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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

~ Mortimer Adler

 

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I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

~ Larry Bird

 

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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

~ James Stephens

 

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You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba

 

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You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.

~ Frank Crane

 

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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.

~ Jewish Proverb

 

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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

~ Napoleon Bonaparte

 

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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience.  Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

~ Michel de Montaigne

 

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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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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 cannot be a poet, be the poem.

~ David Carradine

 

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A sunbeam to warm you,

A moonbeam to charm you,

A sheltering angel,

So nothing can harm you.

~ Irish Blessing

 

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The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

~ John Powell

 

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

~ Eric Fromm

 

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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

~ Albert Einstein

 

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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

 

In most Christian traditions, today is the celebration of Christmas. For more information about this holiday, please consider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

 

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I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

~ Mother Teresa

 

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style!

~ Maya Angelou

 

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Today will never come again. Be a blessing.
Be a friend. Encourage someone. Take time to care.
Let your words heal, and not wound.

~Unknown

 

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If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

- Epictetus

 

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Believe in yourself and all that you are.
Know that there is something inside you
that is greater than any obstacle.

~ Christian D. Larson

 

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We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.

~William Arthur Ward

 

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Wisdom begins in wonder.

- Socrates

 

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Adopt the pace of nature:  her secret is patience.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

- Calvin Coolidge

 

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

- Denis Waitley

 

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No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

- Paulo Coelho

 

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.  The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

~ Mark Twain

 

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God has no other hands than ours.

- Dorothee Sölle,

 

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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

~ Khalil Gibran

 

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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 began the 8 night 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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"It's not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you're not."

- Dennis Waitley

 

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi

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I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

~Gen. George S. Patton

 

Pictured above are residents and volunteers in the aftermath of hurricane Sandy

 

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All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!

- Lucy, Peanuts

 

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Attitude is your best weapon against life's most difficult challenges.

~ Dave  Bexfield

 

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When you laugh with others you can't help but bounce a little joy back into your own heart.

~ John Dealey

 

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Happiness is when your heart, mind and soul are aligned in action.

~ Ruchira Agrawal

 

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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

~Maya Angelou

 

Today is World AIDS Day.  For more information about how you can help or statistics, please consider http://www.worldaidscampaign.org/ and http://www.worldaidsday.org/. Also, for testing locations, check out http://www.hivtest.org/.

 

Pictured above are teens sharing at a summer camp for HIV positive kids.

 

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Gratitude.  It turns what we have into enough.

~ unknown

 

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Make it safe for people to disagree with you. You’ll be surprised by how much you can learn.

~ Dr. Rodger Duncan

 

Pictured above is F. W. de Klerk, the last President of apartheid-era South Africa, and Nelson Mandela.

 

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Try not to become a [person] of success but a [person] of value.

~ Albert Einstein

 

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Our attitudes are the crayons that color our world.

~ Allen  Klein

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Your story is not what happens to you in your life; rather it is what you make happen in your life that is your story.

~ Kerri  Zane

 

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Love deeply and believe completely, speak truthfully and listen openly. Pray faithfully and act courageously, share passionately and sleep peacefully.

~ Anna  Taylor

 

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It's not until you have the courage to step off the ledge that you'll realize you've had wings all along.

~ Gail Lynne Goodwin

 

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The only way to get what you want is to risk being uncomfortable. The greater your gratitude for discomfort, the greater the opportunity.

~ Chris  Cade

 

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Each day I am thankful for nights that turned into mornings, friends that turned into family, dreams that turned into reality and likes that turned into love.

~ unknown

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

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Be honest with yourself about how you feel, because only then can you be honest with others about what you need.

~ Miriam Owens

 

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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

 

Today is Universal Children's Day as recognized by the UN to commemorate the passing of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1989.