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Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep. —Agnes Meyer— Deep roots offer strength and stability to an organism. They nourish it plentifully. They anchor it when the fierce winds blow. We each are offered the gifts of roots when we give ourselves fully to the program. We are never going to face, alone, any […]
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Women are often caught between conforming to existing standards or role definitions and exploring the promise of new alternatives. —Stanlee Phelps and Nancy Austin— This is a time of exploring for many of us. Recovery means change in habits, change in behavior, change in attitudes. And change is seldom easy. But change we must, if […]
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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? —Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy— We choose the lives we lead. We choose sadness or happiness; success or failure; dread or excited anticipation. Whether or not we are conscious of our choices, we are making them every moment. Accepting […]
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Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other to belong to themselves. —Louise Bernikow— To have anything worth giving to a friend, we must belong to ourselves. Are we someone we like? Does our behavior agree with our beliefs? Do our friends share our values, and when we are together do […]
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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome. —Golda Meir— Living a principled life is what the inner self desires. It’s what God desires. And it’s […]
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The wisdom of all ages and cultures emphasizes the tremendous power our thoughts have over our character and circumstances. —Liane Cordes— “As we think, so we are.” We are gifted with the personal power to make thoughtful choices and thus decide whom we are. Our actions and choices combine to create our character, and our […]
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Why is life so tragic, so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss? I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end. —Virginia Woolf— As we look toward the hours ahead, we can be thankful that we need be concerned with only a single day’s […]
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…we do not always like what is good for us in this world. —Eleanor Roosevelt— Most of us can look back and recall how we fought a particular change. How certain we were that we wouldn’t survive the upheaval! Perhaps we lost a love or were forced to leave a home or a job. Retrospect […]
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Woman must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression. —Margaret Sanger— Let us not stifle ourselves any longer. Let us dare to dream and realize those dreams. Let us dare to take risks, having faith that to advance in […]
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Who will I be today? The “Cosmopolitan” woman, the little girl, the scholar, the mother? Who will I be to answer the needs of others, and yet answer the needs of me? —Deidra Sarault— We wear many hats. One aspect of our maturity is our ability to balance our roles. It’s often quite difficult to […]