Don't let anyone who hasn't been in your shoes

  Tell you how to tie your laces.

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"The angels are nearer than you think.”

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“Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within us.
Angels are watching over you when times are good or stressed.
Their wings wrap gently around you,
Whispering you are loved and blessed.” 
– Blessing 

It's not what you accomplish in life, it's about what you overcome!

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“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Life is Like the Ocean!

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You cannot touch the same water twice because the flow that has passed will never pass again.

Enjoy every moment in life.

Heal the world, make it a better place.

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Heal Heal the World, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race, there are people dying, if you care enough for the living, make a better place for you and for me.

Michael Jackson 

Stay home and save a life!

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The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. Charles Dickens

“You are not immune to or separate from nature's energy and flow. See it, feel it, be it, free it.”

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“Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.” 

― Rasheed Ogunlaru

Moving? Take your memories and leave your old stuff!

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Moving is an opportunity for a fresh start! New friends, New adventures, Fun decorating your new place. Brave souls move forward!   Joan Reese

He who is greedy is always in want.

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"Greed will always leave you dissatisfied because you'll never be able to get everything you desire. Greed never allows you to think you have enough; it always destroys you by making you strive ever harder for more."

 Rabbi Benjamin Blech 

“If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll wait forever.”

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     Persistent lateness is a form of passive aggression.   

    by Joan Reese

The wheels of history are turning towards the light!

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“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” 

― Brene Brown

“The greatest show of all times!”

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“May you Fall in love with October

and all the beauty it brings,

May your life be as colorful as

the turning of the leaves,

On each blessed autumn day” 

― Charmaine J. Forde

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."

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“Give me your tired, your poor, 
Your huddled masses yearning to 
breathe free, 
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. 
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: 
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” 
― Emma Lazarus

Love is a verb!

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“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Beautiful memories are like old friends. They may not always be on your mind, but they are forever in your heart.

The journey of life is more exciting when you unlock your imagination.

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Knowing oneself comes from attending with compassionate curiosity to what is happening within.― Gabor Maté

Brooklyn is the new Manhattan

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I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.  Barry Manilow

“Celebrate your journey of life.”

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“I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.” 

― Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

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Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? 
Virginia Woolf

“Whatever gets you through the night”

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“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” 

― John Lennon

Forgiveness is the final form of love

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You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. 

Lewis B. Smedes

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

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“In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.” 

― Eckhart Tolle

The essential ingredient of change is timing.

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A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.
Gloria Steinem

Dedicated to the union of 

 Chax and Rick

Creativity is God’s gift to us.

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Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness. Wayne Dyer

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

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In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.    Confucius