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“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power.  Then will our world know the blessings of peace.”

~ William Ewart Gladstone

 

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“If you want to study yourself -- look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people -- look into your own heart.”

- Friedrich von Schiller

 

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“If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is... it's not enough.”

- Ann Landers

 

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“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”

- Anne Bradstreet

 

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“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”

- Phillips Brooks

 

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Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;

And give us not to think so far away

As the uncertain harvest; keep us here

All simply in the springing of the year.

- Robert Frost

 

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“A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.”

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

 

Artwork entitled “Breathe” by Laura Crescio, Federal Prison Camp, Greenville, Illinois

 

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“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

- Pablo Picasso

 

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“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

 

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“We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.”

- David Seamans

 

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“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

- John Keats

 

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“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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“An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.”

- David Attenborough

Today is the 40^th annual Earth Day. How can your curiosity make our world better? For more information, please consider http://www.earthday.org/earthday2010

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“Be swift to love, make haste to be kind.”

- Henri Amiel

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“What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.”

- Edgar Z. Friedenberg

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“Wonder is involuntary praise”

- Edward Young

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“Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer.”

- Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

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“Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.”

- Mia Hamm

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“The world is a great book; [one] who never stirs from home, reads only a page.”

- Saint Augustine

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“It takes courage to show your dreams to someone else.”

- Erma Bombeck

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“The tongue is the heart's pen and the mind's messenger.”

- Bahya, Hobot HaLebabot

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I thank God for this most

amazing day;

for the leaping greenly

spirits of trees

and a blue true dream of sky;

and for everything

which is natural, which is

infinite, which is yes.

—e. e. cummings

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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

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Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

~ From the television show “The Wonder Years”

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"Just living isn't enough," said the butterfly, "one must also have freedom, sunshine, and a little flower."

- Hans Christian Anderson

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“It’s easy to make a buck, but hard to make a difference.”

- Tom Brokaw

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“Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter.”

- Bono

In both the Eastern & Western traditions of Christianity, today marks the celebration of Easter.  For more information about this holiday, please consider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter

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“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.”

- Elvis Presley

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“The Divine Presence is everywhere.”

- Hoshaia Rabba

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“I always give much away, and so gather happiness instead of pleasure.”

- Rahel Levin Varnhagen