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We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. —Anne Frank— Happiness feels so close and yet so far away. Perhaps we look to a person for it, or to a job, or a new winter coat. We deserve happiness, we know. Yet, we learn so […]
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Follow your dream . . . take one step at a time and don’t settle for less, just continue to climb. —Amanda Bradley— Dreams are common to us all. Dreams are special as well. We probably keep to ourselves many of our dreams for fear of derision or misunderstanding. Oftentimes we may have selectively shared […]
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I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me. —Angela L. Wozniak— We create problems for ourselves because we think we need to be more than we are. We fear that we are inadequate to the task before us, fear that another woman is more […]
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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh— Being selective in choosing activities, in choosing friends, in choosing material possessions fosters unexpected appreciation. Too much of any one thing negates whatever specialness might have been […]
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That reality of life and living–movement from one place to another either in a project or in a state of mind, does not conform with what we imagine or expect or think we deserve so we often leave things hanging unfinished or unstarted. —Sandra Edwards— Being dissatisfied – discontented with the experiences life gives us […]
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In anxiety-provoking situations, many women feel unable to act. They find themselves at a loss to come up with an effective response, or any response at all. —Stanlee Phelps and Nancy Austin— Feeling unable to act is a humiliation, perhaps an embarrassment, and it is habit-forming. Perhaps our inertia is due to our need to […]
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Women sometimes gossip when they want to get close to people. —Joan Gilbertson… Feeling alone and lonely heightens our fears of inadequacy. In our alienation from others, paranoia grips us. We yearn to feel connection with someone, and gossip about another someone can draw two lonely people close.** We are bonded. We need a sense […]
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Spiritual power can be seen in a person’s reverence for life—hers and all others, including animals and nature, with a recognition of a universal life force referred to by many as God. —Virginia Satir— Taking the time, daily, to recognize the spiritual force in everyone and everything that is all about us, encourages us to […]
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As the wheel of the decades turns, so do a person’s needs, desires, and tasks. Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of “deals” or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations. —Maggie Scarf— What life has measured […]
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Out of every crisis comes the chance to be reborn, to re-conceive ourselves as individuals, to choose the kind of change that will help us to grow and to fulfill ourselves more completely. —Nena O’Neill— Before choosing to recover, most of us lived through crisis after crisis. Many days we sought the oblivion of alcohol […]