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Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings? Suspend your disbelief? Take a leap of faith? After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack?
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An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
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Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.
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I truly believe that we each have a House of Belonging waiting for us. Waiting to be found, waiting to be built, waiting to be renovated, waiting to be cleaned up. Waiting to rescue us. Waiting for the real thing: a grown-up, romantic, reciprocal relationship.
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Invite Divine Order into your life today and a more serene tomorrow will unfold.
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Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.
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self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).
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Gail Sheehy tells us that the delights of self-discovery are always available. All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.
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Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.
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New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.
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We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.
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Not having money to spend doesn’t mean we can’t have well-spent moments every day. (42)
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Observe how gently but surely the natural world renews itself daily.
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Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
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This moment is your life. It is the process of living, the journey, that is life itself, and we often wish away our lives by focusing only on what tomorrow could, should, would bring.
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Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies -- the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.
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Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.
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When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth.
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Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.
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I truly believe that regret is the only wound the soul does not recover from, and so I'm trying to live without regrets. ... Each day is another chance to be swept away.
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