Rapping, Blogging, Preaching, Snowing

Aphorism 117: “Keep Grinding!” Ben B of UGK Rap Group

Full Quote: “’I appreciate the concern,’ he told Vibe. ‘But I wouldn’t ask anyone to stop their life because Pimp would’ve wanted us all to keep grinding.’” New York Times, Dec. 2007

Aphorism 116: “Establish an area of refuge!” Gretchen Rubin, Happiness Project Blog, a tribute to Winston Churchill

Aphorism 115: “Hold Truths Lightly!”, The Most rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal church as reported by Rebbecca Trounsen, Los Angeles Times as published in the Times Picayune, Nov. 24, 2007

Full Quote: “Perhaps, Jefferts Schori said, if all sides in the current debate over sexuality and Scripture could ‘hold their truths more lightly,’ they might yet find a way forward together.”

Aphorism 114: “Bestow little faith in intuitions or impressions!” by C.P. Snow about G.H. Hardy in Variety of Men

Full Quote: “Hardy had no faith in intuitions or impressions, how own or anyone else’s.”

Gautreaux, Neuwen, & Narden

Aphorism Eighteen: “It takes patience to know something well!”

Aphorism Nineteen: “Heed the directions found in personal fascinations!”

Full quote: “That’s one thing as a teacher I always emphasized—your personal fascinations are the most valuable thing you have, no matter what that fascination is…And I think it takes patience to know something.” By Tim Gautreaux, author of The Missing as quoted by Susan Larson, Times Picayune Newspaper, March 2009

Aphorism Twenty: “Obey the laws of imagination!”

Full Quote: “Like other writers, he (Anthony Trollope) had to compromise between his desire to sell and his need to obey the laws of his own imagination..” by Jane Narden, He Knew She Was Right, S. Illinois U. Press, 1989, p. 21

Aphorism Twenty-one: “Develop the discipline of gratitude!”

Full Quote: “Hillary recalled that one simple phrase in Neuwen’s book struck like an epiphany, ‘the discipline of gratitude’” from Her Way, 2007, Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta, Jr. Little Brown, NY. Quoted by Hillary from The Return of the Periodical Son by Henri Neuwen.