Joseph Dziok:
CLASS OF 1965
Utica Free AcademyClass of 1965
Utica, NY
Joseph's Story
Joseph is married. His schools include Utica Free Academy.
Music Joseph likes includes Emerson, Lake & Palmer, C.C.R.. Books he likes include Love What Life Is All About, The Sixties, The Bible. Movies he likes include Titanic, Love Story, The Passion of the Christ. TV shows he likes include Neil Cavuto, The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News Channel.
One of Joseph's favorite quotes is:"When all of the earth turns against you, all of heven turns toward you. To keep your balance in a crooked world.....think of home.
DEALING WITH THE BURDENS OF LIFE.......
1 * Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue!
2 * Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
3 * Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
4 * Drive carefully... It's not only cars that can be recalled by their Maker.
5 * If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
6 * If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
7 * It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
8 * Never buy a car you can't push.
9 * Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won't have a leg to stand on.
10 * Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
11 * Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.
12 * The second mouse gets the cheese.
13 * When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
14 * Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
15 * You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.
16 * Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
17 * We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names and all are different colors,
but they all have to live in the same box.
18 * A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
19 * Have an awesome day and know that someone has thought about you today.
"The only way to know God is to love many things."
"To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower."
"The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost."
"But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away." ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life,1859
"Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer."
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before her I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a woman so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, ...Expand for more
and second thought, which women never put off, and may deal with her with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." George Washington Carver
"Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."
âTo experience divine love, to truly experience the floodgates of love opening and flowing into all of life, and then return to ordinary life where people are so bound by dark emotions and so afraid to loveâthis is a true suffering for me because I cannot seem to find the way, the path, or the words to free people from their prison. They cling to their fears far more than they trust the power of love.â From an extraordinary monk
""Better the sinner who knows he is a sinner than a saint who knows he is a saint." A Yiddish Proverb".
More about Joseph:"Live in such a way that those who know you but don't know God, will come to know God, because they know you.
Life is too short to wake up with regrets.. So love
The people who treat you right.. Forget about the
Ones who don't. Believe everything happens for a
Reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both
Hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life
Would be easy, they just promised it would be
Worth it.
Friends are like balloons;
Once you let them go, you might not get them
Back. Sometimes we get so busy with our own
Lives and problems that we may not even notice
That we've let them fly away. Sometimes we are so
Caught up in who's right and who's wrong that we
Forget what's right and wrong.. Sometimes we just
Don't realize what real friendship means until it
Is too late. I don't want to let that happen so
I'm going to tie you to my heart so I never lose
You.
"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in, aim at earth and you will get neither." C.S. Lewis
Who really cares? Regardless; I'm no failure; I'm not dead yet. But seriously; The best way to predict your future is to create it. God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.
This has been my life; I found it worth living.
That it will never come again is what makes my life so sweet.
A man of conscience, is one who never acquires tolerance, well- being, success, public standing, and approval on the part of prevailing opinion, at the expense of truth." Pope Benedict XVI".
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