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WORDS OF WISDOM: Grateful Living - C N U A

• No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant. - Fra Giovanni Giocondo
• When you feel the earth moving, bring yourself back to the now. You’ll handle whatever shake-up the next moment brings when you get to it.
  At this moment, you’re still breathing. At this moment, you’ve survived. At this moment, you’re finding a way to step onto higher ground. - Oprah Winfrey
• How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning? - FRED ROGERS
• We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. - Ray Bradbury
• We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. - Natalie Goldberg
• A miracle happened: another day of life. - Paulo Coelho
• Willing to experience aloneness, I discover connection everywhere; Turning to face my fear, I meet the warrior who lives within. - Jennifer Welwood
• I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess to being a student, growing, and learning something new every day. - Sonia Sanchez
• In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something.
  And that’s a whole different thing. - Lucille Clifton
• You are worthy of every drop of sweetness and ease that you encounter. - Alex Elle
• You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities
  and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope. - Thomas Merton
• I try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward. - Charlotte Brontë
• I find ecstasy in living — the mere sense of living is joy enough. - Emily Dickinson
• Behold this day, for it is yours to make. - Black Elk
• May you grow still enough to hear the small noises earth makes in preparing for the long sleep of winter,
  so that you yourself may grow calm and grounded deep within. - Br. David Steindl-Rast

Source: www.gratefulness.org