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Continue reading →: Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now. What exactly are you waiting for? For that right moment in your life? The weather to change? The opportunity to present itself? For the kids to get older? Whatever your answer, perhaps you…
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Continue reading →: When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. SOPHIA LOREN A friend who was a new father asked me quietly, “when do you stop being afraid of everything for your…
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Continue reading →: My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart. MAYA ANGELOU Sometimes the single best thing we are able to do…
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Continue reading →: You’ll end up really disappointed if you think people will do for you as you do for them. Not everyone has the same heart as you.You’ll end up really disappointed if you think people will do for you as you do for them. Not everyone has the same heart as you. The first step in curing these issues is to drop expectations and attachment. Zen philosophy points to attachment as the root of so many…
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Continue reading →: I am not the same person I once was.I am not the same person I once was. We occupy the same physical shell, except most of our body cells replicate and others die in their place. We have the same mind, but it is constantly in evolution. We feel a consistency of life experience because we are moving…
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Continue reading →: A wise man was asked what is anger? He gave a beautiful answer… It is a punishment we give to ourself, for somebody else’s mistake.A wise man was asked what is anger? He gave a beautiful answer… It is a punishment we give to ourself, for somebody else’s mistake. Is is really possible to just let go of anger? To experience something that is offensive, intrusive, aggressive or other form of mental, verbal or…
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Continue reading →: They don’t lie to you because the truth will hurt your feelings. They lie to you because the truth might provoke you to make choices that won’t serve their interests.They don’t lie to you because the truth will hurt your feelings. They lie to you because the truth might provoke you to make choices that won’t serve their interests. A lie is an interesting construct. It starts with the proposition that the recipient is able to be deceived. The…
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Continue reading →: The older I get, the more I would rather sit alone, than with people who judge the way I live.The older I get, the more I would rather sit alone, than with people who judge the way I live. There are so many aspects to maintaining balance in the course of a daily life. If we are to distill them down into individual components, the requirements are exhaustive. Beyond…
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Continue reading →: What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make. JANE GOODALL Within our short supply of collected trips around the sun, each of us are faced with the prospect of opting for the solution to make our lives matter. …
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Continue reading →: The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. THEODORE ROOSEVELT Go around it, knock it down or go through it. Those are the options for…
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