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320f9f6 Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality. --ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Sarah Ban Breathnach
53a2d67 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 Sarah Ban Breathnach
d5c0f61 tending to household details is a centering activity equivalent to meditation, Sarah Ban Breathnach
0415461 grounded in the midst of outer chaos, disorder, or ordinary, everyday bustle. Sarah Ban Breathnach
11027c7 Better one good thing that is, rather than two good things that were, or three good things that might never come to pass. Sarah Ban Breathnach
0f1a5d9 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. Sarah Ban Breathnach
5340479 The love of words, the bonds of home and family, and her spirit of adventure. Sarah Ban Breathnach
3e55963 In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need. --HANNAH SENESH Sarah Ban Breathnach
bfe82bd Perhaps the heart of our melancholy is that we miss the woman we were meant to be. We miss our authentic selves. Sarah Ban Breathnach
808665b The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of [woman]. --JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Sarah Ban Breathnach
c0bf0b3 Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste. --PATRICIA HAMPL Sarah Ban Breathnach
866d19f take comfort in what Faith Baldwin tells us: "Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations." Sarah Ban Breathnach
6d1a1a4 Our aspirations are our possibilities. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
df25d18 Life begets life. Energy creates energy," the famous French actress Sarah Bernhardt reminds us. "It is by spending oneself that we become rich." Sarah Ban Breathnach
a8717e9 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." Sarah Ban Breathnach
e5e359a 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 Sarah Ban Breathnach
f91fa6f Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary. Sarah Ban Breathnach
fec8978 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 Sarah Ban Breathnach
2e29d47 It's easy to be pessimistic about tomorrow when today seems so bleak. Sarah Ban Breathnach
3bc9e4a 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. Sarah Ban Breathnach
06a1440 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. Sarah Ban Breathnach
3934564 What will you do? Celebrate yourself, find pastimes that make your heart light and your spirit sing. Sarah Ban Breathnach
2a3d861 open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there. Sarah Ban Breathnach
5ea3870 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.. Sarah Ban Breathnach
2ed5959 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." Sarah Ban Breathnach
fe0593d Beholding heaven, and feeling hell. Thomas Moore
e833464 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.. Sarah Ban Breathnach
44bc257 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. Sarah Ban Breathnach
c4fb2bc The role of parliaments is crucial in ensuring human rights protection while promoting trade. Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
5773a38 Unilateralism is one of the most serious obstacles to achieving a just world order. Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
e8a4802 We're all black, and we all love to be black, and we all sing from our own hymn sheet. We're all surely black people, but we may be finally approaching a point of human history where you can't talk up or down to us anymore, but only to us. He's talking down to white people--how curious it sounds the other way round! In order to say such a thing, one would have to think collectively of white people, as a people of one mind who speak with one.. Zadie Smith
e1b9496 Finals are not to be played; they are to be won. Alfredo Di Stéfano
a709c65 dobry mezczyzna ma tyle sily, ile potrzebuje wlasciwa kobieta Gregory David Roberts
c75e762 In England, we once had an insulting name for such people: trimmers. In the mid-1600s, a trimmer was any politician who attempted to straddle the reviled middle ground between Cavalier and Roundhead, Parliament and the Crown; to call a man a trimmer was to accuse him of being insufficiently committed to an ideology. Zadie Smith
7415285 Failure is a necessary part of success. Alfredo Di Stéfano
0556ba4 To marry someone with the idea of possessing him or her is to rob that person of the precious endowment of liberty. If that other person is "mine," like a cocktail, then he or she can never make a present of himself or herself." Fulton J. Sheen
17cb9ba love needs no reasons. Sex asks science to defend it; love never asks "Why?" It says, "I love you." Love is its own reason." Fulton J. Sheen
f5ed5ba To marry someone with the idea of possessing him or her is to rob that person of the precious endowment of liberty. If that other person is "mine," like a cocktail, then he or she can never make a present of himself or herself. What I possess I can no longer receive as a gift. You cannot receive a gift of ten dollars if you already have it in your pocket and you own it." Fulton J. Sheen
b5682c5 religious leaders have agreed not to disagree and those beliefs for which some of our ancestors would have died they have melted into a spineless Humanism. Fulton J. Sheen
b340832 As Euripides said: "He is not a lover who does not love forever." Fulton J. Sheen
1b869fe Two principles inspire much of the personal and social dealings of many a citizen in our land: "What can I get out of it?" and "Can I get away with it?" Evil is confused with good, and good is confused with evil. Revolting books against virtue are termed "courageous"; those against morality are advertised as "daring and forward-looking"; and those against God are called "progressive and epoch-making." It has always been the characteristic o.. Fulton J. Sheen
57df31f Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death. The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: "I am Who am." The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: "I am who am not." Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side. The" Fulton J. Sheen
c469e34 In divorce cases, this is called "mental torture" or "domination." Really, it is egocentricity, in which one ego loves itself in the other ego. The I is projected into the Thou and is loved in the Thou. The Thou is not really loved as a person; it is only used as a means to the pleasure of the I. As soon as the other ceases to exhilarate, the so-called love ceases." Fulton J. Sheen
3fc0d4e Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger";" Fulton J. Sheen