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When a sudden ray of sun or a moonbeam falls on a dreary street, it makes no difference what it illumines--a broken bottle on the ground, a fading flower in a field, or the flaxen blonde hair of a child's head. The object is transformed, and the viewer is transfixed. Celebrate that moment of beauty and take it with you in your memory. It is God's gift to you.
Luci Swindoll
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If I can think of myself as loved, I can love and accept others. If I see myself as forgiven, I can be gracious toward others. If I see myself as powerful, I can do what I know is right. If I see myself as full, I can give myself freely to others.
Kathy Peel
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Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element of moral systems; it is a very important source of spiritual discipline and a celestial virtue of perfected people.
Fethullah Gülen
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
J.B. Priestley
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We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers. -Barbara Johnson
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When all the words have been written, and all the phrases have been spoken, the great mystery of life will still remain. We may map the terrains of our lives, measure the farthest reaches of the universe, but no amount of searching will ever reveal for certain whether we are all children of chance or part of a great design. And who among us would have it otherwise? Who would wish to take the mystery out of the experience of looking into a newborn infant's eyes?
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Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
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We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
Albert Einstein0 -
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson0 -
"There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned the nephew: "Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round--apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that--as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they were really fellow- passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!"Charles Dickens, from A Christmas Carol
Merry Christmas to all. It has been my joy to share quotes with you and this coming year will just be a whole lot more of that same joy. May you all feel just as much. Wishing you all the love and care and support from the ages. May your life be blessed.
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Appreciation can make a day--even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
Margaret Cousins
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I take long walks because I have a body, and if I do not use my body then I become bad-tempered and apathetic. Those who solely concentrate on their intellect, and who leave the body behind, tend to be rigid, stern characters, and unhealthy. There seems to be, as far as I can tell, a primal drive towards life which is in every man, and which finds its easiest expression in the act of walking; in the act of moving forward through the world and marveling at the beauty of the natural world. In my experience all anxious and depressive feelings seem to dissipate when walking through nature. And if you walk far enough you eventually achieve a state of joy, a quiet, inner happiness, and you are relieved, as you have escaped from the walls, the squares, from the eternity of sitting, of stagnation; and now you are moving over the landscape, over the hills and far away, fighting against gravity, breathing fresh air, with a pulsing heart and an appetite for flowers and sunlight — you are free in search for the springs of life. A long walk is a rebirth in consciousness; one never returns quite the same and is always better off for it.
Harry J. Stead "Walking Is Medicine"
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It seems necessary to completely shed the old skin before the new, brighter, stronger, more beautiful one can emerge. . . .I never thought I'd be getting a life lesson from a snake
.Julie Ridge
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The highest reward for people's
toil is not what they get for it
but what they become by it.
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty
to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller0 -
Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.
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It depends on us. . . Another year lies before us like an unwritten page, an unspent coin, an unwalked road. How the pages will read, what treasures will be gained in exchange for time, or what we find along the way, will largely depend on us.
Esther Baldwin York
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I heard a story about a woman who grew up in Texas. When she was having trouble in her life, she would visit her grandmother, who lived nearby and always had a kind word and some wisdom to pass on. One day she was complaining to her grandmother about some situation and her grandmother just turned to her, smiled sadly, and said, “Sometimes, darlin’, you’ve just got to rise above yourself in this life.” I’ve remembered that wise advice many times as I’ve faced trouble in my life.
Bill O’Hanlon
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My past and future enhance my experience of the world, but it is only in the present moment that I co-create my life. Behind me are "the things I cannot change," which a familiar prayer reminds me to accept. I accept them, and I learn from them. Ahead of me lie infinite possibilities and ideas waiting to be accessed through prayer, affirmation and action. And, in this present moment, I find God. I affirm only good, knowing that all good things are available to me.
unattributed (the Daily Word
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The number of the hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us is not. It is our most precious resource. The more we take responsibility for the energy we bring to the world, the more empowered and productive we become. The more we blame others or external circumstances, the more negative and compromised our energy is likely to be.
Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
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Each one of us is born for a specific reason and purpose, and each one of us will die when he or she has accomplished whatever was to be accomplished. The in-between depends on our own willingness to make the best of every day, or every moment, of every opportunity. The choice is always yours.
Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross
To Live Until We Say Goodbye
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Myself
Edgar Guest
I have to live with myself and so
I want to be fit for myself to know.
I want to be able as days go by,
always to look myself straight in the eye;
I don’t want to stand with the setting sun
and hate myself for the things I have done.
I don’t want to keep on a closet shelf
a lot of secrets about myself
and fool myself as I come and go
into thinking no one else will ever know
the kind of person I really am,
I don’t want to dress up myself in sham.
I want to go out with my head erect
I want to deserve all people’s respect;
but here in the struggle for fame and wealth
I want to be able to like myself.
I don’t want to look at myself and know
I am bluster and bluff and empty show.
I never can hide myself from me;
I see what others may never see;
I know what others may never know,
I never can fool myself and so,
whatever happens I want to be
self respecting and conscience free.0 -
Fighting life only saps our energy, blocking us from the love, healing, and compassion available to us from our own hearts. Once we accept our given reality, our energy shifts. Release happens.
Susan Santucci
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I accept life unconditionally. Life holds so much--so much
to be happy about always. Most people ask for happiness
on condition. Happiness can be felt only
if you don't set conditions.
Artur Rubinstein0 -
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.
-Simon Greenberg
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We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked by dew. . . . Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful. . . and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.
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Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not
what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.
Neale Donald Walsch0 -
The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the service. Even the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous, and prosperous when it is filled with love.
Charles Fillmore
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You can easily judge the character of people by how they treat those who can do nothing for them.
James D. Miles
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