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Were our knowledge of human relationships a hundredfold more reliable than it is now, it would still be foolish to seek ready-made solutions for problems of living in the index of a book. —Mirra Komarovsky— The problems each of us experience have within their own parameters the solutions most fitting. And we each must discover […]
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We’re only as sick as the secrets we keep. —Sue Atchley Ebaugh— Harboring parts of our inner selves, fearing what others would think if they knew, creates the barriers that keep us separate, feeling different, certain of our inadequacies. Secrets are burdens, and they weigh heavily on us, so heavily. Carrying secrets makes impossible the […]
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With each new day I put away the past and discover the new beginnings I have been given. —Angela L. Wozniak— We can’t recapture what is no more. And the minutes or hours we spend dwelling on what was or should have been only steal away from all that presently is. Today stands before us […]
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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery. –Katherine Mansfield— Acceptance of those conditions that at times plague us changes not only the conditions but, in the process, ourselves. Perhaps this latter change is the more crucial. As each changes, as we all change […]
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…to have a crisis and act upon it is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another. —Barbara Grizzut Harrison— Exaggerating the negative element in our lives is familiar behavior for all too many of us. But this obsession is our choice. We can stop at any moment. We can decide to let go […]
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Today was like a shadow. It lurked behind me. It’s now gone forever. Why is it that time is such a difficult thing to befriend? —Mary Casey— Each passing minute is all that we are certain of having. The choice is ever present to relish the moment, reaping fully whatever its benefits, knowing that we […]
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Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy. –Jennie Jerome Churchill— We are generally so certain that we know what’s best for ourselves. And we are just as often certain that what we think is best […]
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Love is a force. It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh— Love and feeling loved—how often both elude us! We […]
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Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. —Simone Weil— How terribly complicated we choose to make life’s many questions. Should we call a friend and apologize or wait for her call? Are the children getting the kind of care they must, right now? That we “Came to believe in a […]
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Often when we’re being tough and strong, we’re scared. It takes a lot of courage to allow ourselves to be vulnerable, to be soft. —Dudley Martineau— We’ve developed defenses for protection because we have felt the need for protection from the abuses of others, parents on occasion, bosses, spouses, even strangers. And in certain situations, […]