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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