Gary Larson Depicted IT So Well...

Gary Larson Depicted IT So Well...

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Thursday, June 14, 2057

Things I've Learned While Finding - SELF

It takes courage to ask for what you want. Courage is not the absence of fear. It’s doing what it takes despite one’s fear.
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Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.___ ___

This so aptly describes what happened to me: …unable to believe in the future because he didn’t believe in himself. What turned him around? “A renewed spirituality and people’s faith in me,” he said. (Marcia Evans)
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. (Anais Nin)
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This took me waaaay toooo loonng to learn: If you try to dominate people, you’re already defeated. (Terry Dobson)
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IT’S THE ACTION, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. 

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But if you do nothing, there will be no result. (Gandhi)
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A laugh is a smile that bursts. (Mary H. Waldrip)




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THE PERSON I SEE in the mirror
IS NOT THE PERSON MY EYES SEE FROM THE INSIDE-OUT. IT IS ALWAYS A SURPRISE TO ME TO SEE THE PERSON ON THE OTHER SIDE OF MY EYES. INSIDE, I AM STILL A BOY LOOKING OUT AT THE WORLD.

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…dreams are more powerful than facts.

"Some Assembly Is Required" To assemble the best that is within you and give it away.

In a sense we make up all our relatives, though. Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and the rest. Especially if they are dead or distant. We take what we know, which isn't ever the whole story, and we add it to what we wish and need, and stitch it together into some kind of family quilt to wrap in our mental couch.

We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. …a way of using what I am to shape the best that is to come.
(Robert Fulghum – "All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten")

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The following are wise words paraphrased by my Love, S, who has helped shape me. S is more remarkable than anyone (but me) will ever know:

GROWTH
We are enrolled in an informal school called Life. Each day we are presented with lessons. Each lesson will be presented to us in various forms until we have learned it. And then we simply move onto the next one. As long as we are alive there will be lessons to learn. Growth is the willingness to examine Life and learn the lessons it has to offer. Growth is a choice – and it is all up to us.

LOVE
Each moment is a choice between love and fear. Choosing love will make you feel uplifted and alive. Choosing fear will make you feel the opposite. Love expands; fear restricts. Some other words that side with love: respect, joy, honesty, kindness, peace, abundance, balance, centerness, inspired, aliveness, beauty. Words that go with fear: expectations, regrets, guilt, jealousy, hate, sadness, control, judge, suffering, victim, drama. The choice again is up to us.

HAPPINESS

Each moment we can decide how we want to live. Do we want to live in the moment and enjoy it for all its worth? Or do we want to dwell on some unhappy past or uncertain future and live in fear? As the saying goes: “There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way.” Happiness is also a choice. Life can be so good – if we decide to have it that way. And it is all up to us.

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