Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. | |
— Iain Thomas | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Joyous Incompatibility |
My Heart Will Be Waiting | |
2019 | Two Guarantee Freedom |
2018 | Less Mouth And More Back |
2017 | I Ought To Be A Little Careful |
2016 | Rising From The Ashes |
2015 | Honor |
2014 | Disappointment |
2013 | Seeing Heart |
2012 | On Success |
2011 | What This Place Needs Is Another Theory |
Posts Tagged ‘Hate’
Dreading The Slide Towards War
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged A Beautiful World, Bitterness, Hate, Iain Thomas, Philosophy, Pride, Quotes, Softness on March 14, 2022| 4 Comments »
A Simple Choice, Really
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Attitude, Despair, Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Gentleness, Hate, Naive, Philosophy, Quotes, Simplistic, Sophisticated on October 25, 2021| Leave a Comment »
If you’re an advocate of gentleness, you’re simplistic and naive. If you’re an advocate of despair and hate, you’re sophisticated. | |
— Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | I Just Want To Stay Happy |
Fading… | |
2019 | Show Righteousness, Not Fear |
2018 | Sounds Like Politics, Too |
2017 | Resist More |
Conservatives Are Not The Enemy | |
2016 | Two Weeks To Go… |
2015 | Remembering |
2014 | The Creeping Death Of Civilization |
Orange October (X) – A Blue Morning Turns Into An Orange Evening | |
2013 | License Problem |
2012 | Giants Win Game 2 Of The 2012 World Series 2 To 0!!! |
Adage, n. | |
Questions Women Should Ask Before Voting… | |
2011 | What Are You Looking At? |
Too Heavy A Burden
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Books, Burdens, Family, Hate, Philosophy, Quotes, U.S. Representative John Lewis on October 23, 2021| Leave a Comment »
We are one people with one family. We all live in the same house… and through books, through information, we must find a way to say to people that we must lay down the burden of hate. For hate is too heavy a burden to bear. | |
— Rep. John Lewis | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Compare, Contrast And Learn |
Some Dreams Do Come True | |
Just In Case | |
2019 | Can I Get A Witness? |
2018 | I’d Still Like To Try It Out |
2017 | In Every Thing |
2016 | Future Halo |
2015 | The Hard Way Every Time |
2014 | Indispensable Wits |
2013 | I’d Like To |
2012 | 2012 National League Champions – San Francisco Giants!! |
2nd Viewing – No Change | |
Light Shining Out of Darkness | |
2011 | Just Kickin It |
Are These The “Real” Protectors Of America’s Constitution? | |
2010 | Giants Advance To 2010 World Series!!! |
Even The Tiniest Hole
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Buckets, Hate, Holes, Joy Of Life, Leo Tolstoy, Philosophy, Quotes, Water on April 26, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Just as all the water drains out of a bucket with even the tiniest hole, all the joy of life drains from our soul when we hate even one person. | |
— Leo Tolstoy | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | I’m Tired Of “Winning” |
If You Could… | |
The Economy Or Your Life? | |
2019 | Impeach #45 – (#TraitorInTheWhiteHouse) |
Time For Loving | |
2018 | No Pride There |
London To The Hague | |
2017 | At Least Twenty To Go |
2016 | A Sweet Smelling Blog Post |
Pre-Reacher | |
2015 | Getting The Story Right |
2014 | Like Shells On The Shore |
2013 | More And Why |
2012 | How To Gain Effective Fire |
2011 | Patriot Act |
Why #DonTheCon Hates, Belittles And Fires Honest Government Employees
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #DonTheCon, Cowardice, George Bernard Shaw, Hate, Intimidation, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Revenge on February 21, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated. | |
― George Bernard Shaw | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | What Do You Want? |
2018 | Wakanda Forever |
I’d Be Happy With Another Score (Or So) | |
2017 | In Defense Of A Free Press |
2016 | Lost Opportunity |
2015 | Are You Listening Ladies? |
2014 | Practice, Practice, Practice |
2013 | A Fist Full Of Confusion |
2012 | Teaching Faith |
2011 | The Heart Of Terror |
The Proportion Of Gravity And Probability | |
Don’t Mess With The Lady
Posted in Faith, History, Politics, Quotes, tagged #CowardlyDonald, Catholic, Democracy, Faith, Hate, History, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Impeachment, Politics, President Donald Trump, Quotes, U.S. Constitution, We Don't Hate Anybody on December 6, 2019| 2 Comments »
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced yesterday (5 Dec 2019), that the House is moving forward to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. “Our democracy is what is at stake. The president leaves us no choice but to act.“ | |
As she was leaving the press briefing platform she was asked if she hated President Donald Trump. Pelosi turned and pointed at the reporter asking the question and said: “I don’t hate anybody. We don’t hate anybody. Not anybody in the world. Don’t accuse me.“ | |
She returned to the podium to continue: “I think the president is a coward when it comes to helping our kids who are afraid of gun violence. I think he is cruel when he doesn’t deal with helping our dreamers. I think he’s in denial about the climate crisis.“ | |
Impeachment, she emphasized, was about protecting the “Constitution of the United States,” rather than about policy disagreements or dislike of the president which could wait for the election. | |
“As a Catholic, I resent your using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me. I don’t hate anyone.“ | |
Speaker Pelosi continued, saying she prayed for the president, and, in fact did so every day. | |
As she turned to leave the stage she concluded: “So don’t mess with me when it comes to words like that.“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Seek A Clear View |
2017 | Living With Myself |
2016 | Still Looking In Mirrors? |
2015 | Fear No Evil |
2014 | And Nothing Can Be As Tragic As… |
2013 | Your Tax Dollars At Work |
2012 | Historically Unacceptable |
2011 | Niners Are NFC West Division Champions!! |
The Essence Of Leadership | |
Don’t Be Small
Posted in Faith, Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Credo For Relationships, Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Hate, Human Instincts, Love, Nancy Gibbs, People, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Survival, The Only Way Forward - article, The Only Way to Fight Hate - online article, Time Magazine, time.com, True Strength, William Saroyan on May 9, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Hate, among all our base instincts, is the most distinctly human. In animals, violence and venom are tools of survival; in humans, of supremacy. Small, scared people hate, self-hating people hate, bullied and betrayed people hate, as though hate will make them large and safe and strong. | |
— Nancy Gibbs | |
From her article: “The Only Way Forward“ | |
Appearing in: Time Magazine; (dtd: 12 November 2018) | |
The online version of this article is titled: “The Only Way to Fight Hate“ | |
The article can be found online at: http://time.com/magazine/us/5441415/november-12th-2018-vol-192-no-20-u-s/ | |
I choose to love people, not to judge them. I want to experience them as they are, not as I would want them to be. I want to grow with them, allowing each new moment to tell its own story, rather than perceive it as a product of our past. I want us to search together for fresh alternatives to our incompleteness, to our negativity, to our deception, to our fear and to our despair. I don’t want us to spend our lives thinking about life and change and celebration. Rather, I want us to spend our lives celebrating and living and changing. And I never want to forget what the wonderful author William Saroyan reminded me of many years ago: People is all everything is – all it has ever been, and all it can ever be. People. You and me. Together in love. | |
— Leo Buscaglia’s Credo for Relationships | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Persistence |
2017 | Are You A Loser? |
2016 | Constitution And Conscience |
2015 | Separate, Fearful And Imprisoned |
2014 | Something Worth Making |
2013 | Absolutely |
2012 | Can Do |
2011 | Wise Criticism |
I Choose Love
Posted in Politics, Quotes, tagged Charles de Gaulle, Hate, Love, Nationalism, Patriotism, Politics, Quotes on November 3, 2018| 3 Comments »
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. | |
— Charles de Gaulle | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Scary And Wonderful |
2016 | #AmnestyDon Hears The Polls |
2015 | Dare The Improbable |
2014 | All Together Now! |
2013 | This Road |
2012 | Profit |
2011 | God Is Personal |
2010 | Playoff Fever Gets the Best of Me… |
Which Did You Learn?
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Hate, Long Walk To Freedom, Love, Nelson Mandela, Philosophy, Quotes, Racism on September 3, 2017| 5 Comments »
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. | |
— Nelson Mandela | |
From his autobiography: “Long Walk to Freedom“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | Shape And Limit |
2015 | Me Either |
2014 | Just Business |
2013 | Beautiful Adventure |
2012 | Precedence |
2011 | Ya Think? |
Given The Choice
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged André Gide, Hate, Love, Philosophy, Quotes on February 17, 2016| Leave a Comment »
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. | |
— Andre Gide | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Within The System |
2014 | None But… |
2013 | Obviously Longer |
2012 | A Childhood Poem |
Who Are You Callin’ Leather-Faced? | |
2011 | In No Particular Order |
The Need For Proof | |