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Together is a road traveled by the brave. —George Betts— Moving through life fully in concert with others requires commitment and much energy. It demands self-love, unconditional acceptance of others, patience, the ability to be vulnerable and to take risks, and the decision to stay put even when the desire to run is great. And […]
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Getting started can be very hard for people who have trouble with beginnings. After all, where do beginnings begin? —Dorthy Bryant— Most us us have trouble getting started at one time or another. It’s a common phenomenon, whether the project is Christmas cookies, an annual report, or cleaning the attic: ” I just don’t know […]
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Putting a question correctly is one thing and finding the answer to it is something quite different. —Anton Chekhov— Questions and answers lie within us. Unfortunately, they don’t come in match sets, numbered or colored-keyed so we can match them up. Sometimes we think we have all the answers and we wish we knew the […]
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Order is a loving thing; On disarray it lays it’s wing, Teaching simplicity to sing. —Anna Hempstead Branch— Things and events have their own order. It’s human to want to impose order from the outside—our order; but often, our attempt to put things in order resembles the old man who tried to push the river. […]
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Adventure is something you seek for pleasure… but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you. —Katherine Anne Porter— In our search for new thrills, for unfamiliar ventures, we will become privy to situations and experiences designed for our personal growth.Our desires to chart new courses, […]
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Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion? —Joseph Conrad— Some people don’t seem able to accept the things that come to them; they always want to go back and dwell on how it was before and what mistakes were made by them and others. Sometimes they want to prove, by recital […]
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I think that most of us become self- critical as soon as we become self-conscious. —Ellen Goodman— It seems all to common that we reject our own best efforts as not good enough. Few of us are satisfied with anything less than perfection in ourselves or others. Criticism is second nature to us, and it […]
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…my work was so long so little appreciated that I learned not to care a scrap for either blame or praise. —James Murray— It’s instructive to look at important figures of the past.So many have fallen into utter obscurity, and people who were quite obscure are now seen as important. Who remembers news columnists or […]
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The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning… —Zora Neale Hurston— Details bog us down. when we count the trees, we never breathe in the forest. Keeping our focus close means escaping the wider ranges of our perception and […]
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Though the seas threaten, they are merciful, I have cursed them without cause. —William Shakespeare— To each of us, our own self is the most important person in the world. I am the only person who can get what I want; you are the only person who can make you happy or unhappy. This doesn’t […]