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Deb Grabetz
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Posted: Mon Oct 25th, 2010 10:24 |
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The masterpiece You are a highly accomplished artist, creating the ongoing masterpiece of your life. It is a singularly unique work of art that comes to life more richly and more fully in your every moment.
The masterpiece of your life is not the same as any other, and that is what gives it much of its beauty. It is a living, breathing, feeling work of art that is a distinctive and irreplaceable expression of wonder and joy.
As you feel the remarkable reality of yourself, always remember that you transcend every label that could ever be placed on you. Though there are many ways you have been, there are countless other ways that you can yet be.
You are not old or young, not wealthy or poor, not healthy or ill, for those are all merely outward states that you may choose to experience. In fact, you are life itself, and every experience adds to the value and richness.
Just as the darker areas of a painting and the lighter areas play off each other, so too do the varieties of your experience all add to the masterpiece of your life. With each new day, the masterpiece becomes more magnificent.
In this moment, work your art well, letting it flow from your authentic heart. Give your spirit cause to soar, and forever capture the unique beauty of now within the masterpiece that is your life.
Read more: http://www.greatday.com/#ixzz13MbOcscB
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Sallie Q
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Posted: Wed Nov 10th, 2010 00:28 |
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Reason obeys itself, and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Thomas Paine, (1737 - 1809), American Revolutionary
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Deb Grabetz
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Posted: Thu Nov 11th, 2010 11:15 |
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Sallie good point!! Oh how ignorance can rear its ugly head!
I'm a big fan of Ralph Marston (as you all may have noticed). This morning as I read my homepage I realized how very true this particular writing of his has been to me, personally. When difficulties come we can become so overloaded with the "what ifs" the "what to do now" and often forget our inner strengths far outweight our battles.
This was so true for me when my sarc hit me again four years ago. This time being 50 though it landed me flat in bed for months...Each and every day I continued to tell myself I was much stronger than this disease and with the help of the MP proved this to be true. You are stronger than your disease...and although on most days it may not feel this way...this strength will push you to the top!
Sometimes my toughest battles were not even with my disease but with those around me, who didn't understand my disease. I have gained great strength from having to believe in myself...and knowing that the MP was going to turn my life around! God Bless!
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Get stronger When the difficulties come, and pile so high on top of one another that you can't see the way forward, you have a choice. You can choose to give up, or you can choose to get stronger.
You can choose to bury your dreams under impenetrable layers of worry and fear. Or you can choose to make those dreams even more magnificent and compelling so that you cannot resist being pulled forward by them.
You can choose to feel sorry for yourself, or you can choose to feel the power of your true purpose. You can look for who is to blame, or you can look for ways to take full responsibility for the situation.
This is your life, and even the difficult stretches are very much worth living. In fact, it is during the challenging times that you build new capacity for greater richness.
When there is no obvious reason to be positive, choose to be more positive than ever before. Instead of being overwhelmed by the problems, choose to be energized by the positive possibilities hidden within them.
Feel the genuine confidence that comes from knowing you always have a choice. And choose to live the positive value in whatever life may send.
-- Ralph Marston
Read more: http://www.greatday.com/#ixzz14yVCOv8u
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Joyful
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Posted: Mon Nov 15th, 2010 02:37 |
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I did it. I survived my daytime trip to the hairdresser's shop and lived to tell the tale.
I even came home with a pretty necklace from the case she keeps for a friend.
Even with my cognitive powers at a little better level than in past years, I am still in need of a computer program to help with reminders for paying the bills. It also serves to help as a communication tool between my spouse and I in our financial conversations. One feature of this program is that you can track spending by category.
As I prepared to enter my petty cash purchase into the computer, I leaned over to ask my better half, "hmmm, what category do you think jewelry should go into?"
He smiled, as he quickly said, "home improvement!"
  
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Deb Grabetz
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Posted: Tue Dec 7th, 2010 14:13 |
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One must only read the lastest post by Elizabeth Edwards on her Facebook page to understand the meaning of true courage:
"...there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like," she added. "It's called being human. But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful. It isn't possible to put into words the love and gratitude I feel to everyone who has and continues to support and inspire me every day. To you I simply say: you know."
God Bless You Elizabeth
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Joyful
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Posted: Wed Dec 8th, 2010 02:52 |
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Thanks for this Deb!
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Deb Grabetz
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Posted: Wed Dec 8th, 2010 11:50 |
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Joyful,
Elizabeth Edwards was a special woman. Unfortunately I learned this late in her life as we watched her struggle with cancer. She writes that she doesn't want it said that she lost her battle with cancer...I don't think this was how she wanted to be remembered.
She truly was a woman to watch--from the visit she made to meet John's daughter from his affair and bring her Christmas gifts...to the love of her family...to the brave, brave battle she fought with cancer. Truly, if we could all live with such grace, the world would be a better place
Maybe this is when we see our true character, during our personal struggles!
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Posted: Thu Dec 9th, 2010 02:07 |
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That's a fact, Deb.
Remembering who you are (your true identity) and acting like yourself under great distress demonstrates the strength of character we all so desire.
After reading some of the newer neurobiology research and seeing the effects of chronic disease on the functional capacities of the brain, I am even more compassionate for those of us who lack the organic capability to "act like ourselves" under duress.
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Deb Grabetz
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Posted: Mon Dec 20th, 2010 10:28 |
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My wish would be that every member on the MP would embrace todays motivational quote by Ralph Marston!
Monday, December 20, 2010
A full-time thing If you quit before the work is completed, the work you've done is wasted. Honor the time and effort you've already put into it by finishing what you started.
If you plant a seed, and water it just for a few days, and then stop, you might as well have never planted it. Remember to direct your focus again and again toward those things you're committed to completing.
Being inspired for a few minutes or for a day or two feels good. Being inspired for a lifetime is what actually achieves good and valuable results.
Remind yourself what a truly extraordinary opportunity you have by virtue of being you. Then remind yourself again, and again, on every day, in each new situation.
Feel the exquisite joy and purposeful power of being alive. Then commit yourself to staying connected to that feeling.
Don't settle for just a few moments here and there of brilliance and inspiration and true richness. Make life's richness a full-time thing.
-- Ralph Marston
Read more: http://www.greatday.com/#ixzz18eJljepg
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Pipistrelle
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Posted: Thu Jan 20th, 2011 17:54 |
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“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires…courage.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Posted: Fri Jan 28th, 2011 00:00 |
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Nice to see you chirpy enough to write, Pipistrelle
here's one I turned up in 'The King's Speech'
(Quercus 2010 by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi )
Lionel Logue referring to King George VI
"He realised that the will to be cured was not enough but that it called for grit, hard work and self-sacrifice...."
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Posted: Fri Feb 11th, 2011 01:26 |
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Truth is the child of time, not of authority
Life and Times of Galileo by Bertoldt Brecht
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