“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.” – Anonymous

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

3 August

Life is NOT a spectator sport.

“A people-pleaser will know exactly what to do, whom to associate with, what to think, where to go, and especially what to do with his money - just as soon as someone tells him.” - Arnold Kunst

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

August 3

Lincoln liked to tell the story of a seedy fellow asking Secretary of State Seward for a consulate in Berlin, then Paris, then Liverpool, eventually coming down to a clerkship in the State Department. Hearing these places were all filled, he said, “Well, then, can you lend me $5?”

“Are you too anemic to make your good idea a great idea?” – Arnold Kunst

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

2 August

“Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.”

- Anonymous

“Success is yours insofar as you realize “this is really difficult!” is a relative term.” - Arnold Kunst

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

August 2

“Are you not over-cautious when you assume that you cannot do what the enemy is consistently doing?” - Abraham Lincoln

“The best revenge is to have enough self-worth not to seek it.” – Anonymous

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

1 August

Forgiving is. I think, more important than you and I imagine. Admittedly, I haven't much experience at up-close-and-personal forgiving, but hopefully I'll work myself to expert status before I’m finished because, like, I don’t think there’s any alternative. After all, if the Lord’s Prayer is anything to go by, God’s forgiving me is directly proportionbal to my forgiving others, and if that’s true then learning how to forgive is about as crucial a task as tasks get. It requires a laser-beam focus on what gives Life and a commensurate letting go of things that don't. I think I’m supposed to let them fall away, as though of their own weight; just stop clinging to them any more because they represent death and decay. Maybe it's like letting go of the control-freak thing at night and falling asleep. I think the sign I'm getting it down is the realization that I'm traveling far lighter - it means I am, as best I can, leaving the dead to bury the dead while I turn my face toward whatever gives life. And heaven is LIFE on steroids, right?

“The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.” - Seneca

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

August 1

During one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858 Lincoln was accused of being two-faced. He responded by saying, “I leave it to this audience to decide: if I had a face different to the one you see in front of you, don't you think I'd be wearing it?”