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It seems to me that I have always been waiting for something better – sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me. —Dorothy Reed Mendenhall— Gratitude for what is prepares us for the blessings just around the corner. What is so necessary to understand is that our wait for what’s around the corner […]
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Only those who dare, truly live. —Ruth P. Freedman— We receive from life, from every experience, from each interaction according to what we have given. When we commit ourselves fully to an experience, it will bless us. When we give ourselves wholly to any moment, our awareness of reality will be heightened. When we risk […]
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The world is a wheel always turning. Those who are high go down low, and those who’ve been low go up higher. —Anzia Yezierska— Everything changes. Nothing stays the same. And letting go of the way things are, anticipating instead what they might become, frees us to live each moment more fully. Time marches on, […]
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Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge. —Carmelia Elliott— Someone will be helped today by our kindness. Compassionate attention assures others that they do matter, and every one of us needs that reassurance occasionally. The program has given us the […]
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An element of recovery is learning that we deserve success, the good things that come to us, and also that pain is a reality. We have the strength to deal with that pain without medicating, and it will pass. —Dudley Martineau— Many of us didn’t understand the changing variables in being human. Our coping skills […]
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Even though I can’t solve your problems, I will be there as your sounding board whenever you need me. —Sandra K. Lamberson— The prize we each have been given is our ability to offer full and interested attention to people seeking our counsel. And seldom does a day pass, that we aren’t given the opportunity […]
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For is it not true that human progress is but a mighty growing pattern woven together by the tenuous single threads united in a common effort? —Soong Mei-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek)— We each are spinning our individual threads, lending texture, color, pattern, to the “big design” that is serving us all. Person by person our […]
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Life is patchwork–here and there, scraps of pleasure and despair. Joined together, hit or miss. —Anne Bronaugh— As you look ahead, to this day, you can count on unexpected experiences. You can count on moments of laughter. And you can count on twinges of fear. Life is seldom what we expect, but we can trust […]
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It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive a sense of opening, a sense of vision. —Barbara Ward— A sense of vision, seeing who we can dare to be and what we can dare to accomplish, is possible if […]
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. —Jennie Jerome Churchill— Taking our friends and loved ones for granted, expecting perfection from them in every instance, greatly lessens the value we have in one another’s life. Being hard on those closest to us may relieve some of the […]