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			 "One can not think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." - Virginia Woolf  | 
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			"The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. " 
		
		
		
		
		
		
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	“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” "It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had." ---Elisabeth Kubler-Ross  | 
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			I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.   
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			 The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. ~Frank Barron  | 
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			"That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him.  
		
		
		
		
		
		
			Scooby-Doo is already taken,” he said with dignity. “Anything else sounds lame in comparison." — Patricia Briggs (Bone Crossed) 
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	“You’re so hard on yourself. Take a moment. Sit back. Marvel at your life: at the grief that softened you, at the heartache that widened you, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything, you still grow. Be proud of this.” 
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			Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			 "Nobody trips over mountains.  It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.  Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain."  ~Author Unknown 
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			 "If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again."  ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker 
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			 "Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal."  ~From a headstone in Ireland 
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	"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing." -Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty is everywhere, all around an in each one of us. Yet where do we put our attention? On what we have decided is "wrong?" On what we think needs to be "fixed?" There is beauty in these things, too - if we would only look for it. There is a lesson, a gift, a treasure to be found in every situation and circumstance. We can acknowledge it or turn away from it - but it is there nonetheless. -Lissa Coffey  | 
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			We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. 
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball." - Doug Larson
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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			I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was  service. I acted and behold, service was joy. -Rabindranath Tagore,  philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel  laureate (1861-1941) 
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
		
		
		
		
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			Death is a tax the Soul 
		
		
		
		
		
		
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	 True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate their life,  through devotion, to something beyond themselves. ![]() Whenever someone awakens fully, it affects human consciousness at a collective level. It is like dropping a stone into a dark murky pond. Ripples of light... Not one word need be spoken.  | 
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			Nature has given to each conscious being every 
		
		
		
		
		
		
			power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit. Marcus Aurelius 
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			We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; 
		
		
		
		
		
		
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