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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius (121-180)

After the Rain

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16 Comments CherryPie on Mar 4th 2012

16 Responses to “Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week”

  1. Denise says:
    March 4, 2012 at 7:40 pm

    Lovely idea for a new week!

  2. jane says:
    March 4, 2012 at 8:09 pm

    What a beautiful rose and good words to go by too.

  3. Sean Jeating says:
    March 4, 2012 at 11:02 pm

    …, and when you take advantage of this very power, not seldom you will get considered heartless.
    That is why so many of us at certain points of their life ‘decide’ to become hypocrites.

    A rose is not a rose is not a rose. Long live the difference!

    • CherryPie says:
      March 4, 2012 at 11:19 pm

      It depends on how people choose to take advantage of the power.

      A true rose is a rose :-)

      But I think think that the Foxglove (Digitalis) expresses the fine line between choices…

  4. Marcie says:
    March 5, 2012 at 12:29 am

    It’s all about what we think..and how we choose to think about it. Love the quote..and the rose is simply divine!

  5. Ginnie says:
    March 5, 2012 at 5:41 am

    Even way back then someone knew our brains have so much power over us! Wow.

  6. ....peter:) says:
    March 5, 2012 at 6:25 am

    You have captured a beautiful rose Cherie… and i believe in your quote about pain:)….peter:)

  7. james higham says:
    March 5, 2012 at 10:11 pm

    Nothing in particular you have in mind, Cherie?

  8. Victoria says:
    March 7, 2012 at 9:44 am

    Beautiful picture!