Taking time

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Nothing really important in life is done instantaneously.  The instantaneous is about satisfaction, not about quality.

Joan Chittister, Welcome to the Wisdom of the World And Its Meaning for You

Seeing the invisible

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Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

Frank Gaines

Example

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Example is not the main thing in influencing others.  It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

All your heart

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Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

Change

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When the way comes to an end, then change –

having changed, you pass through.

The I Ching

Purpose of Life

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The purpose of life is life.

Karl Lagerfeld

Hope

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The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it.

Harvey Milk

Alone

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Alone, I have seen many marvelous things, none of which were true.

African proverb

Giving

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When I give, I give myself.

Walt Whitman

Where we came from

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Unless we understand and cultivate what each of us had inherited from wherever we came from, we could not really give the world back everything it needed to find in us.

Joan Chittister

You

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You can look the whole world over and never find anyone more deserving of love than yourself.

Buddha

Beginning & End

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The beginning and the end reach out their hands to each other.

Chinese proverb

The single greatest failure

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The single greatest failure of the Canadian experiment, so far, has been our inability to normalize – that is, to internalize consciously – the First Nations as the senior founding pillar of our civilization.

John Ralston Saul, A Fair Country: Telling Truths about Canada

We are

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We are more than our issues.

Sandra Laronde, First Nations person in Canada

Our Cries

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From inside those walls
no one outside heard our cries:
when we left,
no one heard our cries from within.

Indian Residential School Memorial in Walpole Island, Ontario, Canada

Renunciation

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Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.

Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Tranquility

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Given the fact that both myself and others are exactly the same in not wanting pain,
What difference could there ever be between us,
What reason that I protect myself and not all others?

Shantideva, 8th Century Buddhist Sage

The World Has Changed

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The World Has Changed:

Wake up & smell

The possibility.  ... 
...

The world has changed:

Don't let

Yourself

Remain

Asleep

To

It.

Alice Walker, The World Has Changed

Only being

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No need for words. Only being.

Laura Wright, Quiet Mind, Open Heart: Finding Inner Peace through Reflection, Journaling, and Meditation

Reasoning Deeply

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We reason deeply when we forcibly feel. 

Mary Wollstonecraft