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“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.”

"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

 

"My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand."

― Thích Nhất Hạnh

 "Have a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing."

- Wayne Dyer

Peace On Earth, Goodwill To All

 

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"Don’t look for someone who will solve all your problems. Look for someone who won’t let you face them alone.”

 

"All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“When a person’s speech is full of anger, it is because he or she suffers deeply.” 

― Thích Nhất Hạnh

 

"I think it’s brave that you get up in the morning even if your soul is weary and your bones ache for a rest. I think it’s brave that you keep on living even if you don’t know how to anymore. I think it's brave that you push away the waves rolling in every day and you decide to fight. I know there are days when you feel like giving up, but I think it’s brave that you never do." 

~Lana Rafaela

"I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.

- Benjamin Franklin

“Your’re lucky if you are ignored, otherwise you might be harshly criticized.”

-Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove you are ignored, otherwise you might be harshly criticized.”
Dr. Jeffery Mishlove
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“Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” 

- Joseph Goebbels

 

“The biggest lie we’re told is ‘Be with someone who makes you happy.’ The truth is, happiness is something you create on your own. Be with someone who adds to it.” 

 "The man that never loses, never learns."

That explains a lot.

 

"Lack of shame is now the cover price."

 

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.” 

― Maurice Switzer

 

 

 

 

 

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”

 

The irony of bragging is what it communicates -- you're a needy guy who craves approval. Why else would you have to talk yourself up like that?

JOHN ALEXANDER, How to Become an Alpha Male

 

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” 

― Albert Einstein

 

"In toxic cultures, people prove their intelligence by tearing others down. In healthy cultures, people use their intelligence to build others up."

 

“Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.” 

~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

 

OPEN EYES WITH A CLOSED MIND IS STILL BLIND

 

"Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible." 

- Carl Jung

 

“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you lived through it. Honor your path. Trust your journey. Learn, grow, evolve, become.” 

~Creig Crippen

 

“You can learn a lot from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them.”

― Oscar Auliq-Ice

 

"Be careful how you treat people on your way up... You will meet them on your way down."

 

"A Man is Defined By His Actions Not By His Words"

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President." 

- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

“Secret ‘O Life”

 “The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time...

    Now the thing about time is that time

    Isn't really real.

    It's just your point of view.

    How does it feel for you?”

                - James Taylor

 “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” 

― George Orwell, 1984

 

“When someone is telling you their story over and over, they are trying to figure something out.”

― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

 

“Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.” 

~Henry David Thoreau

 

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

 

 

"There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter."

 

"Evil prevails when good people do nothing."

 

“Progress is impossible without change.” 

~Walt Disney

 

"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty."

- Thomas Jefferson

 

 

“Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.”

― Bruce Coville

"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it."

- George Orwell

 

 

 “We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.” 

— Mother Theresa

 

 

“What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.” 

~ Helen Keller

 

Wilderness of Mirrors

 

"when your best friend is a mirror"

 

"Ignorant and prejudice people like to be deceived." 

- Paladin,1959

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"Today be thankful and think how rich you are. Your family is priceless. Your health is wealth. Your time is gold.”

 ~Unknown

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Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.

P. M. FORNI, Choosing Civility

 

 "Losses are a part of life - universal, unavoidable, inexorable.

And these losses are necessary because we grow

by losing and leaving and letting go."

                                                - Judith Viorst

 

 

 

"It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

- Bill Gates

 “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.” — Steve Jobs (Jobs’ biological sister Mona Simpson reported these being Jobs last words before he died.)

“It is very beautiful over there!” — Thomas Edison (These words were reported as being spoken by Edison by his physician days before he died as he awoke from a nap and gazed upward.)

 

"Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.” 

~Miyamoto Musashi

 

"Offering healthcare to people? Sounds like something Christ would do."

 

"Rock bottom will teach you more lessons than mountain tops ever will."

 "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President." 

- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

 

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” 

– Abraham Lincoln

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”

― Plato

“Beware of Destination Addiction - a preoccupation with the idea that happiness in the next place, the next job and with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.”

 

 

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your own heart. Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside, awakens.” 

~Carl Jung

“Life isn’t about surviving the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” 

~Vivian Greene 

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When words become meaningless noise ...

 silence is golden.

 “Integrity is what you do that is good when no one is watching."

 "Be independent, don't be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment - these just sap energy and waste time."

    - The Honorable Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

 ~Maya Angelou

 

“Every breath you take is in accord with the natural system and this, for me, is what real magic is about; it’s not about doing archaic rituals using fancy language dressed up in funny robes, it’s about  becoming one with the spirit of the place that you are living in.”

- Serena Roney-Dougal, PhD

 

 

"When the Mind is connected to the Heart it becomes a cosmic GPS."

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“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”

― Abigail Van Buren

 "Pursing Truth to the mind is like food is to the body,  without pursing Truth your psyche starves."

“Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.” 

- Martin Heidegger

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“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” ― Will Rogers

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Praying For The Children Taken From Their Mothers

"They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.” 

~Mario Balotelli

"half the time you believe you are thinking, you are really listening"
-Terence McKenna

“The key is in learning how to live a healthy, satisfying, and serene life without being dependent on another person for happiness.” 

~Robin Norwood

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If the the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

—Victor Hugo, Les Misérables