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He who angers you, conquers you! —Elizabeth Kenny… It’s by choice that we let others control our emotions. When we make that choice we have abdicated our personal responsibility for growth. Deciding to feel how we truly want to feel rather than giving someone else control is freeing, exhilarating, and nourishing. When we let someone […]
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With history piling up so fast, almost every day is the anniversary of something awful. —Joe Brainard… “History” is mostly a record of awful events—war, famine, conspiracy, oppression, betrayal. But surely, every day is equally the anniversary of something wonderful. It’s all in how you look at it. Perhaps a calendar of wonderful anniversaries would […]
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It’s important to know that words don’t move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains. —Danilo Dolci… Exercising our spiritual muscles for the arduous and exacting work of faith is a new thing for many of us. Our culture doesn’t seem to put the same value on spiritual power as it does on muscles or intellect. […]
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. —Eleanor Roosevelt… Self-talk is powerful. It will develop a healthy ego. Likewise, it can trigger ego deterioration. Our strength in times of trouble can be doubled or eroded depending on the commitment we’ve made to positive self-worth.A secure self-image and unwavering self confidence are characteristics […]
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…fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. —Shirley MacLaine… Life is sterile and stifled when we close ourselves off from the smiles or swift glances of others. The opportunities we have for personal Contacts are not mere chance. We draw to ourselves experiences and thus acquaintances which will lend meaning to our lives.Our […]
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…we ourselves are only fragments of existence, and our lived life does not fill the whole of our capacity to feel and to conceive. —Paul Valéry— Our feelings are bigger than we are. The love, sorrow, fear, or rage that any one off us feels at any moment is just a thin slice of a […]
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You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you havea right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. —Max Ehmann— There is a patterned sequence to the events surrounding us, attracting our attention, inviting […]
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I feel we have picked each other from the crowd as fellow travelers, for neither of us is to the other’s personality the end-all and the be-all. —Joanna Field— It’s not mere chance that we gravitate toward those who become our friends. Nor is it only happenstance that we are piqued by others. We are, […]
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I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. —H. D. Thoreau— To live is to open ourselves to possibility, to rule out nothing. There is no way we can spare ourselves, or those we love, the pains […]
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Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved? —Florida Scott Maxwell— Treating our loved ones as we hope to be treated is our assurance against failing them. And if we listen to our inner voice, well never falter in our actions toward others. There is always […]