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Thought for the day....... "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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i have this pinned to my bulletin board at work:
don't be afraid to express yourself
cherish every day
love your friends, no matter who they are
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Hopeful.....I like it!!! Thanks!!
Thought for the day....... "Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition." Henry Mintzberg (Researcher McGill University)
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Fire......good advice!! For us Lymies it can sometimes be a very small thing!! Did you see that olympic arial skiing?? Yikes!!
Thought for the day....... "Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds." Black Elk (1863-1950, Ogalala Sioux Holy Man)
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Thought for the day....... "The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt." Frederick Buechner
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Thought for the day....... "Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations." George Bernard Shaw
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Thought for the day....... "Nothing is like it seems, but everything is exactly like it is." Yogi Berra
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Thought for the day....... "To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to." Kahlil Gibran
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"It is only by risking from one hour to another that we live at all."
(Thank you for this inspiring thread, Lightfoot.)
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Fire.....you are so welcome!! Do you know the author of the quote you included? It's a good one to rememeber!! Healing smiles....
Thought for the day....... "Wise men contemplate the world, knowing full well that they are contemplating themselves." James Cowan
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Thought for the day....... "There is no more destructive force in human affairs -- not greed, not hatred -- than the desire to have been right. Non-attachment to possessions is trivial when compared with non-attachment to opinions." Mark Kleiman
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An especially important quotation just above, Lightfoot!
The risking hour by hour thought is from William James.
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Thought for the day....... "I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine." Bertrand Russell
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Thought for the day....... "Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade." Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
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Thought for the day....... "All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full" The Bible
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Thought for the day....... "Integrity has no need of rules." Albert Camus
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Thought for the day....... "The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp." John Berry
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Thought for the day....... "Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace." Albert Schweitzer
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The Holy Alphabet is wonderful & gorgious graphics!
Cannot tell you how much I have enjoyed reading your quotes! They sure lifted my spirits today
Thank You! Carlie
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Thought for the day....... "All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love." Sri da Avabhas (Adi Da Samraj)
Carlie......welcome aboard! Glad you are enjoying them! Healing smiles....
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Thought for the day....... "The little things? The little moments? The aren't little." Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Thought for the day....... "Ego-self is but a shadow of reality; of true-self. Yet it is so subtle and so believable as to discourage all but the most serious and determined examiner." Anthony de Mello, SJ
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Thought for the day....... "The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life." Stephen Levine
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up...was going to copy/paste something really darling here, but ran into problems. May try again tomorrow if I'm up to figuring out what went wrong!
PS - can any graphics go into the messages here along with the text in addition to signature line?Bettyg
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Thought for the day....... "Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact." Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... "Contemplation is a sudden gift of awareness, an awakening to the Real within all that is real. A vivid awareness of infinite Being at the roots of our own limited being. An awareness of our contingent reality as received, as a present from God, as a free gift of love." Thomas Merton
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Thought for the day....... ``The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results.'' Krishna (Bhagavad-Gita)
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Thought for the day....... "In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty....in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe." Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... "When the well's dry, we know the worth of water." Benjamin Franklin
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Thought for the day....... "Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side." Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Thought for the day....... "The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind." Albert Camus
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thanks for all the postings....don't usually drop by, but glad i did today. will again soon.
thanks again
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Thought for the day....... "Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech." Plutarch
hopeful, your are so welcome!!! Have a great day!!
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If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this! If you're spiritually dead, you won't want to read it. If you're spiritually curious, there is still hope!
Why Go To Church? A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. "I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons.
But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."
This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:
"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But , for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals.
But I do know this... They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today.
Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!" When you are DOWN to nothing... God is UP to something!
Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!
All right .. now that you're done reading .send it on! I think everyone should read this!! "When Satan is knocking at your door, simply say, "Jesus, could you get that for me?!!"
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3-23-06 Thought for the day....... "Calmness comes from within. It is the peace and restfulness of the depths of our nature. The fury of storm and of wind agitate only the surface of the sea; they penetrate only two or three hundred feet; below that is the calm, unruffled deep. To be ready for the great crises of life we must learn serenity in our daily living. Calmness is the crown of self-control." William Jordon
3-24-06 Thought for the day....... ``There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots. The other is wings.'' Hodding Carter, Jr.
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Thought for the day....... "{True zazen is surrendering every moment.} But surrendering to what? It really does not matter what we call it: God or the Tao or the Dharma or the Buddha or our true nature. . . . It is the act of letting go, of surrendering, that matters. The very act of letting go opens us up completely." Dennis Genpo Merzel
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The Penny
You always hear the usual stories of pennies on the sidewalk being good luck, gifts from angels, etc. This is the first time I've ever heard this twist on the story. Gives you something to think about.
Several years ago, a friend of mine and her husband were invited to spend the weekend at the husband's employer's home. My friend, Arlene, was nervous about the weekend. The boss was very wealthy, with a fine home on the waterway, and cars costing more than her house.
The first day and evening went well, and Arlene was delighted to have this rare glimpse into how the very wealthy live. The husband's employer was quite generous as a host, and took them to the finest restaurants.
Arlene knew she would never have the opportunity to indulge in this kind of extravagance again, so was enjoying herself immensely.
As the three of them were about to enter an exclusive restaurant that evening, the boss was walking slightly ahead of Arlene and her husband.
He stopped suddenly, looking down on the pavement for a long, silent moment.
Arlene wondered if she was supposed to pass him. There was nothing on the ground except a single darkened penny that someone had dropped, and a few cigarette butts.
Still silent, the man reached down and picked up the penny. He held it up and smiled, then put it in his pocket as if he had found a great treasure. How absurd!
What need did this man have for a single penny? Why would he even take the time to stop and pick it up?
Throughout dinner, the entire scene nagged at her. Finally, she could stand it no longer. She causally mentioned that her daughter once had a coin collection, and asked if the penny he had found had been of some value.
A smile crept across the man's face as he reached into his pocket for the penny and held it out for her to see. She had seen many pennies before! What was the point of this?
"Look at it." He said. "Read what it says." She read the words "United States of America." "No, not that; read further." "One cent?" "No, keep reading." "In God we Trust?" "Yes!" "And?"
"And if I trust in God, the name of God is holy, even on a coin.
Whenever I find a coin I see that inscription. It is written on every single United States coin, but we never seem to notice it! God drops a message right in front of me telling me to trust Him?
Who am I to pass it by? When I see a coin, I pray, I stop to see if my trust IS in God at that moment. I pick the coin up as a response to God; that I do trust in Him. For a short time, at least, I cherish it as if it were gold. I think it is God's way of starting a conversation with me.
Lucky for me, God is patient and pennies are plentiful!
When I was out shopping today, I found a penny on the sidewalk. I stopped and picked it up, and realized that I had been worrying and fretting in my mind about things I cannot change.
I read the words, "In God We Trust," and had to laugh. Yes, God, I get the message.
It seems that I have been finding an inordinate number of pennies in the last few months, but then, pennies are plentiful!
And, God is patient...Have a blessed day!! The best mathematical equation I have ever seen: 1 cross 3 nails -------- 4 given
That's the whole gospel message simply stated. Take 60 seconds give this a shot! Let's just see if Satan stops this one.
All you do is - 1. Simply say a small prayer for the person who sent you this, (Father God, bless this person in whatever it is that you know he or she may be needing this day.)
2. Then send it on to five other people. Within hours five people have prayed for you, and you caused a multitude of people to pray to God for other people. Bettyg
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Thought for the day....... "Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves." Pema Chodron
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Thought for the day....... "Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, and an old man with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind." Cicero
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"You'll Never Walk Alone"
TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR STRESS REDUCTION
I. Thou shalt not be perfect, or even try to be.
II. Thou shalt not try to be all things to all people.
III. Thou shalt sometimes leave things undone.
IV. Thou shalt not spread thyself too thin.
V. Thou shalt learn to say "no".
VI. Thou shalt schedule time for thyself and for thy support network.
VII. Thou shalt switch thyself off, and do nothing regularly.
VIII. Thou shalt not even feel guilty for doing nothing, or saying no.
IX. Thou shalt be boring, untidy, inelegant, and unattractive at times.
X. Especially, thou shalt not be thine own worst enemy. But, be thine own b st friend.
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3-28-06 Thought for the day....... "If you want the rainbow, you gotta' put up with the rain." Dolly Parton
3-29-06 Thought for the day....... "Eternity is not something that happens after you are dead. It's going on all the time. We're in it now." Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Thought for the day....... "To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven." Johannes A. Gaertner
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Thought for the day....... "As you begin to nourish creativity in one area of your life, it begins to flourish in other areas." C. Diane Ealy, Ph.D.
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Thought for the day....... "It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking." Epictetus
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Thought for the day....... ``A gauge for wisdom.- The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.'' Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... "Even as fire without fuel finds peace in its resting place, when thoughts become silence the soul finds peace in its own source." Maitri Upanishad
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