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Reflections |
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"To live content with small means;to seek elegance rather than luxury,
and
refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and
wealthy,
not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to
listen
to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all
cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to
let
the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.
This
is to be my symphony. "
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Our life is like a river. The destination is set, but the method of our journeying is up to us. We can cruise down the middle of the river at top speed, or we can hug the shore and spin around in eddies. We can crash over rapids or chart a safer path between obstacles. We can slum along the bottom in the mire and slime of sediment, or we can glide along the sparkling surface where the air is clean. The river is ours from birth to death. How we'll navigate it is determined by the hundreds of small choices we make each day...... Betty J. Eadie |
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Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts.
It's what
you do with what you have left.
~Hubert Humphrey |
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The
Best
Teacher
Is
A
Good
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Marvelous happy it was to be
Alone and yet not solitary.
Oh out of terror and dark, to come
In sight of home.
............-Walter del la Mare 'The Pilgrim' |
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Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
-Eleanor Roosevelt- |
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"Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. "
-- St. Francis of Assisi |
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we become, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. -- Joseph Addison |
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"The universe speaks in many languages, but only one voice. The language is not narn or human or centauri or gaim or minbari. It speaks in the language of hope."
"It speaks in the language of trust. It speaks in the language of strength and the language of compassion. It is the language of the heart and the language of the soul. But always it is the same voice.
It is the voice of our ancestors speaking through us and the voice of our inheritors waiting to be born. The small, still voice that says:
'We are one. No matter the blood, no matter the skin, no matter the world, no matter the star. ..
We are one. No matter the pain, no matter the darkness, no matter the loss, no matter the fear. ..
We are one.' Here, gathered together in common cause, we begin to realize this singular truth and this singular rule that we must be kind to one another. Because each voice enriches us and ennobles us and each voice lost diminishes us.
We are the voice of the universe, the soul of creation, the fire that will light our way to a better future.
We are one."
"We are one."
-- Sheridan / G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" |
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