It will be here soon ~ 2009 that is! Are you ready for it?
Here are the five simple principles that can help you to a stress-free existence in the New Year by John M. Perkins, adapted from his book, The Stress-Free Habit.
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1. Be who you wish to be.
Whenever you find yourself contemplating the idea of becoming, stop and repeat the phrase, "I do not need to become, I will be this person beginning right now."
2. Solve the problem.
It is folly to lament the fact that you have a problem. What you must do is decide on a solution and try it.
3. Concentrate.
Whatever you do, put everything into it. If you decide to be lazy, be lazy, concentrate on your laziness! When you relax, really relax.
4. Have faith.
Believe in yourself, believe in the religion of your choice (if you choose one at all), believe in an idea or goal. Believe that you can conquer stress through the stress-free habit.
5. Meditate.
Meditation is a vehicle for bringing the other four principles into perspective on a regular and orderly basis. Meditation is at the heart of the routine practice of the stress-free habit. It is also one of the best tools available for helping us learn to concentrate".
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
At the end of each year, I ask myself two questions:
1) What do I want to create in this New Year? And, perhaps even more importantly,
2) What do I want to let go of?
Patricia Digh
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Wishing all Truth, Simplicity and Love for the New Year
04 January 2009
From the Quote of the Week Files, December 22, 2008
"Haid joule ja head uut aastat"; "God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År" ; "Buone Feste Natalizie" ; "Feliz Navidad" ; "Nollaig Shona Dhuit" ; "Joyeux Noël"; "Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan" ; "Saint Dan Fai Lok" ; "Froehliche Weihnachten" ; "Kala Christouyenna" ; "Een Plesierige Kerfees"; "I'd Miilad Said Oua Sana Saida" ; "Merry Christmas" ; "Happy Hanukkah" ; Happy Holidays and Welcome to The Quote of the Week!
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"Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus."
Francis P. Church, 1897, New York Sun
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
"Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect."
Oren Arnold
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Thinking the best for you during this Holiday Season!
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"Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus."
Francis P. Church, 1897, New York Sun
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
"Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect."
Oren Arnold
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Thinking the best for you during this Holiday Season!
From the Quote of the Week Files for December 15, 2008
Hello and Welcome back to the Quote of the Week, your weekly spiritual snack for mind, body & soul. This week's quote is really a series of 10 questions to help us (me) to reflect on 2008 (now that it is nearly over), see what worked and get more of that in 2009.
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What went really well for you at work in 2008?
What did you do that you're proud of?
Who have you helped out?
How have you grown and developed professionally?
How have you grown and developed personally at work?
Who has really appreciated your work?
Who has helped you out and been there for you?
Who have you admired at work in 2008?
What have been some fun moments at work in 2008?
Which 5 things from 2008 would you like to have more of in 2009?
Alexander Kjerulf
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
"There are three components of happiness...
Pleasure- we all know about what feels good.
Engagement - the depth of involvement with one's family, work, romance and hobbies.
Meaning - using personal strengths to serve some larger end.
Of those three roads, pleasure is the least consequential. Engagement and meaning are much more important."
Martin Seligman
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
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What went really well for you at work in 2008?
What did you do that you're proud of?
Who have you helped out?
How have you grown and developed professionally?
How have you grown and developed personally at work?
Who has really appreciated your work?
Who has helped you out and been there for you?
Who have you admired at work in 2008?
What have been some fun moments at work in 2008?
Which 5 things from 2008 would you like to have more of in 2009?
Alexander Kjerulf
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
"There are three components of happiness...
Pleasure- we all know about what feels good.
Engagement - the depth of involvement with one's family, work, romance and hobbies.
Meaning - using personal strengths to serve some larger end.
Of those three roads, pleasure is the least consequential. Engagement and meaning are much more important."
Martin Seligman
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
07 December 2008
From the Quote of the Week Files for December 1, 2008
"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."
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That was the Quote of the Week for May 27 and was said by a remarkable young man named John Challis. Included with the quote was a link to his story and a number of you emailed back saying how moved you were by his story ( http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08125/878966-85.stm).
Unfortunately, I just learned of John's passing and here are a couple of links that tells of his life and courage as inspired people around the country with positive messages in his final days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut1XjcFRVLA
http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3543534
May he rest in peace.
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"Courage + believe = life"
John Challis
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That was the Quote of the Week for May 27 and was said by a remarkable young man named John Challis. Included with the quote was a link to his story and a number of you emailed back saying how moved you were by his story ( http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08125/878966-85.stm).
Unfortunately, I just learned of John's passing and here are a couple of links that tells of his life and courage as inspired people around the country with positive messages in his final days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut1XjcFRVLA
http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3543534
May he rest in peace.
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"Courage + believe = life"
John Challis
From the Quote of the Week files for November 24, 2008
Hello & 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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The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.
Albert Schweitzer
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic and Challenge...
"Give honest and sincere appreciation."
Dale Carnegie's' 2nd Human Relation Principle
In the U.S., this week marks our Thanksgiving holiday. In spite of all the pre-holiday sales, anticipation of the arrival of Santa, traveling, eating Turkey, drinking and watching football, the center of this holiday is thankfulness. Or is it?
I don't think Dale Carnegie thought that one should wait for Thanksgiving to "Give honest and sincere appreciation", but that it should be done on a daily/weekly basis. If you have gotten away from this practice (like I have), this Thanksgiving could be the perfect time to start up again!
My challenge for myself is to not only think about those who have helped me, caught me, taught me, believed in me, re framed things for me, showed me, etc. but to take the time and "Give honest and sincere appreciation!" Anybody care to join me in this challenge?
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
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The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.
Albert Schweitzer
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic and Challenge...
"Give honest and sincere appreciation."
Dale Carnegie's' 2nd Human Relation Principle
In the U.S., this week marks our Thanksgiving holiday. In spite of all the pre-holiday sales, anticipation of the arrival of Santa, traveling, eating Turkey, drinking and watching football, the center of this holiday is thankfulness. Or is it?
I don't think Dale Carnegie thought that one should wait for Thanksgiving to "Give honest and sincere appreciation", but that it should be done on a daily/weekly basis. If you have gotten away from this practice (like I have), this Thanksgiving could be the perfect time to start up again!
My challenge for myself is to not only think about those who have helped me, caught me, taught me, believed in me, re framed things for me, showed me, etc. but to take the time and "Give honest and sincere appreciation!" Anybody care to join me in this challenge?
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
From the Quote of the Week Files for November 17, 2008
Welcome back to the Quote of the Week ~ Your Weekly source for nurturing your mind, body & spirit. Today's short quote is about being grateful..
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You cannot be grateful and bitter.
You cannot be grateful and unhappy.
You cannot be grateful and without hope.
You cannot be grateful and unloving.
So just be grateful.
Author Unknown
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."
Dawna Markova
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
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You cannot be grateful and bitter.
You cannot be grateful and unhappy.
You cannot be grateful and without hope.
You cannot be grateful and unloving.
So just be grateful.
Author Unknown
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."
Dawna Markova
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
From the Quote of the Week Files, November 10, 2008
Welcome. Your presence, exactly as is at this very moment, is greatly appreciated. Come on in and enjoy this week's quote!!
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"When you have a choice to be right or to be kind. Always pick kind."
Dr. Wayne Dyer
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
" If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential —- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never."
Søren Kierkegaard
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
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"When you have a choice to be right or to be kind. Always pick kind."
Dr. Wayne Dyer
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
" If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential —- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never."
Søren Kierkegaard
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
03 November 2008
From the Quote of the Week Files, November 3, 2008
You are dazed, bewildered, trapped in a world with no time, where color collides with sound, and shadows explode. You get an email and you realize that it isn't an ordinary email... it's an email from the "Quote of the Week Zone."
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"Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present / love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure / the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth."
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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A recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."
Margaret Halsey
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
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I am Raoul Nolan, and I approve of this message!
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"Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present / love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure / the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth."
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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A recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."
Margaret Halsey
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
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I am Raoul Nolan, and I approve of this message!
From the Quote of the Week Files, October 27, 2008
Good Morning, Good Afternoon or Good Evening and Welcome to the Quote of the Week. It is time to get away from the all important details of day-to-day life, take a deep breath, relax your shoulders, kick off your shoes and enjoy reading today's quote on Gratitude!
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"Gratitude encourages intuition and abundance. This week and every day be thankful for who and what is in your life — instead of complaining about what you don't have. Appreciate all the abundance and goodness that's around you, whether big or small. Be thankful for your health, children, sunny days, your garden, family, best friends, or even the person who let you jump ahead in line at the bank. The more joy you begin to notice and appreciate, the easier it is for your intuition to lead you to even more happiness and prosperity."
John Holland
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
"Understanding and Love are not two separate things, but just one. To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living beings with the eyes of compassion. When you understand, you cannot help but love. And when you love, you naturally act in a way that can relieve the suffering of people."
Thich Nhat Hanh
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With love and many blessings!
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"Gratitude encourages intuition and abundance. This week and every day be thankful for who and what is in your life — instead of complaining about what you don't have. Appreciate all the abundance and goodness that's around you, whether big or small. Be thankful for your health, children, sunny days, your garden, family, best friends, or even the person who let you jump ahead in line at the bank. The more joy you begin to notice and appreciate, the easier it is for your intuition to lead you to even more happiness and prosperity."
John Holland
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
"Understanding and Love are not two separate things, but just one. To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living beings with the eyes of compassion. When you understand, you cannot help but love. And when you love, you naturally act in a way that can relieve the suffering of people."
Thich Nhat Hanh
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With love and many blessings!
19 October 2008
From the Quote of the Week Files, October 20, 2008
Looking for that inner place of peace and joy? A soul center where you can go to get a deeper, richer experience of life? Then welcome to the Quote of the Week!
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"The richest lives attain an inner balance comprised of work, play and love in equal order."
Erik Erikson
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A Recycled Quote of the Week...
"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
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"The richest lives attain an inner balance comprised of work, play and love in equal order."
Erik Erikson
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A Recycled Quote of the Week...
"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
17 October 2008
From the Quote of the Week Files, October 13, 2008
Step out of the chaos as you refresh, reawaken and rediscover yourself with a motivational and inspirational thought with today's Quote of the Week!
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"With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself, or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose."
Max Ehrmann
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classsic...
There Is More In Valladolid, Spain, Christopher Columbus died in 1506. There stands a onument commemorating the great discoverer. An interesting feature of the memorial is a statue of a lion destroying one of the Latin words that had been part of Spain's motto for centuries. Before Columbus made his voyages, the Spaniards thought they had reached the outer limits of the earth. Thus, their motto was "Ne Plus Ultra," which means, "No more beyond." The word being torn away by the lion was "Ne" or "No," making it read "Plus Ultra." Columbus had proved that there was indeed "more beyond."
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
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I'm Raoul Nolan and I approve of this message!
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"With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself, or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose."
Max Ehrmann
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classsic...
There Is More In Valladolid, Spain, Christopher Columbus died in 1506. There stands a onument commemorating the great discoverer. An interesting feature of the memorial is a statue of a lion destroying one of the Latin words that had been part of Spain's motto for centuries. Before Columbus made his voyages, the Spaniards thought they had reached the outer limits of the earth. Thus, their motto was "Ne Plus Ultra," which means, "No more beyond." The word being torn away by the lion was "Ne" or "No," making it read "Plus Ultra." Columbus had proved that there was indeed "more beyond."
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
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I'm Raoul Nolan and I approve of this message!
05 October 2008
From the Quote of the Week Files, October 6, 2008
Hello Everybody and Welcome to the Quote of the Week. Did you know that the Quote of the Week is Cruelty Free? I do not test the Quote of the Week on innocent lab animals. Enjoy this week's quote!
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"There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so --now -- knowing all that you know from where you now stand, now what do you want? The answers are now coming forth to you. Go forth in joy, and get on with it."
Abraham Hicks
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A Recycled Question of the Week Classic...
When the bottom falls out of your life, is that the problem or is it the point?
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
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"There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so --now -- knowing all that you know from where you now stand, now what do you want? The answers are now coming forth to you. Go forth in joy, and get on with it."
Abraham Hicks
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A Recycled Question of the Week Classic...
When the bottom falls out of your life, is that the problem or is it the point?
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
From the Quote of Week Files, September 29, 2008
Step out of the chaos as you refresh, reawaken and rediscover yourself with a motivational and inspirational thought with today's Quote of the Week!
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"Our time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. "
Steve Jobs
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
Swedish Proverb
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you.
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"Our time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. "
Steve Jobs
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
Swedish Proverb
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you.
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