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Quote for Today: Robert Grudin
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March 9, 2018 by katmcdaniel

…as we proceed to higher and higher levels of expertise, and as the stakes get higher and higher, the agonies …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: agony, aspiration, enterprise, excellence, expertise, meaning, minority, Robert Grudin, security, stakes, start, stop, suffering, The Grace of Great Things
Quote for Today: Emil Dorian
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October 24, 2017 by katmcdaniel

Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain. ―Emil Dorian, …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: Emil Dorian, humanity, management, necessary, organize, pain, priority, Quality of Witness, resilience, strength, suffering, survival, triage
Quote for Today: Lynsay Sands
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May 25, 2017 by katmcdaniel

Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: age, experience, humanity, learning, leaving, life, Love Bites, Lynsay Sands, risk, suffering, teacher, time, wisdom, youth
Quote for Today: Oli Anderson
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March 15, 2017 by katmcdaniel

The first step to empathy and compassion is realising the similarities between yourself and those that are suffering; the first …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: appreciation, compassion, connectedness, diffference, empathy, fallibility, forgiveness, growth, humanity, Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions, similarities, suffering, zone
Quote for Today: Richard Attenborough
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November 16, 2015 by katmcdaniel

There is a light in this world. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometime …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: call, extraordinary, healing, humanity, life, light, ordinary, pain, reality, Richard Attenborough, spirit, suffering, vision, world
Quote for Today: Bree Loewen
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August 18, 2015 by katmcdaniel

During my three seasons at Mount Rainier I learned a lot about mountain climbing and rescues, about politics and camaraderie …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: bargain, Bree Loewen, climbing, confidence, decision, life, mountains, nature, Pickets and Dead Men, resilience, skill, suffering, wisdom, wonders
Quote for Today: Milan Kundera
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June 19, 2015 by katmcdaniel

The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: frustration, home, homesickness, humanity, ignorance, language, memory, Milan Kundera, nostalgia, past, return, suffering, yearning

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