Bushisms Video...Episode 2

Here's another YouTube video clip from the recently concluded OPEC....opppsss....APEC meeting in Australia. See Bushisms in action again here. Really big time fumble in this one.

Bushisms Video

To mark the significant break of this blog from its heretofore staid past, I upgraded its template design from David Bowman's generic "Minima" to this so-called "Snapshot Sable", a creation by David Shea. I am also embedding this YouTube video on Bushisms for your viewing pleasure. From here on, I will post jokes, trivia and other interesting video clips falling under the category of either quotes, jokes, funny anecdotes or trivia.

Quotes From "Further Along The Road Less Traveled"

I liked M. Scott Peck's "The Road Less Traveled" so it was a no-brainer to buy this sequel to that bestseller in February 1995. Little did I know that less than two weeks later, my bed-ridden father would join his Creator. That's the sentimental link of this volume to me. Here are my choice cuts:

On "Life":

"Life is complex."

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"There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another."

On "Suffering":

"There is such a thing as constructive suffering."

On "Guilt":

"We need a certain amount of guilt in order to exist in society. And that's what I call existential guilt."

On "Courage":

"The absence of fear is not courage; the absence of fear is some kind of brain damage."

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"Courage is the capacity to go ahead in spite of fear, or in spite of the pain."

On "Immaturity":

"...what characterizes most immature people is that they sit around complaining that life doesn't meet their demands."

On "Pain":

"The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth."

On "Salvation":

"Salvation is the process of healing and the process of becoming whole."

On "Consciousness":

"Consciousness brings more pain, but it also brings more joy."

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"The more pain you are willing to take on, the more joy you will also begin to feel."

On"Forgiving":

"A big part of growing up is learning to forgive."

On"Anger":

"Blame always begins with anger."

On "Will Power":

"A strong will is, I believe, the best asset that a human being can possess, not because it guarantees success or goodness, but because a weak will pretty much guarantees failure."

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"The worst side effect of a strong will is a strong temper--anger."

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"Your will has to be harnessed to a power higher than yourself".

On "Blessings":

"All blessings are potential curses, all have their side effects."

On "Forgiveness and Affirmation":

"Make no mistake, forgiveness and affirmation are not the same. Affirmation is a way to avoid looking at evil....Forgiveness on the other hand requires facing evil squarely."

On "Forgetting and Forgiving":

"We cannot truly forget. We can only truly forgive..."

On "Humility":

"Humility is a true knowledge of oneself as one is."

--M. Scott Peck