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Quote of the week: Week of July 3, 2017

Posted on July 3, 2017July 3, 2017 by wordswithcowbell

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.—Seneca

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Quote of the week: Week of June 26, 2017

Posted on June 26, 2017June 26, 2017 by wordswithcowbell

There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

—Ian McKellen

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Quote of the week: Week of June 19, 2017

Posted on June 19, 2017June 19, 2017 by wordswithcowbell

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.—Max de Pree

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Quote of the week: Week of June 12, 2017

Posted on June 12, 2017June 12, 2017 by wordswithcowbell

The things that make you strange are the things that make you powerful.—Ben Platt

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Quote of the week: Week of June 5, 2017

Posted on June 5, 2017June 5, 2017 by wordswithcowbell

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.—Nelson Mandela

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Quote of the week: Week of May 29, 2017

Posted on May 29, 2017May 29, 2017 by wordswithcowbell

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Quote of the week: Week of May 22, 2017

Posted on May 22, 2017May 22, 2017 by wordswithcowbell

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.—Albert Schweitzer

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Quote of the week: Week of May 15, 2017

Posted on May 15, 2017May 15, 2017 by wordswithcowbell

Feet on ground

Heart in hand

Facing forward

Be yourself

—Jann Arden, lyrics from “Good Mother”

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Quote of the week: Week of May 8, 2017

Posted on May 8, 2017May 8, 2017 by wordswithcowbell

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.—Helen Keller

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Quote of the week: Week of May 1, 2017

Posted on May 1, 2017 by wordswithcowbell

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.—Lao Tzu

 

With thanks to Diviya Lewis at Choose Gratitude for bringing my attention to this quote.

Posted in QuoteTagged anxiety, Choose Gratitude, depression, Diviya Lewis, future, Lao Tzu, past, peace, present2 Comments

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