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nothing ever happens

time to reflect…

1. Change
“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.”

2. Control.
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

3. Forgiveness
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

4. Action.
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”

5. The present moment.
“I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.”

6. Everyone is human.
“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”
“It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”

7. Persist.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

8. Goodness.
“I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.”
“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

9. Truth
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”

10. Development.
“Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position”

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ten years have passed since the day the world changed forever. american or not you felt this change, directly or indirectly. so many stories have been told, so many tears have been dropped, and after 10 years have passed we still feel the pain and fear of that horrible day. there are tons of stories of hope and faith, i could read about them for days. but i found this one very inspiring. Kimeli, a boy from Afrida, considered sub-human becomes a warrior to help America. we can all learn more than a lot from him.

i love surf boards, but the idea of standing in one and paddling through the ocean seems too hard until i saw this pictures. doing yoga on a paddle board, that is what i call a challenge.

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have you heard about them? they are popping up everywhere, livable and edible gardens on rooftops. sounds so cool and eco-friendly. its like getting a new plot of land to play with. need to find more about it, so i can re-do my roof. apparently they are huge in Portland, Oregon. i even found a very cool company that does them Portland’s Ecorrofs.

look how pretty they look.

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“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.”

- Gilda Radner

via dharmakicks