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Overcoming Suffering
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." – Helen Keller, American author, political activist, and lecturer, the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree, went on to inspire millions, depicted in The Miracle Worker (1880-1968) Who among us hasn’t suffered? In fact, [...]
Life: No Time Like the Present
"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I’m with you, kid. Let’s go.’" – Maya Angelou, Pulitzer Prize nominated poet, author, historian, actress, playwright, political activist (born 1928) How often do we catch ourselves thinking that we’ll tend to this or that tomorrow? We may believe that we have all the time [...]
How To Recognize Opportunity
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." – Thomas Edison, American inventor and businessman, best-known as the inventor of the light bulb, among many other inventions that revolutionized modern life (1847-1931) If we didn’t know who Thomas Edison was, the quote about opportunity here might be [...]
Follow Your Dreams
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls." – Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known as the author of The Hero With a Thousand Faces (1904-1987) Don’t we all know about walls that hem us in? Before we entered recovery, we may have felt trapped in [...]
On Using Our Eyes
"The whole secret in the study in nature lies in learning how to use one’s eyes." – George Sand, French novelist whose birth name was Amandine Aurore Lucille Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant, best known as her pseudonym, George Sand (1804-1876) We look at the world around us, but do we really see? If we do [...]
