Inspiring Photos, Quotes, and Videos

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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.~ Paul Bourget

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"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

~ Margaret Atwood

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"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking."

~ Jessamyn West

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“As you think so shall you be!  Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind.

Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts.

 Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind.

Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive.  However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior.

Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.”

~ Wayne Dyer

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The Whirlpool Galaxy, One Moment in Time

“Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of things, but is itself undisclosed.”

~ Charles Caleb Colton 

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"Individually we are one drop, together we are an ocean." ~ Ryunosuke Satoro

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"Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me."

Look what happens with a love like that,
it lights the whole sky."
~ Hafiz (Persian Poet, circa 1300's)

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“In their role as celestial servants to humans on earth, angels act variously as guardians, guides, teachers, truth-givers and comforters, protectors of the righteous, punishers of the wicked, and more.”

 ~ David Connolly

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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
 
~ from A Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson

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"The wisdom of the ages teaches that each individual, whether believer or not, good or bad, old or young, sick or well, rich or poor, has a personal guardian angel with him or her at every moment if life's journey."

~ Janice T. Connell

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"Children often have imaginary playmates.  I suspect that half of them are really their guardian angels."

~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

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“Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get”

~ H. Jackson Brown

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"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

Care for those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices no more easily made.

And give, give in any way you can, of whatever you posses. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither.

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace."

~ Kent Nerburn