From the category archives:
Inspiration
November 15, 2010
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to Very Smart Girls RSS feed or Email. Thanks for visiting!What is true freedom? Is freedom internal or external? Can we choose ways to be free? And…what does freedom have to do with happiness? I have been thinking a lot about freedom, free will, acceptance, choices, and happiness lately. [...]
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October 31, 2010
Please enjoy these quotations about perception(s). You may also want to read “Communication Checkpoints.” “What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.” Voltaire (1694-1778) “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) “If the doors of perception were [...]
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August 30, 2010
I have grace (Quotes about Grace), silence (Silence is Golden…and Pauses are Too), acceptance (Acceptance and Patience), inner peace, and serenity on my mind and in my experience. Below is an excerpt from As a Man Thinketh by James Allen written over 100 years ago. It speaks to professional and personal benefits of serenity. “Calmness of the mind is [...]
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August 15, 2010
Enjoy! ∞ “Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul” William Hazlitt (1778-1830) ∞ “I know nothing except what everyone knows- if there when Grace dances, I should dance” W.H. Auden (1907-1973) ∞ “Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity” [...]
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July 15, 2010
110 words of pure wisdom! It is interesting that the author of The Measure of a Man is unknown/anonymous. Was this poem a gift to others without the need or expectation of anything in return? As shared in “The Volunteer Wellness Effect”, the secret sauce of giving is to serve as if no one is watching; to [...]
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May 31, 2010
Ah..isn’t it great to truly see a person and to be truly seen by someone? As shared in, “Seeing from your Heart”, when you see someone primarily through your “thinking eyes” you tend to do things like compare, contrast, project past experiences into the future, play old stories in your head, insert your own preferences [...]
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April 18, 2010
Enjoy! ∞ “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” Cicero ∞ “Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” John N. Mitchell ∞ “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” G.K. Chesterton ∞ “We [...]
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February 28, 2010
Enjoy! ∞ “Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.” Proverb ∞ “Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.” Thomas Carlyle ∞ “Silence is the mother of truth.” Benjamin Disraeli ∞ “Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has a purpose.” [...]
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December 16, 2009
Enjoy! ∞ “The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ∞ “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” Eleanor Roosevelt ∞ “Our entire life consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.” Jean Anouilh ∞ “Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You [...]
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September 1, 2009
Enjoy! ∞ “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.” Eleanor Roosevelt ∞ “Because how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” Annie Dillard ∞ “Whether you think that you can, [...]
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