DECEMBER 10, 1971
Life Isn't That Bad;
Be Thankful for It
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
You've got one life to live; but if you work it right, once is enough.
Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
You can't be ugly except to those who don't understand. (M. Williams)
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. (Kahlil Gibran)
Choose life - only that and always, and at whatever risk. To let life leak out, to let it wear away by mere passage of time, to withhold giving it and spreading it is to choose nothing. (Helen Keller)
The problem some people have with race relations is that they believe there would be a winner.
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. (Kahlil Gibran)
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.
Friendship needs no words.
It is delivered from the anguish of loneliness. (Daghammar Skojold)
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is. (Joseph Addison)
Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way. (Isaac Goldberg)
Little things can often be the biggest things in someone's day.
Perseverance, because talent and genius are a dime a dozen.
For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. (George Gissing)