Faith. Hope. Dream. These are energy boosters man needs as he desperately races through life. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
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Unfortunately, even if the mind comes to understand, what went wrong with a relationship -- the heart never will.
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He never said, I never heard, all that happened between us was all very well understood, just to let me know lately that I completely misunderstood.
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A hallmark of any organization whether it be family, a corporation or even a nation is that a preponderance of rules in general denotes a lack of principle in particular. Conversely and unfortunately those lacking in principle have little use for rules.
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“I think you were born for this time and place. You can call it fate or Divine Providence, but you were born for this.
Sometimes I think our lives were predestined to go down a certain path.
Oh, we can choose the good or the bad along the way, but ultimately, perhaps we are predestined for things beyond our control. It is not acurse, but a gift, to be embraced and used in the right way.” - Dan "Doc" Thomas, The Rushing Tide
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Through the strait pass of suffering—
The Martyrs—even—trod.
Their feet—upon Temptations—
Their faces—upon God—
A stately—shriven—Company—
Convulsion—playing round—
Harmless—as streaks of Meteor—
Upon a Planet's Bond—
Their faith—the everlasting troth—
Their Expectation—fair—
The Needle—to the North Degree—
Wades—so—thro' polar Air!
--Emily Dickinson
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We can only reap what we plant -- affectionately done, love is the harvest.
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Degrees alone do not make a good counselor -- but to start from a position of love, is what ultimately matters most.
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Our past mistakes are only an emerging from the person we once believed we were, to the one God ultimately designed us to be.
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God will ultimately win -- it is His creation, and we are His created. The Devil, stupid? He is just being the devil. He is stupid, immoral, murderous...and seductive. To personally do battle with Him, to entertain his mind and being, in a sense, is to lose. Lean on God, go to God. When surrounded by Christ Light, permeated with Christ Love, only listening to Christ presence -- we are Victorious. To face the devil from a position of combative ego, Alone, is to royally lose.
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The thing with atheists is they desperately want to be wrong!
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I've fought many battles in life...ultimately, they were all self.
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They've been trying lately to tame me with shame and humiliation. Because I've got a wild soul not ready for mediocre. I'm untamed
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It is my daily prayer to God, and my ardent faith drives me as a Paraprofessional, to help at least one child each day, tear down walls of trepidation, and discover, that there is absolutely nothing, no nothing, that they cannot ultimately learn.
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Sad truth is.. when you really know someone intimately, their thoughts, their deepest desires, who they are when no one is looking... Loving them is difficult. Our phones reflect our true identities. And that is why these days a relationship/marriage can end just by checking his/her phone
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The bible speaks of clay...I guess, made of sand-castles, eventually washed away by tide would work in the same context. Fortunately, body is only our carriage of descent, carrying substance of Spirit-omnipotent.
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In one aspect, poetry must live in you if to become living-word, imagery appealing animately to the heart soul of self and others -- on the other hand, art, and its production, can never be substituted for one's humanity. Duty to God.
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The more intimately acquainted you become with the genuine, the quicker you will detect a counterfeit.
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The vast majority of us were raised to believe in some type of a greater good ; whether that being God, or any other faith to follow. Yet it seems the differences would ultimately lead to conflict, where the strength of fellowship would reach out with an overpowering embrace. This consolidation then leads to eventual dilation, where outlying extremes ferment towards a secular brew.
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Be real. Be true to yourself. Only you can heal your inner turmoil and slay your demons... Others can love and support you, even inspire you... But ultimately, you are the power in your life... Take care and best wishes.
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Envy is fought with cunning; whoever isn't shrewd has the reasoning of a donkey being entrapped by his own stupidity, and ultimately making him lose the purpose for which he hated so viciously.
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Machines won't take over man, it is the desire to be on top of the creational chain that'll ultimately spoil our long-term survival.
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Dreamers think success is a one hit wonder; successful people know success is built one step at a time many times over. Building a solid foundation ultimately creates more future successes.
– Andreas Simic
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Whether one appreciates or depreciates a butterfly,
One should know the actual fact, that –
Ultimately –
A butterfly is a butterfly…!
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- Any dancer, ultimately, needs to remove the make up -
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No instant learning machine exist unfortunately, we have to learn all the things from zero, but that's actually what makes a life interesting, that is what life is about. May 2018.
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Who, if I objected, would hear me among the angelic orders?
For if the least One pressed me intimately against its breast,
I would be lost in its infinite Immensity!
Because beauty, which we mortals can barely endure, is the beginning of terror;
we stand awed when it benignly declines to annihilate us.
Every Angel is terrifying!
('Rilke’s First Elegy' by Rainer Maria Rilke, loose translation by Michael R. Burch)
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Life is like a jigsaw puzzle with each day another piece. Unfortunately for most, the picture that appears is not the same one that comes on the box.
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"and in the end,
slowly and deliberately we will be obliterated,
from the memory of earth,
from the hearts of people who have held us dearly,
and descended into oblivion"
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The greatest people of strength, the survivors, men and women alike, will always find a way to turn their weakness into strength, to learn from their greatest and smallest falls, how to rise and they will ultimately use their strength to face forward and move towards the Sun.
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