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Difficulties, opposition, criticism–these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm, and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.  —Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit— To be alive […]

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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.  —Katherine Anne Porter— Each of us has miraculously been summoned to the road to recovery. We no doubt felt hopeless many times. We no doubt pleaded, aimlessly and to no one in particular, […]

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Your sense of what will bring happiness is so crude and blundering. Try something else as a compass. Maybe the moralists are right and happiness doesn’t come from seeking pleasure and ease.  —Joanna Field— We think we know what will make us happy. Seldom do we readily accept that painful moments are often the price […]

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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.  —Lydia M. Child— Our Spirit is our inner guide. And our Spirit never, never, gives us wrong directions. Because we’re […]

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. . . I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy. —Marie Curie… We are looking for progress, not perfection; however, we sometimes get lost or confused between the two. Expecting ourselves to be perfect at something we are only now learning is a familiar affliction. As we accept our […]