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A  L  O  H  A !

 The most important trip 

you may take in life is 

meeting people halfway. 

               Henry Boyle

 All great philosophers advise: 

don't debate with someone 

who has only strong opinions 

but no real understanding of the topic. 

A person who does not understand 

an issue's true complexity 

is not going to be educated 

in five minutes. 

Listen respectfully. 

Asking one good question 

may get them to start 

thinking differently, but 

arguing with them 

will only agitate you both. 

Treating others with respect 

does not mean you agree!

I advise changing the topic 

in a fun way, or 

taking your leave.

Humor can get in under the door 

while seriousness is still 

fumbling at the handle.

         G.K. Chesterton

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Wisdom Has Many Mothers

A  L  O  H  A !

"Respect a little child, 

and let it respect you."

Bantu Proverb

"You have to look after wealth, 

but knowledge looks after you."

             Zambian Proverb

"When it gets down to having to use violence, 

then you are playing the system’s game. 

The establishment will irritate you 

- pull your beard, flick your face - 

to make you fight! Because 

once they’ve got you violent, 

then they know how to handle you. 

- The only thing they don’t know 

how to handle is 

non-violence and humor." 

            John Lennon



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John.
THANK YOU,
Friends!
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Dawn Like A Spring Day

A  L  O  H  A !

"Nature is not 

a place to visit, 

it is home."

              Gary Snyder

“When patterns are broken, 

new worlds emerge.”  

           Tuli Kupferberg

“Though force can protect 

in emergency, only justice, 

fairness, consideration and 

cooperation can finally 

lead men to the dawn 

of eternal peace.”

          Dwight D. Eisenhower

               Victorious Allied General & popular US President

"A kind word is 

like a Spring day."

             Russian Proverb

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A Single Lovely Action 💡

A  L  O  H  A !

"Motivation is what gets you started. 

Habit is what keeps you going."

              Jim Ryun

"Politics are too serious a matter 

to be left to the politicians."

            Charles De Gaulle

"All the beautiful sentiments 

in the world weigh less 

than a single lovely action."  

                   James Russell Lowell

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Sometimes, just sharing the moments is BEST!

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Diamond Friend!

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This Too

A  L  O  H  A !

"At the end of the day,

 life is about being happy 

being who you are. . . 

 just support each other 

no matter what 

we're going through."

                     Kim Kardashian

 "A little man often

 casts a long shadow." 

             G. M. Trevelyan

 "Darkness and night are 

mothers of thought."

                       Dutch Proverb

"Only in the darkness 

can you see the stars."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"This Too Shall Pass"

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Someone To BE 🌟

A  L  O  H  A !

These are the times you were born for. 

It matters BIG TIME. 

But Who do 

you want to be 

in these times? Angry? 

Worried?

Labeling Others? 

In perpetual argument? 

NO. Me either. 

But these are the times 

we have been born, 

and raised, and 

experienced to live in. 

So how do you want to handle it?

May I suggest: 

LIVE THE TRUTH YOU KNOW. 

Don't label others. 

Don't gratify those who relish 

argument and winning - 

don't engage. 

Sometimes you just 

have to be a witness. 

"I just don't see it like that" 

is my preferred come-back 

to a stupid provocation. 

Breathe. Be. 

Be Magnificent. Embody 

what and who you admire. 

LIVE YOUR TRUTH & VOTE! 

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Friend!

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If You Feel Threatened, Stay

A  L  O  H  A !

 "Think of the long view of life, 

not just what's going to happen 

today or tomorrow. Don't give up 

what you most want in life for 

something you think 

you want now." 

                 Richard G. Scott

 "When a book, or magazine article, 

or idea makes you uncomfortable, 

notice your exact reaction. 

If you're bored, move on. 

If you feel threatened, stay with it 

and see what troubles you.” 

             Peter Schwartz

 "Allow yourself to become 

enthralled once in a while.” 

          Peter Schwartz

"There are amazingly wonderful 

people in all walks of life; 

some familiar to us and others not. 

Stretch yourself and really 

get to know people. 

People are in many ways 

one of our greatest treasures.

                     Bryant H. McGill 

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Love one another; Save the world 🌟

A  L  O  H  A !

 Kindness & Happiness 

travel together

 Tiny Industry [L.]

Sublimate or postpone 

your true desires & opinions 

long enough, and you

Could well lose track 

of what they really are, 

and of yourself.

Don’t commodify the substance

Of my life’s central mystery

With mere labels.

We are ALL PEERS 

in the work of Life

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Love one another

Save the world

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Remember When Friends

A  L  O  H  A !

Remember when friends had 

great passionate discussions 

about stuff they cared deeply about? 

Now if you ask a question, 

or express a slightly different 

take on something, 

they "un-friend" you!

Everybody wants to be 

the one with the truth, 

More than they want

to be an understanding

F R I E N D.

We seem to judge everyone 

 a 'TRUE BELIEVER'

a fool, or an enemy. 

Curious. 

And very sad.

“Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.” 
          Bertrand Russell



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Please For Tolerance 🦋

A  L  O  H  A !

"The most daring thing 

is to create stable communities 

in which the terrible disease 

of loneliness can be cured."

             Kurt Vonnegut

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"Enemies are so stimulating."

Katharine Hepburn

"Truth springs from argument

 amongst friends." 

                  David Hume

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Pleas for Tolerance

are always aimed

at others.

Yet we are proud

of our own unbending

Intolerance

And call it

Standing For Something.

After all:

We are right.

They Are deplorable.

In your eyes.

In their eyes.

They have a point of view.

But we know ours is Right.

Well how you behave

is the meatiest part

of being Right.

Do not sneer,

Do not punch,

Do not  kill.

Judge Not lest

the one judged guilty

is yourself.

What happened to Reverence?

When did we begin to look

to the angriest,

instead of the

Wisest?

The mountains take

a broader view,

as we live less

than one of their minutes.

What will matter tomorrow,

for society, for me,

for you, for your health,is

the feelings we marinate in

and how we behave.

Tolerance.

Thank YOU

Friend!

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