Aesop's Fables
Jan 8, 2013 10:15:56 #
Nikocarol
Loc: NM & FL
Aesops Fables
(620-564 BC)
The life and History of Aesop is involved, like that of Homer, the most famous of Greek poets, in much obscurity; yet there are a few incidents now generally accepted by scholars as established facts. He is, by an almost universal consent, allowed to have been born about the year 620 B.C., and to have been by birth a slave. He was given his liberty, as a reward for his learning and wit; and Aesop, like the philosophers Phaedo, Menippus, and Epictetus, in later times, raised himself from the indignity of a servile condition to a position of high renown.
The Fox and the Lion
WHEN A FOX who had never yet seen a Lion, fell in with him by chance for the first time in the forest, he was so frightened that he nearly died with fear. On meeting him for the second time, he was still much alarmed, but not to the same extent as at first. On seeing him the third time, he so increased in boldness that he went up to him and commenced a familiar conversation with him.
Acquaintance softens prejudices.
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If you want to change your life, change your mind.
- Anonymous
(620-564 BC)
The life and History of Aesop is involved, like that of Homer, the most famous of Greek poets, in much obscurity; yet there are a few incidents now generally accepted by scholars as established facts. He is, by an almost universal consent, allowed to have been born about the year 620 B.C., and to have been by birth a slave. He was given his liberty, as a reward for his learning and wit; and Aesop, like the philosophers Phaedo, Menippus, and Epictetus, in later times, raised himself from the indignity of a servile condition to a position of high renown.
The Fox and the Lion
WHEN A FOX who had never yet seen a Lion, fell in with him by chance for the first time in the forest, he was so frightened that he nearly died with fear. On meeting him for the second time, he was still much alarmed, but not to the same extent as at first. On seeing him the third time, he so increased in boldness that he went up to him and commenced a familiar conversation with him.
Acquaintance softens prejudices.
**** **** ****
If you want to change your life, change your mind.
- Anonymous
Jan 8, 2013 11:47:38 #
Jan 9, 2013 10:04:35 #
Nikocarol wrote:
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:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: It is unfortunate that people don't want to let go their fear for fear that they might have to change their thinking.
Jan 9, 2013 10:15:57 #
Nikocarol
Loc: NM & FL
I totally agree with you...Fear is an amazing mind set...can help you, paralyze you and if you don't check it every once in a while you certainly can get stuck. "Which that scares the hell out of me."
Jan 9, 2013 10:16:31 #
Nikocarol
Loc: NM & FL
HEART wrote:
As much as I like Homer, Peter in Family Guy is even better!
hahaha...
Jan 9, 2013 14:55:54 #
Real courage, in whatever endeavor, is recognizing your fear and taking action to accomplish what you need to do. Or another way of saying the same thing: Fear knocked on the door,Faith opened the door and there was no one there.
Jan 9, 2013 20:37:49 #
Nikocarol
Loc: NM & FL
Floyd wrote:
Real courage, in whatever endeavor, is recognizing your fear and taking action to accomplish what you need to do. Or another way of saying the same thing: Fear knocked on the door,Faith opened the door and there was no one there.
This is great..it is the very way I live my life...especially when fear shows it's face..I remember the words above.
Another way of looking at fear is...Feel the fear and do it anyway,within reason of course.
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