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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2018

    The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions—not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness, not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation, but simply because these are what one believes. -Rollo May

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2018

    Being human, we are imperfect.
    That's why we need each other.
    To catch each other when we falter.
    To encourage each other when we lose heart.
    Some may lead; others may follow;
    but none of us can go it alone.
    - Hillary Clinton

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2018

    It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy
    questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with
    doubts we cannot have a deep-rooted faith. One who
    believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief.
    One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it
    through blood and tears--has worked his or her way from
    doubt to truth as one who reaches a clearing through
    a thicket of brambles and thorns.

    Helen Keller

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2018

    Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. -Jean Paul Richter

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2018

    The smallest act of kindness
    is worth more than the grandest intention.
    - Oscar Wilde

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    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2018

    There are few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of us acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, successively, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. -Anais Nin

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2018

    Some people build their walls so thick no one ever gets to know the real person inside. This is often their reason for doing so: "If you really knew what I'm like inside, you wouldn't care for me." Let's come out from behind our masks and dare to change. We don't need to be fenced in by our failures of the past; we need to step out into the fields of future potential. -Florence Littauer

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2018

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    Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have
    painful and scary parts, boring and depressing
    parts, but it's a brilliant story, and it's up to us
    how it will turn out in the end.
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    Bo Lozoff

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2018

    There are nine requisites for contented living:
    HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
    WEALTH enough to support your needs;
    STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
    GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
    PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
    CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
    LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
    FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
    HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
    - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2018

    There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. -Carl Gustav Jung

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2018

    Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

    Carol Mosely-Braun

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2018

    If we have no peace,
    it is because we have forgotten
    that we belong to each other.
    - Mother Teresa

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2018

    Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disturbed because of your imperfections, and always rise up bravely from a fall.I am glad that you make a daily new beginning; there is no better means of progress in the spiritual life than to be continually beginning afresh, and never to think that we have done enough. -St. Francis de Sales

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2018

    Kindness may be achieved by all, rich and poor, learned and illiterate. Brilliance of mind and capacity for deep thinking have rendered great service to humanity, but by themselves they are impotent to dry a tear or mend a broken heart. -unattributed

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2018

    We hold these truths to be self-evident:
    that all men are created equal,
    that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights,
    among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
    - Thomas Jefferson (third President of the United States)
    [Declaration of Independence, and inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial]

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2018

    Have the courage to say no.
    Have the courage to face the truth.
    Do the right thing because it is right.
    These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
    - W. Clement Stone

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2018

    The unhappiness we experience is not so much a result of the difficulties encountered along our journey as it is of our misperception of how life instructs us. We may see a failed relationship as an indictment of our self-worth when it is really a lesson in using better judgment, in valuing ourselves more, in expressing greater appreciation for our partner--lessons to prepare us for a more loving and fulfilling union. If we are passed over for a much-anticipated promotion, it may be just the push we need to get more training or to venture out on our own as an entrepreneur. As we rise to meet the challenges that are a natural part of living, we awaken to our many undiscovered gifts, to our inner power and our purpose.

    Susan L. Taylor

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2018

    If You Want To Be TRUSTED, Be HONEST.
    If You Want To Be HONEST , Be TRUE.
    If You Want To Be TRUE , BE YOURSELF.

    Rishika Jane

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2018

    He who experiences the unity of life
    sees his own Self in all beings,
    and all beings in his own Self.
    - The Buddha

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2018

    Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person. . . . When we lack proper time for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human and heart-hungry luxuries. -Ed Hays

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2018

    It is amazing how much you can accomplish
    when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
    - Anonymous

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2018

    True humility is contentment.
    - Henri Frederic Amiel

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2018

    No life can be barren which hears the
    whisper of the wind in the branches,
    or the voice of the sea as it breaks
    upon the shore; and no soul can lack
    happiness looking up to the midnight stars.
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    William Winter

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2018

    Refuse to be average.
    Let your heart soar as high as it will.
    - Aiden Wilson Tozer

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2018

    There are no hopeless situations; there are only men
    who have grown hopeless about them.
    - Clare Boothe Luce

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2018

    The first principle of ethical power is purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself--the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead. -Ken Blanchard

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2018

    To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

    - Lewis B. Smedes -

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2018

    Most people see success as being rich and famous or powerful and influential. Others see it as being at the top of their profession and standing out from the rest. The wise see success in a more personal way; they see it as achieving the goals they have set for themselves, and then feeling pride and satisfaction in their accomplishments. True success is felt in the heart, not measured by money and power.
    So be true to yourself and achieve those goals you set. For success is reaching those goals and feeling proud of what you have accomplished.

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    Tim Tweedie
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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2018

    Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky; in the reckless exuberance of spring; in the severe abstinence of grey winter; in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame; in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright; in living, in the exercise of all our powers; in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere. -Rabindranath Tagore

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2018

    God has not destined us to be rich, disease less, and deathless, but has given us trials, in the form of poverty, disease, the death of our friends and of ourselves—for the very purpose of teaching us to center our lives not in wealth, health, and this temporary existence, but in serving him. And he has given us foes not in order that we should desire their ruin, but that we should learn to overcome them by love. He has given us a law of such a nature that it is always well with us if we fulfill it. -Leo Tolstoy

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