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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited November 2017

    We have a good life when we manage to live with both
    satisfied and unsatisfied needs,
    when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.
    - Kjell Magne Bondevik

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited November 2017

    Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is
    because we are different that each of us is special.

    Brian Dyson

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited November 2017

    We never encounter a mountain greater than doubt.
    Doubt is a deceiver. It is as a thief in the night.
    Remove it, do not let it come nigh your dwelling.
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    Frater Achad

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited November 2017

    To a large degree, the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live in the present moment. Irrespective of what happened yesterday or last year, and what may or may not happen tomorrow, the present moment is where you are--always!
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    Richard Carlson

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited November 2017

    Compassion is the most precious of all gifts. In times of sorrow and bewilderment, it is what restores us and offers refuge. It is the force of empathy in your own heart that allows you to reach out and touch the broken heart of another. It is rooted in the heartfelt acknowledgement that others, like ourselves, yearn to be free from suffering and harm, and be safe and happy. It is compassion that rescues us from despair and helplessness, that provides a refuge of peace and understanding inwardly and outwardly. Compassion does not claim to be a quick-fix for the age-old causes of suffering, nor is it a magic wand that will sweep away sorrow. But it is our commitment to compassion and our willingness to nurture it in every moment that gives meaning to life.
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    Christina Feldman

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited November 2017

    "Only a life lived for others is a life worth while"

    – Albert Einstein

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited November 2017

    Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion.
    Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception.
    Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.
    Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed
    and limps along the spiritual road.
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    John Henry Jowett

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited November 2017

    The art of thanksgiving is thanksliving. It is gratitude in action. It is applying Albert Schweitzer's philosophy: "In gratitude for your own good fortune you must render in return some sacrifice of your life for other life. "It is thanking God for the gift of life by living it triumphantly. It is thanking God for your talents and abilities by accepting them as obligations to be invested for the common godwit is thanking God for happiness by striving to make others happy. It is thanking God for beauty by helping to make the world more beautiful. It is thanking God for inspiration by trying to be an inspiration for others. It is thanking God for health and strength by the care and reverence you show your body. It is thanking God for each new day by living it to the fullest. It is adding to your prayers of thanksgiving, acts of thanksliving. -Wilferd A. Peterson

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  • kjiberty
    kjiberty Member Posts: 1,385
    edited November 2017

    Happy Thanksgiving, Ladies! It's been a while since I have been one. Jackie, I am so glad to see you are still posting your uplifting messages daily! XOXO Karen

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited November 2017

    Karen -- a happy hello to you ( great avatar ) and to all the fantastic women of Illinois and BC. Org.


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    Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we
    have into enough, and more. It turns denial into
    acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
    It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home,
    a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes
    sense of our past, brings peace for today,
    and creates a vision for tomorrow.
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    Melody Beattie

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited November 2017

    Make it a habit to tell people thank you, to express
    your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation
    of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around
    you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly
    appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
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    Ralph Marston

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited November 2017

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

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited November 2017

    What is important is to realize that whether we understand fully who we are or what will happen when we die, it's our purpose to grow as human beings, to look within ourselves, to find and build upon that source of peace and understanding and strength that is our individual self. And then to reach out to others with love and acceptance and patient guidance in the hope of what we may become together.
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    Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited November 2017

    We are given a life—a precious commodity—and are placed on this earth for a short while. We are surrounded by incredible beauty, strength, and love along with incredible violence, hatred, and prejudice. Every time a person becomes happier, they are moving one step away from prejudice and violence and closer to love and compassion. So think of your personal joy as a contribution to peace on the planet as well as food for your spirit. -Charlotte Davis Kasl

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited November 2017

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    I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity.
    What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.


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    Mohandas K. Gandhi
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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited November 2017

    In learning to embrace your being, don't look at your mistakes. It is a given that we will all make some mistakes in life. It is a given that you will make inappropriate choices for inappropriate reasons. They will in no way affect your worth. No matter what you say or do, nothing can minimize the worth of your being. Your worth is a gift from God. Your worth is a gift of grace. -Iyanla Vanzant

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  • ChiSandy
    ChiSandy Member Posts: 12,133
    edited November 2017

    Illinois ladies in the Chicago area--I'm in the Chicago Bar Assn.'s 94th annual Bar Show. This year's title is Much to Sue About Nothing. (#muchtosue on FB & Twitter). I play Angela Merkel, a rapping "fake Mike Pence" and a sleep-deprived wife, as well as being in the group opener & closer. Details:

    Thurs. Nov. 30-Sun. Dec. 3 (7:30 Thurs-Sat, 2pm Sun.). Merle Reskin (formerly Blackstone) Theater, 60 E. Balbo St., Chicago (next to the Blackstone Hotel, across from Hilton & Towers, just w. of S. Michigan Ave.). Tickets $45 main floor, $35 mezzanine. Purchase via www.barshow.org (pick up at will call) or directly at box office the day of show.


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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited November 2017

    Success or failure, the truth of a life really has little
    to do with its quality. The quality of life is in
    proportion, always, to the capacity for delight.
    The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
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    Julia Cameron

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2017

    Once you recognize that greed, jealousy, and aggression
    are symptoms of fear, you can begin to respond to negative people
    with compassion, rather than with anger.
    - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2017

    This is the true joy in life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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    George Bernard Shaw


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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2017

    "Awareness is your true nature—boundless, completely at peace, infinitely loving. Live here in glorious surrender."

    - Gail Brenner

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2017

    Education is more than schooling. It is a cast of mind, a willingness to see the world with an endless sense of curiosity and wonder.
    If you would be truly educated, you must adopt this cast of mind. You must open yourself to the richness of your everyday experience--to your own emotions, to the movements of the heavens and the languages of birds, to the privations and successes of people in other lands and other times, to the artistry in the hands of the mechanic and the typist and the child. There is no limit to the learning that appears before us. It is enough to fill us each day a thousand times over.
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    Kent Nerburn

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2017

    "A human being is part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
    ―Albert Einstein

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2017

    One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life,
    and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine,
    the celestial, the pure in the common, the near at hand--
    to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.
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    John Burroughs

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2017

    From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. Arthur Ashe

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2017

    Do not dwell in the past,
    do not dream of the future,
    concentrate the mind on the present moment.
    - The Buddha

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2017

    Passion doesn't come from business or books or even a connection with another person. It is a connection to your own life force, the world around you and the spirit that connects us all. You are the source. Books, work, music, people, sunsets all provide sparks, but only you can light the fire.
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    Jennifer James

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2017

    Abundance consists not so much in material
    possessions, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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    John Selden

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2017

    Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
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    Anthony Robbins

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2017

    We've been invited to participate in this life, to be present, one to another, and that's all that's expected of us. Our successes may bring us personal joy, but our value as persons lies only in our being. But living fully is more than just making an appearance, here, today. It's celebrating our oneness—our ties to one another—our need for one another's presence to complete our own. And we can be celebrants only when we're involved and fully focused on the experience.We capture life's gifts, its riches, when we are intent on the moment's fullness. We miss what we most need when our hearts and minds are distracted. -unattributed

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