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1st Amendment ~ Please note that this is a personal journalist effort by a heart transplant patient. Any reference to volunteering, other patients, medical practioners, family members, physical places or locations will be based on composites of of real and fictional people and may be antedotal in nature.
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Monthly Archives: May 2019
Happiness
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.” ~ Thomas Merton
Posted in Daily Insight, General, Heart Transplant
Tagged Balance, Happiness, Order, Rhythm
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Spaghetti
“No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires so much attention.” ~ Christopher Morley
Posted in Daily Insight, General, Heart Transplant
Tagged Attention, Lonely, Spaghetti
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Flowers
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”
Posted in Daily Insight, General, Heart Transplant
Tagged Better, Flowers, Food, Happy, Helpful, Medicine, Sunshine
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Niki Lauda
“From success you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.” “Giving up is something a Lauda doesn’t do.” ~ Niki Lauda I’ve been a … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Insight, General, Heart Transplant
Tagged F-1, Formula One Racing, Jame Hunt, Niki Lauda
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Still Smiling – Keep Them Guessing
“So you failed. You want to be truly great? Then have the courage to fail BIG and stick around. Make them wonder why you are still smiling. That’s true greatness to me.” ~ Elizabethtown
Posted in Daily Insight, General, Heart Transplant
Tagged Courage, Fail, Smiling, Strength
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Memorial Day
“And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.” ~ Joseph Rodman Drake It’s simply not a day off from work, a day for a picnic, … Continue reading
Humble and Noble
“Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.” ~ Proverb
Posted in Daily Insight, General, Heart Transplant
Tagged Earth, Humble, Noble, Stars
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Why I Write
This pretty much sums up this blog ……… My2ndHeartBeat “I write entirely to find out what I am thinking, what I am looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” ~ Joan … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Insight, General, Heart Transplant
Tagged Fear, Look, Meaning, See, Thinking, Want, Write
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Value of Life
“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.” ~ Desmond Tutu
Hope
“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances we know to be desperate.” ~ G.K. Cheterton