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becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
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w into other lives as naturally as bird sings.
We can never get it by working for it directly. It comes, like happiness, to those who are aiming at
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that
helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers, "I can do it!"
when others shout, "No, you can't."
It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel
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at the jingle of keys or the scurrying of a beetle.
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cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his
stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. Music, for Casals, was an elixir
that made life a never ending adventure. As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle the
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How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe, lies in the word itself.
"Enthusiasm" comes from the Greek and means "God within." And what is God within is but an abiding sense
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Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. If we cannot do what we
love as a full-time career, we can as a part-time avocation, like the head of state who paints, the nun
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Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended bouts of
depression that had plagued her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say,
"I am tempted to call Layton a genius." Elizabeth has rediscovered her enthusiasm.
We can't afford to waste tears on "might-have-beens." We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after
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I am out of its non-preparation, 2moons dil again a small piece of bread a toss up. Black suddenly jump, followed by an urgent turn around, body up a jump, but also caught the. Well, I finished black, it, "Wang Wang" ground called the Liang Sheng, the two forepaws flat on their chests up and down swing, it seems to me to express gratitude.
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This is the black, my black classmates who do you think it is cute?
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