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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

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Melody Beattie
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 26
Author
Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
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Past
Gratitude
Today
Grateful
Tomorrow
Vision
Thankfulness
Happiness
Thanksgiving
Peace
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Panic, not the task, is the enemy.
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Waiting time is not wasted time. Something is being worked out - in us, in someone else, in the Universe.
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