Today’s mind sharpening anagram is a two or three word phrase. Can you unscramble the anagram to discover the two or three word phrase? It’s time to exercise your brain!
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Month: April 2024
Today’s Inspiring Quote: Push Your Limits
I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. ~ Ken Venturi
Today’s Poem: O Beauty, Passing Beauty ~ by Alfred Lord Tennyson
O Beauty, Passing Beauty
Alfred Lord Tennyson
O beauty, passing beauty! Sweetest sweet!
How can thou let me waste my youth in sighs?
I only ask to sit beside thy feet.
Thou knowest I dare not look into thine eyes.
Might I but kiss thy hand! I dare not fold
My arms about thee—scarcely dare to speak.
And nothing seems to me so wild and bold,
As with one kiss to touch thy blessed cheek.
Methinks if I should kiss thee, no control
Within the thrilling brain could keep afloat
The subtle spirit. Even while I spoke,
The bare word “kiss” hath made my inner soul
To tremble like a lute string, ere the note
Hath melted in the silence that it broke.
Today’s Joke: Joe Wants Children?
Joe: “I think I’d like to have kids one day.”
Pete: “Really?”
Joe: “I don’t think I could stand them any longer than that.”
Today’s Thought: What is the Source of Your Anger
“Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power, that is not easy.” – Aristotle
NOTE: Aristotle had it right when he spoke about anger. Anger can be a useful emotion when used in the right way, at the the right time, with the right purpose, and with the right people. How do you manage your anger? Can you hold it in check or do you tend to “Fly off the handle?” When you become angry do you recognize the source of your anger? Is the direction of your anger accurate? Or, is the direction of your anger an exercise in letting off steam from a personal setback. Anger is complicated. If we’re wise and honest with ourselves we can use anger in ways that produces a positive outcome. If we’re not wise, we may be emotionally injuring the people we care most about.
It’s Time to Exercise Your Brain – Take the Anagram Challenge
Today’s mind sharpening anagram is a two or three word phrase. Can you unscramble the anagram to discover the two or three word phrase? It’s time to exercise your brain!
Today’s Anagram:
Today’s Inspiring Quote: Dare to Do Mighty Things
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt
Today’s Poem: The Beauty of the Beautiful ~ A Poem by Lao Tzu
The Beauty of the Beautiful
Lao Tzu
All in the world know the beauty of the beautiful,
and in doing this they have (the idea of) what ugliness is;
they all know the skill of the skilful,
and in doing this they have (the idea of) what the want of skill is.
So it is that existence and non-existence give birth the one to (the idea of) the other;
that difficulty and ease produce the one (the idea of) the other;
that length and shortness fashion out the one the figure of the other;
that (the ideas of) height and lowness arise from the contrast of the one with the other;
that the musical notes and tones become harmonious through the relation of one with another;
and that being before and behind give the idea of one following another.
Therefore the sage manages affairs without doing anything, and conveys his instructions without the use of speech.
All things spring up, and there is not one which declines to show itself;
they grow, and there is no claim made for their ownership;
they go through their processes, and there is no expectation (of a reward for the results).
The work is accomplished, and there is no resting in it (as an achievement).
The work is done, but how no one can see;
‘Tis this that makes the power not cease to be.
