Thoughts to Ponder

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It's vacation time for me, which means that I shall take the opportunity to leave you with lovely thoughts from other people. Hope you enjoy this selection.

'One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
A.A. Milne

"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
St. Francis of Assisi

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
Elie Weisel

"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."
Ralph Sockman

"The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time."
Leo Kennedy

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
Havelock Ellis

"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
Bertrand Russell

"Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way---that is not easy."
Aristotle

"Perhaps no phenomenon contains so much destructive feeling as "moral indignation," which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue."
Erich Fromm

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
Will Rogers

"Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint on it you can."
Danny Kaye

"Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought."
Mart Lyon

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon."
Susan Ertz

Linda Sapadin, Ph.D. is a psychologist in private practice who specializes in individual, family therapy and personal coaching.