Choose Life

The jewel of the soul is priceless, and yet it is being squandered like this, in exchange for a mere shell.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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One has to try to develop one's inner feelings, which can be done simply by training one's mind. This is a priceless human asset and one you don't have to pay income tax on!

Dalai Lama XIV

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Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights into His great truths.

Dale Evans Rogers

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Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

Harvey MacKay

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There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Happy Holidays...........

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Amanda Bradley

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This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, joy to fill your holidays!

D M Dellinger

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We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.

George Santayana

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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

C S Lewis

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When you like your work, every day is a holiday.

Frank Tyger

Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Lovingly Detached

Truly wise is he who is unstirred by praise or blame, by love or hatred. He is not moved by the opposites of life. Verily does he delight in the blissful Self.

Srimad Bhagavatam

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Happiness or sorrow - whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

The Dhammapada

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union.

St John of the Cross

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To enjoy anything, we cannot be attached to it. What we usually try to do is capture any joy that comes our way before it can escape... But if I am willing to kiss the joy as it flies, I say, 'Yes, this moment is beautiful. I won't grab it. I'll let it go.'... If we don't cling to past or future and we live entirely here and now, in 'Eternity's sunrise'.

Eknath Easwaran

Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Winter with Inspiration

Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.

Kahlil Gibran

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I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

Ralph W Emerson

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Even in the winter, in the midst of the storm, the sun is still there. Somewhere above the clouds, it still shines and warms and pulls at the life buried deep inside the brown branches and frozen earth.

Gloria Gaither

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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 Bradstreet

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Over lowland, over snow and tundra span arches, raised by the rising sun./ See the light is winning! And the stream is streaming towards open minds and towards seeds dreaming of growth.

Einar Skjfraasen

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Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

Stanley Crawford

Give and Take.......

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired.
In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.
Lao Tzu
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So I say to you, ask and it will be given to you, seek
and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you.

For everyone that asks receives,
he who seeks finds and to him that knocks the door will be opened.

Luke 11: -13

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The widest possibilities for spiritual growth lie in the give-and-take of
everyday relationships.

Eknath Easwaran

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There is love in every one of you.

Develop that love.

Share it with people.
This love is not a one-way traffic.

It is two-way, give and take.
Sathya Sai Baba

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You must give some time to your fellow men.

Even if it's a little thing, do something for others –
something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Albert Schweitzer

Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Health Is Wealth

Health best of all gains and peace of mind is the best of all happiness.
The Mahabharata
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship....To keep the body in good health is a duty...otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Gautama Buddha
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Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them... Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.

Yogananda Paramahansa
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Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way.

Swami Vishnu-devananda
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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

M K Gandhi
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

G K Chesterton
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The greatest wealth is health.

Virgil