December 25, 2005

• I would like to wish everyone a Happy Chanukah and a Happy New Year!!! 

  For undisclosed reasons I will be taking
  some time off from posting/updating my Xanga site.  I will however
  keep in touch with everyone.

  Words of Thought:

  Erick Hoffer:

  The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do
  unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We
  are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we
  forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to
  sacrifice ourselves.

  Hillary Rodham Clinton:
  

  In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and
  he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I’m keeping a chart.

  Lord Chesterfield:

  Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it
  forever.

  Reinhold Niebuhr:

  Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
  Therefore, we are saved
  by hope.
  Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any
  immediate context of history;
  Therefore, we are saved by faith.
  Nothing we
  do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
  Therefore, we are saved by
  love.
  No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend
  or foe as from our own;
  Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love
  which is forgiveness.

  Sidney and Suzanne Simon:

  Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed
  by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is
  rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity
  to understand and accept other people and ourselves.
  

  Sir Francis Bacon:

  We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we
  ought to forgive our friends.

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