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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 […]
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I came to the conclusion then that “continual mindfulness”. . . must mean, not a sergeant-major-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to look and readiness to accept whatever came. —Joanna Field— Resistance to the events, the situations, the many people who come into our lives blocks the growth we are offered every day. […]
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All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear. —Elizabeth Goudge— There is no problem too difficult to handle with all the help available to us. Let’s not be overwhelmed. The […]
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Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. —Golda Meir— We all know people who live on the fringes of life. They seem uninvolved with the activity in their midst, as though a pane of glass separated them from us. And there are times when […]
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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. —Amelia Earhart— We have learned from experience that a wave of peacefulness washes over us after we have successfully finished a task that was difficult to face. Courage has its reward. However, from time to time, and from task to task, we find we need […]
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To be wildly enthusiastic, or deadly serious–both are wrong. Both pass. One must keep ever present a sense of humor. —Katherine Mansfield— How familiar wild enthusiasm and deadly seriousness are to most of us. We experience life within the extremes. The thrill of wild enthusiasm we try to trap, to control. We are exhilarated and […]