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Between stimulus and response

Sign on a telephone poll reads, “take a deep breath”

Between stimulus and response, choose the pause. —Viktor E. Frankl

Astonishment

Loch Ness from the high route of the Great Glen Way

Instructions for living a life:

Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

—Mary Oliver

Spend the afternoon

“Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.” —Annie Dillard

Leonard Cohen

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. —Leonard Cohen

A photo of the beach, early morning, lots of clouds, with the sun barely peaking through and casting a dreamy ray of sunlight down over the ocean. Pawleys Island, SC

Stay close

Stay close to any sounds that make you glad you are alive. —Hafez

Emily Dickinson: parties are like shipwrecks

An image of the character Emily Dickinson from the tv show Dickinson. She says about parties, “You should emerge from them soaking wet, out of breath, and helplessly disoriented.”

Kiss the joy

Kiss the joy as it flies. — William Blake

Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the things you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

An image of a snowy woodsy trail with a black lab/Australian Shepard mix standing in 6 inches of snow between two tall and skinny tree trunks

Patience

Patience is also a form of action. —Auguste Rodin

Let go…