Illinois ladies facing bc
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First renew your own body, mind and emotions;
be kind, compassionate, and gentle with yourself.
Then use your regenerated strength and commitment
to be of service to the less fortunate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie0 -
It's not in the DOing, it's in the BEing.
Whatever you do or don't do in your lifetime,
your greatest contribution
to current and future generations
will be the happiness and joy
you generated and radiated to those around you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie0 -
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. -Carl Gustav Jung
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There are those who give little of the much they have--and they give it
for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.
And there are those who have little and give it all.
There are those believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism.
And there are those who give and know not pain in giving,
nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue;
They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.
Through the hands of such as these God speaks,
and from behind their eyes He smiles upon the earth.
Khalil Gibran0 -
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
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Peace of mind just can't be bought. Trust me: Even if your conscience doesn't stop you from playing dirty to get what you want, once you get it, it will keep you from enjoying it. As my mother used to say, "A good conscience is God's eye." Which is why I always prefer a loss to an underhanded gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time. -Patti LaBelle
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Neither circumstances nor surroundings can bring contentment. Only by fitting ourselves to meet conditions as they are, calmly and courageously, may we hope to reconcile ourselves to our position and conditions of life. -Fred van Amburgh
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Tall order at times.
Once we are destined to live out our lives
in the prison of our mind,
our duty is to furnish it well.
- Peter Ustinov0 -
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. . . . The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side. -Anna Brownell Jameson
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I know this is not an inspirational quote, but it is an issue important to many of us Illinois ladies, especially those of us living up north in the Chicago area. I have decided to put all my Cubs T-shirts & jerseys (regardless of size) in storage. The money-grubbing (and Trump-supporting) Ricketts family who owns the team (and most of the hotels & restaurants surrounding Wrigley Field) have over the past couple of days traded away nearly all the fan favorites from the 2016 World Series champion team (except catcher David Ross, who is currently the manager and whose days are also probably numbered if the team keeps losing). What particularly stings is that Chicago native Anthony Rizzo--a childhood leukemia survivor who runs a Chicago charity for local kids with cancer--went to the hated Yankees. He promises that this will still be his home in the off-season, though. The only less-painful trade was sending ace reliever Craig Kimbrel to the White Sox (so he'll still play for Chicago, and the Sox's Madrigal will be a Cub).
Today I went to Dick's Sporting Goods and bought some Sox gear--including decals for Bob's car. After all, his entire medical career--and all our income and resources--has been on the South Side.
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In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so!Gentleness includes such enviable qualities as having strength under control, being calm and peaceful when surrounded by a heated atmosphere, emitting a soothing effect on those who may be angry or otherwise beside themselves, and possessing tact and gracious courtesy that causes others to retain their self-esteem and dignity. Instead of losing, the gentle gain.Instead of being ripped off and taken advantage of, they come out ahead! -Charles Swindoll
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Although many of us probably didn't get a thorough education in the value of a positive attitude, we can teach ourselves. Simply by making a decision to look for the good, happy, and beautiful in all things and all people, you will have completed the first and most important step in learning to accentuate the positive.
Sue Patton Thoele0 -
In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
Flora Edwards0 -
Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that we are able to effect the most profound changes in the people around us. When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness. Our listening creates sanctuary for the homeless parts within the other person. That which has been denied, unloved, devalued by themselves and others. That which is hidden.
In this culture the soul and the heart too often go homeless.
Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time. And in the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone. Eventually you may be able to hear, in everyone and beyond everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you. -Rachel Naomi Remen0 -
Do not sell your soul in exchange of anything. This is the only thing you have brought into this world. And the only thing you can take back. ~ Rumi
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Foresee insult, and make of it compliment, for it is cleverer to avoid insult than to avenge it. It is a great trick to make friends of those who wished to be rivals, and to turn into protectors of your honor those who threatened its injury. . . time for insult is taken from them, who must fill it with thanks giving. It is to know how to live to be able to convert pain into pleasure—what was to have been pain, transform into trust. -Baltasar Gracian
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A person's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein,
and will continue to produce their kind.
Just as gardeners cultivate their plots, keeping them free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which they require, so may a person tend the garden of his or her mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts. By pursuing this process, a person sooner or later discovers that he or she is the master-gardener of his or her soul, the director of his or her life. -James Allen0 -
It is curious—curious that physical courage should be
so common in the world, and moral courage so rare."— MARK TWAIN
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"When you seek this Voice within you,
from Voice For Love.
you think you are seeking a Voice that is much wiser than your own.
Each time you hear it, it will remind you of Who You Truly Are
until the day comes when you know this Voice as your own."0 -
The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures,
the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations -
each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy,
bound together by cosmic harmony.
- Ruth Bernhard
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale0 -
Once we started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing.
If we start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing.
We cannot have heaven and hell together,
We can have only one. It is our choice..Rishika
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It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot have a deep-rooted faith. One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief. One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it through blood and tears--has worked his or her way from doubt to truth as one who reaches a clearing through a thicket of brambles and thorns. -Helen Keller
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The contradictions are what make human behavior
so maddening and yet so fascinating,
all at the same time.
- Joan D. Vinge
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am,
then I can change.
- Carl Rogers0 -
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw0 -
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.
John Schaar0 -
The people who are unhappy when they are poor would be unhappy if they were rich, and they who are happy in a palace in Paris would be happy in a dug-out on the frontier of Dakota. There are as many unhappy rich people as there are unhappy poor people. Every heart knows its own bitterness and its own joy. Not that wealth and what it brings is not desirable—books, travel, leisure, comfort, the best food and clothing, agreeable companionship—but all these do not necessarily bring happiness and may coexist with the deepest wretchedness, while adversity and penury, exile and privation are not incompatible with the loftiest exaltation of the soul. -John J. Ingalls
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The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice. -John Ruskin
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Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's covering up our experience of just being here, just fully being where we are, so that we can relate with the immediacy of our experience. Egolessness is a state of mind that has complete confidence in the sacredness of the world. It is unconditional well being, unconditional joy that includes all the different qualities of our experience. -Pema Chodron
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