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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 24, 2012 18:03:58 GMT -5
“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”--Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)
Christopher Robin to Pooh: “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”--A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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"Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life.”--Steve Maraboli
"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."--Thich Nhat Hanh
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 25, 2012 20:17:40 GMT -5
"Dear George: Remember no man is a failure who has friends. P.S. Thanks for the wings! Love, Clarence."--It's A Wonderful Life, 1946
"Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. And to yourself, respect."--Unknown
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"If you have trouble loving yourself, imagine that everyone in the world is a hungry soul whose life has been imperfect. Like you, they had imperfect parents. Like you, tragedies and difficulties befell them. If you could hear each person's story, you would probably be moved to tears and want to reach out and embrace that person. You would want to tell them that in spite of everything they've gone through, they have great value."--Daphne Rose Kingma
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Post by ramatama on Dec 26, 2012 8:32:21 GMT -5
aaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwww all of these quotes move me so. Thank you once again!
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Post by phoenixcat on Dec 26, 2012 9:19:21 GMT -5
Thanks DD - - I don't always post but I ALWAYS read! And, enjoy.... and ponder ........ and nod my head in agreement...... PC
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 26, 2012 14:47:25 GMT -5
"Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand."--Robert Brault"The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head."--Unknown"Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."--Oliver Wendell Holmes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others. But do not be daunted, do whatever it is because you know within it is right for you."--Eileen Caddy “Don't look for society to give you permission to be yourself.”--Steve Maraboli"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are."--Jim Morrison Ramatama and Phoenixcat, thank you so much for letting me know how much you like this thread! I always hope what I post will inspire someone, cheer someone up or give someone a chuckle, so it's great to hear that you're reading and enjoying the quotes. Thanks again for taking the time to check in--you really made my day!
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Post by CourageouslyLion SeeksSerenity on Dec 27, 2012 3:53:58 GMT -5
Offering others understanding and compassion changes how we perceive the world around us on a daily basis. Our acts of love inspire love from others. What we send out to the people who share our path changes, ever so subtly, the complexion of each life we touch. In fact, the whole world is changed by even the tiniest of acts.
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Dragoness ... That's what you've done for us. Thank you!
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Post by Freedom on Dec 27, 2012 13:58:56 GMT -5
Offering others understanding and compassion changes how we perceive the world around us on a daily basis. Our acts of love inspire love from others. What we send out to the people who share our path changes, ever so subtly, the complexion of each life we touch. In fact, the whole world is changed by even the tiniest of acts.
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Dragoness ... That's what you've done for us. Thank you! Yes.
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Post by Freedom on Dec 27, 2012 14:00:22 GMT -5
“Don't look for society to give you permission to be yourself.”--Steve Maraboli (((((DDragon)))))
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 28, 2012 0:48:29 GMT -5
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."--Kahlil Gibran"We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's."--Robert Brault"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."--Bernard Meltzer----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."--Johann von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”--Michel de Montaigne"He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise." --Lao-tzu, Tao te Ching Lioness, thank you so very much for such a wonderful compliment in such a beautiful quote. (And Freedom, thank you for seconding her lovely post. ) To know that the quotes I've posted have helped anyone or brightened someone's day in even the smallest way makes me very happy. Again, a big hug and a big "thank you" for taking the time to make my day brighter.
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Post by wynken on Dec 28, 2012 1:31:00 GMT -5
ty Dragon I am just back from a journey to find out about Stories about Rabbi Zusha of Hanipol from wikipedia Whoooa - lessons there in gratitude.
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 29, 2012 0:51:41 GMT -5
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."--Ralph Waldo Emerson"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”--Charles Caleb Colton "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."--Euripides"There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul."--Edith Wharton----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Self-compassion rather than self-esteem may be the key to unlocking your potential for greatness. Self-compassion is a willingness to look at mistakes with understanding--embracing the fact that to err is indeed human."--Heidi Grant Halvorson“You are not broken. You are not a problem to be solved. Solving your 'problem,' whatever you perceive your problem or problems to be, is not the key to happiness.”--Golda Poretsky Wynken, I agree--there are truly some great lessons in gratitude when studying the life of Rabbi Zusha. Looking at the lives of others can really put so much in perspective...
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Post by CourageouslyLion SeeksSerenity on Dec 29, 2012 10:22:38 GMT -5
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A bunch of individual quotes from Rumi
Don't look at your form, however ugly or beautiful. Look at Love and at the aim of your quest...
Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.
Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?
You are searching the world for treasure, but the real treasure is yourself.
Who am I in the midst of all this thought traffic?
Why lay yourself on the torture's rack of the past and future?
Don't regret what's happened. If it's in the past, let it go. Don't even remember it!
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Remember, the entrance to sanctuary is inside you.
Your task is not to seek for love, but to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
The temple of love is not Love itself. True Love is the treasure, not the walls around it.
Nothing can nourish the soul but Light.
If Light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to Light.
Lose yourself. Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own Light, as radiant as the full moon.
Has anyone ever produced a mirror of mud and straw? Yet clean away the mud and straw, and a mirror might be revealed.
As you live deeper in the Heart, the mirror gets clearer and cleaner.
You have no need to go anywhere -- journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies, and bathe in the splendor of your own Light.
Love is the vital core of the soul. And of all you see, only Love is infinite.
We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
-- (Each of the above lines is a separate quote from Rumi)
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 29, 2012 22:20:36 GMT -5
"A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be."--Douglas Pagels“A faithful friend is a strong defense and he that hath found him hath found a treasure.”--Louisa May Alcott"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them."--Francesco Guicciardini"The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."--Edward Everett Hale“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”--Tennessee Williams----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."--Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."--Raymond Hull“Be content to seem what you really are.”--Marcus Aurelius Lioness, thank you so much for all the wonderful quotes from Rumi. I really like all of them, but I love the one about laying on "torture's rack of the past and future." It seems as if so many of us do that very thing, making our lives so much more difficult. I appreciate you taking the time to share those quotes on the thread.
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 31, 2012 0:33:11 GMT -5
“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”--Albert Camus
"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light.”--Helen Keller
"The road to a friend's house is never too long."--Danish proverb
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."--Robert Southey
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"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble."--Samuel Johnson
“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”--Coco Chanel, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman
"If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be."--Robert Brault
"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."--Joseph Campbell
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Jan 1, 2013 0:07:51 GMT -5
"A friend is a present you give to yourself."--Robert Louis Stevenson
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same."--Flavia Weedn, Forever
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive."--Anäis Nin
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."--Henry Ford
"Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends."--Unknown
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“Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone’s gift--yours and mine.”--Barbara Sher
“You simply cannot give to the world all that you have to give to the world if you do not remain true to your own 'selfish' desires. You have a unique set of precious values that can only be fulfilled by pursuing what drives you the most: your passions and dreams. Could Thomas Edison have tended to the downtrodden as Mother Teresa did? Could Albert Einstein have preached salvation as Martin Luther King Jr. did? Could Abraham Lincoln have built cars like Henry Ford? Always, the masses benefit from the individuals who insist on marching to the beat of their own drummer.”--Mike Dooley
“You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?”--Dr. Seuss
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