Archive for the ‘Emotional’ Category
Sunday, March 28th, 2010
“If you cannot be by yourself for an hour, or for a day, or for a week then you don’t like yourself” so rants ‘Payroll da Pimp’ in his ‘Rebirth’ audio book. [WARNING : Do not look this book up if you are easily offended – whilst the book is ...
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Saturday, March 27th, 2010
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Many people attribute the above quote to the US constitution when in fact it comes from ...
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
You see them after travelling peak hours in the UK, every weekday, shuffling on the buses with their free passes, in some places trying to get on the bus before off peak time. You see them once or twice a week queued up outside post offices and if you happen ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
For the first time in Scotland a family who donated their dead relatives organs and the person that received one of them have met. See BBC News - Mother meets girl who received sons liver. This story made me feel good about the fact that I have chosen and made ...
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
"As you move into your forties and fifties, the recognition of your own mortality becomes more and more a part of decision-making. You realize that you're not going to be around forever. Your choices become a lot more precious. The gap between your dreams and what you're actually doing narrows, ...
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
'Place in the sun' - a place/environment that promotes a sense of success, happiness, or prosperity.
I have a friend who likes to go to Thailand. For the past few years, he has visited at least once a year and in some years twice. He has been to other parts of ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
A news story this morning caught my attention. It was about the fact that bonobos, one of our closest primate relatives, prefer to share their food rather than eat alone.
"Dr Hare said it could be purely altruistic, or more selfish motives could drive this behaviour because sharing could be exchanged ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
'I'm Not Black, I'm Coloured - Identity Crisis at the Cape', an "historical documentary film to explore the legacy of Apartheid through the viewpoint of the Cape Coloured community" came to my notice recently via a Facebook page collating Zimbabwean mixed race history mainly through photographs. Channel 4’s recent documentary ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
This morning, my son gave me one of those school photograph packs from school. You know the ones I mean? Where the schools get the photographer in and then encourage us, the gullible parents, to pay over the odds for the photographs? I do understand that school get a cut ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
I can't remember where I heard this little tit-bit but it is one I always recall it whenever I have to tell someone I am an atheist. In the story, a Muslim man asks a Christian man why is it he (the Christian) is afraid to die if he truly ...
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
"This latest finding adds to a wealth of data suggesting that being happy isn't all it's cracked up to be.... Happiness seems to make people more selfish, the latest in a series of revelations suggesting it changes how you think – and not in a good way."
via Happiness ain't all ...
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
"By far the most important lesson travel teaches you is that your time is all you really own in life. And the more you travel, the more you realize ..... the satisfaction you get from finding new experiences, meeting new people, and learning new things about yourself.....the best experiences in ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
How we in the West are accepting worsening 'customer care' under the pretence of efficiency.
A number of things that have happened to me over the past few months that has made me realise just how bad customer service is developing in the Western World, or at least in the UK. ...
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
It struck me very strongly this week that in the week that Auschwitz survivors mark Holocaust Memorial Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8482760.stm), I happen to be reading Viktor E Frankel's "Man's Search for Meaning", Dr. Frankel was an Auschwitz survivor. In the same week, news coming out of the disaster in Haiti cumulated ...
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.
Alban Goodier
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