"The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person."
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Saturday, February 8, 2020
Friday, February 7, 2020
Margaret Thatcher
"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."
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Tish Grier
"Maybe it's easier to like someone else's life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsiblity to change our lives into lives we might like."
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Winston Groom
"My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
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Thursday, February 6, 2020
Ann Radcliffe
"There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children."
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Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Rita Mae Brown
"The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself."
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Leo Tolstoy
"Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
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Erich Fromm
"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self."
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Joan Didion
"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything..."
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Tuesday, February 4, 2020
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe-Eduvogue
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To accomplish great things,
we must not only act,
but also dream, not only plan,
but also believe.
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Andre Gide
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
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Brenda Ueland
"Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable."
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Claudia Jewett Jarrett
"One of the common causes of serious difficulty takes the form of parental self-discovery. The newly adopted child brings out submerged feelings or behavior in his parents that make them dislike themselves. This can be such a severe blow to their self- esteem that they must eradicate the cause of their distress. Sometimes the only way that parents are able to do that is by returning the child."
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Monday, February 3, 2020
Peter McWilliams
"To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation."
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Thich Nhat Hanh
"Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive."
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Practice Makes Perfect
Practice Makes Perfect
It’s been said that Practice makes perfect.
That might be true if you were able to practice perfectly. If that were the case, why would you need to practice?
Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent.
Practice bad thinking, and you will get all the bad thoughts you could ever want.
Practice makes permanent.
Practice bad manners and are sure to get better at being rude.
Practice makes permanent.
Practice bad relationship skills, and you are guaranteed to miss out on the best life has to offer.
Practice makes permanent.
It is always that way, it will never change, and you can harness its power.
Practice being positive, forward-thinking, and believing that life is good. That’s what you will get.
Practice being a good person that is always thinking of others. You will find yourself surrounded by good people.
Practice being present, respectful, and loving in your relationships. You will never be alone.
Yes, Practice makes permanent.
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David Foster
"There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function."
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Jennifer Hudson
"Just as I had to go through a transition period, I guess [my friends and family] did, too."
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Sunday, February 2, 2020
Thomas H. Huxley
"The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone."
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Kurdish Proverb
"Do not throw the arrow which will return against you."
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John Green
"There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything."
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Saturday, February 1, 2020
Pierre Charron
"He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it."
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Robert Bresson
"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."
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