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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~ Chinese Proverb
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One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.
Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
― Stephen Hawking
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If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert. ~ Paulo Coelho
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When you learn, teach. When you get, give. ~ Maya Angelou
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"Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.” - Don Miguel Ruiz
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Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it
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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. ~ Ross Perot
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When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks.
When you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks.
When you're 60 you realise no one was ever thinking about you in the first place.
— Unknown
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You cannot avoid pain, but you can chose to overcome it. ~ Paulo Coelho
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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ~ Marie Curie
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I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become. ~ Carl Jung
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"You don’t need another human being to make your life complete, but let’s be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn’t see them as disasters in your soul, but cracks to put their love into, is the most calming thing in this world." - Emery Allen
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You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day - unless you're too busy; then you should sit for an hour. ~ Old Zen adage
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“Cheaters often accuse you of cheating. Liars often accuse you of lying. Insecure people often crumble your security. Behavior speaks…How someone treats you may have nothing to do with you; but can be a reflection of who they are.” ~Steve Maraboli
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Some people are so poor
all they have is money...
~ Bob Marley
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If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless. ~ Dalai Lama
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~ Chinese Proverb
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“Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.” - Aubrey de Grey
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When you accept yourself, the whole world accepts you. ~ Lao Tzu
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You have no friends. You have no enemies. You only have teachers. ~ Ancient Proverb
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it. ~ M. Scott Peck
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Don't take anything personally. Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. ~ Don Miguel Ruiz
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Every quality, taken to extremes, becomes a weakness. ~ Paulo Coelho
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"One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist." - Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018
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"When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place" —Unknown
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If you don't know what your passion is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it. ~ Oprah Winfrey
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"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." -- Mark Twain
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What is being revealed about us by this pandemic?
That we are not separate, our lives are all intertwined and we affect one another profoundly.
As well as being careful, this is time for sensitivity, love, generosity and compassion.
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Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind. ~ Eckhart Tolle
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When you rise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive; to breathe, think, to enjoy, to love. ~ Marcus Aurelius.
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Fall down seven times, stand up eight. ~ Japanese Proverb
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There is only one journey: going inside yourself. ~ R.M. Rilke
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In seats 37G and 37D were Stuart and Irene Steckler, both 32 and both transplanted New Yorkers on their way to a home they loved near Osaka, Japan.
They were friends of mine
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"Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are." — Will Ferrell
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If you always give, you will always have. ~ Chinese Proverb
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However long the night, the dawn will break. ~ African Proverb
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Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be. ~ Eckhart Tolle
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However long the night, the dawn will break. ~ African Proverb
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Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career. ~ Ryan Chris
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. ~ William Saroyan
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"The people whose first instinct is to smile when you make eye contact with them are some of earth's greatest treasures."
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The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. ~ David Russell
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You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle 3 things: a rainy day, lost luggage & tangled Christmas tree lights. ~ Maya Angelou
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“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn you attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.” Henry David Thoreau
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9 Small Acts of Generosity:
• Smile
• Take time to listen
• Complement someone
• Express appreciation
• Give a few kind words to people who serve you
• Be considerate of other drivers
• Call someone you've been meaning to call
• Clean up after yourself
• Let go!
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"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise" - Alden Nowlan
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Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow. ~ M.A. Radmacher
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If you spend too much time thinking about a thing you'll never get it done. ~ Bruce Lee
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The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm, but because of those who look at it without doing anything. ~ Albert Einstein
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Be a lamp, a lifeboat, a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. ~ Rumi
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. ~ James Oppenheim
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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself. ~ Mark Twain
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Do not speak - unless it improves upon silence. ~ Buddhist Saying
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It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. ~ Confucius
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Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars. ~ Serbian Proverb
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“Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.” ― Will Ferrell
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Don't take anything personally. Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. ~ Don Miguel Ruiz
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You have no friends. You have no enemies. You only have teachers. ~ Ancient Proverb
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A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence. ~ Jim Watkins
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It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful. ~ Lao Tzu
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. ~ Wayne Dyer
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."
― Stephen Hawking 1942-2018 (including 55 bonus years!)
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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. ~ Mark Twain
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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'thank you', it will be enough. ~ Meister Eckhart
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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. ~ John Burroughs
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Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. ~ Chinese Proverb
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If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. ~ Albert Einstein
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Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. ~ Rumi
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~ Assyrian Proverb
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I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. ~ Khalil Gibran
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The more you know the less you understand. ~ Tao te Ching
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~ Lao Tzu
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Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing and life doesn't. ~ Neil Gaiman
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If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy. ~ Lauren Huston
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Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? ~ Rumi
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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. ~ Dalai Lama
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~ Sufi Proverb
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"All those days that came and went, little did I know that they were my life."
Old Scandinavian saying
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~ Navajo Proverb
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Silence is the language of God - all else is poor translation. ~ Rumi
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. ~ Mark Twain
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People laugh at me because I am different, I laugh at them because they are all the same. ~ Swami Vivekananda
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~ Chinese Proverb
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Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. ~ Plato
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. ~ Aldous Huxley
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~ Assyrian Proverb
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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. ~ Dalai Lama
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