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Hazar-Marya accidentally charging at an enemy army with uprooted bamboo stalks in this Maharashtra folk tale about how to stop being lazy

Hazar-Marya and the Thousand Flies | A Folk Tale from Maharashtra

Long ago, in Rajpur, a town in Maharashtra, lived a man named Hazar-Marya. People rarely called him by any other name. The nickname had stuck years ago because of one strange habit he had developed. Every day, he would leave home and kill one thousand flies. That was all he did. He had no job, Read more…

A person walking uphill at sunrise, leaving behind signs marked "blame" and "excuses"—symbolizing the journey to take responsibility of your life.

Quote #374 | Albert Ellis

Take Responsibility of Your Life: Why Blame Never Sets You Free The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president.You realize that you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis There’s something oddly comforting about Read more…

Pauline Phillips on what you should do if you want your children to keep their feet on the ground

Quote #175 | Abigail Van Buren | If you want children to keep their feet (…)

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. Abigail Van Buren Parenting is one of the buzzwords of the twenty-first century. So obsessed are people with this concept that new, never-heard-before professions have sprung up over the last few decades to cater to their concerns. To Read more…