Alphonse Marie De La Martine Quotes

"Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart." ~Alphonse Marie de la Martine

"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated." ~Alphonse Marie de la Martine

Alphonse Karr Quotes

"Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has." ~Alphonse Karr

"Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end." ~Alphonse Karr

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses." ~Alphonse Karr

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Dottie Walters - temporary

"Failure, I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks." ~Dottie Walters

John Ciardi - moderation

"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation." ~John Ciardi

Roger Miller - rain

"Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet." ~Roger Miller

Mark Haddon - Rain

“On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.” ~Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Elizabeth Bishop Quotes- art tmr

"The art of losing isn't hard to master
so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster." ~E. Bishop

"Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.” — Elizabeth Bishop

Quotes from HEALING FOREST

"Listen to the sounds of the forest. Count how many different sounds you can hear. Can you hear the stillness that holds all the sounds?" ~Healing Forest

"One moment of patience in a moment of anger can save a thousand moments of regret." ~Healing Forest

"Pause, turn your face to the sun and take a deep breath. Be mindful of small blessings and let them warm you like a cosy blanket." ~Healing Forest

"Sometimes a poem needs no words." ~Healing Forest

"Songs of the mountain stream, reminding us to stay wild." ~Healing Forest

"Stand still in nature. Find things one can see but not hear. Find things one can hear but not see." ~Healing Forest

"The unknown, unexplained beauty of Earth points us to the unexplored beauty within." ~Healing Forest

"Whatever season of life you are in, there is always beauty to be found." ~Healing Forest

"When faced with adverse conditions many plants … go into a dormant mode. While outer leaves may be shed, life still lurks in the roots and the the core of the plants." ~Healing Forest

POETRY, HAIKU and VERSE


"Nature's song
Learn to listen
Listen to learn."
~Healing Forest

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"Stay warm
Colour your heart
With love"
~Healing Forest

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WILD SOUL

Life is short, don't live it in a box
Add a little wildness to your soul

A flame to fire your ideas
A cloud to catch your dreams

A lake to lose your worries
A forest to find your calm

Don't be stuck, staring at a box
Add a little wildness to your soul

A flower to fill your heart
A stream to silence your head

A breeze to blow in joy
A tree to teach you love

To nature we return
Resting in a box

Before you go
Add a little wildness to your soul.

~ND, Healing Forest

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TEA SIPPING

Take a thermos full of tea to the forest,
Find a quiet spot to sip your cup of tea slowly

Being present to the sights, sounds,
Scents of the forest as you taste your tea
Engages all the senses.

It creates a sense of humanity within.

~Healing Forest

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FOREST MAGIC
(A poem from Finland)

The magic of the forest
Lies in its mysteries

Miracles of life
In spirals of time

Illusions of change
In circles of seasons

I hear it in the silence
I see it in the invisible

In pools of reflection
And flights of imagination

I let the forest magic
Weave through my mind

The more I search
The less I find

The less I try
The more I heal

And when I leave
I carry
The greatest magic of all

A forest in me.

~ND, Healing Forest

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Robert Fripp - wine

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence." ~Robert Fripp

RHONDA BYRNE Quotes

"Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never-ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for." ~Rhonda Byrne 

"Decide what you want ... believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, believe it's possible for you." ~Rhonda Byrne

"Do not worry at all about negative thoughts, and do not try to control them. All you have to do is begin to think good thoughts each day. Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day. As you begin to think good thoughts you will attract more and more good thoughts, and eventually the good thoughts will wipe out the negative thoughts altogether." ~Rhonda Byrne

"Every positive step that you take is transforming your being. With the consistent use of your will and steady determined practice of what you have learned, you will be amazed at how fast transformation takes place. Transformation of your being brings a peace and a joy that is indescribable. You have to experience it to know it, but once you do, you will never go back." ~Rhonda Byrne

"Every single day, no matter who you meet in the day - friends, family, work colleagues, strangers - give joy to them. Give a smile or a compliment or kind words or kind actions, but give joy! Do your best to make sure that every single person you meet has a better day because they saw you. This might sound like it is not connected with you and your life, but believe me it is inseparably connected through cosmic law." ~Rhonda Byrne

"As you give joy to every person you meet, you bring joy to YOU. The more you can give joy to others, the more you will bring the joy back to you." "May the joy be with you," ~Rhonda Byrne , Australian television writer and producer, best known for her New Thought works, The Secret.

"Every single relationship you have is a reflection of how you feel inside about you. You are a magnet attracting to you all things, via the signal you are emitting through your thoughts and feelings. Every relationship you have and every interaction with every person, is a reflection of your own thoughts and feelings in that very moment." ~Rhonda Byrne, Positive Thoughts

"If you are criticising, you're not being grateful. If you're blaming, you're not being grateful. If you're complaining. You're not being grateful." ~Rhonda Byrne

"Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you." ~Rhonda Byrne

"The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake." ~Rhonda Byrne

"There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer." ~Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

"Think good thoughts. Speak good words. Take good actions." ~Rhonda Byrne

"To create the life of your dreams, the time has come for you to love You. Focus on Your joy. Do all the things that make You feel good. Love You, inside and out. Everything will change in your life, when you change the inside of you. Allow the Universe to give you every good thing you deserve, by being a magnet to them all. To be a magnet for every single thing you deserve, you must be a magnet of love." ~Rhonda Byrne

"Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people who show you love and respect." ~Rhonda Byrne

"Whatever big thing you are asking for, consider having the celebration NOW - as though you have received it already. your actions are immensely powerful in making things materialize!" ~Rhonda Byrne

"You are following your bliss when you make a decision to do something that makes you feel really good every day." ~Rhonda Byrne

"Your happiness depends upon your very own thoughts. No one else can think your thoughts for you. Deliberately think thoughts of what you want because they're the thoughts that make you happy." ~Rhonda Byrne

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Thought for Today - Happiness

"Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey. Happiness is not tomorrow, it is now. Happiness is not a dependency, it is a decision. Happiness is what you are, not what you have." ~Thought for Today-UK

Bob Moawad - amazing journey

"The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins." ~Bob Moawad

AESOP Quotes

"A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise." ~Aesop

"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." ~Aesop

"Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool." ~Aesop from String Too Short to Tie

"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."~Aesop

"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another." ~Aesop

"In quarreling about the shadow, we often lose the substance." ~Aesop

"In union there is strength" ~Aesop

"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds." ~Aesop

“It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as welł as pray." ~Aesop

“Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.” ~Aesop, Aesop's Fables

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted" ~Aesop

"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth." ~Aesop

"There is always someone worse off than yourself." ~Aesop

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to office." ~Aesop

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Pilgrims - future

“The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.” ~Pilgrims

Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes

"A day may sink or save a realm." ~Lord Alfred Tennyson

"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." ~Lord Alfred Tennyson

"And feet like sunny gems on an English green." ~Lord Alfred Tennyson on Feet

"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier." ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"I am a part of all that I have met." ~Lord Alfred Tennyson

"In the spring, a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever." ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Little flower, but if I could understand what you are, root and all in all, I should know what God and man is." ~Tennyson

"Love can vanquish death." ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Love is the only gold." -Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Love will conquer at the last." ~Lord Alfred Tennyson

"My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure." ~ ~Lord Alfred Tennyson

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Anne Lamott Quotes

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes... including you." ~Anne Lamott

"And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore." ~Ann Lamott

“As we develop love, appreciation, and forgiveness for others over time, we may accidentally develop those things toward ourselves, too.” ~Anne Lamott

"Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right.  Just DANCE." ~Anne Lamott

"Ever since I was a kid, I've thought that there was something noble and mysterious about writing, about the people who could do it well, who could create a world as if they were little gods or sorcerers. And you know what? I still do." ~Anne Lammot

"Everyone thinks bad thoughts. Everyone, even the most seemingly well-balanced, serene, loveliest people sometimes have icky, repulsive thoughts. To me, this is excellent news. It means that we are all in the same boat, mostly loving and helpful and creative, but every so often? Not so much. This does not mean you are not okay. To the contrary, this means you are real, and deeply human, which is who we were born to be. " ~Anne-Lamott

"Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns." ~Anne Lamott

"Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behaviour. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides." ~Anne Lamott

"I am going to try to pay attention to the spring, to look around at all the flowers and the trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen." ~Anne Lamott

"I do not at all understand the mystery of grace-only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us." ~Anne Lamott

"I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world—present and in awe." ~Anne Lamott

"Joy is the best makeup." ~Anne Lamott

"...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you." ~Ann Lamott

"Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath." ~Anne Lamott

“People help you, or you help them, and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.” ~Anne Lamott

"Perfection is shallow, unreal an fatally uninteresting." ~Ann Lamott

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the insane belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die and a lot of people who aren’t even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they’re doing it. Besides, perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness, playfulness and life force." ~Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"People tend to look at successful writers, writers who are getting their books published and maybe even doing well financially, and think that they sit down at their desks every morning feeling like a million dollars, feeling great about who they are and how much talent they have and what a great story they have to tell; that they take in a few deep breaths, push back their sleeves, roll their necks a few times to get all the cricks out, and dive in, typing fully formed passages as fast as a court reporter...... But this is just the fantasy of the uninitiated. I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we don’t like her very much. Very few writers know what they’re saying until they’ve done it." ~Anne Lamott

"The most profound thing we can offer to our children is our own healing." ~Anne Lamott

"The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day." ~Anne Lamott

"The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines." ~Anne Lamott

"There are three prayers: Thanks, Help and Wow! and it occurs to me that when these are said full-heartedly they too indicate a pure and focused attention on what is within or around us." ~Anne Lamott

“To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself, for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.” ~Anne Lamott

“We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.” ~Anne Lamott

"Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over." ~Anne Lamott

"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul." ~Anne Lamott

"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again." ~Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the  action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.” ~Anne Lamott

"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better." ~Anne Lammot 

"You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly - that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp." ~Anne Lamott

“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.” ~Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. She is also a progressive political activist, public speaker, and writing teacher. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, her nonfiction works are largely autobiographical. Wikipedia

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Tony Gaskins Quotes

"A woman can always tell if a man loves her by how much time he’s willing to invest. Money spent is meaningless but time spent is priceless." ~Tony A. Gaskins Jr.

"If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change." ~Tony Gaskins

"If you don't build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs." ~Tony Gaskins

"If you don't risk to build your own dreams, then someone will hire you to build theirs." ~Tony Gaskins 

"Never speak from a place of hate, jealousy, anger, or insecurity. Evaluate your words before you let them leave your lips. Sometimes it's best to be quiet." ~Tony A. Gaskins Jr.

"Not everyone will have the heart you have. Not everyone will appreciate you and what you do for them. Sometimes, it won’t be easy having a kind heart in a cruel world. Be prepared." ~Tony Gaskins

"There's about to be a shift in your life. Get ready for your BLESSINGS. You've been through enough and a breakthrough is on the way. Don't doubt it, just claim it!" ~Tony Gaskins

"To be content does not mean that you don't desire more, it means you're thankful for what you have and patient for what's to come." ~Tony Gaskins

"You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop and what you reinforce." ~Tony Gaskins

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Maori Proverb - sun and shadows

Courtesy by Precy Bierbaum

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows follow behind you" ~Maori Proverb

Spectacular Sunflowers

The sunflower is a potent symbol of summer and needs little embellishment. The large bright yellow and deep brown heads have a richness that makes great impact when the flowers are arranged in a simple, earthy-coloured pitcher.
Choose four sunflowers, and cut one stem to a suitable length to fit in the pitcher. Place this in the jug and arrange green seed heads around the sunflower, adding three purple flowers for contrast. Push the remaining sunflowers into florist's foam contained in a small, shallow vase and place at the foot of the pitcher.

Source: Card
Floral arrangement created by Deena Beverly

Vera Nazarian Quotes

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"Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower" ~Vera Nazarian

"Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive." ~Vera Nazarian

"Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.” ~Vera Nazarian

“When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.” ~Vera Nazarian

"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow
In more light." ~Vera Nazarian

"Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand?...Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light....There you go . . . That was easy!" ~Vera Nazarian

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George Macauley Trevelyan Quotes

"After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value." ~George Macauley Trevelyan

"Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." ~G. M. Trevelyan

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SIMONE WEIL Quotes

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"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." ~Simone Weil 

"Even if your efforts seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood your soul." ~Simone Weil (1910-1943)

“𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑎 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑘𝑦.

𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ.”

~𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗹, 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝘆 “𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆”

“Man’s greatness is always to recreate his life, to recreate what is given to him, to fashion that very thing which he undergoes. Through work he produces his own natural existence. Through science he recreates the universe by means of symbols. Through art he recreates the alliance between his body and his soul.”

~Simone Weil, “The Mysticism of Work”

"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." ~Simone Weil

"The joy of meeting and the sorrow of separation … we should welcome these gifts … with our whole soul, and experience to the full, and with the same gratitude, all the sweetness or bitterness as the case may be. Meeting and separation are two forms of friendship that contain the same good, in the one case through pleasure and in the other through sorrow… Soon there will be distance between us. Let us love this distance which is wholly woven of friendship, for those who do not love each other are not separated." ~Simone Weil

"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognised need of he human soul." ~Simone Weil

BIO

𝐒𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐈𝐋 (1909-1943) is one of the most important thinkers of the modern period. The distinctive feature of her work is the indissoluble link she makes between the theory and practice of both politics and religion and her translation of thought into action. A brilliant philosopher and mathematician, her life represents a quest for justice and balance in both the academic and the practical spheres. A scholar of deep and wide erudition, she became during the thirties an inspired teacher and activist. So as to experience physical labour at first hand, she spent almost two years as a car factory worker soon after the Front Populaire and later became a fighter in the Spanish Civil War. When her home city of Paris was occupied, she joined the Resistance in the South of France and became for a time an agricultural labourer before acceding to her parents’ wish to escape Nazi persecution of the Jews by fleeing to New York. Leaving America, she joined the Free French in London where, frustrated by the exclusively intellectual nature of the work delegated to her, and weakened by a number of physical and emotional factors, she contracted tuberculosis and died in a Kentish sanatorium at the age of thirty-four. The bulk of her voluminous oeuvre was published postumously.

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Roger Dawson - energy and courage

"Within each of us is a hidden store of energy. Energy we can release to compete in the marathon of life. Within each of us is a hidden store of courage, courage to give us the strength to face any challenge. Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost." ~Roger Dawson

Albert Ellis Quotes

“A life of ease and avoidance of responsibility may often be temporarily satisfying—especially on periods of vacation from a more active kind of life—but it is rarely continually rewarding.” ~Albert Ellis, Ph.D

“People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by BELIEVING that they can upset us.” ~Albert Ellis

“Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up.” ~Albert Ellis, Ph.D.

"The art of love is largely the art of persistence." ~Albert Ellis

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Thought for Today - Letting Go of Sorrow

"If I allow bitterness and resentment to fester inside, it will make my relationships guarded and unsatisfying. The more I close down to others, the more I become a stranger to myself. By letting go of sorrow and negativity, I can keep my nature open and loving. Remaining open to life, with its constant adventures and opportunities to grow, is the only way to reach my full potential." ~Thought for Today-UK

Berton Averre - to err, to forgive

"To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent." ~Berton Averre