Comments on: Know this, if nothing else http://www.richardstupart.com/2009/08/08/know-this-if-nothing-else/ where the road goes... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Oyena http://www.richardstupart.com/2009/08/08/know-this-if-nothing-else/comment-page-1/#comment-593 Oyena Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:19:30 +0000 http://www.richardstupart.com/?p=767#comment-593 You will never know how much seeing this post means to me. Like you said, it's just so encouraging to realise that there are other people out there who also believe that life is not to be lived during work breaks, who measure success not by how much you are like everyone else, but by how much you live. And at this point in my life where to truly live might cost me so much, and possibly mean I will have to live alone. It's so great to see that there are others out there. Thanks a lot Rich You will never know how much seeing this post means to me. Like you said, it’s just so encouraging to realise that there are other people out there who also believe that life is not to be lived during work breaks, who measure success not by how much you are like everyone else, but by how much you live. And at this point in my life where to truly live might cost me so much, and possibly mean I will have to live alone. It’s so great to see that there are others out there.

Thanks a lot Rich

]]> By: Flaming Feline » Blog Archive » Expensive Sadness http://www.richardstupart.com/2009/08/08/know-this-if-nothing-else/comment-page-1/#comment-588 Flaming Feline » Blog Archive » Expensive Sadness Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:13:51 +0000 http://www.richardstupart.com/?p=767#comment-588 [...] Richard and I were discussing this on the way back from the Nanhua Buddhist Temple yesterday.  His post puts into words a concept that I don’t think I could ever manage to articulate, or at least [...] [...] Richard and I were discussing this on the way back from the Nanhua Buddhist Temple yesterday.  His post puts into words a concept that I don’t think I could ever manage to articulate, or at least [...]

]]> By: Richard http://www.richardstupart.com/2009/08/08/know-this-if-nothing-else/comment-page-1/#comment-587 Richard Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:19:26 +0000 http://www.richardstupart.com/?p=767#comment-587 That Cat Stevens song is beautiful. I'm glad it means something. To know that other people see the world in similar terms makes confronting what seems like such a lonely truth a little less difficult. That Cat Stevens song is beautiful. I’m glad it means something. To know that other people see the world in similar terms makes confronting what seems like such a lonely truth a little less difficult.

]]> By: Katherine Barrow http://www.richardstupart.com/2009/08/08/know-this-if-nothing-else/comment-page-1/#comment-586 Katherine Barrow Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:36:07 +0000 http://www.richardstupart.com/?p=767#comment-586 I'm not quite sure how to put into words how I feel about this post. It brought me to tears- maybe because it's so true, or so beautiful, or so frightening. I'm not sure. But thank you- reading that touched some very deep chords. I’m not quite sure how to put into words how I feel about this post. It brought me to tears- maybe because it’s so true, or so beautiful, or so frightening. I’m not sure. But thank you- reading that touched some very deep chords.

]]> By: Audrey http://www.richardstupart.com/2009/08/08/know-this-if-nothing-else/comment-page-1/#comment-584 Audrey Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:48:34 +0000 http://www.richardstupart.com/?p=767#comment-584 In fact it makes me feel (and I may be tipsy) like the good old Cat Stevens song - Father and Son. Folk have been doing this for years, but there's truth in it yet: All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside, Its hard, but its harder to ignore it. If they were right, Id agree, but its them you know not me. Now theres a way and I know that I have to go away. I know I have to go Some of us have to go. Ain't got no choices, and that's just the way it is. In fact it makes me feel (and I may be tipsy) like the good old Cat Stevens song – Father and Son. Folk have been doing this for years, but there’s truth in it yet:

All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside,
Its hard, but its harder to ignore it.
If they were right, Id agree, but its them you know not me.
Now theres a way and I know that I have to go away.
I know I have to go

Some of us have to go. Ain’t got no choices, and that’s just the way it is.

]]> By: Audrey http://www.richardstupart.com/2009/08/08/know-this-if-nothing-else/comment-page-1/#comment-583 Audrey Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:44:24 +0000 http://www.richardstupart.com/?p=767#comment-583 You say so many truths that we are almost all too afraid to live. But you are right - it is always our choice, and it is a choice. We can regret, or we can try and the worst that can happen is we fail. What could be worse than never having tried? Failure is an possibility, but if you fail, it means you did your best. And that is better than most. You say so many truths that we are almost all too afraid to live. But you are right – it is always our choice, and it is a choice. We can regret, or we can try and the worst that can happen is we fail. What could be worse than never having tried? Failure is an possibility, but if you fail, it means you did your best. And that is better than most.

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