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“We hold on so tightly that our hands are unavailable to reach out for the happiness we could gain by letting go.” quote by M. J. Ryan — Download Open image

“We hold on so tightly that our hands are unavailable to reach out for the happiness we could gain by letting go.”

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Gratitude is a feeling of fullness, a recognition of the heart of what we are receiving in this moment.

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Spiritual leaders teach that waking up is a process, that it doesn't just happen once and for all, but must occur again and again when we realize we have forgotten the miracle of being alive, and in recognizing our forgetfulness, we wake to the miracle once again. In the moments we are awake to the wonder of simply being alive,…

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Here's a practice for dealing with envy...each time you find yourself envious of someone...ask yourself, "What is there that I am noticing in the other person that I want to find in myself?"...If it's money, is it the freedom? The cance to play that money buys? A sense of security? Whatever it is-more play, a sense of security, free time-you…

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There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny…

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,…

Simone de Beauvoir

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Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle…

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

Frederick Douglass

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Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

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There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle,…

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose

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