Re: [dmcoco84] Class Action Lawsuit - NPS **Update**
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Not George Washington wrote:
Don't dread suffering, that only makes it worse. Anticipate it, predict it, even exaggerate it in your anticipation of it. Don't fight a neurosis, or a symptom of one. It may actually be a friend in disguise, a mere symptom of a deeper disturbance rendered less severe by it. A neurosis may well be a vital protective shield. Detach yourself from it, predict it, exaggerate it and laugh at it. It can safely and effectively be ridiculed away, but not torn away. Try to find meaning in every circumstance; meaning varies with the individual and with him it may vary by the hour. The meaning for a particular moment may simply be to endure that moment in a manner that you can be proud of. But, be aware of false pride. Don't expect too much. Perhaps in retrospect, it will show, that it was meaningful enough just to have endured. To have survived. To have tried. Perhaps in the end it will be just as meaningful to look back and say, I tried. As it would be to say, I succeeded.
dmcoco84 wrote:
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George Washington wrote:
Integrity & firmness is all I can promise—these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me although I may be deserted by all men. - For of the consolations which are to be derived from these (under any circumstances) the world cannot deprive me. -- April 1, 1789
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George Washington wrote:
I have no inclination to touch, much less to dilate on politics. For in politics, as in religion, my tenets are few & simple: the leading one of which; and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest & just ourselves, & to exact it from others; meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, Wars would cease, and our swords would soon be converted into reap-hooks, & our harvests be more abundant, peaceful & happy. ’Tis wonderful it should be otherwise, & that the Earth should be moistened with human gore, instead of the refreshing streams wch the shedders of it might become instruments to lead over its plains, to delight & render profitable our labours. But alas! the Millennium will not, I fear, appear in our days. The restless mind of man cannot be at peace; & when there is disorder within, it will appear without—& soon or late will shew itself in acts. So it is with Nations, whose mind is only the aggregate of those of the individuals, where the Government is representative; and the voice of a Despot, where it is not. -- December 24, 1795
