Green Fairy by escapeintolife.com
...words on trust, kindness, acceptance, hope, perseverance - gems of wisdom to give us direction and strength in life.
From Helen Exley Giftbook
This is what knowledge really is. It is finding out something for oneself with pain, with joy, with exultancy, with labor and with little ticking, breathing moments of our lives, until it is ours as that only is ours which is rooted in the structure of our lives.
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
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You got to walk that lonesome valley, you got to walk it for yourself. Nobody can walk it for you, you got to walk it for yourself.
Author Unknown
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Finish everyday and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
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Nothing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus (c.55-135 A.D.)
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
Queen Christina of Sweden
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The only real satisfaction there is, is to be growing up inwardly all the time, becoming more just and true, generous, simple, manly, womanly, kind, active. And this we all can do, by doing each day the day's work as well as we can.
James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888)
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All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness, is a simple frugal heart.
Nikos Kazantzakis (1885-1957)
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Do you want to be happy? Then make your life as soulfully simple. As sleeplessly breathing.
Sri Chinmoy, B. 1931 from the "Wings of Joy"
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
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Many run about after happiness like an absent-minded man hunting for his hat, while it is in his hand or on his head.
James Sharp (1613-1679)
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In spite of all wanderings, happiness is always found within a narrow compass and among objects which lie within our immediate reach.
Bulwer
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Be sincere in your thoughts, be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.
Sri Chinmoy (B. 1931)
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Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
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To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hand breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, - these are the things that make man happy.
John Ruksin (1819-1900)
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...from happiness we get peace, and from peace we get happiness. The two are inseparable.
Sri Chinmoy (B. 1931)
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One of the deepest secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819-1880)
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are endless.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
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Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a sequence of small kindnesses, have not wasted lives.
Charlotte Gray (B. 1937)
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Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
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A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Mohammed (c. 570-c.632)
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Always be a little kinder than necessary.
Sir James M. Barrie (1860-1937)
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If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much and most of all yourself.
A. Neilen
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I had found a kind of serenity, it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not - more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.
Beverly Sills (B. 1929)
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What is the best gift you ever received? Better still, what is the best gift you ever gave? Perhaps you will recall that in each instance, the best gift was one that was tied with the heart-strings of the giver, one that included a part of self.
Wanda Fulton
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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn (1644-1718)
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