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ourselves are and may become. --URSULA K. LEGUIN
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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. --GEORGE ELIOT
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Spring cleaning can also be psychological, a time-out to confront the emotional clutter that has accumulated in your mental closet," writer Abigail Trafford recommends."
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Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality. --ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER
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To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse--that's quite a task. --ETTY HILLESUM
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tending to household details is a centering activity equivalent to meditation,
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grounded in the midst of outer chaos, disorder, or ordinary, everyday bustle.
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Better one good thing that is, rather than two good things that were, or three good things that might never come to pass.
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Autumn to winter, winter to spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall-- So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift, we know not that we move. --DINAH MULOCK CRAIK Since ancient times, September has been viewed as the beginning of the new year, a time for reflection and resolution.
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The love of words, the bonds of home and family, and her spirit of adventure.
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In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need. --HANNAH SENESH
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Perhaps the heart of our melancholy is that we miss the woman we were meant to be. We miss our authentic selves.
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The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of [woman]. --JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
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Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste. --PATRICIA HAMPL
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take comfort in what Faith Baldwin tells us: "Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations."
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Our aspirations are our possibilities. --
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Life begets life. Energy creates energy," the famous French actress Sarah Bernhardt reminds us. "It is by spending oneself that we become rich."
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Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts."
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One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that other people will never know about. --ANNE TYLER
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Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
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You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. --SHEILA GRAHAM
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It's easy to be pessimistic about tomorrow when today seems so bleak.
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Each day in the wilderness brings with it the struggle to survive and a heightened awareness of how wonderful it is just to see the sun set and rise again in the morning.
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Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician to compose; the saint, to pray.
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What will you do? Celebrate yourself, find pastimes that make your heart light and your spirit sing.
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open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there.
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Loving and Leaving the Good Life: * Do the best you can, whatever arises. * Be at peace with yourself. * Find a job you enjoy. * Live in simple conditions; housing, food, clothing; get rid of clutter. * Contact nature every day; feel the earth under your feet. * Take physical exercise through hard work; through gardening or walking. * Don't worry; live one day at a time. * Share something every day with someone else; if you live alone, writ..
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive," Robert Louis Stevenson reminds us."
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When this happens we need to remember to treat ourselves kindly. This is the time to trust, not make judgments. Soon the children will go back to school. The company will leave. The work will get completed. The bills will be paid. The quiet moment will come. You'll be able to catch your breath, and then you'll notice that it doesn't hurt anymore. Your creative energy and enthusiasm will return. Once again you'll start to advance confidently..
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None of us can be expected to perform every minute of our lives. But a lot of us might tap into the power, excitement, and glory of Real Life more frequently if we cast ourselves as the leading ladies in our own lives.
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I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June. --L. M. MONTGOMERY June
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. --ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense she has always been the pioneer. --ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
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I remind myself that once upon a time, I trusted my instincts. You did, too. Once upon a time there weren't second and third guesses. It can be that way again. Try to contact the girl you once were. She's all grown up now. She's your authentic self and she's waiting to remind you how beautiful, accomplished, and extraordinary you really are.
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The Gratitude Journal is a polite, daily thank-you note to the Universe
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I ask you to do today is to open "the eyes of your eyes" and give your life another glance.... Then pause for a moment and give thanks. Let your heart awaken to the transforming power of gratefulness. SIMPLE ABUNDANCE JANUARY13"
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You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.
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Turning away from the world and toward your own happiness is the path of authenticity.
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Seek not outside yourself, heaven is within. --MARY LOU COOK
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Don't blame yourself for bad choices. Do attempt to make better ones. Most of our problems in handling money stem from unexamined patterns rather than from uncontrollable urges.
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Necessities, Comforts, Wants, Indulgences, Extravagances, Insanity.
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My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move! --EDMUND WALLER
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The thirteenth-century German mystic Meister Eckehart believed, "If the only prayer you ever say in your life is 'ThankYou,' it will be enough."
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For thousands of years the creation of mandalas--circular, geometric designs--has been part of both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions.
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