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"Good things as well as bad, you know, are caught by a kind of infection, if you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them."

CS Lewis

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

Always Bring Your Own Sunshine

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine." 

Anthony J. D'Angelo

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I was inspired by all the Survivors

at the Undy 5000 Run Walk this past weekend

(A fund raising event to raise money for 

colon cancer research)

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All these Survivors had this quote 

on the front of their Tee Shirts...

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

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PS ~ Congratulations to Quote of the Week member Ashley Cox who got married this Sunday to Sean Boehm. May they have a marriage full of love and happiness! 

And as Bill and Ted said, 'Be excellent to each other.'

Some Summer Song Lyrics for Celebrating Summer

It's summertime, summertime

Sum-sum-summertime
Summertime, summertime
Sum-sum-summertime
Summertime, summertime
Sum-sum-summertime
Summertime, summertime
Sum-sum-summertime
Summerti-i-me

The Jamies 

"

Cause a little bit of summer's what the whole year's all about

."

John Mayer

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A Reminder...

The year is half over (Yikes!). How are you doing with your Word for the Year?

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Wishing you a most beautiful Summer's day wherever this may find you!

On Resilience

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” 

Robert Jordan

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“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. 

One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. 

Today is the right day to

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 Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.” 

Dalai Lama  

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For it is in Giving that we Receive...

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love,

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

And where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek

to be consoled as to console,

to be understood as to understand,

to be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.” 

Francis of Assisi

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

Balance

“Sadness gives depth. 

Happiness gives height. 

Sadness gives roots. 

Happiness gives branches.

Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, 

and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. 

Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. 

The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots.

In fact, it is always in proportion. 

That’s its balance.” 

Osho

Let Go

 

“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. 

What is it you would let go of today?” 

Mary Manin Morrissey

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Love the Questions of your Life

"

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

"

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

A short quote with a BIG Meaning

"It's a Beautiful Day."

Father Joe Nolan

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This past Sunday the Nolan Family celebrated my Uncle Joe's 95th Birthday along with his 70th anniversary of his ordination to the Priesthood. About 70 cousins, brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, and friends were there to celebrate. The big surprise of the day was when 20 plus members of the Sacred Heart Church Choir (the church where Father Joe retired) came and sang 3 beautiful hymns in his honor. It was a beautiful tribute.

 "It's a Beautiful Day" was a way that he started many of his sermons and had a reputation throughout his parish of carrying that same Beautiful Day attitudethroughout his work.  It was quite apparent that he was an inspiration to the congregation, and is still an inspiration to ALL of his family and friends! 

It was a Beautiful Day!

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

(Now you know why I always end the Quote of the Week with the above statement ~ Thanks, Uncle Joe!)

The Journey

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"Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. 

Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t you 

so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place."

Paul Coelho

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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 Abraham-Hicks

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