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To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done—this is how I desire to waste wisely my days. -Thomas Dekker
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In no way can we so effectively hasten the dawning of the inner consciousness of another, as by showing forth the divinity within ourselves simply by the way we live. By example and not by precept. By living not by preaching. By doing not professing.
Ralph Waldo Trine0 -
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher0 -
Generosity does not apply only to money and material things; it is more about your spirit. You do not have to be financially wealthy to be generous. You can give love, kindness, time, listening, patience, caring, appreciation, compliments, and service. When in doubt, give.
Alan Cohen0 -
Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out. When you can't change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you. -Bernie Siegel
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Creative gratitude is an attitude. It is magnetic and will draw good to you. It is good therapy, a road to happiness.Thankfulness is a way of living more fully. Be thankful for your health and you will have health in more abundance. Be thankful for the love you receive and it will be increased. Be thankful for your success and you'll open doors to further achievement. Be thankful for your friends and more friends will come to you. Be thankful for beauty and you'll experience it more deeply.Creative gratitude is a force for harmony and goodwill. It brings people together in love and understanding. It is high on the scale of creative qualities to be practiced day in and day out in our moment-to-moment contacts. -Wilferd A. Peterson
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Healing is the journey. The destination is yourself. The full recognition
of all the different aspects of yourself—your joy, your sorrow, your pain,
your pleasure—all lead you to the source of who you are. Only by having
intimate contact with this source can you experience the fullness of your
life. Only by fearlessly looking within can you embrace the landscape
of your life and open yourself completely to all the love
and compassion that lives inside you.
Philip Berk0 -
Yesterday, between the storms, we made it up to 77F even by the lake. So nice I took the long way home from the dermatologist up in Lake Bluff (no floods, but effing construction on every road). Today is the season's first "Allergy Action Alert," for tree pollens. I'm supposed to stay indoors--not hard to do, as it's not even going to make it up to 50F here by the lake. No rain again till early evening. Except I have prescriptions to pick up, as well as buy plastic garden markers to denote the herbs & flowers I want the landscaper to save. Tomorrow may reach 70 and no rain all day.
So I decided to cowgirl up and attack the grime & scale built up on the portafilter on my espresso machine. Went looking for the little toolcase that holds the cleaning stuff for it and--YEE-OWCH! Back spasm. Calmly bent from the knees to retrieve a fresh canister of the cleaning powder, then popped a baclofen and two Aleve (which I hope won't kick up any reflux) and went to do three piriformis stretches, which seemed to relieve it. Sitting here with a heating pad--hope my back stays unkinked long enough to finish cleaning the portafilter, which is soaking right now, and to do my errands.
Tomorrow is Chalet Nursery's "Edibles Event," featuring tomato, pepper & herb plants, container-gardening soil, and lots of guidance. Hope I can get up & out in time for it. It's finally safe to plant outdoors.
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Eternity is not the hereafter. Eternity has nothing to do with time. . . . This is it. If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here's the place to have the experience.
Joseph Campbell0 -
Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.
Edna Ferber0 -
There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways. - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
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An oldie but special to me.
You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth: the greatest peace and the grandest love. You are these things. And in moments of your life you have known yourself as these things. Choose now to know yourself as these things always.
Neale Donald Walsch
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No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them. -Alan Watts
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Ethics grow out of the same root as world- and life-affirmation,
for ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what
gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that
good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life,
and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. Affirmation
of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that
manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to
other life. From an inner necessity, I exert myself in producing
values and practicing ethics in the world and on the world even
though I do not understand the meaning of the world. For in world-
and life-affirmation and in ethics I carry out the will of the universal
will-to-live which reveals itself in me. I live my life in God, in the
mysterious divine personality which I do not know as such in the
world, but only experience as mysterious will within myself.
Albert Schweitzer0 -
When I was young I used to think that strong meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is not seen. Real strength has to do with helping others.
Fred Rogers0 -
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
M. Scott Peck0 -
Enjoyed your map of the city, ChiSandy.
Jackie, Thanks for keeping the Illinois thread going.
My 10 year cancerversary is Monday. Feeling lucky and grateful.
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Hi, NavyMom! My friend, who had a BMX in 2016 for DCIS, lives one town over from you on the edge of Minooka. I'm teaching a couple of dulcimer workshops in Morris, at the Gebhard Woods Festival in Goold Park, on Sun. July 9. One's beginner-intermediate, but the other is all skill levels (including "never touched an instrument").
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Huge congrats Navy on your ten yr. Monday. Although I originally saw this on another thread ( about DISH ) you will be a Double Dish Monday. D.I.S.H. stands for Damn I'm Still Here and I hope you are here and well and happy for a long, long time staying in NED status. Enjoy Monday big time.
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HI NavyMom! Congrats on your 10 year cancerversary! Soooo cool! You are a year ahead of me!
I have been really bad about keeping up with this thread. I have such good memories of all the support I found in this group when I was first diagnosed in 2010. Thank God, I found this thread in the middle of the night when I was feeling desperate and alone. I hope I have time soon to read back through the many pages of posts that I have missed the past few years.
We moved to Arizona about 6 years ago and we are loving it! My oncologist here is keeping me on letrozole for another year or so. Can't wait to get off the stuff!
Thanks to Jackie for her part in keeping the thread alive with her daily inspirations. Stay well all!
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It is well to remind ourselves, from time to time, that "Ethics" is but another word for "righteousness," that for which many men and women of every generation have hungered and thirsted, and without which life becomes meaningless.
Jane AddamsPerhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ across cultures and eras. Yet, these differences arise chiefly at the margins. All known societies embrace the virtues of truthfulness, integrity, loyalty, fairness; none explicitly endorse falsehood, dishonesty, disloyalty, gross inequity.
Howard Gardner0 -
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Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.
Gail Sheehy0 -
The best portion of a good man's life
is his little, nameless, unremembered
acts of kindness and of love.
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In the rush of daily living it's easy to forget all the remarkable people, real or fictional, who have been a part of your life. But if you just imagine they are near for a moment, you will realize that anyone who ever touched your heart is always with you, patiently waiting to emanate warmth and support whenever you remember to think of them. - Barbara Sher
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
Seek To Understand, Rather Than To Fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie0 -
Emotions give life texture and depth, but there's an art to managing our moods. Once we cultivate inner balance we can immerse ourselves fully in every experience without fear of going overboard. When we're conversant with our emotions, we learn to nurture positive feelings and defuse disturbing ones. -Joan Duncan Oliver
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