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May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Marianne Williamson

If we never take a risk, we’ll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
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Ourselves Philosophy Risk Wisdom
We were all born carrying a promise — a promise to make the world better — and there’s a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.
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Better Born Carry Ourselves Promise World
The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.
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Learning Meaning Ourselves Question
Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.
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Beginning Book Chapter End Life Religious
We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.
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Change Forgiveness Healing Oneself Person
Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don’t yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.
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Capacity Condition Love Situation
Living meaningfully is what brings joy.
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Happiness Live Meaning Ourselves
Sometimes when we don’t know the answer, it’s time to simply be with the question.
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Answer Question Simplicity Time
Let’s forgive the past and who we were then. Let’s embrace the present and who we’re capable of becoming. Let’s surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.
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Forgiveness Miracle Past Present Surrender
The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.
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Different Failure Goodness Yourself
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right.
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Choice Different Focus Life Right Wrong Yourself
If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.
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Darkness End Light Yourself
Don’t be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.
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Appearance Fall Order Wonderful
Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.
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Act Cry Help Love
The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.
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Choice Past Present Yourself
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
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Community Heart Nation Power Work

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

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May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

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