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“Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they’re part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They’re not only the ending, but the beginning as well.”

Benjamin Hoff

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In a culture determined to frame the world as a linear race, how do you remind yourself of the cycle? of the center?

a quote and a question

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“Never give up on a dream just because of the length of time it will take to accomplish. The time will pass anyway.”
H. Jackson Brown

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It’s more than midway into 2011. How are your goals coming along?

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When we confuse desiring with having or attaining something, we move away from ourselves, away from listening-flowing-feeling-creating and into the pushing, striving, teeth-gritting, forcing way of being….Desire becomes a place to get to rather than a vital energy to feel, experience, and ride.

Jennifer Louden

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“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”

Katherine Hepburn

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What’s the line between ‘should’ and ‘want’? Should (ahem) there be one?  Do we aim for balance, or a glorious swinging too and fro?

Anne with an e

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When Anne got home that night she stacked all her textbooks away in an old trunk in the attic, locked it, and threw the key in the blanket box.

“I’m not even going to look at a school book in vacation,” she told Marilla. “I’ve studied as hard all the term as I possibly could and I’ve pored over that geometry until I know every proposition in the first book off by heart, even when the letters are changed.  I just feel tired of everything sensible and I’m going to let my imagination run riot for the summer.”