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“The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.”

- Leonard Nimoy

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“Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.”

- Unknown

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“To the world, you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.”

- Unknown

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“I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness.”

- Mother Teresa

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Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Ancient Native American Proverb

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“The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.”

- Maya Angelou

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Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.

- Chief Seattle, 1854

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“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

- Dale Carnegie

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Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

- Kahlil Gibran

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“You will not be able to give anyone happiness by means of your wealth, so do it by means of a cheerful countenance and good humor.”

- The Prophet Muhammad in Qushayri: al-Risalat al-Qushayriyya

Yesterday began the Islamic holy season of Ramadan. For more information, please consider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan

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The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way in which we use them.

- Unknown

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And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

- Anais Nin

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Words which come from the heart enter the heart.

- Moses Ibn Ezra, "Shirat Yisrael"

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Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

- Richard Bach

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“When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'”

- Sydney J. Harris

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“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”

- Abraham Lincoln

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“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”

- Helen Keller

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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

- Mother Teresa

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If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.

- Chinese Proverb

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“Solidarity does not require self-sacrifice, but an enlargement of the self to include community with others.”

- Sharon Welch, The Feminist Ethic of Risk

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“A banged up fiddle in the hands of a truly inspired musician evokes more heart than a Stradivarius in the hands of a pretender.”

– David Deida

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May the stars carry your sadness away,
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,
May hope forever wipe away your tears,
And, above all, may silence make you strong.
- Chief Dan George

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“There are only two ways of spreading light -- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

- Edith Wharton, American novelist (1862-1937)

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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

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Lord, bless us with good-natured companions and children that may be a source of delight to our eyes.

- From the prayer book “Al-Hizbul-A'zam”

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The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

- Galatians 5:6

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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

- Yiddish proverb

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“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

- Victor Hugo

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“The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.”

- Oscar Wilde

Pictured above is “Relativity” by M.C. Escher