{"id":202,"date":"2011-12-16T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otitijasmine.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/16\/the-power-of-words"},"modified":"2011-12-16T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T00:25:00","slug":"the-power-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otitijasmine.com\/otitijasmine.org\/2011\/12\/16\/the-power-of-words\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.otitijasmine.com\/otitijasmine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/solitude.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">A long time ago, I wrote down some quotes and put them away in a drawer. I just pulled them out while looking for something and realised that I meant to apply their principles but never got around to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">How often does that happen to us? How often do we intend to improve ourselves but put off any action? More often than not, yeah?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">So today, as a reminder that the only time to do anything is <em>now<\/em>, I want to write them here for easy reference and mindful application.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"font-size:large;color:#000000;\">&#8220;The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Eleanor Roosevelt<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"font-size:large;color:#000000;\">&#8220;All things splendid have been achieved by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Bruce Barton<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"font-size:large;color:#000000;\">&#8220;Let us be glad for the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Marcel Proust<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"font-size:large;color:#000000;\">&#8220;Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with your possessions; to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness, and to fear nothing except cowardice; to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts; to covet nothing that is your neighbor&#8217;s except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends . . . and to spend as much time as you can, with body and with spirit. These are little guideposts on the footpath to peace.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Henry van Dyke<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"geo-post-202\" class=\"geo geo-post\" style=\"display: none\"><span class=\"latitude\">51.045925<\/span><span class=\"longitude\">7.01922<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago, I wrote down some quotes and put them away in a drawer. 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