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Continuous effort–not strength or intelligence–is the key to unlocking our potential. —Liane Cordes— Perseverance may well be our greatest asset. As we forge ahead on a project, it loses its power over us. Our confidence and abilities grow in concert with our progress on the project, preparing us to tackle the next one too. We […]
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Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. —Minna Antrim— It is not by chance but by design that the sorrows we experience throughout our lives are countered by equal servings of joy. One offsets the other. And we are strengthened by their combination. Our longing for only life’s joys is human–also […]
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Do not compare yourself with others, for you are a unique and wonderful creation. Make your own beautiful footprints in the snow. —Barbara Kimball— Comparisons we make of ourselves to other women do destruction far greater than our conscious minds are aware of. Positioning ourselves or her on the “beloved pedestal” prevents the equality of […]
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I think happiness is like the effect on an audience (when acting), if you think of it all the time you will not get it, you must get lost in the part, lost in your purposes and let the effect be the criterion of your success. —Joanna Field— Happiness is a gift that accompanies every […]
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Rigidity is prevented most of the time as love and compassion mesh us into tolerant human beings. —Kaethe S. Crawford— Looking outward with love, offering it freely to our friends and family, makes fluid, flowing, and fertile our existence. Each expression of love engenders more love, keeping tender our ties to one another, encouraging more […]
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Zeal is the faculty igniting the other mind powers into the full flame of activity. —Sylvia Stitt Edwards— When enthusiasm is absent in our lives, no activity appears inviting. In fact, most situations foster fear. With fear, we’re ever so familiar. The program we’re committed to relieves us of all fear, when we work it. […]
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. —Kathleen Casey Theisen— How awesome is our power, personally, to choose our attitudes and our responses to any situation, to every situation. We will feel only how we choose to feel, no matter the circumstance. Happiness is as free an option as sorrow. Perceiving our challenges as opportunities for […]
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My Declaration of Self-Esteem: I am me. In all the world there is no one else exactly like me. There are persons who have some parts like me, but no one adds up exactly like me. Therefore, everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone chose it. —Virginia Satir— Feeling special, […]
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. —Barbara Grizzuti Harrison— Our minds mold who we become. Our thoughts not only contribute to our achievements, they determine the posture of our lives. How very powerful they are. Fortunately, we […]
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Life has got to be lived–that’s all there is to it. At 70 I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that, “This, too, shall pass!” —Eleanor Roosevelt— Wisdom comes with age, but also with maturity. It is knowing that all is well in the midst of a storm. […]