December 2010
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they...
– Anaïs Nin
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Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude...
– Henry David Thoreau
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does your faith make you haughty or humble?
there is a right and a wrong answer.
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sit down, slow down, savor
Today I spent time in a small-town used bookstore with creaky floors and more dust/mold per room than is good for my sinuses, and it was a wonderful reminder that:
our world extends years & years & years back
the digital age is no substitute for the analog world
life—its depth, meaning and character—can be experienced most fully in a small corner of the world rather than in...
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Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief...
– Gail Devers
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I never really understood Marianne Williamson’s quote, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us…” yadda yadda, you know the rest. I would always think, “no, my light doesn’t frighten me; my light encourages me! I am scared of everything but...
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Therefore we do not lose heart.
Though outwardly we are wasting away,
yet...
– 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
silence is golden
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This is the true joy in life: the being used for a purpose recognized by...
– George Bernard Shaw (with compilation efforts by @waphle)
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"All I Want" (Joni Mitchell)
I am on a lonely road and I am traveling Traveling, traveling, traveling Looking for something, what can it be Oh, I hate you some, I hate you some I love you some Oh, I love you when I forget about me
I want to be strong, I want to laugh along I want to belong to the living Alive, alive, I want to get up and jive I want to wreck my stockings in some juke box dive
Do you want, do you want, do...
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The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness...
– Thich Nhat Hanh