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Re: Song/Quote of the day! -
October 21st 2010, 12:22 AM
"There is no more valuable precept in moral education than this, as all who have experience know: if we wish to conquer undesirable emotional tendencies, we must assiduously, and in the first instance cold-bloodedly, go through the outward movements of those contrary dispositions which we prefer to cultivate. The rewards of persistance will infallibly come.... Smooth the brow, brighten the eye, contract the dorsal rather than the ventral aspect of the frame, and speak in a major key, pass the genial compliment, and your heart must be frigid indeed if it do not gradually thaw!!"
~ William James, The Principles of Psychology, 1890. (Vol II, p. 463)
Honey, you're familiar, like my mirror, years ago ..... I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door ... ... Níl a shíltear mar a bhítear. Things are not always what they seem.
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