WISE WORDS
For there is but one veritable problem -- the problem of human relatons. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations. ---Antoine de Saint Exupery: Wind, Sand and Stars
Margaret Mead's comment:
". . .begin with the promise that in the self-chosen, intimate man-woman relationship, we get what we need, deserve, and are ready for."
To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
---Chang Tsu
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back.
---Chinese Proverb
My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's loveliness.
---Michaelangelo
Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.
---Albert Camus
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
---Henry David Thoreau
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
---Norman Vincent Peale author of The Power of Positive Thinking
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the Gift.
---Albert Einstein
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for.
---Hopi Elders
Some thoughtful words from Wit and Wisdom of Famous American Women:*
*As long as feminity is associated with [physical dimensions] and a lack of directness and honesty ...[women] are never praised without being patronized. Their jacket photgraphs are reviewed instead of their books.
---updating a quote from Erica Jong
*In a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.
---Louise Bogan
*Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure. . . .no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.
---Bella Abzug
*Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve--a story which shows among other things that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get in trouble. In the life cycle woman has been the deviant.
---Carol Gilligan
*The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously.
---Helen Gurley Brown.
*If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long, hard process.
---Rosalyn Yalow
The trouble with a rat race is that even when you win, you're still a rat.
---Lily Tomlin
Character is not made in a crisis - it is only exhibited.
---Robert Freeman
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
---John Lubbock
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
---Eleanor Roosevelt
Interesting Thought. All the men on earth would not even be here if it were not for Woman.
---A La' Lansun
Committee -- a group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
---Fred Allen
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Recorded Fri., June 4th
