The Secret of Life; Quote of the Week; April 26, 2016

The Secret of Life

“If we want to live perfectly happy lives...we must drive out selfish character tendencies such as pride, ego, vanity, jealousy, lusts, envy and worry. When we learn to live selflessly, putting others before ourselves, committing to what is noble, right and good; treating others with love and compassion...that's when true happiness is experienced. A genuine focus on selflessness cures all and creates an environment for true growth. It's the secret to every great relationship. We gain...when we give up self. Sacrificing one's selfish characteristics through diligent thought, meditation, prayer and action gives life to true love and abounding joy."

Jason Versey;  A Walk with Prudence

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

All Quotes Italian: From the Quote of the Week Files; April 18, 2016

All Quotes Italian!

The above poster on How to Live Happily was sent in by Quote of the Week Member Silvia,

who is from Italy and it inspired me to feature

following popular Italian quotes.

Grazie Silvia!

Can you translate the poster and the quotes below?

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"Noi non potemo avere perfetta vita senza amici"

Dante

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"Non puoi insegnare niente a un uomo. Puoi solo aiutarlo a scoprire ciò che ha dentro di sé"

Galileo Galilei

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Augurandovi un giorno più bello, ovunque ciò si può trovare!

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Quotes Translated

"We cannot have a perfect life without friends."

Dante

"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help find it within himself."

Galileo Galilei

From the Quote of the Week Files; April 11, 2016

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Karma Quotes for this Week!
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“Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, “There is always a day of reckoning.” The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits—ourselves, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls. That is every human’s life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a life that is worthy of something higher, lighter, more fulfilling, and maybe even everlasting.” 

​Donald Van de Mark

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"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life, happiness, freedom and peace of mind, are always attained by giving them to someone else."Peyton Conway March

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By the Way...

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

The Spiral Upward! From the Quote of the Week Files; April 4, 2016

This Week...

Seeing Things Differently

"Upward spiral" from a "Vicious Circle"
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“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards.

The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”

Hermann Hesse

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Time to Reevaluate my Circle

Again ;-)

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this might find you!

Are you in Control? From the Quote of the Week Files; March 28, 2016

 

“Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch,

but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world.

Today is different.”

A.S. King; Please Ignore Vera Dietz

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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

“Nothing truly stops you.  Nothing truly holds you back.  For your own will is always within your control.  Sickness may challenge your body. But are you merely your body? Lameness may impede your legs. But you are not merely your legs. Your will is bigger than your legs. Your will needn’t be affected by an incident unless you let it.”

Epictetus

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Wishing you a most BEAUTIFUL DAY wherever this may find you!

Risky Quotes; From the Quote of the Week Files; March 21, 2016

"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man,

he who has braved the storm of life and lived

or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”  

Hunter Thompson

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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic on Risk

"A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are made for."

John A. Shedd

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

Quotes from La Divina Commedia; From the Quote of the Week File; March 14, 2016

Quotes from La Divina Commedia

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The ​Devine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

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“…for sitting softly cushioned,
or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame;
and without it man must waste his life away,
leaving such traces of what he was on earth
as smoke in wind and foam upon the water.
Stand up! Dominate this weariness of yours
with the strength of soul that wins in every battle
if it does not sink beneath the body’s weight.”_________

"Se segui tua stella/non fallirai a glorioso porto";

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"If you follow your star, you cannot fail to reach a glorious port."

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Dante Alighieri;

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La Divina Commedia

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

All Quotes Groucho; From the Quote of the Week Files; March 7, 2016

This Week...

​All Quotes Groucho​

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“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself; I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”

Groucho Marx
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Two Recycled Groucho Quote of the Week Classics...

"Time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies like a banana."

 "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

Groucho Marx

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

 

Cracked or Broken? From the Quote of the Week Files; February 29, 2016

Feeling Cracked or Broken?

Two Quotes / A Song / A Philosophy

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The Quotes...

"Maybe, it's more like you said before, all of us being cracked open. Like each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And these things happen-these people leave us, or don't love us, or don't get us, or we don't get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another. And the vessel starts to crack open in places. And I mean, yeah, once the vessel cracks open, the end becomes inevitable...But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it's only in that time that we can see each other, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs. When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never looking inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.”

John Green, Paper Towns

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"We're all broken. We all have cracks. It's not about making it through life in one piece it's about narrowing the gap between the fissures so we don't shatter."

Riley Murphy

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The Song...

Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack in everything

That's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen; Anthem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDTph7mer3I

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The Philosophy

Kintsugi

 The Art of Healing our Wounds with Gold

"In an age that worships youth, perfection and the new, the art of kintsugi retains a particular wisdom – as applicable to our own lives as it is to a broken tea cup. The care and love expended on the shattered pots should lend us the confidence to respect what is damaged and scarred, vulnerable and imperfect – starting with ourselves and those around us."

Alain de Botton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBUTQkaSSTY

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

Keep Going; From the Quote of the Week Files; February 22, 2016

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Just keep going. This isn’t some competition to see who can have it all together at all times. This is life. Life is not a competition, it’s a series of hurdles. The hurdles get bigger as you get stronger. What you faced last year probably seems small and ridiculous compared to the hurdles you are facing today. But that’s just how it works: the more character you build, the greater the battlefield on the horizon.

Build character anyway.

Show up anyway.

Love anyway.

Dig anyway.

Plant anyway.

Choose anyway.

Define anyway.

Be there anyway.

Keep going anyway.

 

There won’t be a trophy at the end of this thing. No medal to prove you won the race. There will just be a lot of grey hair. And people who will say some words about you. And a life that flashed before your face so quickly. You’ll be the only one who can swallow hard and answer these questions honestly: Did I love them right? Did I try my hardest? Did I give all that I had? Did I face myself, even when I was the hardest one in my own orbit to face? Did I take the steps to get better? Did I sacrifice? Did I push, even when I didn’t want to? Did I keep going? Even in the midst of hurdles, and blows to the face, and junk, and barriers, and fears, and doubts that huddled close to my ear? Did I keep going anyway?

 

Hannah Brencher

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

A Quote or two about Attitude​; From the Quote of the Week Files, February 15, 2016

A Quote or two about Attitude​

"Wherever you go , whatever the temperature, always bring your own sunshine. It's all in the attitude." 

J. D'Angelo

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“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.” 

​Walt Whitman​

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

Walt Whitman

A Leap Year Quote; From the Quote of the Week Files, February 8, 2016

It's Leap Year, Have you taken a Leap yet?

"Leap and the net will appear." 

Zen Saying

“Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.”

Margaret Shepard

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Wishing you a most beautiful Leap \   / Year wherever this may find you!

Emerson Quotes; From the Quote of the Week Files, February 1, 2016

Emerson Quotes for the 1st Day of February!

“This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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