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"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."    ~ Dr. Seuss

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". . . the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is . . . not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently."

~ Pema Chodron

Pema Chodron is an American Buddhist nun and resident teacher at Gampo Abbey, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery in North America established for Westerners. She has authored many bestsellers, including Comfortable With Uncertainty, The Wisdom of No Escape, Start Where You Are, and When Things Fall Apart. Click here for more information.

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"That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain."

~ Francis Bacon 1561-1626
British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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"Your capacity for loving another person depends entirely on your capacity for loving yourself, for taking care of yourself."

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."

~ Buddha

The Hand of Buddha Art Poster Print by Hugh Sitton

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"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

~ Albert Camus

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"The summer night is like a perfection of thought."

~ Wallace Stevens

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"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."

~ Oscar Wilde

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"Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow."

~ Sakyong Mipham

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"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass."

~ George Herbert

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"There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them."

~ Andre Gide

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"A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us."

~ Pema Chodron

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"Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss. "

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"Smile, breathe and go slowly."

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

~ Buddha

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"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. "

~ Deepak Chopra

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"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

~ John Muir

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"For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. "

~ Lily Tomlin

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"We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood."

~ William James
(1842–1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher

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"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was 'thank you,' that would suffice."

~ Meister Eckhart

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"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."

~ Eric Hoffer
Reflections On The Human Condition

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"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition."

~ Carl Sagan

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"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."

~ Sydney J. Harris

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"Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused."

~ Anonymous

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"You may frustrate your potential. You may identify with that which is less than what you can be. But within you now and always is the unborn possibility of a limitless experience of inner stability and outer treasure, and yours is the privilege of giving birth to it. And you will, if you can believe."

~ Eric Butterworth