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Realize that each soul is related to you. When you recognize that everyone is part of you, you will find you cannot withdraw from another.
Elsie Morgan0 -
There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout: This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me. . . or leave me. Accept me--or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision. When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad--you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you. -Stacey Charter
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Happy are they who still love something they loved in the nursery:
They have not been broken in two by time; they are not two persons,
but one, and they have saved not only their souls but their lives.
G.K. Chesterton0 -
Courage begins when we can admit that there is no life without some pain, some frustration; that there is no tragic accident to which we are immune; and that beyond the normal exercise of prudence we can do nothing about it. But courage goes on to see that the triumph of life is not in pains avoided, but in joys lived completely in the moment of their happening.Courage lies in never taking so much as a good meal or a day of health and fair weather for granted. It lies in learning to be aware of our moments of happiness as sharply as our moments of pain. We need not be afraid to weep when we have cause to weep, so long as we can really rejoice at every cause for rejoicing. -Victoria Lincoln
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When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning
light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food
and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving
thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Tecumseh0 -
Today I choose life.
Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy,
happiness, negativity, pain...
To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue
to make mistakes and choices -
today I choose to feel life,
not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
- Kevyn Aucoin0 -
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement
and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy
and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all
moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
Frederick Buechner0 -
There is no quiet place in [your] cities, no place to hear the leaves of spring or the rustle of insects' wings. . . .The Indians prefer the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself cleansed by a midday rain, or scented with pinyon pine.The air is precious to the Indian, for all things share the same breath—the animals, the trees, the human.Like a person who has been dying many days, a person in your city is numb to the stench. -attributed to Chief Seattle
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We want someone else to act. But miracles aren't what other people do. They're what each of us does. They're what happens when ordinary people take extraordinary action. To be a miracle doesn't mean you have to tackle problems across the globe. It means making a difference in your own living room, cubicle, neighborhood, community.
Regina Brett0 -
Humans! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependent of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery. . . . a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you. -Andre Gide
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"The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give." -William Arthur Ward
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The poor long for riches and the rich for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility. -Swami Rama
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I am from Illinois and thought I would post a hello here. I live in a suburb of Chicago. ChiSandy I can relate to your posts about our crazy weather! Looks like we wiill see freezing rain by us this afternoon.
I go to see my Onc at 2:00 today. I am on Anastrozole since Dec 14th. Soon to be e adding Ibrance. 😕
I had my surgery at Advocate Christ Hospital last year. I haven't been to any support groups yet. I am stage IV.
Hope all is well for everyone today....stay safe & warm.
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bootsie7...… just stopping to say hi and welcome as you wait for Sandy. I think central Illinois will get rain late today as well. We are just getting through a freeze and hate to think another could come so soon. Maybe we will be fortunate.
Anyway, glad to see you here and wishing you well.
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We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
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Hi, bootsie7! My husband is a cardiologist at Advocate Christ, even though we live on the north side. Did you have Dr. Krueger as your surgeon? She did a great job on my friend's BMX.
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If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson0 -
"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn."
– Hal Borland0 -
Self respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it.
Witney Griswold.
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When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
- Paulo Coelho -0 -
When our life is filled with the desire to see holiness in everyday life, something magical happens; ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul.
Harold Kushner
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We are all of us cut off from nature, and not only the town dwellers. It is perhaps important to remember something that we sometimes forget: that a field is as much a human product as a street. It is only on the seashore, on the moors, and in a few forests, that we see nature anything like what it was before man interfered with it. Yet if we are intellectually and emotionally cut off from nature, we suffer a loss which is hard to define.
J.B.S. Haldane0 -
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer0 -
Have we really learned enough about caring for ourselves if we have not learned the very deep value of caring for others. We really are just one -- different shades, different textures, different lives all feeding back to the heavens as one.
We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood.
To hate people because they were born in another country,
because they speak a different language, or because they
take a different view on this subject or that, is a great folly.
Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human. . . .
Let us have but one end in view: the welfare of humanity.
Johann Amos Comenius0 -
I believe that the first test of a truly great person is one's humility. I do not mean by humility, doubt of one's own powers. But really great people have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them but through them. And they see something divine in every other person. -John Ruskin
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People who have never had an ideal may hope to find one; they are in a better state than the people who allow the circumstances of life to break their ideal. To fall beneath one's ideal is to lose one's track in life; then confusion rises in the mind, and that light which one should hold high becomes covered and obscured, so that it cannot shine out to light one's path. -Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present
experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to
or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as
it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
Sylvia Boorstein0 -
By slowing down and relishing the unfolding of every experience, you aren't choosing to be less accomplished or productive than others. You're choosing to be accomplished and productive in ways they may not even understand. You're choosing to change what's within your own heart and mind, thereby becoming a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. By no longer rushing through, you're choosing to stop focusing so much of your energy on the wanting and yearning, the wishing it was done, the frustration with what hasn't happened yet; and to make, instead, the most of every experience as it unfolds at its own pace.
Nea Justice0 -
When you live in the present moment, time stands still. Accept your circumstances and live them. If there is an experience ahead of you, have it! But if worries stand in your way, put them off until tomorrow. Give yourself a day off from worry. You deserve it. Some people live with a low-grade anxiety tugging at their spirit all day long. They go to sleep with it, wake up with it, carry it around at home, in town, to church, and with friends. Here's a remedy: Take the present moment and find something to laugh at. People who laugh, last. -Barbara Johnson
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