From the Quote of the Week Files for March 30, 2015

This weeks quote was written 2,500 years ago, and yet, it feels like it could have been written yesterday. (What do you think? 

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"The Central Problem is not that you think too highly of yourself

Nor is it that you think too lowly of yourself

Instead, it is that you think constantly of yourself."

Wu Hsin; Aphorisms for Thirsty Fish

(I suppose that even after reading, writing and reflecting on this quote, I probably go on and think about myself  ;-) 

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A recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."

Morrie Schwartz (Tuesday with Morrie)

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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files; March 23, 2015

“Tell everyone you know: “My happiness depends on me, so you’re off the hook.” And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they’re doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel-and then, you’ll love them all. Because the only reason you don’t love them, is because you’re using them as your excuse to not feel good.”

Esther Hicks
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element.

It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

It is my daily mood that makes the weather.

I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous.

I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration,

I can humiliate or horror, hurt or heal.

In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated and a person is humanized or de-humanized.

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse.

If we treat people as they could be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

J.W. Goethe
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files; March 16, 2015

Hello! The miracle of just being here is the theme of this weeks quote!
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"It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. It is an immense privilege, and it is incredible that humans manage to forget the miracle of being here. Rilke said, ‘Being here is so much,’ and it is uncanny how social reality can deaden and numb us so that the mystical wonder of our lives goes totally unnoticed. We are here. We are wildly and dangerously free."

John O'Donohue
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I Know Nothing But Miracles

As for me, I know nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,

Or stand under the trees in the woods,
Or talk by day with any one I love,
Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love,
Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon...

Or the wonderfulness of the sundown,
Or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring...
What stranger miracles are there?

Walt Whitman

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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files; March 9, 2015

I was thinking about having Enough and these 3 quotes magically appeared. Enjoy!

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“I want to regain my senses again. I want to be content with simple things. I want to be able to take in every detail of the world. I don’t want to wake up one day and realized I missed my life because I was distracted. I’m tired of upgrading material possessions to keep up with everyone else. I’m tired of being told that what I have isn't enough, that I need more in order to be happy. I unsubscribe from that notion, and I propose a new one. I propose contentment. I propose simplicity. I believe that if we learned to marvel again at simple things, we would be far more content than the wealthiest man in the world, for money is finite, but the earth has no shortage of offerings.”

 Josh Abe

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​Two Quote of the Week Classics...

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Stop comparing where you’re at with where everyone else is. It doesn't move you farther ahead, improve your situation, or help you find peace. It just feeds your shame, fuels your feelings of inadequacy, and ultimately, it keeps you stuck. The reality is that there is no one correct path in life. Everyone has their own unique journey. A path that’s right for someone else won’t necessarily be a path that’s right for you. And that’s okay. Your journey isn't right or wrong, or good or bad. It’s just different. Your life isn't meant to look like anyone else’s because you aren’t like anyone else. You’re a person all your own with a unique set of goals, obstacles, dreams, and needs. So stop comparing, and start living. You may not have ended up where you intended to go. But trust, for once, that you have ended up where you needed to be. Trust that you are in the right place at the right time. Trust that your life is enough. Trust that you are enough.”

Daniell Koepke

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When I look at friends and acquaintances, many with perfectly beautiful children and wonderful lives, and see how desperately unhappy or stressed they are about balancing work and family, I think to myself that the solution to many problems is deceptively obvious. We are chasing the wrong things, asking ourselves the wrong questions. It is not, "Can we have it all?" -- with "all" being some kind of undefined marker that shall forever be moved upwards out of reach just a little bit with each new blessing. We should ask instead, "Do we have enough?"

Marie Myung-Ok Lee; "What My Son's Disabilities Taught Me About 'Having It All"

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Here's to Gratitude, Contentment, Trust, Blessings, Simplicity, Better Self Questions, Understanding andKnowing that you have and are Enough! 

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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!​ OPA!

From the Quote of the Week Files; March 2, 2015

"Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere and sometimes in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself."

Author Unknown
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“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.”

C. JoyBell C.
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

Eyes to Eyes; An Interesting Experiment