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Sunday Inspiration: “Because I read”

“I have lived a thousand livesand I’ve loved a thousand loves.I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time.Because I read.”― George R.R. Martin

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Sunday Inspiration: Happy Earth Day!

“Preserve and cherish
the pale blue dot,
the only home we’ve
ever known.”

Carl Sagan

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Sunday Inspiration: The tide of love

“When we focus on gratitude,the tide of disappointment goes outand the tide of love rushes in.”~Kristin Armstrong, Olympic gold medal cyclist(from charterforcompasion.org)

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Sunday Inspiration: Happy Easter!

 

“Each time we exhale, the world ends; when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It all transpires inside of us. In our consciousness, in our hearts. All the time.” — Tom Robbins

“Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.” — Gertrude Stein

“I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don’t even try to tell me different.”– Dolly Parton

Happy Easter and a meaningful Passover week and month of Ramadan. May we never stop believing in that which gives us hope.

 

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Sunday Inspiration: More Compassion

“I have more compassion

than if I had never been wounded

or if I had never been betrayed…

those disappointments

have made me gentler with other people

and the stuff that they have to carry around

and endure.”

-Elizabeth Gilbert

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Sunday Inspiration: Dignity instead of Condemnation

“The cycle of degenerating discourse
won’t stop if we insist that people we disagree with
must first behave the way we want them to …
The cycle stops when we recognize our responsibility
to treat each other with the dignity
with which we expect to be met.
It stops when we choose to replace condemnation
with curiosity, invective with inquiry.”

-Jenny Martinez, law school dean at Stanford University

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Sunday Inspiration: A Series of Miracles

“The whole world

is a series of miracles,

But we’re so used to them

we call them

ordinary things.”

-Hans Christian Anderson

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Sunday Inspiration: The labors of others

“How strange is the lot of us mortals!
Each of us is here for a brief sojourn;
for what purpose we know not,
though we sometimes think we sense it.
But even without deeper reflection,
one knows from daily life that one exists for other people –
first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being
our own happiness is wholly dependent,
and then for the many, unknown to us,
to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.
A hundred times every day I remind myself
that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others,
living and dead,
and that I must exert myself
in order to give in the same measure
as I have received and am still receiving.”

-Albert Einstein

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Sunday Inspiration: Step OVER it!

When someone spews something really hurtful, don’t pick it up
and hold it and rub rub it into your heart
and snuggle with it
and carry it around for a long time. Don’t even put energy into
kicking it to the curb. You gotta see it and step OVER it or go AROUND it
and keep going.
– Brene Brown

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Sunday Inspiration: To Jupiter and back

“If you took all of your DNA,

straightened it out,

and put it end-to-end,

it would stretch to Jupiter and back 10x over.

You are neither small nor insignificant.

You’re just very well folded.”

-Imagine@imagimemes

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