The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen,health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever. ~Louis L’Amour~   (1908-1988, American Western Author)

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The best of all things is to love. Money can be lost or appropriated by others, health and strength inevitably shifted to another way of being, but when you   love, it is yours forever. ~Francesca L’Amoured~(`1942 – 20__, Canadian dis-oriented time traveller)

Goodness is the only investment that never fails ~Henry David Thoreau ~

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Love is the only investment that always succeeds ~Fran Becker~

“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life.”~Joseph Conrad~

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Rejoice with the woman whose heart has learned while young to hope, to love — and to put   trust in the evolution of life. ~Fran Becker~

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability. – Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician)

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Everyone can make use of their power and when they do, they revel in their unlimited ability and limitless love. – Fran Becker  (c.1942 -2001 A.D., Great Canadian requoter, a-political armchair revolutionary

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can. ~William Barclay~ (1907-1978, Scottish Theologian, Religious Writer, Broadcaster)

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In the time  we have created , it is surely our joy to be totally present at all times with all those who meet us on the path, to allow each other to receive from one another the highest good that can move through us. ~Fran Becker~

“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life.”~Joseph Conrad~

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Rejoice with the woman whose heart has learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in the evolution of life. ~Fran Becker~

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.~Agnes Repplier~(1858-1950, American Author, Social Critic)

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It is essential to create happiness within ourselves or it will be impossible to experience it elsewhere.~Fran Becker~(1942 – 20**, Canadian Artist)

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.~Henry Miller~(1891-1980, American Author)

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That to which you give your undivided attention, you will draw to yourself and be drawn into simultaneously creating a new akashic field unfolding its magnificence and mysteriously evolving before your very eyes.~Fran Becker~

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.~T.S. Eliot~ (1888-1965, American-born British Poet)

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To do the kindest thing, to speak the most inspiring word, to be the most loving one can be: that is enough for one woman’s life.~Fran Becker~ (1942 – 20**, British-born Canadian Artist)

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.~Thomas Jefferson~   (1743-1826, Third President of the USA)

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Our greatest happiness lies in accepting that we are in the right place at the right time to use good conscience, good activity and good judgment in all just and wise things we wish to do. ~Fran Becker~

 

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.– Dan Millman

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Your fears are doorways, leading to  pathways.  Courage is the transmutation of fear and the replacing of it with love –Fran Becker

There is no better exercise for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.~John Andrew Holmes~

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The best exercise for the heart is reaching out and inviting people in.~Fran Becker~

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.~Kahlil Gibran~ 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

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The greatest forgetfulness in feeling, is from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest rememberings ~Fran Becker~

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything. ~William Faulkner~ (1897-1962, American Novelist)

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In bearing and raising a child with special needs a woman accepts, performs and engenders so much more than she ever thought she could…..this enables the heart to explode with unconditional love.~Fran Becker~     (1942 – 20**, Canadian Artist)

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them. ~William Hazlitt~   (1778-1830, British Essayist)

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Our energy can often be in proportion to the opportunities it seeks out, includes, and embraces. We attempt great things when propelled from a deep sense of being inspired- “in love” – in compassion….we continue in sustaining those great things as we experience further feelings which carry us on an upward spiral toward more and more of the greatness of ourselves and others – to the Divine presence ~Fran Becker~

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.~Victor Hugo~ (1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist)

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Sorrow is a relationship to an experience and has less to with God than with the person experiencing the situation. However, aligning oneself with the God within allows for one to ride potentially sorrow-making situations with Grace and using the energies thereby produced more productively and positively than for internal suffering.~Fran Becker~

 

 

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. ~Thomas Carlyle~   (1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author)

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The Courage we  desire and prize is  the courage  to live life beautifully  as well as  to die  gracefully when it is our time. ~Fran Becker

You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hardworking. Do not fear to pioneer, to venture down new paths of endeavor.~Ralph J. Bunche~

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You can integrate all aspects of life’s challenges with determination, courage, perseverance and a joy filled disposition. Accept to pioneer boldly into new areas of experience.~Fran Becker~