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When you have entirely surrendered, everything you do will be meditation.

Yogaswami
(from "Positive Thoughts for Daily Meditation")

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough,
and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to
clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger
into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow."

Melody Beattie, Author

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

Katharine Graham

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

"Let my soul smile through
my heart and my heart smile
through my eyes, that I may
scatter rich smiles in sad
hearts."

~~ Paramahansa Yogananda ~~

"Laughter is day, and
sobriety is night;
a smile is the twilight
that hovers gently between both,
more bewitching than either."

~~ Henry Ward Beecher

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Wow, Misti, the last quote from Henry Ward Beecher surprised me, coming as it does from a preacher.
Of course, he produced Harriet Beecher Stowe and several other daughters who firmly believed in education for women. But to think that he came up with something so tender and romantic is somehow reassuring that those bearded old preachers weren't all fire and brimstone.

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Diane, it's difficult to see the hidden shadows in a soul not wanting to seem vulnerable, would you say?

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The day you begin dreaming of being like another
Is the day you leave your uniqueness and special gifts behind
You are you, and not the other
Two different, special human beings.
~ Unknown

What is old friendship? It is when neither friend objects
To the liberties taken by the other.
Tirukkural 801

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
Fernando Flores

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"Start by doing what's necessary,
then do what's possible,
and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

--- Saint Francis of Assisi

"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I
looked into the soul of the boy next to me."
- Wood Allen

"Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them
anything.
- Herb Gardner

Shoot for the moon! Even if you fall short, you'll still be playing
among the stars.
- attributed to Les Brown

Ask God' blessings on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.
- Dame Flora Robson

You create your own reality through your beliefs and expectations.
- Seth, SETH SPEAKS by Jane Roberts

Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great
deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

-- Charles Reed

"Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster."
- William Bridges

"Listen to the whispers of your soul,
and know how beautiful you truly are."

Josiane Antonette
French-born Nurse and Author

"You suppose you are the trouble
But you are the cure
You suppose that you are the lock on the door
But you are the key that opens it
It's too bad that you want to be someone else
You don't see your own face, your own beauty
Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours."

Rumi, 1207-1273
Persian Poet and Professor

"You cannot describe it,
You cannot picture it.
You cannot admire it,
You cannot sense it.
It is your true self,
It has nowhere to hide.
When the world is destroyed,
It will not be destroyed."

Zen

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Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
Lorraine Hansberry

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is
at their heels.
Bertolt Brecht
(1898-1956, German Dramatist, Poet

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the
success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult
task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy
in overcoming obstacles.
Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable,
you disconnect yourself from what you truly want,
and all that is left is a compromise.
Robert Fritz

"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next."
- John Stuart Mill

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To him who is in fear everything rustles.

Sophocles
(BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet)

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide
forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

-- Elizabeth Stone

"The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective consciousness, and if we want a new world, each of us must start taking responsibility for helping create it."

-- Rosemary Fillmore Rhea

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Just as the tumultuous chaos of a thunderstorm brings a nurturing rain that allows life to flourish, so too in human affairs times of advancement are preceded by times of disorder. Success comes to those who can weather the storm.
I CHING no. 3

Each day comes bearing it's own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
Ruth Ann Schabacker

Clothes and manners do not make the man;
but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

"This is the true joy in life--being used for a purpose
recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly
worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being
a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod
of ailments and grievances."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

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For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real
life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got
through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt
to be paid. Then life would begin. At last, it dawned on me that these
obstacles wer my life.

Fr. Alfred D'Sousa

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love
the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written
in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could
not be given to you now because you could not be able to live them; and
the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then,
someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it,
live your way into the answer

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly
what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear
and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There
is another theory which states that this has already happened.

~ Unknown

"Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great
Silence alone!"

Ohiyesa (Dr. Charles A. Eastman), SANTEE SIOUX

Do not reveal to friends all the secrets you possess; they may one day
become enemies. Do not inflict on enemies every injury in your power;
they may one day become friends.

-Sadi, "Gulistan"

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."
~ unknown

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
~ Unknown

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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and
effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world
outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or getting,
but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a
perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops
on yourself.

Og Mandino

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes
are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they
merely determine where you start.

Nido Qubein

Success is NOT what you think it is...
it is what you believe it is...and most never believe.

Doug Firebaugh

"When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared."

- Buddha

"If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is
in all things. For, then, your ability to perceive the truth will grow
every day and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love. "

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fill the inside with goodness, with love, with the best you can imagine.
For what you keep inside, is what you do become.
-- Ralph Marston

If you return kindness for injuries received and forget both,
Those who harmed you will be punished by their own shame.

-Tirukkural 314

Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person
apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand
you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own
way and time -- just like it does for you and me.
--Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers;
powers that would astonish him, that he never
dreamed of possessing; forces that would
revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

Orison Swett Marden

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"Never ask God to give you anything; ask Him to put you where things are."

Mexican Proverb

"I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for thirty-six hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for thirty-six hours."

Rita Rudner

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Author: Seneca

"My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted
and I have always believed it to be true. Add a clear
idea of what inspires you, dedicate your energies to its
pursuit and there is no knowing what you can achieve,
particularly if others are inspired by your dream and
offer their help."

Pete Goss, sailor (who successfully sailed around the
world - alone)

"To do good thing in the world,
first you must know who you are
and what gives meaning to your life."

Robert Browning (1812-89

Dreams are illustrations...
from the book your soul is writing about you.

Marsha Norman

Creativity is allowing yourself to make
mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is
the journey that matters in the end." (Ursula Le Guin)

Love is like playing piano. First you must learn to play by the
rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart!

Author Unknown

"We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end."

Joseph Fort Newton

"When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you."

Tin Cup (the movie)

I have lived in this world just long enough
to look carefully the second time into things
that I am most certain of the first time.

Josh Billings

What we call the beginning
is often the end,
and to make an end is to
make a beginning.
the end is where we
start from.
the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive
where we start
and know the place
for the first time.

T.S Elliot

Each of us makes his own weather,
determines the color of the skies
in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

Fulton J. Sheen

You are a living magnet. What you attract
into your life is in harmony with
your dominant thoughts.

Brian Tracy

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

Louis Nizer (1902-1994) American Lawyer

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It's okay to think about what you want to do, until it's time to do what you were meant to do.

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When you're brought into this world
They say you're born in sin
Well at least they gave me something
I didn't have to steal or have to win

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"The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to
think, feel, do just as one pleases."

(William Hazlitt)

"Imagination is the true magic carpet."
~~ Norman Vincent Peale ~~

All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.
~ Neald Donald Walsh

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk,...it's all a miracle.

~ Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Polish Pianist

"Happiness is to be found
along the way, not at the end
of the road, for then the journey
is over and it is too late. Today,
this hour, this minute is the day,
the hour, the minute for each of
us to sense the fact that life is
good, with all of its trials and
troubles, and perhaps more
interesting because of them.
Robert R. Updegraff
You will either step forward into
growth or you will step back into safety."

Abraham Maslow

The power of one is above all things The power to believe
in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously
demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply
the means it uses.

Bryce Courtenay

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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

- Edward Abbey

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