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#862

Make Humor an Asset

“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keep friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” -Greenville Kleisser

The Building Blocks of Character

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” -Helen Keller

Listen to Pain

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” -C.S. Lewis

Be Healed by Compassion

“The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.” -Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

#863

“What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself.” – J.I. Packer

“Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.” – Watchman Nee

"Eternal life is not a peculiar feeling inside! It is not your ultimate destination, to which you will go when you are dead. If you are born again, eternal life is that quality of life that you possess right now.” – Major Ian Thomas

#864

“Stop worrying about the world ending today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.”-- Charles M. Schulz

#865

“There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love Him. And you will love Him to the extent you have touched Him, rather that He has touched you.”

Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

#866

“Clearing clutter – be it physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual – brings about ease and inspires a sense of peace, calm, and tranquility.”-- Laurie Buchanan, PhD

#867

I call that mind free, which is jealous of its own freedom, which guards itself from being merged with others, which guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.

In fine, I call that mind free, which, conscious of its affinity with God, and confiding in his promises by Jesus Christ, devotes itself faithfully to the unfolding of all its powers, which ever passes the bounds of time and death, which hopes to advance for ever, and which finds inexhaustible power, both in action and in suffering, in the prospect for immortality. - Channing

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#868

Isabel Hardman: " It’s funny, because most people think starlings are boringly common, even slightly annoying birds. They can be quite noisy, and tend to empty garden bird feeders quicker than shoppers on Black Friday, squabbling all the while. But a close look reveals their bodies, which seem so black against the sky, are made up of speckly rainbows. And they are smart on the ground, too: these birds can mimic car alarms, other birds, even mobile phones as they cheekily call to one another.
In a crowd, they are little hooligans. In their great winter clouds, they’re one of the wonders of the world.

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#869

The story that goes with the above picture:

#870

“You are not too small. No one is ever too small to offer help.”-- Emlyn Chand

“You are not born with beauty; your beauty is created by who you are. Your inner beauty is more important than how people see you on the outside.”-- Emily Coussons

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#871

“A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl.” -Stephan Hoeller

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#872

“My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the crematoria, from the concrete of the gas chamber. I have seen that it is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that is impotent in the struggle against man. The powerlessness of kindness, of senseless kindness, is the secret of its immortality. It can never be conquered. The more stupid, the more senseless, the more helpless it may seem, the vaster it is. Evil is impotent before it. The prophets, religious teachers, reformers, social and political leaders are impotent before it. This dumb, blind love is man’s meaning.

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.” - Vasily Grossman

#873

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Dear Dave: The picture of the ravens was wonderful. But those wicked crows are up to good.

#874

Very very clever! lol

#875

“Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.”-- Ruth Gendler

“To some this may look like a sunset. But it’s a new dawn.”-- Chris Hadfield

#876

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#877

Can a painting be a quote? A non-verbal one, perhaps?

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#878

Once I tried to take up painting in school. I asked the art professor:

Should I put more fire, into my paintings?

The professor replied:

No, it should be the other way around.

:rofl:

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#879

“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”-- Rita Rudner

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#880

When my mind grows weary with heavy thought,
And still the question burns unquenched,
My heart grows cool when to memory is brought
That You who knows the bright answer sought
Also knows the dark where the doubt lies entrenched—
Knows with what questions I am sore perplexed,
But that I can wait with Thee, and my soul needs not be vexed.

GMac Diary of an Old Soul, June 14th
I changed it slightly

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#881

“True genius lies in thinking, not outside the box, but outside the room the box is in.” -Lazarus Short