Here's a try:

'We are put on this earth for one reason alone - to help everyone we
meet survive the experience - but not do the surviving for them.'

And how?

Three guides, perhaps -

1) Treat everyone as you would wish to be treated yourself

2) Treat the place where you live (home, locality, planet) as thought
your mother were coming to visit tomorrow (or - if you and your mum
don't get on - as if your grand-ma were coming to visit tomorrow)

3) Always leave one penny more than you take - that way there's always
plenty left over for everyone.

hugs

john ?=0)

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Ivy Shiue wrote:

> I personally notice the word he used was ‘statement’, not ‘politician’.
> Ivy Shiue
> Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:02PM EDT
> By Marja Novak
> LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Looking for the true meaning of life? Slovenia's
> president may be able to help.
> Janez Drnovsek's self-help books have won admiration from many,
> including Brigitte Bardot, but the veteran leader's eccentricity is
> embarrassing some in Slovenia as the tiny Alpine state seeks a role in
> the European mainstream.
> A vegetarian who bakes his own bread, the president was one of the
> architects of Slovenia's independence. His unorthodox lifestyle, fight
> for animal rights and apparent disdain for traditional politics have
> made him a popular figure.
> For six months last year, he advised readers about their daily
> problems in a popular women's magazine. He is now writing his third
> new book on awareness.
> Although diagnosed with cancer in 1999, he stopped visiting doctors a
> few years ago and now claims to be healthy, saying he no longer seeks
> political power but deals with moral values.
> "I want to raise people's awareness ... help them to change their
> lifestyle. That is why I write books," said Drnovsek in a recent
> interview with local daily Delo.
> "We need statesmen with a higher level of awareness who do not care
> mainly about personal interests and prestige. We need people without a
> big ego... who will dare to set limits to capital and profit,"
> Drnovsek wrote in one of his books.
> Taking up a vegetarian diet since the cancer diagnosis, he left his
> home in the capital for a village on a hill near Ljubljana where he
> lives alone, grows his own vegetables and often fasts. He is unmarried.
> France's Bardot wrote to him last year, saying: "If only we had a
> candidate (in the French presidential election) like Drnovsek, or even
> a shadow of him, the world would quickly become less intolerable."
> ESSENCE OF THE WORLD
> Last year Drnovsek published two books, 'The Essence of the World' and
> 'The Thoughts on Life and Awareness', which became instant
> best-sellers and were translated into German, English, Croatian and
> Bosnian.
> "Oh, you would not be able to find these books in our library easily.
> They are a hit and are always lent out," said a clerk in one of
> Ljubljana's largest libraries.
> Drnovsek started his political career as the penultimate president of
> the former Yugoslavia and was prime minister of Slovenia for 10 years
> before becoming president in 2002.
> Extremely thin and looking older than his 56 years, he has said he is
> unlikely to run for another mandate after his current one expires in
> December.
> "Drnovsek is eccentric at times. But he is popular particularly
> because of this eccentricity, because of his promotion of healthy
> living and alternative approaches which are not usual among
> politicians," Borut Hocevar, an editor at daily Dnevnik, told Reuters.
> His refusal to see doctors has angered local health officials who
> argue his behavior could lead to general distrust of western medicine.
> "After his illness Drnovsek became more human, kinder. I would vote
> for him if he ran for president again, though his conflicts with the
> government are hurting Slovenia," said Nada Praprotnik, a 56-year-old
> botanist, on the streets of Ljubljana.
> In 2005, a woman with whom he had an affair in the 1980s told him he
> had a hitherto-unknown grown-up daughter, and in his own words he was
> truly happy about the discovery.
> AT ODDS WITH GOVERNMENT
> Last year Drnovsek quit his center-left party but he has been at odds
> with the government ever since 2004, when a conservative victory ended
> 12 years of mostly centre-left rule.
> Despite his popularity, his dabbling in foreign affairs and a row with
> Prime Minister Janez Jansa are, some say, clouding Slovenia's image.
> "I'm afraid Slovenia may be losing its hard-won credibility due to the
> conflict between president and prime minister. Some of Drnovsek's
> foreign policy moves were not in Slovenia's favor," the newspaper
> editor Hocevar said.
> Drnovsek's domestic disputes embarrassed Slovenia this year, when
> parliament rejected two of his candidates for central bank governor.
> The stand-off left the bank without a governor only three months after
> Slovenia became the first east European state to adopt the euro. Some
> analysts believe the government may now leave the post empty until
> Drnovsek leaves office in December.
> His attempt last year to mediate in Sudan's violent Darfur region
> foundered when the envoy he sent was arrested and accused of spying:
> the envoy was released after a few weeks' diplomatic activity.
> Drnovsek also cancelled a scheduled appearance at the United Nations
> General Assembly after the government refused to grant him extra
> funds, claiming he had blown too much money on trips to third-world
> countries.
> But others argue his foreign policy moves show Slovenia in a favorable
> light.
> "His proposals are relatively successful considering the size of the
> country he is coming from," said Grega Repovz, chief editor of weekly
> Mladina.
>
>
> Ivy Shiue, MSc student
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