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  1. Wild Women and Friendship
  2. Celebration and Special Days
  3. Simplicity
  4. Sacred Space
  5. Soul Work
  6. Life Journey and Courage
  7. Leadership

Wild Women and Friendship

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Rebellious women have always been central to any kind of major transformation of culture. (bell hooks)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Why would I have all this internal information if I'm not supposed to listen to it? (Anne Wilson Schaef)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Some women wait for something to change and nothing does change so they change themselves. (Audre Lorde)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know they're always there. (Hulali Luta)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement A best friend is someone who loves you when you forget to love yourself. (Unknown)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Characteristics of Women's Leadership: Teach, Empower, Openness, Restructure, A Questioner, A Role Model (from Megatrends for Women)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so.  Their subconscious mind adds these little details together and they call the result intuition. (Agatha Christie)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Your intuition is part of your standard operating equipment. (Victoria Moran)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. (Henry David Thoreau)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Making the decision to have a child - it's wondrous.  It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.  (Elizabeth Stone)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Scatter joy!  (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement In sadness - a life lost.  In celebration - a life remembered.
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thumbnail/link to enlargement After 50 most of the bullshit is gone.  (Isabel Allende)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Come to the edge.  We can't.  We're afraid.  Come to the edge.  We can't.  We will fall.  Come to the edge.  And they came.  And he pushed them.  And they flew.  (Guillaume Apollinaire)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Water, River, Spirit, Grace (Thomas H. Troeger)
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Happy Birth Day!
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Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.  (Saint-Exupery)
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Love is the passionate dance between two hearts.  It is to believe in the dream, and together make it real.  (Sylvana Rosetti)
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Congratulations!! Celebration!!
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Thanks!
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There is a sacredness in tears.  They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.  They speak more eloquently than 10,000 tongues.  They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. (Washington Irving)
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Good luck!
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Oops!
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Missing you...
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Loving you
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thumbnail/link to enlargement What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. (Agnes M. Pharo)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Retirement is about adding to the memories.
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thumbnail/link to enlargement A Jolly, Joyful, Jubilant Birthday!
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thumbnail/link to enlargement You are such a gift!
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things -- wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.  (Eda J. LeShan)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Hot Diggity Dog!!
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Simplicitiy

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thumbnail/link to enlargement I recommend to you holy simplicity.  (Francis de Sales)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Simplify!  (Thoreau)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement We never buy more than we need.  We never need more than we use.  We never use more than it takes to get by.  'Til we learn to need less.  (Old Chinese Saying)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement When we are Authentic, when we keep our spaces simple, simply beautiful living takes place.  (Alexandra Stoddard)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Live simply but be complicated. (Thomas Moore)
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Sacred Space

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thumbnail/link to enlargement The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the sources of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction.  (Laurie Colwin)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming.  (Gaston Bachelard)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.  (Winston Churchill)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement The morning's the size of heaven.  What will you do with it?  (Mark Doty)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement The space for what you want is already filled with what you settle for instead. (Stephen Paul)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement I have three chairs in my house.  One for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. (Thoreau)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Bidden or not bidden, God is present. (Sign at home of Carl Jung)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Happy New House
Happy New Home
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thumbnail/link to enlargement "Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. (Amos Bronson Alcott)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement There's no place like hope. (Kobi Yamada)
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Soul Work

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thumbnail/link to enlargement All our acts have sacramental possibilities.  (Freya Stark)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.  (Nietzsche)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.  (Julia Cameron)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement The state of our souls has a ripple effect on those around us.  (Robert Morris)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.  It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable...  It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. (Martha Graham)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Sow a Thought, Reap an Action; Sow an Action, Reap a Habit; Sow a Habit, Reap a Character; Sow a Character, Reap a Destiny. (Rumi)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement I do not understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are, but does not leave us where it found us.  (Anne Lamott)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.  (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement There is no death, only a change of worlds.  (Chief Seattle)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.  (Tao TeChing)
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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking - only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. (Charles C. West)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body. (Martha Graham)
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Shalom
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thumbnail/link to enlargement To be faithful with what I've been given, to be faithful with who I am, to be faithful with how I am living, I pray to be faithful. (Richard Bruxvoort Colligan)
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Life Journey and Courage

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thumbnail/link to enlargement Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves.  Do not seek the answers that cannot be given you, because you would not be able to live with them, and the point is to live everything. Live the questions now.  Perhaps you will gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.  (Rainer Maria Rilke)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Bring yourself uniquely and fully into bloom - Don't just weed your garden.  (Stephen Paul)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.  (Louise Driscoll)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement You must do the thing you think you cannot do.  (Eleanor Roosevelt)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement All of life is the exercise of risk.  (William Sloan Coffin)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement I've been terrified every day of my life but that's never stopped me from doing everything I wanted to do.  (Georgia O'Keeffe)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Do all the good you can do, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.  (John Wesley)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement It is never too late to be what you might have been. (George Ernst)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement To grow successfully, you must stay true to who you are, even while working feverishly to change who you are.  (J. Willard Marriott, Jr.)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.  (e.e.cummings)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement We don't make mistakes.  We just have 'learnings.'  (Anne Wilson Schaef)
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Dance is a living mantra. (Ruth St. Denis)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Trust your crazy ideas (Dan Zadra)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.  (Lou Whitaker)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement What do you pack to pursue a dream, and what do you leave behind? (Sandra Sharpe)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. (Mignon McLaughlin)
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Leadership

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thumbnail/link to enlargement A true definition of an entrepreneur comes closer to a poet, visionary, or packager of social change.  (Robert Schwartz)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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thumbnail/link to enlargement A mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.  (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
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thumbnail/link to enlargement Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right!  (Henry Ford)
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