Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

Alan Cohen
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  1. Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

  2. Be sure you don't lose your happiness teaching others people how to be happy. Your happiness is your teaching.

  3. Time reveals character.

  4. It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

  5. There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

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