Sunday, December 30, 2012

FB Post about racism thanks Ms Irons

 
  • Laura Nakamura Irons shared Changing a word because you can't spell the word you wanted to use's photo.
    AWESOME REPLY BY AIR HOSTESS . READ IT - SHARE IT This happened on TAM airlines. A 50-something year old white woman arrived at her seat and saw that the passenger next to her was a black man. Visibly furious, she called the air hostess. "What's the problem, ma?" the hostess asked her "Can't you see?" the lady said - "I was given a seat next to a black man. I can't seat here next to him. You have to change my seat" - "Please, calm down, ma" - said the hostess "Unfortunately, all the seats are occupied, but I'm still going to check if we have any." The hostess left and returned some minutes later. "Madam, as I told you, there isn't any empty seat in this class- economy class. But I spoke to the captain and he confirmed that there isn't any empty seats in the economy class. We only have seats in the first class." And before the woman said anything, the hostess continued "Look, it is unusual for our company to allow a passenger from the economy class change to the first class. However, given the circumstances, the commandant thinks that it would be a scandal to make a passenger travel sat next to an unpleasant person." And turning to the black man, the hostess said: "Which means, Sir, if you would be so nice to pack your handbag, we have reserved you a seat in the first class..." And all the passengers nearby, who were shocked to see the scene started applauding, some standing on their feet." SHARE IF YOU ARE AGAINST RACISM
    AWESOME REPLY BY AIR HOSTESS . READ IT - SHARE IT

    This happened on TAM airlines.

    A 50-something year old white woman arrived at her seat and saw that the pass...enger next to her was a black man.

    Visibly furious, she called the air hostess.

    "What's the problem, ma?" the hostess asked her

    "Can't you see?" the lady said - "I was given a seat next to a black man. I can't seat here next to him. You have to change my seat"

    - "Please, calm down, ma" - said the hostess
    "Unfortunately, all the seats are occupied, but I'm still going to check if we have any."

    The hostess left and returned some minutes later.

    "Madam, as I told you, there isn't any empty seat in this class- economy class.
    But I spoke to the captain and he confirmed that there isn't any empty seats in the economy class. We only have seats in the first class."

    And before the woman said anything, the hostess continued

    "Look, it is unusual for our company to allow a passenger from the economy class change to the first class.
    However, given the circumstances, the commandant thinks that it would be a scandal to make a passenger travel sat next to an unpleasant person."

    And turning to the black man, the hostess said:

    "Which means, Sir, if you would be so nice to pack your handbag, we have reserved you a seat in the first class..."

    And all the passengers nearby, who were shocked to see the scene started applauding, some standing on their feet."

    SHARE IF YOU ARE AGAINST RACISM
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    Rita Levi-Monalcini

    Each day heroes leave us do we notice? Do we hug those around us read about this fabulous woman simply increditble.

     

    Rita Levi-Montalcini


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    Senator for life
    Rita Levi-Montalcini

    Rita Levi-Montalcini
    Born (1909-04-22)22 April 1909
    Turin
    Died 30 December 2012(2012-12-30) (aged 103)
    Rome
    Nationality Italian
    Fields Neurology
    Institutions Washington University in St. Louis
    Alma mater Turin Medical School, University of Turin
    Known for Nerve growth factor
    Notable awards Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1986)
    National Medal of Science (1987)
    Rita Levi-Montalcini (Italian pronunciation: [ˈrita ˈlɛvi montalˈtʃini];22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012),[1][2] Knight Grand Cross,[3] was an Italian neurologist who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF).[4] Since 2001, she has also served in the Italian Senate as a Senator for Life.
    Rita Levi-Montalcini had been the oldest living Nobel laureate and the first ever to reach a 100th birthday.[5] On 22 April 2009, she was feted with a 100th birthday party at Rome's city hall.[dead link][6]

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    [edit] Early life

    Born in Turin[1] to a Jewish family, together with her twin sister Paola she was the youngest of four children. Her parents were Adamo Levi, an electrical engineer and mathematician, and Adele Montalcini, a painter.
    Levi-Montalcini decided to attend medical school after seeing a close family friend die of cancer,[citation needed] overcoming the objections of her father who believed that "a professional career would interfere with the duties of a wife and mother". She enrolled in the Turin medical school in 1930. After graduating in 1936, she went to work as Giuseppe Levi's assistant, but her academic career was cut short by Benito Mussolini's 1938 Manifesto of Race and the subsequent introduction of laws barring Jews from academic and professional careers.[citation needed]

    [edit] Professional life

    During World War II, Levi-Montalcini conducted experiments from a home laboratory, studying the growth of nerve fibers in chicken embryos which laid the groundwork for much of her later research. (She describes this experience decades later in the 1995 science documentary Death by Design/The Life and Times of Life and Times,[7] which also features her identical twin sister Paola, who had entered a decades-long career in the arts.) Her first genetics laboratory was in her bedroom at her home. In 1943, her family fled south to Florence, and she set up a laboratory there also. Her family returned to Turin in 1945.
    In September 1946, Levi-Montalcini accepted an invitation to Washington University in St. Louis, under the supervision of Professor Viktor Hamburger. Although the initial invitation was for one semester, she stayed for thirty years. It was there that she did her most important work: isolating the nerve growth factor (NGF) from observations of certain cancerous tissues that cause extremely rapid growth of nerve cells in 1952. She was made a Full Professor in 1958, and in 1962, established a research unit in Rome, dividing the rest of her time between there and St. Louis.
    From 1961 to 1969 she directed the Research Center of Neurobiology of the CNR (Rome), and from 1969 to 1978 the Laboratory of Cellular Biology.
    Rita Levi-Montalcini founded the European Brain Research Institute, covering the appointment of president. Her role in this institute was at the center of some criticism from some parts of the scientific community in 2010.[8]
    Controversies were raised about the collaboration of Prof. Montalcini with the Italian Pharmaceutical Factory Fidia. Since 1975 the scientist promoted the drug Cronassial produced by Fidia from bovine brain. The drug turned out some years later to be able to cause a severe neurological syndrome (Guillain-Barré syndrome). For this reason Germany banned Cronassial in 1983, followed by other countries. Italy prohibited the drug only in 1993.[9][10][11] In light of this episode serious criticism was levied at Levi-Montalcini.[12]

    [edit] Senator for Life

    On 1 August 2001 she was appointed as Senator for Life[1] by the President of the Italian Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
    On 28–29 April 2006, Levi-Montalcini, aged 97, attended the opening assembly of the newly-elected Senate, at which the President of the Senate was elected; she declared her preference for the centre-left candidate Franco Marini. Levi-Montalcini, who is the senior member of the Upper House, chose not to be the temporary president on this occasion. She actively takes part in the Upper House discussions, unless busy in academic activities around the world.[citation needed] Due to her support of the government of Romano Prodi, she was often criticized by some right-wing senators, who accused her of "saving" the government when the government's exiguous majority in the Senate was at risk. She has been frequently insulted in public, and on blogs, since 2006, by both center-right senators such as Francesco Storace, and far-right bloggers for her age and Jewish origins.[13][14] Levi-Montalcini is currently the oldest living and the longest-lived Nobel laureate who, though hard of hearing and nearly blind, recently vowed to remain a political force in her country.[15]
    On Sunday, 17 January 2010, she was present in Rome's main synagogue, during the official visit of Pope Benedict XVI.[16]
    Rita Levi-Montalcini died in her home in Rome December 30th 2012 at the age of 103.

    [edit] Family

    Levi-Montalcini had an older brother Gino, who died after a heart attack in 1974. He was one of the most well known Italian architects and a professor at the University of Turin.
    She also had two sisters: Anna, five years older than Rita, and Paola, her twin sister. Paola Levi-Montalcini was a popular artist, who died 29 September 2000, aged 91. She and her twin were featured in the 1995 science documentary Death by Design/The Life and Times of Life and Times.

    [edit] Awards and honors

    In 1968, she became the tenth woman elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences.
    In 1985, she was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Stanley Cohen (co-winner of 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) and Viktor Hamburger.
    In 1986 Levi-Montalcini and collaborator Stanley Cohen received the Nobel Prize in Medicine, as well as the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. This made her the fourth Nobel Prize winner to come from Italy's small (less than 50,000 people) but very old Jewish community, after Emilio Segrè, Salvador Luria (a university colleague and friend) and Franco Modigliani.
    In 1987, she received the National Medal of Science, the highest American scientific honor.
    In 1999, Levi-Montalcini was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) by FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf.[17]
    In 2001 she was nominated Senator-for-life by the Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
    In 2006 Levi-Montalcini received the degree Honoris Causa in Biomedical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin, in her native city.
    In 2008 she received the PhD Honoris Causa from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
    She was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and was a founder member of Città della Scienza.[18]

    [edit] Publishing

    • Rita Levi Montalcini, Elogio dell'imperfezione, Gli elefanti Saggi, Garzanti, 1999 (nuova edizione accresciuta).
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, Origine ed Evoluzione del nucleo accessorio del Nervo abducente nell'embrione di pollo, Tip. Cuggiani, 1942
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, Elogio dell'imperfezione, Garzanti, 1987
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, NGF : apertura di una nuova frontiera nella neurobiologia, Roma Napoli, 1989
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, Sclerosi multipla in Italia : aspetti e problemi, AISM, 1989
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, Il tuo futuro, Garzanti, 1993
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, Per i settanta anni della Enciclopedia italiana, 1925–1995, Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1995
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, Senz’olio contro vento, Baldini & Castoldi, 1996
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, L’asso nella manica a brandelli, Baldini & Castoldi, 1998
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, La galassia mente, Baldini & Castoldi, 1999
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, Cantico di una vita, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2000
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, Un universo inquieto, 2001
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, Tempo di mutamenti, 2002
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, Abbi il coraggio di conoscere, 2004
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, Tempo di azione, 2004
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, Eva era africana, 2005
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, I nuovi Magellani nell’er@ digitale, 2006
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, Tempo di revisione, 2006
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, Rita Levi-Montalcini racconta la scuola ai ragazzi, 2007
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini, L'altra parte del mondo, 2009

    [edit] See also

    [edit] References

    1. ^ a b c Page at Senate website.
    2. ^ "Addio al premio Nobel Rita Levi Montalcini - Scienza e Medicina". ANSA. 2010-01-03. https://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/scienza/2012/12/30/morta-Rita-Levi-Montalcini_8011133.html. Retrieved 2012-12-30.
    3. ^ Quirinale.it[dead link]
    4. ^ Holloway, M. (1993) Profile: Rita Levi-Montalcini – Finding the Good in the Bad, Scientific American 268(1), pp. 32-36.
    5. ^ Nature (1 April 2009). "Neuroscience: One hundred years of Rita". Nature. http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090401/full/458564a.html. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
    6. ^ Ansa.it: News in English - Montalcini feted at 100[dead link]
    7. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118947/fullcredits#cast
    8. ^ "Self-inflicted damage.The autocratic actions of an institute's founder could destroy a centre of excellence for brain research.Nature 463, 270 (21 January 2010)". http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7279/full/463270a.html.
    9. ^ "Qualità Intellettuale". Dmi.unipg.it. http://www.dmi.unipg.it/~mamone/univ/QUALIT.htm. Retrieved 2011-03-16.
    10. ^ "Fallimenti storici - Farmacovigilanza - Farmacologia - Dica 33". Dica33.it. http://www.dica33.it/argomenti/farmacologia/farmacovigilanza/farmacovigilanza2.asp. Retrieved 2011-03-16.
    11. ^ "Politica Molecolare: Rita Levi Montalcini e la vicenda Cronossial". Politicamolecolare.blogspot.com. http://politicamolecolare.blogspot.com/2007/11/rita-levi-di-montalcini-e-i.html. Retrieved 2011-03-16.
    12. ^ "'NOBEL COMPRATO? NON NE SO NULLA'". http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1994/02/22/nobel-comprato-non-ne-so-nulla.html. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
    13. ^ "Mastella: sì al procedimento su Storace". Repubblica.it. 2007-10-17. http://www.repubblica.it/2007/10/sezioni/politica/napolitano-tre/mastella-storace/mastella-storace.html. Retrieved 2011-03-16.
    14. ^ "Dispetto alla Montalcini al seggio, La Repubblica 14 April 2008". Repubblica.it. http://www.repubblica.it/2008/04/sezioni/politica/elezioni-2008/montalcini/montalcini.html. Retrieved 2011-03-16.
    15. ^ See: http://www.positanonews.it/dettaglio.php?id=23060
    16. ^ Pope Tries to Soothe Tensions With Jews. The New York Times, Sunday, 17 January 2010.
    17. ^ See: http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-ritalevimontalcini/en/
    18. ^ http://www.idis.cittadellascienza.it/?p=292

    [edit] For further reading

    • Aloe, Luigi (2004), "Rita Levi-Montalcini: the discovery of nerve growth factor and modern neurobiology.", Trends Cell Biol. 14 (7): 395–9, 2004 Jul, doi:10.1016/j.tcb.2004.05.011, PMID 15246433
    • Shampo, Marc A.; Kyle, Robert A. (2003), "Stamp vignette on medical science. Rita Levi-Montalcini's Nobel Prize for work in neurology.", Mayo Clinic Proc. 78 (12): 1448, 2003 Dec, doi:10.4065/78.12.1448, PMID 14661672
    • Aloe, L. (2003), "Rita Levi-Montalcini and the discovery of nerve growth factor: past and present studies.", Archives italiennes de biologie 141 (2–3): 65–83, March 2003, PMID 12825318
    • Cowan, W. M. (2001), "Viktor Hamburger and Rita Levi-Montalcini: the path to the discovery of nerve growth factor", Annual Neuroscience Review 24: 551–600, doi:10.1146/annurev.neuro.24.1.551, PMID 11283321
    • Provine, R. R. (2001), "In the trenches with Viktor Hamburger and Rita Levi-Montalcini (1965-1974): one student's perspective", Int. J. Dev. Neurosci. 19 (2): 143–49, April 2001, doi:10.1016/S0736-5748(00)00081-2, PMID 11255028
    • Levi-Montalcini, R. (2000), "From a home-made laboratory to the Nobel Prize: an interview with Rita Levi-Montalcini", Int. J. Dev. Biol. 44 (6): 563–66, PMID 11061418
    • Raju, T. N. (2000), "The Nobel chronicles - 1986: Stanley Cohen (b. 1922); Rita Levi-Montalcini (b. 1909)", Lancet 355 (9202): 506, 5 February 2000, PMID 10841166
    • Aloe, L. (1999), "Rita Levi-Montalcini: a brief biographic view of past and present studies on nerve growth factor", Microsc. Res. Tech. 45 (4–5): 207–09, doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19990515/01)45:4/5<207::AID-JEMT3>3.0.CO;2-E, PMID 10383112
    • Bendiner, E. (1992), "Rita Levi-Montalcini and the unveiling of growth factors", Hosp. Pract. (Off. Ed.) 27 (4A): 135–45, 1992 Apr 30, PMID 1560084
    • Pécsi, T. (1987), "Nobel Prize for medicine, 1986 (Rita Levi-Montalcini)", Orvosi hetilap 128 (20): 1047–48, 17 May 1987, PMID 3295669
    • Weltman, J.K. (1987), "The 1986 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded for discovery of growth factors: Rita Levi-Montalcini, M.D., and Stanley Cohen, Ph.D", N Engl Reg Allergy Proc 8 (1): 47–48, doi:10.2500/108854187779045385, PMID 3302667

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    Be here now- Daily Motivator


    THE DAILY MOTIVATOR

    Wednesday, September 19, 2012

     

    The best circumstance

    +++++++++++++++++++

     

    It's great to be where you are, and it's great to have what you have. It's great to know what you know, and it's great to be who you are.

     

    The opportunity to live a life of joy, meaning, and fulfillment is not somewhere else, or in another time or situation. It is right here, right now.

     

    The best circumstance from which to move forward is not in some distant, idealized future. It is the circumstance where you now find yourself, because that is the circumstance from which you can immediately take your first, powerful step.

     

    If you wait until conditions are perfect, waiting is all you'll ever do. Stop demanding perfection from the world and start demanding immediate, effective action from yourself.

     

    Merely wishing for things to be different, will just get you more of the same. It is by making good use of what you have, that you're able to create and attract what you desire.

     

    Your life's great treasure is not in some alternate place or time or situation. It is yours to be claimed right now with the power of your positive, focused thoughts and efforts.

     

     
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    Tell a different story- My Kick Ass Coach Vicki garcia


    Tool #6 - Tell A Different Story

     

    We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.  Now, the word, "story" does not imply that it isn't true.  It just means that continuing to focus on it will not empower you.

     

    For instance, maybe your story is that things are hard.  Life is hard.  Why can't things ever be easy?  I had a crappy childhood and now I'm having a crappy adulthood as a result.  Nothing will ever change because things are hard and I can't do hard things.  Blah, blah, blah!

     

    You are DEFINED by the story you are telling yourself.  Do you hear that?  What story are you letting define you and every decision you make?

     

    Figure out what your recurring stories are (do this by listening to what comes out of your mouth regularly and your self-talk) and once you find the dis-empowering ones, change them.  Change your story to something that empowers you and makes you feel good.

     

    What about this:  Life is sometimes a challenge and I'm up to the challenge.  If life didn't have challenges it would be pretty boring.  I am now an emotional adult and I do not have to react to challenges like an emotional child.  I have tons of evidence that I can handle the hard stuff.  Look at all the examples I have of when I have done something hard and felt so proud because I did it.

     

    Doesn't that feel so much better than the first story?  It's truly that simple.  Decide to change your story to one that makes you feel good.

     

    You get to be the hero in your story.  :)

    Vicki 

     

    ps - "I don't have time" and "I don't have money" are two of the biggest, crappiest stories (excuses) we tell.  What if you changed THAT story? 

     





      

     
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    10 things dead people want to tell the living- The Universa


     

    The top 10 things dead people want to tell living people, alan, are:

    1. They're not dead.
    2. They're sorry for any pain they caused.
    3. There's no such thing as a devil or hell.
    4. They were ready to go when they went.
    5. You're not ready.
    6. They finally understand what they were missing.
    7. Nothing can prepare you for the beauty of the moment you arrive.
    8. Don't try to understand this now, but life is exceedingly fair.
    9. Your pets are as crazy, brilliant and loving, here, as they were there.
    10. Life really is all about love, but not just loving those who love you...

    In their own words,
        The Universe



     
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    Can negative thoughts be positive? Mr Pink

    Can negative thinking be a positive?




    Do we try too hard to be happy? Has the relentless pursuit of happiness and positivity poisoned our ability to live a meaningful life?

    Oliver Burkeman thinks so. And he’s given us The Antidote (Amazon, BN.com, IndieBound) – a smart and entertaining new book that offers what he calls a “negative path” to happiness.

    Because Pink Blog readers are interested in the broad array of subjects Oliver writes about in this book, l asked him to answer a few questions. Here’s our interview:

    1. You call our culture’s “fixation on positivity” a “disease.” But the cure you prescribe — drawn from the teachings of the Stoics, the Buddha, and other deep thinkers — is pretty challenging stuff. Where’s the harm in positive thinking if it makes us happy?

    Well, I’m not sure that it *does* make us happy: there’s now plenty of psychological evidence to suggest that trying to make yourself think positive thoughts can backfire, leaving people feel worse. More practically, this focus on struggling to achieve the “right” emotional state – ie., constant grinning optimism — is a distraction from taking the actions that matter. (Plus, those people are pretty annoying.) The researchers and thinkers I met while researching my book, and the personal experiments I undertook, approached the matter differently. What if we learned to accommodate, even harness, uncertainty, insecurity, pessimism and failure, instead of treating them like they’re radioactive?

    2. “Goal Crazy” might be the most provocative chapter in the book. You could fill a library with all everything that’s been written on achieving personal and professional goals, and yet you say that this relentless focus on goals is misplaced. What’s so bad about setting, working toward, and achieving goals?

    There’s a role for goals. But the “overpursuit” of goals leads to all kinds of hazards. One major pitfall is that “you can never change only one thing” — and so focusing on a single variable risks distorting many others. (We probably all know people who’ve pursued a wealth goal, say, at the expense of their personal relationships, but that’s only the most obvious example.) Another is that rigid plans for the future mean we don’t hear when opportunity knocks softly. Research among successful entrepreneurs by Saras Sarasvathy, for example, suggests they choose what she calls “effectuation”, instead of firm business plans. They don’t behave like gourmet chefs, visualizing a perfect dish and then sourcing the ingredients. They’re more like time-pressed home cooks, checking what’s in the cupboard, then exploring ways to combine the resources at their disposal — ideas, materials, people. Then they just start, adjusting their target as they go: “ready, fire, aim”, not “ready, aim, fire.” (Another tip: choose “process” goals over “outcome” goals. Not “I’ll write a great novel”, but “I’ll do 45 minutes every weekday”.)

    3. We’ve probably all seen the studies showing that people from some of the poorest nations on earth consistently rank higher in happiness than citizens of wealthy countries. In the book, you offer a counterintuitive explanation for why that may be so — could you briefly explain?
    This is such a fraught topic. I don’t mean to imply that poverty and disease are somehow unproblematic, simply because there’s a higher incidence of depression in Manhattan than in some African slums. But what you realize when you visit places like the Kenyan township of Kibera outside Nairobi, and study the research evidence, is that people living in extremely fragile conditions do have one advantage. They’re forced to face the fundamental insecurity of existence. They don’t have the option of mistakenly believing that the next pay raise, the next promotion or a bigger house, will finally make them happy. They’re compelled instead to find ways to live with insecurity — and to build the strong relationships with family and neighbors that are a crucial ingredient of wellbeing. We mustn’t romanticize their situation. But as we’ve seen on the US east coast recently, all our lives, in different ways, are suffused with insecurity. Do we really want to embrace a philosophy of happiness based on trying to ignore that?

    4. At the end of The Antidote, you talk a little about some of the techniques that have been most helpful to you. What continues to stick with you personally from your research? What could readers of this blog begin doing today — within the next hour, even — to get started on a more satisfying path?

    If you’re feeling daring, do what I did and deliberately embarrass yourself in public — a technique adapted from Stoicism that will transform your perspective on plunging into uncertain or scary situations. (Choose something legal and considerate of others! I spoke the names of stations on the London Underground out loud.) Alternatively, pick a project you’ve been procrastinating on, choose a useful next action, and — this is the critical part — *don’t* try to stamp out the associated negative feelings of reluctance or fear or uncertainty. Acknowledge them, then act anyway. Another thing I’ve turned into a daily habit, albeit haltingly, is meditation. Learning to observe your thoughts and emotions without manipulating them is the opposite of positive thinking: paradoxical though it sounds, getting comfortable with feeling uncomfortable is vastly more powerful than trying to stay positive.
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    More new years wisdom from others smarter than I

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    Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson





     

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    I  hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

    Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

    So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

    Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it! Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”
    ― Neil Gaiman

    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
     
    Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man. ~Quoted in Benjamin Franklin's 1755 Poor Richard's Almanac, December (Thanks, Garson O'Toole of quoteinvestigator.com!)
     
     
    Ring out the old, ring in the new,
    Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
    The year is going, let him go;
    Ring out the false, ring in the true.
    ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850
     
     
    People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas. ~Author Unknown


     

     


     
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