Attitude is the mind's paintbrush;

it can color any situation.

Barbara Johnson

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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

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Heaven and earth are threads from one loom.

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Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer.  ~Author Unknown

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"Fondness of your fellow man brings you to the understanding, we are all one. The seperation comes in one's mind, not in the color of your skin, your religion or your hair color. The smallest seperation, is it not? The oneness you seek is not with all things but with yourself."     Robin

All sorrows can be borne if you tell a story about them.

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"Follow not others in your life.Follow your heart and each day will be yours, not somebody else's."

                          Robin

"Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words." " Every experience can uplift me if anger dosen't weigh me down."

"Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way."

"Change occurs when one becomes what one is, not when one tries to become what one is not."

                                  Robin

"My Declaration of Self esteem:  I am me. In all the world there is no one else exactly like me. There are persons who have some parts like me, but no one adds up exactly like me. Therefore everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone chose it."

                                               Robin

"Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day."

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Relate with others, but relate with yourself also.
Love others, but love yourself also.
Go out! - the world is beautiful, adventurous;
it is a challenge, it enriches.
Go out fearlessly - there is nothing to lose,
there is everything to gain.

Osho, 1931-1990

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Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once,
but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our
reach.

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May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon
softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze
blow new strength into your being.

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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

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Your success and happiness lie in you....Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

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The happy heart gives away the best. To know how to receive
is also a most important gift, which cultivates generosity in others and keeps
strong the cycle of life.

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The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

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I like that one...reminds me of how I feel when I am able to stay present and free myself from fears of the future or worries about the past.  Thanks!

 Hope And Peace To You

         Curt

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Some people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

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"But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move."
~ Barbara Hall

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    - Henry Miller

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Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most
complete prayer.

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To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe.

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At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise
-- then you will discover the fullness of your life.

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How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.

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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and
the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter;
to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a
wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple
life.

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"If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully."

~ Kahlil Gibran

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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

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The longer I live, the more my mind dwells on the beauty and wonder of the world.

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A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation
even when busily occupied.

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"Time does not change us. It just unfolds us."
~ Max Frisch

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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

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Here are four words to memorize: We are all One. Model that when you make your next choices and decisions. Model that when you live your life in every moment.

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May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.

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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separate us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

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The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting
for our wits to grow sharper.

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

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The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

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There's a self expansive aspect of gratitude. Very possibly it's a little known law of nature: the more gratitude you have, the more you have to be grateful for.

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One word can be more precious than all the treasures on earth.

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Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.

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Behind every shadow of life is the great light of God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer
passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's
reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

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A person who, alone, has seen something beautiful, who has heard something harmonious, who has tasted something delicious, who has smelt something fragrant, may have enjoyed it, but not completely. The complete joy is in sharing one's joy with others.

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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

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When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.

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A little prayer on earth can ignite an enormous cosmic

celebration.

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Alchemical Wisdom

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While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassure us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see.

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    - Master Charles Cannon

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If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

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Wholeheartedness is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that has heart and then walk it impeccably....It's like someone laughing in your ear, challenging you to figure out what to do when you don't know what to do. It humbles you. It opens your heart.

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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

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Do not pride yourself on humility or poverty; pride yourself on your divine inheritance.

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"There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present."

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Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold.

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Just to be is a blessing; just to live is
holy.

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

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We cannot hold a torch to light another person's path
without brightening our own.

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Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of
all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art....It is a
privilege to be alive in this time when we can choose to take part in the
self-healing of our world.

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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without."

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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but
for the grace to transform them.

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Music...gives wings to the mind, a soul to the universe, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, a life to everything.

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         - The Dhammapada

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Each minute of life should be a divine quest.

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The Friend of God has these three qualities: a generosity
like that of the ocean, a compassion like that of the sun, and a humility like
that of the earth.

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Nothing in the world is more valuable than every moment of your life.

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Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of
encounter with the divine Presence.

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To generous souls every task is noble.

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A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming
discord.

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           - Anais Nin

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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

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In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.

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"The universe is full of magical things patiently
waiting for our wits to
grow sharper."

             - Eden Phillpotts

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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

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Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an
understanding of ourselves.

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A secret formula for finding (indeed creating) peace, harmony, and happiness upon the earth: Serve life first, in everything you think and say and do.

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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.

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~" The essence of religion is kindness"~

~the Dalai Lama~

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It is never too late to become what you might have been.

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To this day I believe we are here on earth to live, grow,
and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy
freedom.

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Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

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When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is
wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

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Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.

Native American prayer

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             - Madeline Bridges

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I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my
ship.

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In gratitude for your own good fortune you must render in return some sacrifice of your life for other life.

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Great compassion is the root of all forms of
worship.

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T. S. Eliot

         Once the blossoms are gone, the fruit becomes
        visible; when one fades away, the other starts
        growing.  How could bread give strength without
        being broken?  How could the grape give wine
        without being crushed?

                             - Rumi

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Heaven and earth are threads from one loom.

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"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
~ Lao-Tzu

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....haven't been with this group long but it is in a fast manner becoming a kind and warm place to be!

Peace to you,

Barbara

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               - Eden Phillpotts

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

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Don't
let emotions push you into action or reaction. Just STOP and PAY
ATTENTION. Allow them to be and to speak to you. Once they are
acknowledged, their energy is released.

"Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance."

-- Deepak Chopra

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"Not what we have,
but what we enjoy
constitutes our
abundance."

               - John Petit-Senn

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 This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love:
 
the more they give, the more they possess.

 
Rainer Maria Rilke

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Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning
bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in
every crumb. Life wants to lead you from crumbs to angels, but this can happen
only if you are willing to unwrap the ordinary by staying with it long enough to
harvest its treasure.

Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.B
A Tree Full of Angels

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Acceptance is the secret of contentment. Appreciation is the secret of happiness. ~Brahma Kumaris

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of
their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Oh, LOVELY! Thank you for that reminder....JOY!!

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When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Jalaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
We Are Three

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When it is dark enough, you can see the
stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I am, therefore I thank.

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Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.

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All sorrows can be borne if you tell a story about
them.

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"If you're not using
your smile,
you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook."

                 - Les Giblin

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The divine manifestation is ubiquitous, only our eyes are not open to it. . . . Awe is what moves us forward.

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There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

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Kindness does wonderful things to a face.

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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon
way, you will command the attention of the world.

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Love is the best means of making the heart capable of reflecting the soul power, and love in the sense of pain rather than of pleasure. Every blow opens a door whence the soul power comes forth.

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"If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away."

-- John Steinbeck

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Laughter is inner jogging.

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Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.

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All respectability, all honor is meaningless if it drives you against your nature. What can you do if you are not a lotus flower, but just a marigold? Enjoy being a marigold.

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Suffering is the sandpaper of our life. It does its work of shaping us. Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

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Don't let other people's opinions burn holes in your
dreams.

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I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable...but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and
every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and
the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each
separate fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

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Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.

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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

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The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

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Try to treat with equal love all the people with whom you have relations. Thus the abyss between "myself" and "yourself" will be filled in, which is the goal of all religious worship.

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                 - Edgar Cayce

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If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting
values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave
a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a
fitting place.

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Hey Roz

Great collection of quotes that you have here!  Talk with u soon. 

Geri

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We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business;
we are each other's magnitude and bond.

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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

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It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.

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So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.

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The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is
set our sails.

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Gospel of Ramakrishna

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Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let
this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too
distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the
all.

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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and
keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong
to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not
even death, can take God away from us.

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Take care of yourself — you never know when the world will
need you.

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Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.

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If you live in my heart, you live rent free.    
--Irish Proverb   

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.   
--Ring Lardner   

By being attentive, by learning to listen (or recovering
the natural capacity to listen which cannot be learned any more than breathing),
we can find ourself engulfed in such happiness that it cannot be explained; the
happiness of being at one with everything in that hidden ground of Love for
which there can be no explanations.

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or
consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with
love, grace, and gratitude.

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves
after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

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             - Thich Nhat Hanh

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