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Why celebrate a birthday only one day out of the year? Why not celebrate life every day? I can! I can make every day a day for giving thanks! -unattributed
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Life is short. Each year passes more quickly than the previous one. It's easy to deny yourself many of life's simple pleasures because you want to be practical. Forget about practical and decide instead to become a joy collector. Always be on the lookout for gifts without ribbons. God is strewing them across your path right now. His gifts come tagged with a note: "Life can be wonderful. Do your best not to miss it!" Enjoy what it is before it isn't anymore. . . . Dare to slip on a pair of bunny slippers once in a while! Surprise yourself! Enjoy the little things because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things! -Barbara Johnson
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One of the most common words in the invalidating, self-blaming stories we believe about ourselves or our situations is the word "should." The psychologist Albert Ellis has coined the phrase "Stop shoulding on yourself." When you tell yourself that you should feel or be another way, you are likely to feel bad about yourself. As an alternative, try telling yourself that it is okay to feel or be the way you are, even though you have some idea that you should feel or be different. -Bill O'Hanlon
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Sorry Vandercat. I didn't give you very useful advice at all. I adopted the idea some time back that I get what I get and have to find a way to make it all go right, or go as well as I can make it go. I look on every day as a gift and try to appreciate it as much as I can which involves facing anything negative with trying to find its exact opposite polarity. The more I employ this, the better I seem to be at heading straight into an issue so I can get to the other side of it as quickly as possible.
I was finally able to start my urology work yesterday by getting an appt. at the local hospital lab. I will go tomorrow for the special urine test and when that gets back in two weeks, will then have the kidney scope. I have my podiatry appt. set up and will see the local Cardiologist for the first time on Wednesday afternoon. I have made an appt. for my Mammogram for the 23rd. of the month. So, I'm on track to catch up with all that had to go by the wayside ( including my booster shot for covid ) when I had to call a halt to all appts. while I had the open heart surgery. I did get my booster in January so I'm hoping for good results to everything. I am really hoping for the kidney scope which was due in Dec. I'm not too late though so that is a real positive. Also the previous three tests that showed some papillary cancer all resulted each time in smaller and smaller amt. Hoping for none this time, of course. If I can finally go negative, then I will only have to have three more tests for the yr. If each are negative, then two tests the next yr. Then one each yr. after that.
Super sunny here once again and will get near 50 degrees. Looking for a good melt down of the snow. The mornings can be a mite slippery here as it cools so much overnight after the slight thaw. By noon -- it is pretty good again with the bright pretty sun. Hope you all have a gorgeous day.
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We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention on your breathing. Gently visualize your inner wisdom as a graceful butterfly. Admire her beauty, and encourage your butterfly to sit on your shoulder and whisper her wisdom in your ear. Be still and listen. -Sue Patton Thoele
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One does not need to fast for days and meditate for hours at a time to experience the sense of sublime mystery which constantly envelops us. All one need do is to notice intelligently, if even for a brief moment, a blossoming tree, a forest flooded with autumn colors, an infant smiling.
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No doubt we would all agree with the sentiment: "There's more to life than things." Yet much of our lives seem to be spent in the acquisition, maintenance, and disposal of material goods. Certainly we cannot enjoy the basics of food, shelter, and clothing without a concern for things. The truly important things of life, however, are those which cannot be encountered by the physical senses, purchased with money, or placed on a shelf. When we take a look at what we value most in life, we generally find family, friends, health, peace, contentment, laughter, helping others, and communion with God foremost on our list of priorities.
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You are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And you teach others how to behave toward you. While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviors and actions. By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life.
Eric Allenbaugh0 -
Gentleness is a divine trait: nothing is so strong as gentleness
and nothing so gentle as real strength.
Ralph Sockman0 -
Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbeatable.
Billy Graham
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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 Peck
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I move through my day-to-day life with a sense of appreciation and gratitude that comes from knowing how fortunate I truly am and how unearned all that I am thankful for really is. To have this perspective in my everyday consciousness is in itself a gift, for it leads to feeling "graced," or blessed, each time. . . . Every time I see beauty around me I appreciate what I am seeing, and simultaneously I have this sense of appreciation—for being alive to have this particular moment. -Jean Shinoda Bolen
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A bag of apples, a pot of homemade jam, a scribbled note,
a bunch of golden flowers, a coloured pebble, a box of seedlings,
an empty scent bottle for the children. . . . Who needs
diamonds and van-delivered bouquets?
Pam Brown0 -
What we believe about ourselves can hold us hostage. Over the years I have come to respect the power of people's beliefs. The thing that has amazed me is that a belief is more than just an idea--it seems to shift the way in which we actually experience ourselves and our lives. According to Talmudic teaching, "We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are." A belief is like a pair of sunglasses. When we wear a belief and look at life through it, it is difficult to convince ourselves that what we see is not real. . . . Sometimes because of our beliefs we may have never seen ourselves or life whole before. No matter. We can recognize life anyway. Our life force may not require us to strengthen it. We often just need to free it where it has gotten trapped in beliefs, attitudes, judgment, and shame. -Rachel Naomi Remen
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When we endure our own tragedies or trials, most of us develop some empathy and compassion for others who are suffering. The trick is to keep that sense of compassion going throughout our daily lives, when we are likely to go on automatic pilot and move back into being judgmental—especially when times are tough. -Bill O'Hanlon
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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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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.
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Strength is a capacity for endurance. One of the dividends of suffering is the universal discovery that we possess a strength within us we never knew we had. Navigating through a difficult episode not only shows us that inner strength is there but convinces us it will always be there to serve us in the future. Overcoming gives us an assurance of personal confidence and value that far exceeds what we thought we possessed before our struggles began.
Dennis Wholey0 -
Even if I may be going through a challenging experience, I am grateful, for I know that good will come from it. Will I learn of inner strength that I didn't know I had? Will I gain a renewed appreciation for my life and the people in it? I am grateful for my present circumstances, for I know they offer opportunities for growth.
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You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, in pain, experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain and learn to accept it, not as a curse or punishment, but as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross0 -
As I experience it, appreciation of beauty is access to the soul. With beauty in our lives, we walk and carry ourselves more lightly and with a different look in our eyes. To look into the eyes of someone beholding beauty is to look through the windows of the soul. Anytime we catch a glimpse of soul, beauty is there; anytime we catch our breath and feel "How beautiful!," the soul is present. -Jean Shinoda Bolen
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Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments. -Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sorry I have been MIA for awhile. I had trouble getting on the site as I somehow missed there had been great changes, and the site wouldn't open properly for me. Today for the first time since the change I tried opening it up and it popped open with almost no problem at all. I was sort of prepared to be dissappointed and wasn't after all which sure made me happy. I hoping whatever fix for me the mods came up with will last. I also thought from the sound of things I heard that it would take a long time to send to the BC. Org site and it didn't take long at all -- so maybe they ( the mods ) may have fixed more than one issue. I hope so for everyone's sake. Anyway -- hoping this holds and I can start posting on a regular basis again.
I'll see you all later.
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You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy. -Lydia Maria Child
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Coming to appreciate your worth can, in some cases, dramatically improve your circumstances by changing the choices you make and the actions you take. And as you begin to treat yourself with more respect, other people begin to do the same, since we subconsciously "train" others how to treat us through messages we send through body language, tone of voice, and other subtle cues and behaviors. Discovering your innate worth and living from that place allows you to make more constructive choices--to choose the higher roads of life.
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There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet. -Brooke Medicine Eagle
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There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet. -Brooke Medicine Eagle
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Hope to be able to easily post a quote tomorrow. I have missed being able to put one in every day for you. I hope you will be returning to the site to look for it. I've missed all of you and the pleasure of sharing the quotes I love so much. See you again soon.
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