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Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

~ Jean Giraudoux

 

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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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God, give us grace to accept with serenity

the things that cannot be changed,

Courage to change the things

which should be changed,

and the Wisdom to distinguish

the one from the other.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

 

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Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom.

~ Adlai Stevenson

 

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Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.

~ Richard Whately

 

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The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.

~ unknown

 

Best wishes to all those who are running the Chicago Marathon today… especially those on the Lurie Children’s Hospital team!!!

 

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Delicious autumn!  My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

~ George Eliot

 

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Great tranquility of heart is [one] who cares for neither praise nor blame.

~Thomas à Kempis

 

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Words are the guides to acts; the mouth makes the first move.

- Rabbi Leon da Modena

 

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Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

- John A. Morrison

 

 

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You can’t get to happily ever after without turning the page.

~ Doug Kirchhofer

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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

~ Albert Einstein

 

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Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

~ Brian Tracy

 

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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

- Henry David Thoreau

 

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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

~ Phillips Brooks

 

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Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.

~ William Arthur Ward

 

Pictured above is the Bronzeville Community Garden.  For more information on how you can get involved in a community garden, check out http://greennetchicago.org/gardens/community-gardens

 

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When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

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If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

- Morris West

 

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

- Mahatma Gandhi

 

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You have two hands. One to help yourself, the second to help others.

- Unknown