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He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to ...more
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Maybe the best piece of American fiction I have ever read. 19th century American West is so far from my life experience that I found myself wanting to see the places I was reading about - to pick up with a bed roll and sleep under a sky full of stars. And to take enough happiness from that “ to carry me over the low feelings that come to all men” Not that there weren’t dangers....McMurtry paints a pretty compelling picture of the American Cowboy for those of us who won’t get a whole lot closer than a backyard fire pit.
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It was always a favorite of my mom 's.
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“Seven habits to be cultivated are: •​daily celebration of the Mass •​frequent confession and spiritual direction •​daily examination of conscience •​daily reading of Scripture and other spiritual reading •​days of recollection and retreats •​Marian devotions •​meditation on the Passion of Our Lord These habits of life are necessary for the priest to carry out the work he was ordained to do. The contrast between these and the actual habits cultivated in today’s seminaries and evidenced in many priests ordained over the past three decades is sobering.”
Michael S. Rose, Goodbye, Good Men: How Liberals Brought Corruption into the Catholic Church

Viktor E. Frankl
“the meaning of life always changes, but that it never ceases to be. According to logotherapy, we can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.”
Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl
“Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.”
Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl
“In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”
Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl
“man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.”
Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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