Monday, February 22, 2010

TODAY'S QUOTE

"...praise does not spring from a delusion that things are better than they are, but rather from the human capacity for joy." —Kathleen Norris (The Cloister Walk)
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4 comments:

  1. ElisabethFebruary 23, 2010 at 6:55:00 AM EST

    That capacity for joy is certainly one of the defining features of human kind, Michael.

    Thank goodness for it. Where would we be without it?

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  2. Robert G. ZuckermanFebruary 23, 2010 at 10:34:00 AM EST

    Also, praise springs from conscious choice to be good, to empower others, to see the good in others. "When you look for the good in others, you will find it there...When you speak to the good in others, you strengthen it."

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  3. LallyFebruary 23, 2010 at 11:10:00 AM EST

    Someone once said, Goethe?, that there would be less beauty in the world were it not for praise.

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  4. Robert G. ZuckermanFebruary 23, 2010 at 9:26:00 PM EST

    Yes..I believe this...
    Do you know of "Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins? It's a tongue-twister but great in the tradition of the ecstatics!

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