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Katniss~~(and last but not least, life turns on a dime. Practice the art of extreme appreciation.)

“What you say and how you look does not define who you are,because some of the most beautiful people do the ugliest things.You owe it to the people who hate you, who disrespect you and who put you down,
because they’re the ones who have made you who you are today,for keeping your head up and not breaking down when they want you to.”
~ Amber Ward

I overheard this today from an older gentleman talking to a younger man at a church gathering and I wanted to share the sentiment;

"Don't be so busy trying to live a lifestyle that you forget to live your life."


Katniss~~

"What I've felt most inspired by is that, like Scripture, when you reach the end of the story, it's a new beginning."
— Steven Chapman

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
— Helen Keller

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“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.”
Deepak Chopra

“I hate the word failure, but I love the word mistake.”

- Lisa Gersh, President and COO, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia

___steps in quietly.....
 

“A truth that no one knows is still the truth.” ― Sharon Shinn


" You want strength? You want happiness? You want independence? You want peace? Then learn to live without others approval, and praise." Unknown


" Saying it doesn't make it so, writing it doesn't make it so, hoping it doesn't make it so, dreaming it doesn't make it so. Doing it, now you might be on to something." - Unknown

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
~ Albert Einstein

“You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”
― Jim Morrison

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
~Brian Tracy

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Maya Angelou

When Love comes suddenly and taps
on your window, run and let it in but first
shut the door of your reason.
Even the smallest hint chases love away
like smoke that drowns the freshness
of the morning breeze.
To reason Love can only say,
the way is barred, you can't pass through
but to the lover it offers a hundred blessings.
Before the mind decides to take a step
Love has reached the seventh heaven.
Before the mind can figure how
Love has climbed the Holy Mountain.
I must stop this talk now and let
Love speak from its nest of silence.

- Rumi

"Fake paper flowers, however beautifully crafted, can spread no fragrance. Being true to yourself makes you genuine, that is strong as well as meaningful." ~Unknown

“Silence does not always mark wisdom.” ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge



"Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." -Desmond Tutu



“If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.”
― Paul F. Davis