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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take it and sift it and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away Arabian Proverb |
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Relinquish control and leap empty-handed into the void. What beckons is the creative power of the unknown |
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Instead of heavy duty, try putting yourself on the gentle cycle Anon |
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If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got Anon |
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How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterwards Spanish Proverb |
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You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair Chinese Proverb |
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There are no accidents or mistakes, only opportunities for growth and discovery Orna |
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Anything that can be visualized, thought of, dreamed of, can become reality Orna |
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Friendship is best with somebody who knows your past, has faith in your future and accepts you just the way you are right now Orna |
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Anyplace with a beach is heaven to me Orna |
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Shoot for the moon: even if you miss it you will land among the stars |
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close knit family in another city George Burns |
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The end is nothing. The road is all Willa Cather |
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm Colette |
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else Emily Dickinson |
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How we spend our days is how we spend our lives Annie Dillard |
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The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them Albert Einstein |
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Imagination is more important than knowledge Albert Einstein |
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction St. Exupery |
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The present moment is a powerful goddess Goethe |
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Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it Goethe |
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I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck Emma Goldman |
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Celebrate Life: Breathe Greenheart |
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Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best. Nanci Griffith |
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer Zora Neale Hurston |
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When one door of happiness closes another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us Helen Keller |
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage Anais Nin |
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I decided to accept as true my own thinking Georgia O'Keeffe |
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Her genius was her oneness with herself said about Georgia O'Keeffe |
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I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch Gilda Radner |
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change Carl Rogers |
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent Eleanor Roosevelt |
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A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness Elsa Schiaparelli |
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Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible Sharon Schuster |
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Memories are the sweetest things there are Minnie Stone |
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed Booker T. Washington |
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Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. That's my philosophy Thornton Wilder |
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Memories are the power to gather roses in winter Anon |
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Having it all does not necessarily mean all at once Anon |
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I wish I might say one liquid word to make your sorrow less Emily Dickinson |
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The cure for anything is saltwater: sweat, tears, or the sea Isak Dinesen |
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Not everything that counts can be counted. Not everything that can be counted counts Albert Einstein |
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We are constantly invited to be what we are Henry David Thoreau |
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May the blanket of friendship warm all the winters of your life American Blessing |
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Being loved by you is a sweet blessing |
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Speak delicately Dreams are inside Orna |
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The trouble with spontaneity is you just can't plan it Carolyn Bennion |
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Persistence overcomes resistance LL Cool J |
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Be kind for everyone is having a hard battle Plato |
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The best day of your life hasn't necessarily already happened yet Lesley Stahl |
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Some chores must be put off many times before they can be forgotten completely |
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Have great courage. It is not as difficult as it appears seen on the AIDS quilt |
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Expect nothing. Be ready for anything |
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In the cookies of life friends are the chocolate chips Source Unknown |
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Contrary to popular belief cats do not have nine lives. They only have two: theirs and yours Source Unknown |
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Gratitude is the best attitude Timeless Wisdom |
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This too shall pass Timeless Wisdom |
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When you don't know where you are going every road will take you there Yiddish Proverb |
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The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune Irish Proverb |
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JUMP Joseph Campbell |
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Compassion Compassion Compassion The Dalai Lama |
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The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth Albert Einstein |
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It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen Richard Paul Evans |
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Never give up & never face facts Ruth Gordon |
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Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it too dark to read Groucho Marx |
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Find out who you are and do it on purpose Dolly Parton |
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Nothing in the affairs of humankind is worthy of great anxiety Plato |
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I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it Harry S. Truman |
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Thank You Thank You Thank You |
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Happy Happy Happy Birthday |
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference |
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Laughter is the music of the heart & soul Anon |
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If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden Chinese Proverb |
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There are times when your feet have to follow your heart Irish Saying |
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Work like you don't need money; love like you've never been hurt; dance like no one is watching Source Unknown |
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After ecstasy The laundry Zen Saying |
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There are things that are known and things that are unknown & in between there are doors William Blake |
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Where there is great love there are always miracles Willa Cather |
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There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm Willa Cather |
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The trouble with resisting temptation is that you may not get another chance Edwin Chapin |
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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There is no end, there is no beginning, there is only the infinite passion of-life Federico Fellini |
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Be really whole and all things will come to you Lao-Tzu |
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I am well acquainted with reality; I just don't choose to live there all -the time C. Hugh Pettersen |
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There is a window that opens from one heart to another Rumi |
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I am an idealist; I don't know where I am going but I am on my way Carl Sandburg |
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I would be friends with you and have your love William Shakespeare |
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I want you to BE St. Augustine |
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Confusion is the highest state because it comes just before knowing Suzuki |
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A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back -to you when you have forgotten the words Source Unknown |
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If it is to be it is up to me |
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In the jungle of life friends are the orchids |
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Just give me enough coffee & I can do anything |
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Life takes its toll; bring change |
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May this year be a journey of joy |
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Procrastination is the God-given ability to instantly change your priorities |
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You're the best |
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Life is short; we must move very slowly Thai Proverb |
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Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does Epictetus |
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most the world's problems Mohandas Gandhi |
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What you think you become Mohandas Gandhi |
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Teach unconsciously Learn consciously Robert Lax |
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No love no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever Francois Mauriac |
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams Eleanor Roosevelt |
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It is perhaps more fortunate to have a taste for collecting shells than to have been born a millionaire Robert Louis Stevenson |
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it Edith Wharton |
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All ways are really one Rumi |
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end...then stop Lewis Carroll |
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Buddha once said that just as we can know the ocean because it always tastes of salt, we can recognize enlightenment because it always tastes of freedom |
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy for they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom Marcel Proust |
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Love is an irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly Robert Frost |
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Love is gentle, love is kind |
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Mysteriously, wonderfully, I bid farewell to what goes and I greet what comes for what comes cannot be denied and what goes cannot be detained Chiang Tzu |
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The earth laughs in flowers Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds Albert Schweitzer |
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The heart that gives gathers |
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Writing a letter is a thoughtful way to have a conversation Elizabeth Harris |
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Doing it all doesn't necessarily mean doing it all at once |
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Dream Dream Dream Do |
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I don't know I don't know I just don't know |
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Life is but a dream |
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Live Love Laugh |
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Start slowly and taper off |
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Fake it till you make it Recovery Mantra |
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance Source Unknown |
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The small voice inside makes up in accuracy what it lacks in volume Source Unknown |
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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you Trad Proverb |
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The more butter the better Julia Child |
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The Sun is New Each Day Heraclytus |
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You have to attend to liberty Barbara Jordan |
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving Lao-Tzu |
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time Bertrand Russell |
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Life is like an onion, you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep Carl Sandburg |
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Resist much, obey little Walt Whitman |
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Inside every older person is a young person wondering what happened |
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May all good things gather at your door American House Blessing |
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Good will toward all beings is the true religion Buddha |
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Pay attention to secret longings because the other side of-longing is belonging Source Unknown |
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In kissing as in real estate there are three important things: -location location location Source Unknown |
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The universe conspires to help the dreamer Paulo Coelho |
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Listen to the small voice which is your own and true Beatrice Wood |
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Love is the law of life Mahatma Ghandi |
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Forget past mistakes, forget failures, forget everything except -what you are going to do now, and do it William Durant |
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Time flies whether you're having fun or not |
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Happiness comes to those who appreciate what they already have |
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Given enough time, everywhere is within walking distance |
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony Mahatma Ghandi |
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Liberty and justice for all An Ideal |
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Hope inspires the good to reveal itself Emily Dickinson |
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The art of being happy lies in the power of expecting happiness from common things H.W. Beecher |
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular Adlai Stevenson |
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Stop thinking and end your problems Lao Tzu |
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Looking back not the best way to go forward |
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I cannot be other than what I am Perpetua |
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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much Malcolm Crowley |
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They are richest whose needs are simplest Henry David Thoreau |
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Play Play Play |
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Be patient, all things are difficult before they become simple Persian Proverb |
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A garden is a friend you can visit anytime |
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Somebody is always doing what somebody else said couldn’t be done Source Unknown |
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Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it the more it eludes you but when you turn your attention to other things it comes and sits softly on your shoulder Source Unknown |
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Friendship is a tapestry woven through the years with joy laughter happiness and tears Source Unknown |
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Choose happiness, no one can stop you |
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No act of kindness no matter how small is ever wasted Aesop |
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I’m not afraid of storms for I’m learning how to sail my ship Louisa May Alcott |
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous Aristotle |
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All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be as of now Pearl S. Buck |
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own Charlotte Bronte |
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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life Rachel Carson |
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Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity Edwin Hobble Chapin |
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Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way to be happy Jennie Jerome Churchill |
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm Winston Churchill |
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Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe and sometimes I think we’re not, in either case the idea is quite staggering Arthur C. Clarke |
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Friendship is a sheltering tree Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives Alexander Dumas the Younger |
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Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Friendship is the breathing rose with sweets in every fold Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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Certitude is not the same as certainty Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a sense insoluble, they can never be solved only outgrown Carl Jung |
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication Leonardo da Vinci |
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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so Doris Lessing |
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If you let yourself be absorbed completely, if you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud Rosa Luxemburg from prison |
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Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful William Morris |
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul John Muir |
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If I have been able to see farther than others it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants Sir Isaac Newton |
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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest Beatrix Potter |
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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do Rumi |
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To get peace if you want it, make for yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts John Ruskin |
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I am wealthy in my friends Shakespeare |
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The whole universe is but imagination, all in all is but a shadow show of one’s own mind Shakespeare |
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Art comes not out of the void but out of chaos Mary Shelley |
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The only way out is through Henry David Thoreau |
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People who keep journals have life twice Jessamine West |
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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is, I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat Rebecca West |
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There is no set path ~ just follow your heart |
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A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky The Koran |
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Believe ~ Dream ~ Celebrate |
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Gardeners get to stay in their beds all day long |
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Do nothing when nothing is the thing to do |
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Look for what you want to see |
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Harmony begets good luck |
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All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today Indian Proverb |
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Just because something is impossible doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it Source Unknown |
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom Hannah Arendt |
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Clouds come from time to time and bring a chance to rest from looking at the moon Basho |
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Light tomorrow with today Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it Buddha |
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We cling to our own point of view as though everything depended on it yet our opinions have no permanence like autumn and winter they gradually pass away Chuang Tzu |
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Speed is irrelevant if you are traveling in the wrong direction Mahatma Gandhi |
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to play with your hair Kahlil Gibran |
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We should look at both sides quietly Goethe |
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The best and most beautiful thing in life is friendship that springs out of the heart as fragrances out of the flower Helen Keller |
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I take happiness very seriously it is a creed a philosophy and an objective Helen Keller |
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And the song from beginning to end I heard in the heart of a friend Henry Wordsworth Longfellow |
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It is of little use trying to suppress terrorism if the production of deadly devices continues to be deemed a legitimate employment of man’s creative powers E.F.Schumacher |
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It’s a short way between reality and fantasy Isaac Bashevis Singer |
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I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes Sara Teasdale |
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Joy to the World- |
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Be Joyful and Celebrate- |
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Peace on Earth- |
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Be Joyous and Make Merry-- |
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Woman desires freedom in order to become what she has the innate power of becoming |
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Woman is a living growing organism as much as is a tree and like that tree she needs room and freedom |
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True civilization is a recognition of the rights of others at every point of contact |
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Only in perfect freedom from bondage of whatever nature can human beings expand to the fullest possible development |
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To judge how much our acts will influence the future we must look back and see what influence the past had had upon us |
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Until liberty is attained…the deepest the highest liberty for all...there can be no permanent peace |
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We must not forget that this country owes its birth to disobedience to law- |
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There is a word sweeter than Mother, home or heaven and that -word is Liberty |
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The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers embodied and made alive |
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Age brings fruition ~ as much as we admire the bud and the blossom we love the fruit better |
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The great underlying creative principle is solely and distinctly feminine |
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The law of motherhood should be entirely under woman’s control but in order to be that woman must first of all be held as having a right to herself |
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My blood always boils at advice from a man in regard to a family. That at least should be the province of woman alone to say when and how often she chooses to go down into the valley of death to give the world another child should be hers alone to say |
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A brighter day is to come for the world a day when the intuitions of woman’s soul shall be accepted as part of humanity’s spiritual wealth when force shall step backward and love in reality rule the teachings of religion |
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From those women to whom much has been given much is expected~From those women to whom little has been given a little is expected~From all we look for something |
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, the divine floods of light and life flow no longer into our souls |
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions |
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The heresy of today is the religion of tomorrow |
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I never forget that we are sowing winter wheat which the coming spring will see sprout and other hands than ours will reap and enjoy |
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Nature never repeats herself and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another |
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In the name of religion the worst crimes against humanity have -ever been perpetuated |
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires |
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Forget conventionalisms...forget what the world will say whether you are in your place or out of your place. Think your best thoughts, speak your best words, do your best works, looking only to your conscience for approval |