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20 Feb 2014

“Use Your Senses; Help Someone’s Soul Heal”

“Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don’t know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more.” (C. JoyBell C.)

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“We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.” (Joseph Campbell)

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“You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don’t know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it – whatsoever it is.” (Osho)

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“Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men – above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.” (Albert Einstein)

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“One day in your search for happiness, you find a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search.” (Robert Brault)

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“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” (Helen Keller)

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“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.” (Rumi)

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19 Feb 2014

“Take the Risk, Blossom and Be Happy”

“There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.” (Peter F. Drucker)

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“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.” (The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

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“Kick yourself all day about the stupid thing you said, the bug you introduced, the promise you failed to keep. That’s pretty common.

Perhaps you should think about the stock you didn’t buy, the innovation you didn’t pursue, the compliment you didn’t give?

Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.

We respond to what we keep track of. Too bad we’re not better at keeping track of how many failures we incorrectly predicted, how many innovations we failed to notice and how many apparently risky steps we failed to take.” (Seth Godin)

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“Inspiration turns ordinary people into passionate people. It gives them the courage to take risks, challenge the old rules, chase their dreams, and never give up. It creates a fire in the belly that fuels curiosity, persistence, and resourcefulness.” (Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers, Robert Kriegel)

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“Know yourself and your resources – and know that audacious risks are the parents of audacious rewards.” (Ezra Adams, music teacher)

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“… and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” (Anais Nin)

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“If you do not risk, you cannot grow…

If you do not grow, you cannot be your best…

If you are not your best, you cannot be happy…

If you cannot be happy, what else matters?” (Dr. David Viscott)

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17 Feb 2014

“To Change One’s Life ….”

“I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams…. Man… is, above all, the plaything of his memory.” (Andre Breton)

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“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” (Robert Luis Stevenson)

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“We are all masters of our own destiny. We can so easily make the same mistakes over and over. We can so easily flee from everything that we desire and which life so generously places before us.

Alternately, we can surrender ourselves to Divine Providence, take God’s hand, and fight for our dreams, believing that they always arrive at the right moment.” (Paulo Coelho, Brida)

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“Hold fast to dreams,

For If dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird,

That cannot fly.” (Langston Hughes)

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“The greatest thing about dreams is they don’t expire. They can lay dormant for years and when you pull them out and dust them off, they shine like new.” (Casi McLean)

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“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” (Lou Holtz)

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“To change one’s life:

1) Start immediately,

2) Do it flamboyantly,

3) No exceptions.” (William James)

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“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” (Chuck Palahniuk)

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14 Feb 2014

“Being in Love Changes Everything”

A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being ‘I love you.’” (Robert Brault)

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“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She’s not perfect – you aren’t either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break – her heart. So don’t hurt her, don’t change her, don’t analyze and don’t expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she’s not there.” (Bob Marley)

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“You know you have found love when you can’t find your way back.” (Robert Brault)

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“This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.” (Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love)

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“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” (Plato)

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“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” (Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets)

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“If I had to choose between loving you and breathing, I’d take my last breathe to say ‘I love you.’” (Tyler Beene)

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“You know you are in love when you notice change, when the mysterious power that quickens your heart begins to inhabit your everyday life. Something softens in you and you begin to move in a slightly different direction: your face looks wiser or younger, there’s a light in your eyes, something different in how you move, the way your hands take hold of things.

People notice. ‘You look different,’ they say, or ‘You look wonderful,’ or, ‘What’s happened to you?’

And you say back to them, ‘I’ve fallen in love,’ and inside you know you are changing. Because being in love changes everything.” (365 Days of Love, Daphne Rose Kingma, Conari Press)

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13 Feb 2014

“He Who Laughs, Lasts”

“You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.” (Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis)

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“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.” (Albert Einstein)

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“Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.” (Norm Papernick)

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“When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing each other.” (Alan Alda)

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“A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods.” (Author unknown, from an editorial in New-York Tribune)

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“Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. My soul probably looks like Fred Astaire.” (Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale)

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“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.” (Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills)

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“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)

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“To get through this life and see it realistically poses a problem. There is a dark, evil, hopeless side to life that includes suffering, death, and ultimate oblivion as our earth falls into a dying sun. Nothing really matters.

On the other hand, the best side of our humanity finds us determined to make life as meaningful as possible NOW; to defy our fate. Everything matters. Everything.

It is easy to become immobilized between these two points of view – to see them both so clearly that one cannot decide what to be or do.

Laughter is what gives me forward motion at such intersections. We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it’s because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be. Tears bring relief. Laughter brings release. Some years ago I came across a phrase in Greek – asbestos gelos – unquenchable laughter. I traced it to Homer’s ‘Iliad’, where it was used to describe the laughter of the gods.

That’s my kind of laughter.

And he who laughs, lasts.” (Robert Fulghum, It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It)

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12 Feb 2014

“Impossible Things Are Simply Engineering Problems / Dreams Are Forever

“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.” (Thomas A. Edison)

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“We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.” (Joel Osteen)

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“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.” (Santosh Kalwar)

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“What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems… There’s no law of physics preventing them.” (Michio Kaku)

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“To me there are three things everyone should do every day.

Number one is laugh.

Number two is think – spend some time in thought.

Number three; you should have emotions move you to tears.

If you laugh, think and cry, that’s a heck of a day.” (Jim Valvano)

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“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.” (Walt Disney)

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“Do one thing every day that scares you.” (Eleanor Roosevelt)

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11 Feb 2014

“Don’t Shrink From the Immensity of Your Purpose”

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.” (Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose)

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“You don’t need anyone’s affection or approval in order to be good enough. When someone rejects or abandons or judges you, it isn’t actually about you. It’s about them and their own insecurities, limitations, and needs, and you don’t have to internalize that. Your worth isn’t contingent upon other people’s acceptance of you — it’s something inherent. You exist, and therefore, you matter. You’re allowed to voice your thoughts and feelings. You’re allowed to assert your needs and take up space. You’re allowed to hold onto the truth that who you are is exactly enough. (Daneill Koepke)

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“Be aware, when you change, evolve or try something new you will make people very uncomfortable for 2 reasons.

First, they will have to adjust how they are with you. Most people are fearful and lazy so they will resent you for this.

Secondly, by you changing, especially for what you believe is ‘the better’, you force others to take a look at themselves and the things they would like to change… but change is tough, so they will resent you for making it obvious that they are responsible for their circumstances.

Ignore them, and keep growing stronger! In time they will either adjust to the new you, choose to grow stronger themselves, or simply disappear.” (Elliot Hulse)

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“I don’t think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.” (Norman Mailer)

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“The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning ‘heart.’ Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.” (Rollo May, The Courage to Create)

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“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” (Margaret Cousins)

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10 Feb 2014

“Do What Matters Most”

“You have to begin to tell the story of your life as you now want it to be and discontinue the tales of how it has been or of how it is.” (Esther & Jerry Hicks, Money, and the Law of Attraction)

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“As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.” (James Allen, As a Man Thinketh)

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“What holds most people back isn’t the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves. You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.” (Russell Simmons, Do You!)

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“So what is the difference between “power thinking” and “positive” thinking? The distinction is slight but profound. To me, people use positive thinking to pretend that everything is rosy, when they really believe that it’s not. With power thinking, we understand that everything is neutral, that nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it, and that we are going to make up a story and give something it’s meaning.” (T. Harv Eker, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind)

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“When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It’s up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.” (Joel Osteen)

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“’But what if I fail?’

You will. The answer to the ‘what if’ question is, you will.

A better question might be, ‘After I fail, what then?’

Well, if you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.” (Seth Godin)

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“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” (Bhudda)

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08 Feb 2014

“Make a Difference / Do the Impossible”

“I’m not old enough to play baseball or football. I’m not eight yet.

My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren’t going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn’t need to run that fast.

When I play baseball, I’ll just hit them out of the park. Then I’ll be able to walk.” (Edward J. McGrath Jr., ‘An Exceptional View of Life’)

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“A father was late getting to his son’s baseball game. As he sat down behind the players’ bench he asked one of the boys known as a real leader on the team what the score was. “We’re behind 14 to nothing,” he answered with a smile. “Really!” the Dad replied. “I am surprised that you don’t look very discouraged.”

“Discouraged?” the boy replied with a puzzled look on his face. “Why should we be discouraged? We haven’t been up to bat yet!” … Just as pessimism erodes our ability to deal successfully with change, so does optimism enhance it.” (Jim Clemmer, Leaders Inspire Their Teams with Optimism)

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“I tried to teach my child with books. He gave me only puzzled looks.

I tried to teach my child with words. They passed him by, often unheard.

Despairingly, I turned aside, ‘How shall I teach this child?’ I cried.

‘Come,’ he said, ‘Play with me!” (Unknown Author)

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“You just have to decide if you’re a Tigger or an Eeyore.” (Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture)

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“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” (William James)

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“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” (Walt Disney)

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