Belonging.

Sunday Inspiration.     Post by David Joel Miller.

Family of teddy bears.

Belonging.
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Belonging.

“I didn’t belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I’d known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.”

― Bette Midler

“When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don’t belong.”

― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

“If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own backyard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it, to begin with.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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Selfishness.

Sunday Inspiration.     Post by David Joel Miller.

Waste dump.

Selfishness and Waste.
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Selfishness.

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”

― Oscar Wilde

“We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.”

― Booker T. Washington, The Story of My Life and Work

“Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.”

― Harry Truman

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Hope.

Sunday Inspiration.     Post by David Joel Miller.

Hope.

Hope tiles.

Hope.
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“Hope

Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,

Whispering ‘it will be happier’…”

― Alfred Tennyson

“I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.”

― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“Hope is a waking dream.”

― Aristotle

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Parenting.

Sunday Inspiration.     Post by David Joel Miller.

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Raising good children.
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Parenting.

“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.”  Abigail Van Buren

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”  James Baldwin

“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”  Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Dreams.

Sunday Inspiration.     Post by David Joel Miller.

Dreams.

View of dreamland.

Dream land.

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

― Suzy Kassem

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

“I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?”

John Lennon

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Sunlight.

Sunday Inspiration.     Post by David Joel Miller.

Sunlight.

walking in the sunlight.

Sunlight

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Benjamin Franklin

“Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight.”

Gordon B. Hinckley

“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?”

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Gift.

Sunday Inspiration.     Post by David Joel Miller.

Gift.

cat as gift.

Gift Cat.

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”

― Mother Teresa

“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”

― Charles Dickens

“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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Gratitude.

Sunday Inspiration.     Post by David Joel Miller.

Gratitude.

grateful

Gratitude

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”

― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

― Epicurus

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Sharing.

Sunday Inspiration.     Post by David Joel Miller.

Sharing.

Sharing food.

Sharing.

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”

― John Bunyan

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”

― Jack London

“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”

― Abraham Lincoln

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Ambition.

Sunday Inspiration.     Post by David Joel Miller.

Ambition.

Ambition sign.

Ambition.

“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody.”

― Abraham Lincoln

“When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.”

― Jim Henson

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.”

― Barack Obama

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