Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.
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Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down,...
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'Miss C_____'s father,' says Betty, 'had much better have bred his daughter a housewife, and then, mayhap, she might have got her a husband, w...
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Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
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I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love—I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate speak for me.
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History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
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Every time we remember to say 'thank you,' we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
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I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core.
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Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet, When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet; He may know the law of all things, yet be ignorant of how We are working to completion, working on from then to now. Pray remember that I leave you all my theory complete, Lacking only certain data for your adding, as is meet, And remember men will scorn it, 'tis original and true, And the obliquy of newness may fall bitterly on you. But, my pupil, as my pupil you have learned the worth of scorn, You have laughed with me at pity, we have joyed to be forlorn, What for us are all distractions of men's fellowship and smiles; What for us the Goddess Pleasure with her meretricious smiles. You may tell that German College that their honor comes too late, But they must not waste repentance on the grizzly savant's fate. Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Opportunities abound, not just to avoid making mistakes in the marketplace - which animals pay for with their lives - but to say and do even small things that will make a huge difference in how animals are treated and viewed. Act on the adage, 'All that evil needs to triumph is for enough good people to do nothing.' Wherever you are, if you see something wrong, put yourself in the animal's place and speak up! There are always other people who hold the same view but are waiting for someone else to go first. That someone is you. Even the terminally shy can be shameless salespeople, planting animal rights seeds in others' minds without even speaking to them! In restaurants talk loudly to your companion about how the vegetarian food is the best! On crowded elevators, discuss how 'Sarah' lost 30 pounds since she stopped eating chicken and fish! There is no 'one true way' to animal liberation - all that matters is that you are doing something. Don't fret over failures! REMEMBER: Every single act brings animal liberation that much closer!
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Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.
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I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and ...
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Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
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You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you.
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We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd...from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions.
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I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some unheard-of ble...
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It might be worth considering . . . for some women who, within just the last year or two, have had lumpectomy for breast cancer or who have had mastectomy for cancer that had spread to the armpit, and who didn't get radiotherapy after their surgery because of the side effects.
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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
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You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.
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I made him a low curtsy and thanked him for the honor he intended me, but told him I had no kind of ambition to be his upper servant.... I the...
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And now behold the goddess seated on her throne ... receiving the adulation of her worshipper.... An adulation, which translated into plain En...
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Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.
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I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation re...
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As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.
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A great actress, from the waist down.
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For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
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You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down.
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I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
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I loved reading, and had a great desire of attaining knowledge; but whenever I asked questions of any kind whatsoever, I was always told, 'suc...
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The female part of the Cry (who had many of them often experienced a joyful self- approbation on being told by their admirers that all their p...
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