I Will Endure

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We all have our heartaches, our burdens to bear.

The older I grow the more I care.

Empathy has a bittersweet twinge.

I know part of your pain because I’ve been singed.

A Baby’s First Laugh

412

The Navajo have a tradition of celebrating a baby’s first laugh. After three months babies are closely watched for their first real giggle. The person who elicits the first laugh then throws them a party.

Better Left Unsaid

390

I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid. ~ Cato

We Don’t Receive Wisdom

409

We don’t receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. ~ Marcel Proust

Choose To Be In Touch

365

Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you. ~ Nhat Hanh

Stable and Unchanging

396

How immensely important to us are those things in our life that are stable and unchanging. So much of our world is in motion. How welcome are the bits that stand still. ~ C. R. Milne