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Year by year the complexities of this spinning world grow
more bewildering and so each year we need all the more to seek peace and comfort in the joyful simplicities. Woman's Home Companion (1935) |
Sometimes during the day, I consciously focus on some ordinary object and allow myself a momentary "paying-attention." This paying-attention gives meaning to my life. I don't know who it was, but someone said that careful attention paid to anything is a window into the universe. Pausing to think this way, even for a brief moment, is very important. It gives quality to my day.
Robert Fulghum |
As you take a few minutes each day to quiet your mind, you will discover a nice benefit: your everyday, "ordinary" life will begin to seem far more extraordinary. Little things that previously went unnoticed will begin to please you. You'll be more easily satisfied, and happier all around. Rather than focusing on what's wrong with your life, you'll find yourself thinking about and more fully enjoying what's right with your life. The world won't change, but your perception of it will. You'll start to notice the little acts of kindness and caring from other people rather than the negativity and anger. Jack Canfield |
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them.
We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. ~Unattributed |
"if you want people to listen -- to actually listen and learn -- then speak in a way that does not tear down their desire to hear you or destroy their ability to care what you have to say. remember, you were not always you. once upon a time you knew as little as everyone else."
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
~Marcus Aurelius |
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick
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The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby;
the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them. On the one side, we over-intellectualize everything; on the other hand, we are over-mechanized. We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb, but the danger of our misunderstanding the meaning of life is much more serious. Edward Steichen |
This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still
believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good. Victoria Lincoln |
You are a second world in miniature; the sun and moon are within you, and also the stars.
Origen |
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung
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Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater. -- Nicholas Evans
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. |
To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it. -- John Lyly |
To have someone give you control of their bodies and minds,
to be entrusted with the responsibility to take care of them, to have someone willing to suffer for you, to forsake pride and dignity to please you... what other gift in this world can possibility equate to that? And more importantly, what makes you worthy to receive it? -- Anonymous |
Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.(f)
Sir John Lubbock 1834-1913, British Statesman, Banker, Naturalist |
'Come to the edge', he said.
They said, 'We are afraid'. 'Come to the edge', he said. They came. He pushed them... And they flew. -- Guillaume Apollinaire |
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Nelson Mandela |
In politics, if you want anything said - ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. ~ Margaret Thatcher Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. ~ Janis Joplin If he/she hits you once, you can count on them hitting you again. ~ Me |
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad." - Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
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Watch your thoughts, they become your words Watch your words, they become your actions Watch your actions, they become your habits Watch your habits, they become your character Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
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When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.
Barbara J. Winter |
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
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In my reading tonight...
The obstacle is the path. -- Zen proverb
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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.
Swami Vivekananda |
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again. I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally. I like children – fried. All quotes by W.C. Fields |
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I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind. :coffee:
~Patrick Dennis |
The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even though in pain. -- Lord Byron |
friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity -
- - Kahlil Gibran the essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses - - - David Storey :writer: |
Gotta love it!
All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
~Tupac Shakur |
“Oh soul,
you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.” gayatri" - Jalal ad-Din Rumi quote |
“All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” - Rumi
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“He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun”-Jalal ad-Din Rumi quote |
Whenever I experience something beautiful, I am with Soul.
That moment of inward breath, that pause and awareness of "how beautiful this is" is a prayer of appreciation, a moment of gratitude in which I behold beauty and am one with it. Jean Shinoda Bolen |
The kind of beauty I want most is
the hard-to-get kind that comes from within -- strength, courage, dignity. Ruby Dee |
One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach
out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace the world like a lover. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying. Morris L. West |
Joy is what we are, not what we must get. Joy is the
realization that all we want or need in life has been etched into our souls. Joy helps us see not what we are "going through," but what we are "growing to"--a greater sense of understanding, accomplishment, and enlightenment. Joy reveals to us the calm at the end of the storm, the peace that surpasses the momentary happiness of pleasure. If we keep our minds centered on joy, joy becomes a state of mind. Iyanla Vanzant |
The heart is the temple wherein all truth resides. -- Kahlil Gibran
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A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels
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