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“My faith demands - this is not optional - my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I can, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.”
― Jimmy Carter

 

Happiness is not a destination, but it is a way of life.

--Power of Positive Thinking Website

 

The butterfly does not look back at the caterpillar in shame, just as you should not look back at your past in shame. Your past was part of your own transformation.

~~Anthony Guicciardi

 

It is not about your life. You don't have the right to risk someone else's life. And you don't have the right frankly, to take a health care staff and people who are literally putting their lives on the line, and be cavalier or reckless with them.

--Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the COVID 19 virus

 

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in

- George McGovern

 

There is no better exercise for the heart then reaching out and lifting others up

 

— Paraphrase of John Holmes

 

Remember to look up at the stars, and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe. exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.

--Stephen Hawking

 

Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not career, not wealth. not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we are going to survive with dignity.

--Audrey Hepburn

 

Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living.

--Rachel Marie Martin

 

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

--Benjamin Franklin

 

It is not our job to tougher our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world less cruel and less heartless.

-- LR Knost

 

In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go.

--Alice Walker

 

If you never heal from what hurt you, you'll bleed on people who did not cut you

--Wanjiku Kamuyu

 

When love is the way, poverty would become history. When love is the way, the earth will be a sanctuary. When love is the way, we will lay our swords and shields by the riverside, to study war no more. When love is the way, there's plenty of room for God's children.

--Archbishop Michael Curry

 

 

You can be both a masterpiece and a work in progress at the same time.

—Sophia Bush

 

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.

--Dr. Seuss

 

Look at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

--Stephen Hawking

 

Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.

--Albert Einstein

 

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we had when we created them.

--Albert Einstein

 

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.

--Albert Einstein

 

Logic will get you from A to B. Creativity will get you everywhere.

--Albert Einstein

 

 

"A calm and humble life will bring more happiness than the pursuit of success and the constant restlessness that comes with it". Albert Einstein

 

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you mist keep moving forward.- Paraphrase of Albert Einstein.

 

I abide by the theory that chocolate slows down the aging process. It may not be true, but why take the chance. Author unknown.

 

I am not over weight. I am chocolate enriched. Author unknown.

 

Never be a prisoner of your past. It was merely a lesson- not a life sentence--

From the web site www.tinybuddha.com

 

The Fear is Real, but so is Hope- as seen in a store window in Newtown.

 

Never look back, it stops us from looking forwards-- Bette Midler

 

“I think it pi**es God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple