SHARING the MAKING: September 2009

Saturday 5 September 2009

making shared responsibilities

RITUALS COMMUNITIES REPETITION DIVERSITY PHILOSOPHY

Robert Louis Stevenson

'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,

but by the seeds that you plant.'

The best way out is through... Robert Frost

'I am an optimist. It doesn't seem too much use being anything else.'

Winston Churchill

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'If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.'

Socrates

'The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than growing with them.'

Bernard M Baruch

'Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. catch the trade winds in your sail. explore. dream. discover.'

Mark Twain

KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON

'He who has a why to live can bare almost any how.'

Friedrich Nietzche

Quote by H.G Wells

'while there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, i hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.'

SHARING the MAKING

CREATING SOCIAL FELLOWSHIP

Joseph Conrad

'The artist appeals to that part of our being ...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.'

Big questions for a Saturday morning

what is the value of art in our society?

are we in danger of ignoring our most precious commodity?

What are the most important gifts in Life?

our capacity

There is clearly something powerfully preoccupying about people being able to take a sympathetic interest in each other, about our capacity to imagine the suffering of others in ways that can make a beneficial difference.

Empathy

The advantages to capitalism were that it turned individual desires into public benefit.

People think that they envy other people for their success, money, fame, even in fact it is kindness that is most envied, because it is the strongest indicator of people’s well being, their pleasure in existence.

Sweet Commerce

The commercial spirit historically has not been a generous one. Ruthless egoists have been competing for riches and power.

Adam Phillips

‘No one can live a happy life if he turns everything to his own purpose, live for others if you want to live for yourself’

Traders

Sweet Commerce

Kindness is our duty but also our joy

Barbara Taylor

‘The pleasure of kindness is that it connects us with others, but the terror of kindness is that it makes us too immediately aware of our own and other people’s vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities that we are prone to call failings when we are most frightened.’