A Baby’s First Laugh

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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

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

We Don’t Receive Wisdom

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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

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

Stable and Unchanging

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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

The Storm Will Pass

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You can’t calm the storm..so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass. ~ Timber Hawkeye