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Postby yat_chum » Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:02 pm

Ayamachitewa aratamuruni habakaru koto nakare.

If you make a mistake, don't hesitate to correct it.

Japanese Proverb
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:00 am

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."
Mary Tyler Moore

"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."
Mary Tyler Moore
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Jul 14, 2006 7:16 pm

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will."
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Jul 15, 2006 7:19 pm

Wealth without work,
Pleasure without conscience,
Knowledge without character,
Commerce without morality,
Science without humanity,
Worship without sacrifice, and
Politics without principle.

the seven deadly sins - Mahatma Gandhi
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:12 pm

"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."
Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Jul 18, 2006 1:59 am

"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway."
John Wayne (1907 - 1979)
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:47 am

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
- Andrew Carnegie
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:27 am

"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
- Confucius
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:06 pm

"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous."
Chuang-tzu
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Jul 22, 2006 3:52 am

Force is used as a last resort where humanity and justice cannot prevail, but if the fist is used freely without consideration, then the user will lose the respect of others and be shabbily treated, while being censured for barbaric action. At any rate, the high-spirited youth in the prime of life is prone to rash speech and action, so prudence is essential.

Master Gichin Funakoshi from The Karate-do Kyohan
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:13 pm

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:18 am

"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."
Baltasar Gracian
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:40 am

A Noiseless Patient Spider
BY
Walt Whitman

A noiseless patient spider,
I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.

And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to
    connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:41 am

"It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours."
Sam Ewing
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:24 pm

"Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?"
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:28 pm

"An ordinary man will draw his sword when ridiculed and will fight risking his life, but he may not be called a courageous man. A truly great man is not disturbed even when suddenly confronted with an unexpected event or crisis, nor angered upon finding himself in situations not of his own making, and this is because he has a great heart and his aim is high."

Master Gichin Funakoshi from The Karate-do Kyohan



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Postby yat_chum » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:34 pm

"If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation."
Chuang-Tzu
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Jul 30, 2006 2:52 am

Why are we always in a hurry?
Rush. Rush. Rush.
We scurry from here and there.
We play computer games and then –
quick! click! – we watch TV. We eat fast food.
Everyone tells us to make it snappy!
Hurry up! Time is flying! Step on it!
There’s so little time just to be with friends,
to watch a sunset or gaze at a star-filled sky.
Ah, what we could learn – even if just a little –
from the gentle sloth who slowly, slowly, slowly
crawls along the branch of a tree,
eats a little, sleeps a lot,
and lives in peace.

Eric Carle, “Slowly,Slowly,Slowly,” said the Sloth
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:05 pm

"I do not think that the measure of a civilization
is how tall its buildings of concrete are,
but rather how well its people have learned to relate
to their environment and fellow man."
Chippewa medicine man - sun bear
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:24 pm

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
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