SO TRUE

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly....
--Antoine de Saint Exupery

If we look at the world through suspicious or angry eyes, we'll find a world that mirrors our expectations -- a world where tension will mount, arguments will abound, strife will be present where none need be. However, our experiences in some manner bless us, and we'll recognize that if we look upon them with gratitude. Everything in our path is meant for our good and we'll see the good when our hearts act as the eyes for our minds.

When we see with our hearts, our responses to the turmoil around us, the fighting children, the traffic snarls, the angry lovers, will be soft acceptance. When our hearts guide the action we can accept those things we cannot change, and change those we can. And the heart, as the seat of all wisdom, will always know the difference.

When we were children we used to think that when we grew up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable. ~ M. L'Engle

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. ~ Polybius

Anything you cannot relenquish when it has out-lived its usefullness, possesses you. In this materialistic age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. ~ Mildred Lisette Norman

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
--E. E. Cummings

"Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life."

Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us."
— Donald Miller

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"And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time."
— Donald Miller (A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life)

"fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life."
— Donald Miller (A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life)

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Don't pretend to be what you don't intend to be.

To ponder

As a child I walked through the world with wonder and awe.  Each day started with a question and ended with a question.  I had the mind of a beginner. 

Did we get an answer?
Did we learn to sotp asking?
Did we learn something interesting?

Anon.

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Success in life probably has more to do with expressing our uniqueness fully than with suppressing it and trying to resemble everybody else.

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Create your day.

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Success in life probably has more to do with expressing our uniqueness fully than with suppressing it and trying to resemble everybody else.

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Human beings shaer many characteristics.  One of the most important is difference.

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Misery is optional.

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Where we go and what we do advertises what we are.

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We are better than we know.  If we could see it through our lives, perhaps we would be unwilling to settle for less.  ~anon~