Stacey Kramer: The best gift I ever survived

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She is right….I faced something that was unexpected, unwanted and uncertain but when I look at it, it was more like a gift. My benign ovarian tumor on my right ovaries was a huge wake-up call for me.  Before that, I did not really value my health.  I smoked like crazy, ate unhealthy food and had very little exercise. But since this health scare, I have quit smoking for two weeks now and started eating healthy food. Lost weight and feels cleaner inside and out.  However, the cravings of nicotine is still very strong but I try to keep my mind busy. Yes, it cost me money on the surgery but if a tumor grew on my ovaries, it can happen in my lungs…So I quit.

“The next time you face something that’s unexpected, unwanted, and uncertain, consider that it just may be a gift.”

Stacey Kramer

Someday………..

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.  Brainy Quote

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loneliness | solitude | individualism

“There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature,always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.”

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright. Narrator of Man in a Case, Works, vol. 10, p. 42, “Nauka” (1976).

If you are stuck, listen up…

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Inspiring.  Catchy thump, thump, thump rhythmic cadence.  Hypnotic.  Worthy 3 minute clip.  A few of my favorite excerpts.

“This is an invocation for anyone who hasn’t begun to start, who is stuck between 0 and 1”

“Let me think about the people I care about the most.  Like when they fail or disappoint me, I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them.  Let me extend the same generosity to myself.

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Truly inspiring....An Invocation for beginnings

Be still...

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“…Learn to silence the chattering of your ego, whether through prayer, meditation, or a long walk in the park. Find that place where you can detach from the pressures of the world. Find that place where your body and spirit work together in harmony…You don’t need the right car, the right shoes, the right girl­friend to be complete.  All you really need is to be yourself. 

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Yes indeed..In silence, I will hear God and he will lead me the way.

Love: Quotes by Mother Teresa

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Love cannot remain by itself… it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that act is service.

It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into the doing that matters.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Love is like a fruit in season at all times. Love can warm three winter months.

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

HAPPY VALENTINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!