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It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine...it's summertime!
~Kenny Chesney, Summertime
Summer's lease hath all too short a date.
~William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.
~Kellie Elmore

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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
~Henry Ford
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
~Aristotle
The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.
~Comer Cotrell

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You are remembered for the rules you break.
~Douglas MacArthur
Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
~Chuck Palahniuk
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.
~Dean Karnazes
Everything you need is already inside.
~Bill Bowerman
Running is real and relatively simple...but it ain't easy.
~Mark Will-Weber

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A grand adventure is about to begin.
~Winnie the Pooh

Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
~E.B. White

Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.
~Jonas Salk

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Stop waiting until you finish school,
until you go back to school,
until you lose ten pounds,
until you gain ten pounds,
until you have kids,
until your kids leave the house,
until you start work,
until you retire,
until you get married,
until you get divorced,
until Friday night,
until Sunday morning,
until you get a new car or home,
until your car or home is paid off,
until spring, until summer, until fall, until winter,
until you are off welfare,
until the first or fifteenth,
until your song comes on,
until you've had a drink,
until you've sobered up,
until you die,
until you are born again
to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy...
~Author Unknown

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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
~Henry David Thoreau
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We each see what we need to see.
~Rango (the movie)

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Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
~Marilyn Monroe

Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before your, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you...yet, someone survived..You can do anything you choose to do.
~Maya Angelou

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
~C.S. Lewis

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Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow - it is not a permanent rest stop.
~Dodinsky, www.dondinsky.com

It's so curious: one can resist tears and "behave" very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was a bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer...and everything collapses.
~Colette

There are things we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go.
~Author Unknown

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For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.
~Lily Tomlin
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
~Mohandas K. Gandhi
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
~Doug Larson

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When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace.
~Author Unknown

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am.
~Sylvia Plath

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
~L. Frank Baum

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You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.
~ William D. Tammeus

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
~P.J. O'Rourke

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.
~Chinese Proverb

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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
~Anne Bradstreet

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.
~Proverb

If you do not sow in the spring, you will not reap in the autumn.
~Irish Proverb

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A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

~All quotes by the brilliant Ansel Adams

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The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.
~Don Williams Jr.

To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.
~Chinese Proverb

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.
~Chuck Palahniuk

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Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.
~Rumi

Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.
~Unknown

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
~Irish Proverb

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Angels, in the early morning
May be seen the Dews among,
Stooping -- plucking -- smiling -- flying --
Do the Buds to them belong?

Angels, when the sun is hottest
May be seen the sands among,
Stooping -- plucking -- sighing -- flying --
Parched the flowers they bear along.

~Emily Dickinson

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May this Christmas end the present year on a cheerful note and make way for a fresh and bright New Year.

May your Christmas sparkle with moments of love, laughter and goodwill, and may the year ahead be full of contentment and joy.

The gift of love. The gift of peace. The gift of happiness. May these be yours at Christmas.

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This video has beautiful quotes. Things will be different for our holiday season this year and this video helps to focus what's important through the quotes.

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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
~Albert Camus
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov
Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!
~Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon