mutual acceptance ... Bob Dylan

I accept chaos. 

I'm not sure 

whether it accepts me. 

~Bob Dylan

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making change ... Nathaniel Branden

The first step toward 

change is awareness. 

The second step 

is acceptance. 

-Nathaniel Branden

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Location: Montezuma's Well, Arizona

a good definition of love via Mr. Rogers (Fred Rogers)

Love isn't a state of 

perfect caring. 

It is an active noun 

like struggle. 

To love someone is to strive

 to accept that person

 exactly the way he or she is,

 right here and now.

- Fred Rogers

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growth with Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't judge each day

by the harvest

you reap but by the seeds

that you plant.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

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Location: Sonoran Desert, Arizona

liberation through learning ... Carl T. Rowan

The library is

the temple of learning,

and learning has

liberated more people

than all the wars in history.

~Carl T. Rowan

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be proud of yourself ... Lauren Bacall

I think your whole life

shows in your face

and you should be

proud of that.

~ Lauren Bacall

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Taken in 1943 in Texas

striking out with John D. Rockefeller

If you want to succeed 

you should strike out 

on new paths, 

rather than travel 

the worn paths of 

accepted success. 

~John D. Rockefeller

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Lydia Child's musings ... in the clouds

Misfortune is never mournful
 to the soul that
 accepts it;
for such do
always see that
every cloud is
an angel's face.
~Lydia M. Child

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