The self is made, not given. It is a creative and active process of attending a life that must be heard, shaped, seen, said aloud into the world, finally enacted and woven into the lives of others.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
...we spend far too much time and energy contemplating our inadequacies. We forget that we are all perfect in our imperfection.
"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,And how, how rare and strange it is, to findIn a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends...To find a friend who has these qualities,Who has, and givesThose qualities upon which friendship lives." -- T.S. Eliot
"There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living." -- Don Marquis
"What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope.' If you are taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it.'" -- Linda Ellerbee
"Say that blessings come because we let them..." --Karen Harryman
"Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life." -- Marcus Aurelius
"No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness. Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances." -- Paramahansa Yogananda
"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life, to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain..." -- George Eliot
"Be the change you wish to see in the world" - Ghandi
"To love someone deeply gives you strength." -- Lao Tzu
"I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do." -- Anna Howard Shaw
"I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence." -- Saul Bellow
"Happiness depends.../ Less on exterior things than most suppose." -- William Cowper
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O MY HECK! Yay, yay!! Welcome to the blogging world. I love it!! You are the best.
Looking forward to the Kennerly posts. I love your silly brain :)
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