.

~ French proverb

Today's Quote: John F. Kennedy

 

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.  

~ John F. Kennedy

Today's Quote: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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He who is slow in promising is surest to keep his word.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Today's Quote: Estée Lauder

 

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I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.

~ Estée Lauder

Today's Quote: John Lubbock

 

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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

~ John Lubbock 

"A Summer Day in the Dunes" by Hermann Seeger (1857-1945).

Today's Quote: John Lewis

 

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 Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic.

~ John Lewis

Today's Quote: Proverbial Wisdom

 

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It's a long way from words to deeds.

~ Latvian proverb

Today's Quote: Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Today's Quote: Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

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Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Today's Quote: Franz Kafka

 

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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

~ Franz Kafka

Today's Quote: Amy Krouse Rosenthal

 

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If you want to know what you need to do in life, all you really need to do is pay attention to what you pay attention to.  

~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Today's Quote: Abraham Lincoln

 

 

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Let them adopt the maxim, “Better luck next time”; and then, by renewed exertion, make that better luck for themselves.
 

~ Abraham Lincoln

Today's Quote: Robert Kiyosaki

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The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

Today's Quote: Amelia Earhart

 

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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

~ Amelia Earhart 

Today's Quote: Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today's Quote: Proverbial Wisdom

 

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"If" and "when" were planted, and "nothing" grew.

~ Turkish proverb

Today's Quote: Isaac Asimov

 

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Don't agonize. It slows you down.

~ Isaac Asimov

 

Today's Quote: Rosa Parks

 

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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

~ Rosa Parks

Today's Quote: Linus Pauling

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The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

~ Linus Pauling

Today's Quote: Colette

 

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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

~ Colette

Call for Submissions

IMPERFECT II: poems about perspective for middle schoolers

Being human means losing perspective sometimes. We focus on the one negative comment instead of the ten positive ones. We think we're the only one who had something really embarrassing happen to us, or that we won't be able to get out from under a problem we're having. Just like an artist draws using perspective to show the larger picture, poetic perspective can help us have a balanced view.

History House Publishers is having an open call for submissions for IMPERFECT II which will end June 30th.

Possible topics:

Taking baby steps when you are overwhelmed

Not making a mountain out of a molehill

Feeling something good that happens (not minimizing it)

Not assuming it is about you

Not taking insults to heart

Finding the good

Being your own measuring stick (not comparing yourself to others)

Not blaming yourself for things you didn't have control over

Avoiding negative self-talk

Is it really a catastrophe?

Other perspective-related things...

Poems can be any form. Submit as many poems as you would like. Funny, serious, historical, dual language...we are looking for all different takes on the topics at hand for our middle school audience.

Please include your name, email address, and mailing address with your poem. Send your submission to perspectiveanthology@gmail.com by June 30th. A selection committee will blind-read the poems and acceptances will be sent out by September. Young poets can submit, with permission of their guardian. Poets will be paid $25 per poem and a paperback copy of IMPERFECT II.

Thank you for your support of this project! 

 

Today's Quote: George Washington

 

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth...

~ George Washington

Today's Quote: Sophia Loren

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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

~ Sophia Loren

Today's Quote: Wendell Berry

On Earth Day, and every day, be kind.  --DM

 

 

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There is an uncanny resemblance between our behavior toward each other and our behavior toward the earth.

~ Wendell Berry

Today's Quote: Winston Churchill

 

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

~ Winston Churchill

 

Today's Quote: Proverbial Wisdom

 

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To the ant, a few drops of rain is a flood.

~ Japanese proverb

Today's Quote: Herbert Spencer

 

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The ultimate result of shielding me from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

~  Herbert Spencer

Today's Quote: Doris Lessing

 

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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

~ Doris Lessing

Today's Quote: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Today's Quote: Proverbial Wisdom

 

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It is not with an axe that the violin is played.

~ Welsh proverb

Today's Quote: Adelaide Anne Procter

 

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We always may be what we might have been.

~ Adelaide Anne Procter 

Today's Quote: Herman Melville

 

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A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities.

~ Herman Melville

Today's Quote: John Muir

 

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Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.

~ John Muir

Today's Quote: Dolly Parton

 

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If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

~ Dolly Parton

Today's Quote: Proverbial Wisdom

 

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Where there is negotiation, there is hope for agreement.

~ Somali proverb

Today's Quote: Fred Rogers

 

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Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets.

~ Fred Rogers

Today's Quote: Carl Sandburg

 

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Nothing happens unless first a dream.

~ Carl Sandburg