Here are the authors' names that go with the quotes I threw out there yesterday. They are in alphabetical order. See if you can match them up and then let me know! Have fun.
Louisa May Alcott
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Winston Churchill
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Amelia Earhart
Doctor Who
Thomas Edison
Euripides
Mahatma Gandhi
Victor Hugo
Martin Luther King Jr.
Charles A. Lindbergh
Pablo Picasso
J.K. Rowling
Jonas Salk
William Shakespeare
Margaret Thatcher
Mark Twain
George Washington
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Quotes to guess
The following are quotes that I presented to my speech and debate class today. There are no authors listed. I gave them the quotes first to see if they could guess any authors and then I gave them a list, in alphabetical order, of the authors so that they could try and match them up. If you are interested, see if you can guess who said the quote. I will post the list of authors tomorrow. And the answers tomorrow night or the next day. Good luck and DO NOT CHEAT!
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward."
"Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience."
"Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know."
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience."
"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time."
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds.
"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
"His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even...knowledge, was foolproof."
"When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing."
"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."
"He always ate his meals alone reading out of a book open in front of him. His library was small but well chosen. He loved books: books are cold but sure friends."
The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa the bad things don’t always spoil the good things or make them unimportant. And we definitely added to his pile of good things.
“I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.”
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
"When events are moving at hurricane speed and when scenes change with baffling frequency, it would be disastrous to lose that flexibility of mind in dealing with new situations... which is the essential counterpart of a consistent and unswerving purpose."
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward."
"Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience."
"Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know."
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience."
"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time."
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds.
"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
"His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even...knowledge, was foolproof."
"When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing."
"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."
"He always ate his meals alone reading out of a book open in front of him. His library was small but well chosen. He loved books: books are cold but sure friends."
The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa the bad things don’t always spoil the good things or make them unimportant. And we definitely added to his pile of good things.
“I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.”
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
"When events are moving at hurricane speed and when scenes change with baffling frequency, it would be disastrous to lose that flexibility of mind in dealing with new situations... which is the essential counterpart of a consistent and unswerving purpose."
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Journaling is also humorous!
I was reading in one of my really old journals yesterday and I came across an entry that I wrote that made me laugh. It had to do with a good friend who was a guy (and a wee bit protective) and whose roommate I found attractive. I asked him if he would set me up with said roommate and he just kept avoiding the idea and acting strange. I pushed and teased until he finally exploded and said "This guy is the most disgusting thing that I have ever seen when it comes to brushing his teeth. There is no way to even explain it, it is like nothing you can even imagine. There is no way that I am taking a chance on letting that mouth ever come near your mouth." Oh my goodness!! How can one even argue with that outburst. So...I never went out the roommate, but I have often thought about that guy and if he ever got married and if his poor wife has gone through hell all of these years because of his tooth care practices.
Why do I even write this post? Because I am so often PUSHING for people to journal and it is mostly for really intense reasons and because of desperate needs in their lives, but journaling is also just plain fun. And looking back on one's journal can be just plain enjoyable as well as fulfilling. Please write. Be it in whatever form you need, please just get some of your life history down.
Why do I even write this post? Because I am so often PUSHING for people to journal and it is mostly for really intense reasons and because of desperate needs in their lives, but journaling is also just plain fun. And looking back on one's journal can be just plain enjoyable as well as fulfilling. Please write. Be it in whatever form you need, please just get some of your life history down.
Saturday, February 8, 2014
The Shrinking World
My world continues to shrink and I could not be happier.
I read a book and in the book a poem is referenced. The poem is written by Robert Burns (yippee) and it is titled "Sweet Afton". My family helped to settle a place called Afton, Wyoming and I have come to learn that these hearty Scots named the valley after the place they had emigrated from in Scotland.
I read a book that was enjoyed by one of my students. In the book is Christopher Wren, as a young medical student. I have been meaning to move a study of Mr. Wren from the back burner to the front ever since my trip to the UK when I learned that the church of my ancestors, who came from London, was a Wren design. Suddenly he is coming to life on the pages of this novel and I have to go in search of him and he is now on my obsession list.
I have been asked to work on the Easter advent for the woman's organization at church. We all tend to have an advent period before Christmas, but we also need, perhaps even more, to prepare ourselves for celebrating Easter. I immediately thought of the African-American spiritual "There is a Balm in Gilead". So I will be preparing the women to sing this number in the future and will be using these words in our advent thoughts. The term "balm of Gilead" comes from Jeremiah so I have been studying that book of scripture. And then I get asked to speak in our sacrament meeting this week, last minute. Guess what the scripture reference that I have been asked to speak on? Yep, Jeremiah.
Even very small and silly things, like having a certain novel come up on my suggestion page on my Nook as a book that is available for a greatly discounted price. And that book, while a novel, is dealing with the very point in English history that I was trying to find more information about and the author of this novel gives good references.
I could go on and on but I have likely already lost my audience already. I have written before about connections and how I love to see them in my life, but I just wanted to get down, for the record, a few more examples of the power of providence and connection.
I read a book and in the book a poem is referenced. The poem is written by Robert Burns (yippee) and it is titled "Sweet Afton". My family helped to settle a place called Afton, Wyoming and I have come to learn that these hearty Scots named the valley after the place they had emigrated from in Scotland.
I read a book that was enjoyed by one of my students. In the book is Christopher Wren, as a young medical student. I have been meaning to move a study of Mr. Wren from the back burner to the front ever since my trip to the UK when I learned that the church of my ancestors, who came from London, was a Wren design. Suddenly he is coming to life on the pages of this novel and I have to go in search of him and he is now on my obsession list.
I have been asked to work on the Easter advent for the woman's organization at church. We all tend to have an advent period before Christmas, but we also need, perhaps even more, to prepare ourselves for celebrating Easter. I immediately thought of the African-American spiritual "There is a Balm in Gilead". So I will be preparing the women to sing this number in the future and will be using these words in our advent thoughts. The term "balm of Gilead" comes from Jeremiah so I have been studying that book of scripture. And then I get asked to speak in our sacrament meeting this week, last minute. Guess what the scripture reference that I have been asked to speak on? Yep, Jeremiah.
Even very small and silly things, like having a certain novel come up on my suggestion page on my Nook as a book that is available for a greatly discounted price. And that book, while a novel, is dealing with the very point in English history that I was trying to find more information about and the author of this novel gives good references.
I could go on and on but I have likely already lost my audience already. I have written before about connections and how I love to see them in my life, but I just wanted to get down, for the record, a few more examples of the power of providence and connection.
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