The Duck Who Flew Upside Down
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From the Heart of a Grateful Man
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Category Archives: Growth/Learning
4 Things You Didn’t Learn In Driver’s Ed
I found this article informative and interesting. It contains updated strategies for driving safely. A snippet: A cop I know was once fiddling with the in-car computer with his right hand while driving the car with his left hand at … Continue reading
Awakening
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung This has certainly proven true for me. I used to dream a lot, and even made many … Continue reading
Posted in Awareness, Breakthroughs, Choices, Growth/Learning, LIfe Lessons, Quotes I Love
Tagged awaken, awakening, awakens, Carl Jung, dreams, stars
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The Most Selfish Thing I’ve Ever Done
The Thanksgiving holiday period is now over. For some dear people in my life, they weren’t wonderful times. For many, the holidays are cold, dark, and lonely. One friend mentioned the challenge of trying to forgive someone who’d hurt them … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Breakthroughs, Challenges, Dealing with Pain & Grief, Forgiveness, Growth/Learning, Loneliness, Patience & Persistence
Tagged acknowledge, acknowledging, ackowledged, Actions, dear, focus, forgave, forgive, forgiving, holiday, holidays, hurt, loneliness, lonely, Love, loved, pain, selfish, selfishly, Thanksgiving, Work, worked
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Blessed Day
I dream of the blessed day when humanity awakens from its terrible nightmare and begins to fight for peace with as much ferocity, tenacity, and heroism as we’ve fought our wars. –Russ Towne
Posted in Breakthroughs, Courage, Dreams, Growth/Learning, Hope, Making the World a Better Place, Optimism, Peace, Poetry I Wrote, Words or Quotes I Believe I Coined but please let me know if you heard them earlier elsewhere
Tagged dream, ferocity, fight, fight for, for, fought, heroism, humanity, nightmare, peace, tenacity, wars, world
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Regrets vs. Mistakes
“I’d rather have a life full of mistakes than have a heart full of regrets.” –Unknown (Source: tinybuddha) Me too. Then again, I’d rather learn far more from the mistakes of others than have to make them all myself to … Continue reading
Posted in Growth/Learning, LIfe Lessons, Observations, Quotes I Love
Tagged heart, Life, Love, mistakes, regrets, tinybuddha, unknown
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The Life I’ve Needed To Live
“There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already within you. Just reach deep into yourself!” ~Unknown I saw the above quote at http://tinybuddha.com/blog/the-message-your-higher-self-wants-you-to-hear/ That concept, combined with the others below have freed me to live … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Following Your Passion, Gratitude, Growth/Learning, Joy & Happiness, Quotes I Love
Tagged beautiful, creative, deep, free, freed, friends, fun, good, hear, heart, High, higher, kind, knowing, Life, living, Love, loved ones, loving, people, self, sharing, stars, support, supportive, Tiny Buddha, understanding, voice, within, won, yourself
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What Matters To Me
This post is dedicated to anyone who is in the midst of struggle, heartache, pain, and grief. Dark days of any kind. And especially to those who are searching for their gifts, for the meaning of life, or even the … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, Choices, Dealing with Pain & Grief, Growth/Learning, Pain & Grief
Tagged choices, choose, father, fiance', gift, gifts, Grief, heartache, lessons, Life, living, lung, lungs, Mother, pain, reason for living, share, struggle, student, student of life, surgery, Whooping Cough, wisdom, wise, wisely
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A World As Big As Your Heart
“A person’s world is only as big as his heart.” –Tanya A. Moore (Source: Tiny Buddha) I believe that saying is true and wise. As my heart has grown so has my world. Russ
Posted in Growth/Learning, Love, Quotes I Love, Truth, Wisdom
Tagged grow, grown, heart, Love, Tanya A. Moore, Tiny Buddha, true, truth, wisdom, wise, world
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When Positive Emotions Appear
As darkness recedes when light appears, it has been my experience that negative emotions immediately begin to recede when positive emotions appear. Russ
Russ Towne's A Grateful Man 