About Goals

This quote by Thoreau really sums up the process of achievement.

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success." – Henry David Thoreau

My interpretation of the 'leap in the dark' would be allowing (and trusting or expecting) the unconscious part of us, to find the path to the goal. Some would call this 'faith'.

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The Strange Wisdom of Homer Simpson

Here's a great bit of insight from Homer Simpson...

To be loved, you have to be nice to others EVERYDAY!. To be hated, you don't have to do squat. -Homer Simpson

Think about how true that is and put a bit of effort in all your interactions with others.

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An Apple a Day Does keep the Doctor Away

Researchers at the UC Davis School of Medicine have discovered how apples keep us healthy.

They found that apple extract was able to protect cells from damage and death by interfering with communication between cells.

Here's the abstract from the Experimental Biology and Medicine Journal.
Eat More Apples


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Why Atrocities Happen

Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself—a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

- from Children of Dune by Frank Herbert


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Finding Happiness

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." - Agnes Repplier

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