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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Gustav Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Gustav Jung
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Here's one of my absolute favorite quotes to date. It's a long one, but what a visionary.
"Even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction - purpose and dignity - that afflicts us all.
Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage.
It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl.
It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.
Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials.
It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.
And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.
If this is true here at home, so it is true elsewhere in world. "
-Robert F. Kennedy
I can't find a fault in this logic. It's up there with the Ithaka poem in my opinion.
Here's one of my absolute favorite quotes to date. It's a long one, but what a visionary.
"Even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction - purpose and dignity - that afflicts us all.
Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage.
It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl.
It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.
Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials.
It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.
And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.
If this is true here at home, so it is true elsewhere in world. "
-Robert F. Kennedy
I can't find a fault in this logic. It's up there with the Ithaka poem in my opinion.
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I like what you posted - the quote of Robert Kennedy. By definition: GNP is: An economic statistic that includes GDP, plus any income earned by residents from overseas investments, minus income earned within the domestic economy by overseas residents (citing investopedia.com).
GNP includes also public and private services, such as healthcare, policing and so on, pretty much anything. It is not a psychological or cultural index, I guess, but on the other hand, it is a powerful economic index. I am not sure I understand Kennedy.
I like what you posted - the quote of Robert Kennedy. By definition: GNP is: An economic statistic that includes GDP, plus any income earned by residents from overseas investments, minus income earned within the domestic economy by overseas residents (citing investopedia.com).
GNP includes also public and private services, such as healthcare, policing and so on, pretty much anything. It is not a psychological or cultural index, I guess, but on the other hand, it is a powerful economic index. I am not sure I understand Kennedy.
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The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway
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The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway
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Respectfully, I think you're over-analyzing it and not seeing the GDP as symbolism for <insert physical thing we use to measure worth with>. You're just not seeing the correlation to positive psychology.
Respectfully, I think you're over-analyzing it and not seeing the GDP as symbolism for <insert physical thing we use to measure worth with>. You're just not seeing the correlation to positive psychology.
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Robert Kennedy is right on one thing: the GNP doesn't measure all the things he said it doesn't measure. What he is wrong about is that economic prosperity is the core of all societal problems.
GNP measures only economic growth. I don't see how a poor economy, reflected in low GNP is correlated to anything positive, let alone positive psychology.
I have lived in the US. I visit the US every month or so, because I love the country and the American people. They are in general fair, hard working people with great family and life values.
The hard working people, trying to support their families and the investors, who make overseas investments are not the problem of your country. Although they would be the main class whose work is reflected in the GDP and respectfully the GNP, they aren't usually involved in gun violence and crimes.
The way I understand Kennedy's quote, there is an implication that all material prosperity is in the core of societal problems, that the American dream is something negative.
Maybe, I am overanalyzing, maybe I simply have a different opinion.
Thank you. It is likely I have missed something.
Robert Kennedy is right on one thing: the GNP doesn't measure all the things he said it doesn't measure. What he is wrong about is that economic prosperity is the core of all societal problems.
GNP measures only economic growth. I don't see how a poor economy, reflected in low GNP is correlated to anything positive, let alone positive psychology.
I have lived in the US. I visit the US every month or so, because I love the country and the American people. They are in general fair, hard working people with great family and life values.
The hard working people, trying to support their families and the investors, who make overseas investments are not the problem of your country. Although they would be the main class whose work is reflected in the GDP and respectfully the GNP, they aren't usually involved in gun violence and crimes.
The way I understand Kennedy's quote, there is an implication that all material prosperity is in the core of societal problems, that the American dream is something negative.
Maybe, I am overanalyzing, maybe I simply have a different opinion.
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You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there
~ unknown
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there
~ unknown
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"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
Michelangelo
I love all of Michelangelo's work and quotes. He reminds me of the times when I could write poetry and short stories and knew how something was going to sound, before starting it. The best feeling is to be able to "feel" the end product of your work, before you have even started.
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
Michelangelo
I love all of Michelangelo's work and quotes. He reminds me of the times when I could write poetry and short stories and knew how something was going to sound, before starting it. The best feeling is to be able to "feel" the end product of your work, before you have even started.
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My two favorite quotes by the late Wayne Dyer:
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
"Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are."
My two favorite quotes by the late Wayne Dyer:
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
"Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are."
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"The mind has to do with meaning. What's the meaning of a flower? … There's no meaning. What's the meaning of the universe? What's the meaning of a flea? It's just there. That's it. And your own meaning is that you're there. We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture associated with being alive, is what it's all about."
~ Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (with Bill Moyers)
"The mind has to do with meaning. What's the meaning of a flower? … There's no meaning. What's the meaning of the universe? What's the meaning of a flea? It's just there. That's it. And your own meaning is that you're there. We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture associated with being alive, is what it's all about."
~ Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (with Bill Moyers)
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We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
~ Stevie Wonder
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
~ Stevie Wonder
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"Live out of doors as much as possible, and breathe air upon which the sun shines."
~ Jos W. Blosser (Health Secrets, 1907)
"Live out of doors as much as possible, and breathe air upon which the sun shines."
~ Jos W. Blosser (Health Secrets, 1907)
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Thanks Daniel, that quote reminded me a bit of this one:
"Do not believe any idea that was not born in the open air and of free movement." (Nietzsche)
Thanks Daniel, that quote reminded me a bit of this one:
"Do not believe any idea that was not born in the open air and of free movement." (Nietzsche)
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Life isn’t something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what you are. There is nothing more delightful than planting flower seeds and not knowing what kind of flowers are going to come up.
– Milton H. Erickson, M.D., 1979
Life isn’t something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what you are. There is nothing more delightful than planting flower seeds and not knowing what kind of flowers are going to come up.
– Milton H. Erickson, M.D., 1979
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me
~ Erica Jong
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me
~ Erica Jong
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"Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." (Roald Dahl)
"Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." (Roald Dahl)
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"A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows." - St. Francis of Assisi
"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it." - John Ruskin
"A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows." - St. Francis of Assisi
"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it." - John Ruskin
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If you don't invest much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting
~ Dick Vermeil
If you don't invest much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting
~ Dick Vermeil
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