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Teri · Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2020 5:33 am Post subject:

Happiness doesn't always come in pink. Learn to appreciate the rainbow. ~Richelle E. Goodrich

JohnT · Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2020 10:03 pm Post subject:

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
He was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States.

Teri · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 7:29 am Post subject:

Violet inclines to purple, and so seems to conceal under an ashy blue the pride and passion of red. ~Charles Blanc

JohnT · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:14 pm Post subject:

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

Thich Nhat Hanh (born 1926)
He is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist.

Teri · Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 7:05 am Post subject:

It takes three springs to make one leap year. ~The Comic Almanack

JohnT · Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 10:58 pm Post subject:

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

-- Wayne Dyer (1940 - 2015) was an American self-help author and a motivational speaker.

Teri · Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 6:52 am Post subject:

Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

JohnT · Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 7:38 am Post subject:

Mercy is the dynamite that blows down walls.

-- quoted in 'The Two Popes" on Netflix.
This is a theatrical, versus historical quote.

Teri · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 6:50 am Post subject:

I decided there's two types of people in the world — people who are meant to live their life to the fullest, and people who are meant to read about those people. I'm the latter. ~Tim Hobert (Brick, The Middle)

JohnT · Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 6:06 am Post subject:

"The glory of God is man fully alive."

-- attributed to St. Ireneaus, early Christian saint (circa 130 AD - 202 AD)

Teri · Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 6:38 am Post subject:

When I stopped to pay attention to where my breathing was deep and settled, the truth began to emerge from the mist. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon

Teri · Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 6:38 am Post subject:

My heart pulsates like butterflies on a fine day. ~Lorraine Skylark

JohnT · Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 5:32 pm Post subject:

“First. think
Second. believe
Third. dream
Fourth. dare”

― Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)
Walter Elias Disney was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry. In a recent book, "Florida Made", Disney got credit for being the second most influential person in Florida's story (after Henry Flagler, before Fidel Castro)

Teri · Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 5:10 am Post subject:

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see. ~Eleanor Farjeon

JohnT · Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:08 pm Post subject:

“Reading... a vacation for the mind....”

― Dave Barry (born 1947)
David McAlister Barry is an American author and Pulitzer-prize winning columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005.