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It’s not enough to talk to plants, you also have to listen. —David Bergman— Sometimes, we find ourselves doing all the talking. When this happens, we need to stop, think, and listen. When we do all the talking, we’re trying to control what happens. But when we listen, we get better results. No one has […]
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Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized. —Frances Ridley Havergal— Self-confidence is not a given in our lives. It must be developed, often painstakingly, one task, one account, one deadline at a time. And each day that we court indecision and doubt, we erode not only this development in process but the level of self-confidence that […]
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Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. We always get worse, never better. We are never cured. Our alcoholism can only be arrested. No matter how long we have been sober, if we try liquor again, we’re as bad or worse than we ever were. There is no exception to this rule in the whole history […]
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The process of living, for each of us, is pretty similar. For every gain there is a setback. For every success, a failure. For every moment of joy, a time of sadness. For every hope realized, one is dashed. —Sue Atchley Ebaugh— The balance of events in our lives is much like the balance of […]
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LONG-TERM HOPE Since most of us are born with an abundance of natural desires, it isn’t strange that we often let these far exceed their intended purpose. When they drive us blindly, or we willfully demand that they supply us with more satisfactions or pleasures than are possible or due us, that is the point […]
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Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.—Gerald Jampolsky— We can’t afford to hold grudges. We have all felt hurt by others at times. But when we stay angry at another person, it hurts us. It keeps our wounds open. It takes our energy away from healing. We can forgive now. We know that […]
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Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error. —Friedrich Nietzsche— We’ve all known people to whom it was terribly important that we always be right. Perhaps some of us are those people, at least part of the time. Life under these conditions is an unrelenting struggle against sloppy thinking, dirt, carelessness, and […]
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Alcoholism is a progressive illness. We go through the three stages of social drinking, trouble drinking, and merry-go-round drinking. We land in hospitals and jails. We eventually lose our homes, our families, and our self-respect. Yes, alcoholism is a progressive illness and there are only three ends to it–the insane asylum, the morgue, or total […]
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Without discipline, there’s no life at all. —Katharine Hepburn— Procrastination is habitual. It’s perhaps a habit we’ve struggled with over the years, and not one that can be willed away. It eats at us, no doubt. How many times have we gone to bed at night depressed, discouraged, angry with ourselves for not finishing a […]
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From early infancy onward we all incorporate into our lives the message we receive concerning our self-worth, or lack of self-worth, and this sense of value is to be found beneath our actions and feelings as a tangled network of self-perception. —Christina Baldwin— Lifting our self-esteem is not a particularly easy task for most of […]