Sylvia's world in thoughts and pictures
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| Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. Samuel Smiles |
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| We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda |
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| The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. Henry Ward Beecher |
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| There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes. C.S. Lewis |
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| Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha |
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| An optimist is the human personification of spring. Susan J. Bissonette |
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| In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours. Mark Twain |
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| April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. Christopher Morley |
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| Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust |
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| The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. Lee Iacocca |
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| If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. Anne Broadstreet |
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| Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Thurman |
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| Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. Virgil A. Kraft |
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| There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. Alexander Woollcott |
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| Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture. Kak Sri |
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| A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home. Anonymous |
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| No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted. Aesop |
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| This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors. Chuck Sigars |
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| A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard |
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| Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do. Benjamin Spock |
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| God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope. Maya Angelou |
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My daughter Kerith has breast cancer surgery tomorrow. Thank you for holding good thoughts for her. |
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| If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. Anne Broadstreet |
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| April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. Christopher Morley |
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| I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. Martha Washington |
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| Friendship doubles joy and halves grief. Egyptian Proverb |
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| A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. Fr. Jerome Cummings |
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| A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell |
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| Once you choose hope, anything's possible. Christopher Reeve |
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| Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. G. K. Chesterton |
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| Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain |
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| The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung |
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| Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. Earl Wilson |
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| Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. Mark Twain |
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| I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
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| If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. Jennifer Jones |
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| The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. William Wordsworth |
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| The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. Elbert Hubbard |
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| Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. Evan Esar |
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| If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. David Viscott |
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| Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. Napoleon Hill |
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| Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcott |
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| If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. Mary Pickford |
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| The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The healthiest response to life is joy. Deepak Chopra |
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| Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak. Epictetus Do you see those tiny black specks around the mountain? They're one of the nightly group of blackbirds that fly around everywhere here! Makes me think of the movie "The Birds"! |
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| Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. Anthony J. D'Angelo |
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| The summer night is like a perfection of thought. Wallace Stevens |
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| Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. Sam Keen |
