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"I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person."
~Rita Mero "God, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference." ~Unknown "One of the greatest titles we can have is 'old friend'. We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are older. The problem is we need to start our old friendships when we are young. We then have to nurture and grow those friendships over our middle age when a busy life and changing geographies can cause us to neglect those friends. Today is the day to invest in those people we hope will call us 'old friend' in the years to come." ~Grant Fairley |
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From this morning's Torah lesson:
"Kindness consists of loving people more than they deserve." -- Jacqueline Schiff |
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"Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different."
~Stacey Charter "Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more." ~Gail Hamilton |
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You do not become smarter by blowing your own horn. You become smarter by being humble.
- Dr T.P.Chia http://www.funnyquotesandsaying.com/...r-My-Space.gif |
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
Mason Cooley |
Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.
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Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
~Mother Teresa |
Be Near Me by Faiz Ahmed Faiz Translated by Naomi Lazard
Be near me now,
My tormentor, my love, be near me— At this hour when night comes down, When, having drunk from the gash of sunset, darkness comes With the balm of musk in its hands, its diamond lancets, When it comes with cries of lamentation, with laughter with songs; Its blue-gray anklets of pain clinking with every step. At this hour when hearts, deep in their hiding places, Have begun to hope once more, when they start their vigil For hands still enfolded in sleeves; When wine being poured makes the sound of inconsolable children who, though you try with all your heart, cannot be soothed. When whatever you want to do cannot be done, When nothing is of any use; —At this hour when night comes down, When night comes, dragging its long face, dressed in mourning, Be with me, My tormentor, my love, be near me. |
“to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.” ― Ellen Bass |
From a friend's FB page...
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Barbara de Angelis |
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He who is brave is free.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
Happy 4th!
Regrets are the last words you speak to your loved ones when you die and the one thing we all fear when we live. I'd rather regret the things I've done and said than regret the things I haven't done or said. It is all the experiences and people you missed out on in life that you will feel the most regretful for in the end. God will forgive you of your mistakes, but there is nothing to forgive if you have never even tried, done or said anything that made a difference in your life or others.”
― Shannon L. Alder |
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“If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.”
― Madeleine L'Engle |
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." ~ Ernest Hemingway
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This really touched me...it's so true.
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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.--Andy Warhol
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"I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have life itself." ~ Walter Anderson
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“What Is Love?
I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul” ― Victor Hugo |
“...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound.
Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables |
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It is okay to be vulnerable, because when you are vulnerable, you are innocent. Innocence is our gift from God.
~~Iyanla Vanzant |
It's all there. Everything you need to know. Why you are here, what you are here to do and how you must go about accomplishing every task. It's all right there in your heart. Spend some time listening to your heart. Ask to be guided away from what you no longer need or desire onto the path of all that you deserve.
~~Iyanla Vanzant |
Perfect timing once again...
Your feelings are always valid. The challenge we all face is to understand what we are feeling and to de-charge or neutralize it, thereby making it possible to express the feeling at the highest level possible for everyone involved. We must each learn to get beneath the feeling and root out the cause in order to bring our mental, emotional, and spiritual energies back into balance.
~~Iyanla Vanzant Own everything you create, internally and externally. Acknowledge every emotion for exactly what it is, a part of you. When you own what you feel, you are empowered to make a conscious choice about how to change the feeling. ~~Iyanla Vanzant |
“ Love clings to the very core of our memories and lies there in silence until a new desire reawakens and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting energy. Like water, love is a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love.”
― Laura Esquivel “You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.” ― Marilyn Monroe “And everyone is always saying that marriage is really hard and takes a lot of work. But the thing is, when you know that you love someone, those things don’t matter. You have to push all the everyday things and the outside world away, and just enjoy knowing that this is the person who has the chest your head is meant to lie on.” ― Erin McCarthy |
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