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“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”

~ Leo Tolstoy

 

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“You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.”

~ Robert Brault

 

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“Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture.”

~ Kak Sri

 

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“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” 

~ Benjamin Disraeli

 

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“You are looking for God. That is the problem. The God in you is the one who looks.”

- Rumi

 

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“Some pursue happiness, others create it.”

- unknown

 

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“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”

- Johann von Goethe

 

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“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”

- Sydney J. Harris

 

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“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”

- Sigmund Freud

 

This continues to be a spring of severe and damaging weather. Please consider how you can be a neighbor to those in need.

 

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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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“Most [people] pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”

~ Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

 

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“What we are is God’s gift to us.  What we become is our gift to God.”

~Eleanor Powell

 

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“True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.”

~Edward Frederick Halifax

 

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“There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.”

~James Thurber

 

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A smart person learns from their mistakes. A wise person learns from the mistakes of others.

~ unknown

 

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“Nobody trips over mountains.  It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.  Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.”

~ unknown

 

Today is HIV Vaccine Awareness Day. This annual observance is a day to recognize and thank the thousands of volunteers, community members, health professionals, and scientists who are working together to find a safe and effective HIV vaccine. For more information, please go to http://1.usa.gov/lSkWEL

 

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“A [person]'s true wealth is the good [she or] he does in the world.”

- Kahlil Gibran

 

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“If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.”

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 

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“The time is always right to do what is right.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

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“Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.”

- Ruth Ann Schabacker

 

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“Never worry about what to do, simply decide how to be.”

~ Trevor Emdon

 

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“Caring is the essence of nursing.”

~ Jean Watson

 

Today concludes National Nurses Week.  Take the time to offer a word of caring to a nurse!

 

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“No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.”

~ Llewelyn Powys

 

Today (tonight) is National Nightshift Workers Day.  Take a moment to thank those who tend the night!

 

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“Such human qualities as morality, compassion, decency, wisdom and so forth have been the foundations of all civilizations. These qualities must be cultivated and sustained through systematic moral education in a conductive social environment, so that a more humane world may emerge.”

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

 

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It is love that brings happiness to people.

It is love that gives joy to happiness.

My mother didn't give birth to me, that love did.

A hundred blessings and praises to that love.

- Rumi

 

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“Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.”

- Joan Ganz Cooney

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“There's an important difference between giving up and letting go.”

- Jessica Hatchigan

 

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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

- Albert Schweitzer

 

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Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.

- Will Rogers