At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Topic: Friendship, Gratitude, Life
- Location: Death Valley National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us not knowing this truth. We are at our best when they give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.
Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value.
The true worth is not to be found in man himself, but in the colors and texture that come alive in others.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
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Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
