October 14, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on Don’t Get Mad. Help: we don’t just want people to be better, we expect it to magically happen – that we can simply will other people to change. Don’t Get Mad. Help: we don’t just want people to be better, we expect it to magically happen – that we can simply will other people to change.
October 13, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on Revenge is a Dish Best Not Served: today let’s seek to be better than the things that disappoint or hurt us. Let’s try to be the example we’d like others to follow. Revenge is a Dish Best Not Served: today let’s seek to be better than the things that disappoint or hurt us. Let’s try to be the example we’d like others to follow.
October 12, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on Always Love: there is almost no situation in which hatred helps. Yet almost every situation is made better by love – or empathy, understanding, appreciation – even situations in which you are in opposition to someone. Always Love: there is almost no situation in which hatred helps. Yet almost every situation is made better by love – or empathy, understanding, appreciation – even situations in which you are in opposition to someone.
October 11, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on Honesty as our Default: “the straightforward and good person should be like a smelly goat – you know when they are in the room with you.” Honesty as our Default: “the straightforward and good person should be like a smelly goat – you know when they are in the room with you.”
October 10, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on Reverence and Justice: “reverence so that you’ll love what you’ve been allotted, for nature brought you both together. Justice so that you’ll speak the truth freely and without evasion, and so that you’ll act only as the law and value of things require.” Reverence and Justice: “reverence so that you’ll love what you’ve been allotted, for nature brought you both together. Justice so that you’ll speak the truth freely and without evasion, and so that you’ll act only as the law and value of things require.”
October 9, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on Set the Standards and Use Them: set a standard; hold fast to it. That’s all there is. Set the Standards and Use Them: set a standard; hold fast to it. That’s all there is.
October 8, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on A Higher Pleasure: What lasts longer and remains more within our circle of control? Wisdom, good character, sobriety, and kindness. A Higher Pleasure: What lasts longer and remains more within our circle of control? Wisdom, good character, sobriety, and kindness.
October 7, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on A Selfish Reason to be Good: the next time you do something wrong, try to remember how it made you feel. Self-awareness and wrong-doing rarely go together. A Selfish Reason to be Good: the next time you do something wrong, try to remember how it made you feel. Self-awareness and wrong-doing rarely go together.
October 6, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on Looking Out for Each Other: “it’s in keeping with nature to show our friends affection and to celebrate their advancement, as if it were our very own. For if we don’t do this, virtue, which is strengthened only by exercising our perceptions, will no longer endure in us.” Looking Out for Each Other: “it’s in keeping with nature to show our friends affection and to celebrate their advancement, as if it were our very own. For if we don’t do this, virtue, which is strengthened only by exercising our perceptions, will no longer endure in us.”
October 5, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on Words Can’t Be Unsaid: “better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.” Words Can’t Be Unsaid: “better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.”
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