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Thought for today...
"Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized." ~~Leo Buscaglia

Thought for today...
"Look at things from a new perspective. Laugh. Be grateful you're where you are at this moment. Don't worry about trying to hurry the future along. Look for the joy in life now." ~~Melody Beattie

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"We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing." ~~Herbert Spencer

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"To live joyously means living with full awareness of how impermanent each life on earth is--how precious each moment, each conversation, each sunrise is." ~~Melody Beattie

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"Sometimes, life is very simple, but it is we two-leggeds, we who are thought to be smart that make it complicated." ~~Larry P. Aitkin, CHIPPEWA

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"If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now." ~~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Thought for today...
“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.” ~~Stephen Hawking

Thought for today...
"...happiness is a way of travel - not a destination." ~~Roy M. Goodman

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“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” ~~Donald Miller

Thought for today...
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."
~~Daniel I. Boorstin

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"No matter what path you're on, others have walked it before you, and some will follow you there. Each step you take is uniquely yours, but you are never, never alone." ~~Melody Beattie

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“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” ~~Winston Churchill

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"A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past." ~~Eric Hoffer

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"A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms." ~~Zen Shin

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"God doesn't require us to succeed; He only requires that we [sic] try." ~~Mother Teresa

Thought for today...
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." ~~James Joyce

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

YouTube video by CNN Illinois state representative describes ICE encounter with gun

This brown shirt crap with ICE agents acting like they can do anything they want is not normal. Don't normalize it. They are constantly breaking the law in many ways at once.

Thought for today...
"Serenity is not the absence of chaos in your life … it’s the ability to deal with it." ~~Uncredited

Thought for today...
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” ~~Martin Luther King Jr.

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"If you cling to an idea as the inalterable truth, then when the truth does come in person and knocks at your door, you will not be able to open the door and accept it." ~~Udana Sutta

Thought for today...
"It isn't the mountain ahead of you that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe." ~~Robert W. Service

Thought for today...
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~~Marcel Proust

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“Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don’t ever want to be again.” ~~Shane Niemeyer

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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." ~~George Bernard Shaw

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"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." ~~Stephen Covey

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"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." ~~Carl Bard

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"Expectation is premeditated resentment." ~~book "Wisdom, Magic and Miracles"

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"Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." ~~Thomas Carlyle

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