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What You do Makes a Difference

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall

…But Not an Idea

“You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.” – Benazir Bhutto

“WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds—never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.”
― Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living

The Way we Talk to our Children

“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.”

– Peggy O’Mara

Two Great Days

“There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.” — William Barclay
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Friends with Chocolate

Chocolate Cupcakes
Copyright 2013 by R.A. Robbins

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

A Friend who Cares

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life