From the Quote of the Week Files, May 26, 2008

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! The place to go to where you can get timeless wisdom at bargain basement prices!!
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"Why can't people just see the best in things? It gets you so much further in life. It's always negative this and negative that. That's all you see and hear."

John Challis
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You maybe asking yourself, Who is John Challis? Go to the following link and find out...

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08125/878966-85.stm
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

Seneca
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, whevever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, May 19, 2008

Welcome New and Old Souls to the Quote of the Week.

This week's quote are the lyrics from Yael Naim song, A New Soul. Perhaps you know the song or recognize the tune from the Apple AirBook commercial...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YUxbDEPFiM

Whether you are a new Soul, a young Soul or an old Soul, maybe the lesson is to communicate and learn how to give and take.
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I'm a new soul
I came to this strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit bout how to give and take
But since I came here, felt the joy and the fear
Finding myself making every possible mistake

See I'm a young soul in this very strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit bout what is true and fake
But why all this hate? try to communicate
Finding trust and love is not always easy to make

This is a happy end
Cause you don't understand
Everything you have done
Why's everything so wrong

This is a happy end
Come and give me your hand
I'll take you far away

I'm a new soul
I came to this strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit bout how to give and take
But since I came here, felt the joy and the fear
Finding myself making every possible mistake

New soul... (la, la, la, la,...)
In this very strange world...
Every possible mistake
Possible mistake
Every possible mistake
Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes...
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind."

Steve Allen
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Happy Birthday to Quote of the Week member, Mary, who celebrated a huge birthday this past Saturday!
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, May 12, 2008

Are you looking...

to become more aware of your spiritual self?
feel more alive?
to be more connected to others and to nature?
to feel less isolated?
to be more comfortable with change?
to enhance your physical and mental health?
age more gracefully?

Then the suggestions from this week's quote is for you!!! Enjoy!
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"Pay attention to your breath. Many cultures identify breath with spirit, seeing the breath cycle as the movement of spirit in the physical body.. Simply minding the breath is a way of expanding consciousness beyond the ego, of experiencing ranscendence.

* Connect with nature. You can do this by walking or sitting in a natural setting; a city park will do just fine. Allow yourself to slow down, drop your usual routines, and just absorb the influence of the place.

* Make a list of people in your life in whose company you feel more alive, happy, and optimistic. Make an effort to spend more time with them. Our spiritual selves resonate with others, and that connection is a healing.

* Bring flowers into your home and enjoy their beauty.

* Listen to music that you find inspirational and uplifting.

* Admire a work of art that raises your spirits: a painting, sculpture, or work of architecture.

* Reach out and try to resume connection with someone from whom you are estranged; practice forgiveness.

* Do some sort of service work. Give some of your time and energy to help others. The possibilities are endless but do not include just writing a check to charity.

"The suggestions above are intended to help you become more aware of your spiritual self. Any activity that makes you feel more alive, more connected to others and to nature, less isolated, more comfortable with change, is beneficial. It will enhance your physical and mental health. It will help you accept the fact of your aging. It will help you to age gracefully".

Andrew Weil, from Healthy Aging
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today."
Ashleigh Brilliant
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, May 5, 2008

Welome to the Quote of the Week. Reinhold Niebuhr the 20th century theologian is the author of this weeks' quotes. Enjoy!
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Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

Reinhold Niebuhr
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic

The Full Original Serenity Prayer

God, give us grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.

Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.

Amen.

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

From the Quote of the Week Files; April 28, 2008

Good Morning, Good Afternoon or Good Evening. Welcome to the Quote of the Week! Are you looking to making this year your best year ever? That is the subject of this week's quote. Enjoy!
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"The possibility of making this your best year ever exists in every moment, because having the best year of your life depends not on some outside accomplishment but on allowing the greatest expression of yourself to be unveiled. Having the best year of your life is about becoming the person you always wanted to be. It's about embracing a vision of yourself at your best and developing the qualities that will take you there."

Debbie Ford
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A recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

Happy talk, keep talkin' happy talk,
Talk about things you'd like to do.
You got to have a dream,
If you don't have a dream
How you gonna have a dream come true?

Rogers and Hamerstein, South Pacific
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, April 21, 2008

Here is your weekly spiritual snack for your mind, body and soul, The Quote of the Week! This week's quote is Emily Dickinson's poem, I Shall Not Live in Vain.
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If I can stop one Heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching
Or cool one Pain
Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again
I shall not live in Vain.

Emily Dickinson
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain — and most fools do."

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, Apirl 14, 2008

Welcome back to the Quote of the Week ~ Your Weekly source for nurturing your mind, body & spirit. This week's quote is from an old Tom Rush song made famous by Joni Mitchell. Enjoy!!
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And the seasons, they go round and round,
And the painted ponies go up and down.
We're captive on the carousel of time.
We can't return, we can only look
Behind from where we came,
And go round and round and round in the circle game

Tom Rush, "The Circle Game"
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A Recycled Quote of the Week ....

"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!

From the Quote of the Week Files for April 7, 2008

Welcome to the Quote of the Week which has been serving the psychosocial needs of its members since 1984. This week's quote comes to us from Quote of the Week member and all around good guy, Bill. As an Baby Boomer (an aging one at that), Bill thought this one line from a Hal Ketchum song would resonate with other QoftheW Boomers. Enjoy!
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"And the lesson we learned and won't ever forget.......that what makes you grow old is replacing hope.....with regret."

Hal Ketchum
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

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

From the Quote of the Week Files for March 31, 2008

Welcome to the Quote of the Week where you can find Quotations, Thoughts and Proverbs of Philosophers, Kings, Politicians, The Wise and not so Wise as well as the Famous and not so Famous. Today's quotes are about living in the moment.
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"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this."
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Henry David Thoreau

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Happy Birthday to famous French mathematician, scientist and philosopher, Rene Descartes who was born on this day in 1595.

"I think, therefore I am."
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files; March 24, 2008

Welcome to the Quote of the Week, The place to go to where you can get timeless wisdom at bargain basement prices!!
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"Where there is great doubt,
there will be great awakening;
small doubt, small awakening,
no doubt, no awakening."

Zen saying
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive

where we started and know the place for the first time."


T. S. Eliot

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

From the Quote of the Week Files; St Patrick's Day 2008

Wishing you a rainbow
For sunlight after showers—
Miles and miles of Irish smiles
For golden happy hours—
Shamrocks at your doorway
For luck and laughter too,
And a host of friends that never ends
Each day your whole life through!

An Irish Blessing
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Happy St Patrick's Day Everyone!!!
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A McRecycled Quote of the Week...

"May those who love us, love us.
And for those who don't love us, May God turn their hearts.
And if he cannot turn their hearts may he turn their ankles,
So we may know them by their limping."
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Wherever you go and whatever you do,
May the luck of the Irish be there with you.

From the Quote of the Week Files; March 10, 2008

Good Morning, Good Afternoon or Good Evening and Welcome to the Quote of the Week! This week's quote is about being yourself. Enjoy!
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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

Oscar Wilde
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"The best things in life are not things."

C. & J. Woods
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Wishing you a most beautful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, March 3, 2008

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! Your weekly spiritual snack for mind, body & soul. Today's quote is by Epictetus, a most practical philosopher. Enjoy!
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Grow up! Who cares what others think about you?

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you.

Nothing can truly be taken from us. There is nothing to lose. Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, "I have lost it" and instead say, "It has been returned from where it came from."

Except for extreme physical abuse, other people cannot hurt you unless you allow them to.
The universe we inhabit is the best possible universe.

Fix your resolve on expecting justice and order, and they will increasingly reveal themselves in a divine intelligence whose intentions direct the universe.
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A small tribute to a great guy...

Last week a Quote of the Week member, Dave Griffin, past away in Costa Rica. He was my friend and someone who was unendingly generous of spirit and effort towards me. I first met him in 1974 when I was living in Ithaca, NY. He was a great guy with a zest for life, a terrific sense of humor and a contagious laugh. He approached life with a great enthusiasm and was a joy to be around. I feel fortunate to have been his friend and I will miss him dearly.
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

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