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Tomorrow doesn’t matter for I have lived today. —Horace— The twenty-four hours lying ahead is all we have been promised. With that promise is a guarantee that we will greet opportunities for growth that have their roots in yesterday. Our evolution is not without purpose and design; therefore, we need not concern ourselves with the […]
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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every new page I have turned in life. —Charlette Bronte— What would it be like to shed our old skin, like a snake, when it grew to small? perhaps the discomfort we feel at each new stage of growth is something like that feeling. Truly, each new page […]
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I accept life unconditionally…Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition. —Arthur Rubenstein— When life offers you lemons, make lemonade, so the saying goes. It’s simple and true. No matter the circumstances of our lives, we can maximize the positive events. More importantly, we can […]
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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 Lakshimi Pandit— We lose our appreciation for joyful times when they become a matter of course. Compliments lose delicious quality with overuse. Balance in all things offers the greatest […]
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The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. —Oliver Wendell Holmes— We may feel idle, but we are not. We are moving along some pathway at every moment, and each of us needs to accept responsibility for our movement and determine our course. […]
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I believed what I was told and not what my own eyes saw. —Margaret Drabble— Children see a flat world and are told it is round. We are trained very early to disbelieve the evidence of our senses. But there comes a point when we begin to question what we are told and to feel […]
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What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare? —William Henry Davies— Souls, like animals and plants, need air. Do our lives have enough empty space in them to nourish our spirit? Living in cities, plugged into networks of jobs, friends, and projects, we sometimes neglect our standing-and-staring […]
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The reward of labor is life. —William Morris— Almost everyone complains about work: the price of fertilizer, the drudgery of housework, the bureaucratic details, and long hours. Whether we’re mechanics or physicians or key punch operators, most of us complain about the work we do. Yet without work, where would we be? How could we […]
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Don’t do nothing you can’t share, and be prepared to discuss everything you do. —Martin Shepard, M.D.— Secrets diminish self-respect; They foster paranoia, and they make it impossible to have honest and open communication. Self-discloser cleanses us; but an even greater benefit is that a commitment to it triggers careful forethought, and a needless or […]
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We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. —Blaise Pascal— A great spiritual hunger is a hallmark of our age. Our age, however, is such a secular one that any […]