Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Wednesday Wisdom

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
- Timothy Leary

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Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Wednesday Wisdom

Excerpt from 'Keep Working, Girlfriend' (Dec 31.07)

After 13 years of dealing with an unpredictable body, it seems I’ve learned that when dealing with things gone awry, there comes a point when, no matter how much you want to do certain things - you just can’t. You have to pull back to get well. You have to realize that not everything goes as you want when you want it - not great when you have so many things to get done!

Now, when I see people pushing mightily against circumstances that are preventing them from doing what they want RIGHT NOW, I mentally shake my head a bit. I know they haven’t yet realized that there’s something of a perfect order to things in life - or if they know this, they’ve temporarily forgotten. I think this is one thing I’ve learned from my illness.

I believe so much in the importance of YOU being on your support team. When people ask me about the things that may have contributed to my being in remission the past couple of years, I don’t actually know. But I think learning to pay attention to my body’s signals is one of the factors.

By the way, I’m still learning there’s a perfect order to things in life. I always want things to go my way. I just seem to have gotten a handle on all this when it comes to my body.

- Joan

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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Wednesday Words of Wisdom

Today's inspirational quote, coming atcha from the Cocoon offices:

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Wednesday Words of Wisdom

Every day, Dolly (my coworker) receives an email from her mom. This email is a forward of some kind of inspirational quote that her mom receives every day. A few weeks ago, we started writing these on a whiteboard in our work area - just because they were too hilarious not to share. Last week, I introduced a five-star rating system.

Here's today's four-star-worthy tidbit:
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

Okay. Enough thinking. Here's my other favourite quote of the week:
“The vast majority of bloggers out there are responsible correspondents doing fine work in niche reporting fields, like Gilmore Girl fanfiction, or, cute thing their cats do, or Photoshop images of the Gilmore Girls as cats. That's great. Where I draw the line is with these attack bloggers. Just someone with a computer who gathers, collates, and publishes accurate information that is then read by the general public. They have no credibility. All they have is facts. Spare me.”
- Stephen Colbert

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