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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works read more
The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
 Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty
into an interesting opportunity.  
 Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty
into an interesting opportunity. 
The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to read more
The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty. - Definitions, 1953.
Union gives strength. (The Bundle of Sticks 550 BC).
Union gives strength. (The Bundle of Sticks 550 BC).
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind read more
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward toward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
 Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a
function.  
 Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a
function. 
 I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends
far more on the way we meet read more 
 I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends
far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those
events themselvers.