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“other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours”

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Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all,…

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“Frequently, when I suggest to people that they detach from a person or problem, they recoil in horror. “Oh, no!” they say. “I could never do that. I love him, or her, too much. I care too much to do that. This problem or person is too important to me. I have to stay attached!” My answer to that is,…

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...the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

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Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.

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“Once they have been affected---once "it" sets in---codependency takes on a life of its own. It is similar to catching pneumonia or picking up a destructive habit. Once you've got it, you've got it. If you want to get rid of it, YOU have to do something to make it go away. It doesn't matter whose fault it is. Your…

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Prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. Prayer changes life. Sometimes an event has been manifested that needs to be stopped, midair. Don't pray just…

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It's not what we don't know that hurts us, people say. It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage.

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“We don’t have to be so afraid of people. They are just people like us.”

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Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

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“I want to thank each person who has the courage to push through and past the set of coping behaviors we’ve come to label as codependency—who learn what it means to take care of themselves. “Nobody taught me how to take care of myself,” a fifty-year-old woman told me recently. “I didn’t have enough money to go to therapy, but…

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Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment

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Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.

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No judge can stop us from praying for our country and I pray that on May 6, millions of Americans will join me in…

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Closing his eyes, he sent up a prayer to anyone who was listening, asking please, for God's sake, stop sending him signals that they were right for each other. He'd read that book, seen the movie, bought the soundtrack, the DVD, the T-shirt, the mug, the bobble-head, and the insider's guide. He knew every reason they could have been lock…

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Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,Reason, a thorn…

Thomas Chatterton

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The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides…

Gregory David Roberts

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Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is…

Maria Montessori

A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home,

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Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

W. H. Auden

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Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best…

Samuel Smiles

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When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence…

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The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart…

Blaise Pascal

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The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the…

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The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. Such imperfections are your guides - valuable, objective, non-judgmental…

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