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Wednesday Wit & Wisdom

"Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good. That is fine. I am all in favor of it. But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others--yes, and a lot less dangerous." ~Dale Carnegie


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"You have the power to create. Your power is so strong that whatever you believe comes true. You create yourself, whatever you believe you are. You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself. Your whole reality..., everything you believe, is your creation. You have the same power as any other human in the world. The main difference between you and someone else is how you apply your power, what you create with your power. You may be similar to others in many ways, but no one in the whole world lives her life the way you do." ~ Don Miguel Ruiz (from "The Mastery of Love", pg. 8)


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“Be the change you want to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi


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"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.” ~ Kahlil Gibran


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‎"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


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"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." ~ Pericles


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"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." ~ Abraham Lincoln


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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." ~ Confucius


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"The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being." ~ Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama


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“I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” ~ Oscar Wilde


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“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears.” ~ Anthony Robbins


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“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne


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“Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.” ~ May Sarton


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“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.” ~ Elie Wiesel


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"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." ~ Leo Buscaglia


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"You live and learn. At any rate, you live." ~ Douglas Adams


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"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." ~ Voltaire


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"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us." ~ Helen Keller


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"If we want world peace, we must let go of our attachments and truly live like nomads. That's where I no mad at you, you no mad at me. That way, there will surely be nomadness on the planet. And peace begins with each of us. A little peace here, a little peace there, pretty soon all the peaces will fit together to make one big peace everywhere." ~ Swami Beyondananda


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"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." ~ e e cummings


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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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"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us. It's in everyone and as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." ~ Marianne Williamson


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"I realized happiness was a by-product of curiosity and surrender, not of pursuit and entitlement." ~ Gretel Ehrlich


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"He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.


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"Less and less do you need to force things,
until finally you arrive at non-action.
When nothing is done,
nothing is left undone."

~Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching
(translation by Stephen Mitchell)


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"If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things." ~ Henry David Thoreau


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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~ Mark Twain


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