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Poetry by Eleanor Roosevelt

.. Footprints In Your Heart Many people will walk in and out of your life, But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; If he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas, Average minds discuss events, Small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all. Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. Friends, you and me. You brought another friend, And then there were three. We started our group, Our circle of friends, And like that circle - There is no beginning or end. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.* Eleanor Roosevelt

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Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! / Ella Fitzgerald

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Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As children, we are seldom told we have a place in life that is uniquely ours alone. Instead, we are encouraged to believe that our life should somehow fulfill the expectations of others, that we will (or should) find our satisfactions as they have found theirs. Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves. We are brought up in our life as told to us by someone else! When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfill our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach. Many of us would have been, or at least might have been, done, tried something, if… If we had known who we really were.

Julia Cameron (via thiswomanslove)

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“I try to use my art to communicate that you, yourself, must take responsibility for life on earth.” - Robert Rauschenberg, 1987

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A Few Gifts of Beauty From Joseph Campbell

Thank you Joseph for these and a virtually endless list of radiant truths.

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”

“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

― Joseph Campbell

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A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play, his labour and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself he always seems to be doing both. Enough for him that he does it well. Education through Recreation, 1932 by Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, 1860-1955

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