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Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try. Joyce Meyer

Better Try Changes Way Out Only Take Take A Chance Step Fail Make Get Anytime Might Boldly Chance

'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty. Judith Martin

Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me. Katherine Schwarzenegger

Love Me Learning Reflection Mirror Beauty Define Easy Outer See Road Learned Does Always Still To Love Appearance Inner

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. Leo Buscaglia

Relationship Other Shade No-One Smother Each Grow

One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with. Marianne Williamson

Myself Day Compassion Pain Too Once One Day Something Rather Develop Had Looked Because Surprise Been Begin Than Did Unexpected Realized Painful Avoiding Mechanism Flooded Coping Necessary

As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. Marianne Williamson

Disappointment Trust People Events Will Way Exactly Fine Faced Someone Come Most Always Unfold Want Either Much Who

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. Mark Twain

You More Understand Explain

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. Mark Twain

You Kind Would Parrot She Call Refined Person Quite Keeps

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow. Sarah Ban Breathnach

Day Daily Spiritual Heart Grateful Every Day Grace Remember Tomorrow Will Every Enough Our Worry About Got Bread Whether Available Ask Us Each Daily Bread

Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world. Sharon Salzberg

Commitment World Voting Country Our Ourselves Another Expression

Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be. Sharon Salzberg

Nature Crazy Fruit Karma World Law Will Live Universe Kind Seed Some Laws Arising Accidental Passing According Gets Just Happen In-Laws Which Us Certain Teaches Planted Away Things Things Happen

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. Susan Sontag

Truth Balance Truth Is Lie Opposite However May Which

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. Terry Pratchett

You Too Late Fate Too Late Out Find Throw He Along Most Queens Chess Been Dice Gods Playing Two Plays

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. Thomas Merton

'What if?' statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you'll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control. Travis Bradberry

Time You Stress Will Fire Calm Control Action Down Spend Worry Worrying Statements Focusing Possibilities About More Directions Throw Taking Go What If Different Different Directions Fuel Your Less Less Time Keep Million Things

I want someone who is my partner in life. Who supports me, and I support her. I can share all my experiences in life with her, and she can share hers back with me. Not only do we love each other, but we accept, embrace, nurture, and care for each other. Tucker Max

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. Victor Hugo

Soul Interior Sky Than Grander Sea Spectacle

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