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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 |
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