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	Open your arms as wide as you can to receive all the miracles with your name on them. Never forget that all you have is all you need.   
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	Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.   
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	Consider the track record of your naysayers. How many dreams have they successfully brought into this world?   
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	There's no doubt in my mind that sleep deprivation is the hidden number one cause of arguments and cybersex. I'm convinced that countless good relationships end and bad ones begin because of chronic fatigue. Never make a major decision until after you've taken a nap.   
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	Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.   
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	Trust that through the balm of simplicity your frazzled and weary soul can discover the place where you ought to be. Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us.   
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	When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.   
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	Whatever you are waiting for-peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of Simple Abundance-it will surely come, but only when you are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.   
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	Second thoughts have aborted more dreams than all the difficult circumstances, overwhelming obstacles, and dangerous detours fate ever could throw at you.   
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	Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.   
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	A powerful connection between two people is a potent psychic factor that exists regardless of either person's opinion about the relationship.   
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	Your heart will always tell you what’s working and what’s not.   
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	Never forget that all you have is all you need.   
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	You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.   
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	Deliberately seeking solitude-quality time spent away from family and friends-may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative spirits to develop and flourish as are sleep and food for our bodies to survive.   
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	Everyday epiphanies encourage us to cherish everything. Today a new sun has risen. Everything lives. Everything can speak to your soul passionately if you will be still enough to listen. "You have to count on living every single day in a way YOU believe will make YOU feel good about YOUR life," actress Jane Seymour suggests, "so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content.   
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	Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.   
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	We can stop waiting for life to become perfect and start working with what we’ve got to make it as satisfying as we can. We can accept, bless, give thanks, and get going. Today, we can begin to call forth the riches from our everyday life. Today we can move from lack to abundance.   
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	The only person in all the world who can give you pleasure, or deny it, is yourself. No matter how much we love someone, the decision to experience pleasure, and to make room for it in our lives, is an internal one. If you are resistant, you could be around the most joyous people in the world and be miserable.   
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	Every morning when we wake up we've been given a wonderful gift-another day of life-so let's make the most of it. No one can do it for us. . . . Genuine happiness can only be realized once we commit to making it a personal priority in our lives. This may be a new behavior for some of us and a bit intimidating. Be gentle with yourself. It will all unfold. Like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.   
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	Because the truth is - and we know it - we were born to die without regrets. Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers.   
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	Self-loathing is the silent hemorrhaging of the soul. You don't feel or see the life force fleeing until it's not longer there, and then, of course, it's too late.   
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	No one needs to know that you've shut the world out and are meditating as you stroll down the street. Twenty minutes to a half-hour every day is a good amount of time to restore a sense of serenity.   
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	No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.   
