Quote of the Week: Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You become what you think about all day long.”
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Quote of the Week: Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You become what you think about all day long.”
You can find all of the other quotes I’ve shared here.
Quote of the Week: Debby Boone
“Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.” – Debby Boone
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Quote of the Week: Mister Rogers
There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.
Normally I would take the time to find a witty t-shirt or a piece of art to hang on your wall to go along with whatever quote I’m feeling inspired to share with you guys, but I just don’t have it in me this morning.
I also don’t normally give you any reference to why I share the quotes that I do. Most of them are self explanatory anyway.
My heart hurts. I am normally a positive person. I always look for what can be salvaged from any situation. At the very least learn a lesson from – insert calamity here – and find a way to make our lives better from it.
Unless you live under a rock like I do most of the time you know what’s happening in our world right now. What I’m finding the most difficult to swallow down though is people’s very casual use of the things that are happening as a political hammer. It literally makes my stomach hurt. And it makes me turn them off. Which defeats the purpose of what they are doing. Or not I suppose. Like feeds off of like. But if their goal is to change someones mind to their way of thinking, it is failing miserably, at least for me. I truly believe that you get back what you put out into the world. Which is why people who are unhappy continually reap what they sow into the world. That’s a very blanket statement and I HATE blanket statements, so I’m sorry. But I also believe it to be true, so I guess I’m really not.
Be kind. Just be kind. The only way I have ever seen anyone change their mind about something is by having an actual conversation with a person. Not repeating a news report, or giving a stern lecture, or a from on high sermon that condescends to another human; an actual sit on the front porch conversation. And if you feel like you didn’t change that person’s perspective at all after having a true conversation with them – shake the dust from your feet and move on. Hitting them with your hammer may make you feel better but I highly doubt it will give you the results you want.
Having conversations that change the world is awesome in my book, but I always want to be able to take some sort of action. If you want to feel like you are actually doing something here is a list of ways you can help the people of Afghanistan. I haven’t vetted most of these, so you’ll need to do that first.
If you don’t want to help them, but you need another organization that is doing amazing work to contribute to, I love what Shades of Grace is doing. They are being the literal hands and feet of Jesus in my opinion.
You don’t have to contribute money to be a help. Our local food bank loves it when strangers show up to help.
I hope that you are well, and that you have many meaningful conversations this week.
Tracie
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Quote of the Week: from Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
― from Rebecca
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Quote of the Week: Eleanor Roosevelt
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ―
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Quote of the Week: Beverly Cleary
“If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.”
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Quote of the Week: Leonard Nimoy
“The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have.”
– Leonard Nimoy
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Quote of the Week: Abraham Lincoln
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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Quote of the Week: Henry David Thoreau
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” Henry David Thoreau
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