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My father had gone to Vietnam. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#gone #had #vietnam

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#children #daughters #every #job #make

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#blessing #child #find #great #left

Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#another #audience #been #blues #cumulative

When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great. ↗

— Andrea Bocelli

#hope #people #sing #then #want

When we infuse our actions with a focus on God and on the many blessings we receive in even the most mundane moments of our lives, we create sacred rituals that bring a sense of holiness, a sense of wholeness, to what we do and who we are. Like the Eucharistic feast that nourishes our heart and soul, every meal we eat with mindfulness[,] each bite we take with gratitude, has the power to transform us inside and out, for all time. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

#eating #food #mindful-eating #mindfulness #prayer

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#believe #commits #good #problems #process

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. ↗

— Tom Bodett

#lesson #life #school #taught #teaches

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. ↗

— Tom Bodett

#hope #just #love #needs #person

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#either #mind #reality #study #understand