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“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.” 

~ Vernon Howard

 

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“It's only a matter of inches, but skipping gets me just that much closer to heaven.”

~ Jessi Lane Adams

 

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“One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.”

~ Michael Cibenko

 

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“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.”

~ Doug Larson

 

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“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.”

~ Rudyard Kipling

 

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“Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

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“Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.”

~ Vincent McNabb

 

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“There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.”

~ Robert Brault

 

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“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”

~ Joan Didion

 

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“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

~ Mark Twain

 

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Ring out the old, ring in the new,

Ring, happy bells, across the snow:

The year is going, let him go;

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 

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“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”

~ Hal Borland

 

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The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.

- Leo Stein

 

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When you are in doubt, be still, and wait; when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage.

So long as mists envelop you, be still; be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists -- as it surely will.

Then act with courage.

 

- Ponca Chief White Eagle

 

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“A critical thing is not to waste a minute of life. Throw yourself whole-heartedly into it. Don't waste a minute and try to make a positive difference in as many other people's lives as possible.”

- Sir Richard Branson

 

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- quote by Elizabeth Foley

 

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“The world was made round so that we would never be able to see too far down the road.”

- Isak Dinesen

 

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“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

~ Charles Dickens

 

For most Western Christians, today is the celebration of Christmas.  For more information, consider: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

 

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In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you.

- Matthew 7:12

 

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“Faith is a passionate intuition.”

 

~ William Wordsworth

 

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“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.”

- Ken Keyes Jr.

 

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“Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.”

~ Eric Hoffer

 

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“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”

-Voltaire

 

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“Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.”

- Anna Lappe

 

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A bend in the road is not the end of the road...unless you fail to make the turn.

- Unknown

 

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“Pray, and let God worry”

- Martin Luther

 

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“Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.”

~ Ramona C. Carroll

 

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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

- Carl Jung

 

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“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.  Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’”

~ William A. Ward

 

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“In every real [person] a child is hidden that wants to play.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

 

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“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”

~ Lewis B. Smedes

 

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“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.  Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

~ Scott Adams

 

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“Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.”

- Michael J. Gelb

 

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“Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

~ Albert Camus

 

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“‘Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights”

- Dag Hammarskjold

 

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“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked”

- Bernard Meltzer

 

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“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, it is the parent of all the others.”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

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“Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.”

- Hardy D. Jackson

 

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“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”

- Hebbel

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“There is no delight in owning anything unshared.”

- Seneca

 

Children's Memorial Hospital is hosting an American Red Cross blood drive today from Noon-7 p.m. at Children's Memorial Research Center, Wolfson Lecture Hall, 2430 N. Halsted

 

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“May you never surrender to the night because light will persist in calling and guiding you.”

- a Hanukkah blessing

 

Yesterday evening was the first day of the Jewish Festival of Hanukkah.  For more information, please consider the following sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanukah

http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday7.htm

 

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“If you are not building rooms where wisdom can be openly spoken, you are building a prison.”

- Shams of Tabriz

 

Artwork by S. Varsha, Age 13, from India for World AIDS Day Poster Contest

 

Today is World AIDS Day.  For more information about how you can help or statistics, please consider http://www.worldaidscampaign.org/.  Also, for free testing locations, check out http://www.aidschicago.org/prevention/testing_sites.php

 

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A smile is something you can't give away. It always comes back to you.

~ Unknown

 

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“There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

- Jawaharlal Nehru

 

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Gratitude consists of being more aware of what you have, than what you don’t.

- Unknown

 

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“I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable.”

- Bob Hope

 

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“A sense of concern for others' well-being brings inner strength and self confidence.”

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

 

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“Forever on Thanksgiving Day The heart will find the pathway home.”

- Wilbur D. Nesbit

 

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To the lamp of love:  may it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial.

~ Unknown

 

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“Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.”

- Crystal Middlemas