http://www.another24.com You cannot direct the wind but you can adjust the sails Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:38:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great? Kanye West, Rolling Stone, 2006 Having been brought up on the adage “Self praise stinks,” a group ... http://www.another24.com/humility-or-who-loves-me-if-not-me/ “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.” Buckminster Fuller “As a city girl, I didn’t have any experience with butterflies.” Then, one summer in a place called Koinonia Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland, I was drawn to butterflies forever. Koinonia was a meditation center ... http://www.another24.com/are-you-a-caterpillar-%e2%80%93-or-a-butterfly/ “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.” Author Alice Walker I think we could all learn things from nature. For instance, while we sometimes demand perfection from ourselves, a rose bush doesn’t. There are two in ... http://www.another24.com/nature-a-tree-hugger-and-you/ "Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use." Emily Post I once read that “good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy ... http://www.another24.com/etiquette-is-back-in-style-says-ms-branden/ “If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.” George E. Woodberry Now that Mother Teresa’s talk of her lapses of faith in God ... http://www.another24.com/faith-in-faith/ “I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl.’Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.” Ani Difranco, American Singer, Song Writer, and Guitarist. Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary says that joy is inspired by success, good fortune; or is a state of happiness. It ... http://www.another24.com/joy-to-the-world-and-then-some/ “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” C.S. Lewis The mailman came and the mailman went. She walked to the lobby mailboxes and inserted her key into her apartment’s box. The letter in it was very fat, stuffed to its utmost, and ... http://www.another24.com/dream-girls-and-boys/ “Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” Henry Van Dyke Most religions have a concept of how we each received the talents and skills we have received. My favorite is this: As we stepped through the ... http://www.another24.com/what-you-say-you-have-no-talent-bah-humbug/ “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” Morrie Schwartz From the words of the Apostle Paul to Snoopy the Dog, love is said to be the most important essence in our lives. Even physicians ... http://www.another24.com/love-makes-the-world-go-around-and-around/ “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” James Oppenheim Once upon a time, some years ago, a musical group my family knew called The Harmoniacs took me with them to a veterans’ hospital in Orange, New Jersey. This hospital was not just any ... http://www.another24.com/happiness-is-where-you-find-it/