Positive News :: Edition 74

Words of inspiration from women (from “A Woman’s Book of Inspiration”) for a new semester

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe Words of inspiration from women (from “A Woman’s Book of Inspiration”) for a new semester

Harriet Beecher Stowe published her anti-slavery novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in 1851. 

There are going to be so many overwhelming moments this semester (and generally in life). It’s important to remember that endurance doesn’t mean you’re sprinting, it just means you’re going as fast as you can. It might be a walk, jog or run, but progress is progress, no matter how fast you’re going.

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Earth911 Inspiration: Like a Tree

Earth911 Jan 29, 2021

Inspiration

This week’s Earth911 Inspiration comes from poet Ben Ditmars, who wrote, “Like a tree, I have stood my ground, not fallen.”

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CNY Inspirations: The past is HISTORY

Updated Jan 24, 2021; Posted Jan 24, 2021

Daryl Suzanne Files

By InterFaith Works of Central New York

This feature is coordinated by The Post-Standard/Syracuse.com and InterFaith Works of CNY. Follow this theme and author posted Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday.

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Rick Owens on Drawing Inspiration From Imperfection

The American designer speaks with BoF editor-at-large Tim Blanks about his latest collection, born from ‘anger and darkness,’ and why limitations often make way for creative ingenuity.

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With Depeche Mode on break, Martin Gore found inspiration from German techno, and monkeys

Martin Gore

Martin Gore’s new EP is “The Third Chimpanzee.” “I think monkeys might find it a derogatory term if they were accidentally called a human,” he says.(Travis Shinn Photography)

Native to Central and South America, the howler monkey gets its name from the menacing wail it makes. It’s among the largest nonhuman primates in the Americas, part of a cluster that migrated, it is speculated, either by raft or natural bridge from Africa some nearly 50 million years ago.

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What an inspiration’: Twitterati react after 97-year-old holocaust survivor recovers from COVID-19

'What an inspiration': Twitterati react after 97-year-old holocaust survivor recovers from COVID-19

A 97-year-old Auschwitz survivor, Lily Ebert, is being hailed online after she made a “miraculous recovery” from COVID-19.

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Fable : Stop wasting your time complaining

“People visit a wise man complaining about the same problems over and over again. One day, he decided to tell them a joke and they all roared with laughter.

After a few minutes, he told them the same joke and only a few of them smiled.

Then he told the same joke for a third time, but no one laughed or smiled anymore.

The wise man smiled and said: ‘You can’t laugh at the same joke over and over. So why are you always crying about the same problem?’

Interpretation : As the wise man said, may of us keep complaining about the same issue instead of looking for solutions

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