Amazing how pertinent that is today.
JFK, the last good Democrat. 😉
Yeah, you can lead a horse to water but u=you can't make him drink.
@Rdp77 said: Concern should drive us to action and not into depression. ~Pythagoras
I’m not depressed, just in a square root.
At the start of Homer’s Odyssey, Zeus laments: ‘See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.’
"The past is history, the future a mystery, and the present is a gift"
--Eleanor Roosevelt.
"Discpline is only a rabble-rouser's shout from anarchy!"
"Certain things really do belong to Caesar, and other things most emphatically do not. One of the things that does not belong to him is defining what things belong to him." Douglas Wilson
“Bridge, what bridge”
Ted Kennedy
Beliefs are self-imposed. To accept or deny them binds us further.
"Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
— Charles Dickens
@silvermouse said: Beliefs are self-imposed. To accept or deny them binds us further.
That almost makes it sound like beliefs are bad, and being bound is something to be avoided.
@peter4jc said: @silvermouse said: Beliefs are self-imposed. To accept or deny them binds us further. That almost makes it sound like beliefs are bad, and being bound is something to be avoided.
@peter4jc said:
Or they are neither good or bad, our actions will force them into a category
"I wish people would be consistent in their beliefs about issues regardless of which party supports or opposes it, as opposed to just rooting for their side to win, by any means necessary."
-- @CalvinAndHobo
Amen
"We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows."
--Bertrand Russell
"You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone." --Marcus Aurelius
We are scurrying emmets or pismires with our sad little comedies. --Anthony Burgess
"There is nothing more confining than the prison we don’t know we are in.” I
--Shakespear
"There are none so blind as those who will not see."
--Origin unknown, traced back to the Wycliffe Bible, but not as Gospel. Interesting.
