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What’s Your Path?

April 2, 2018 | suezquesteen | • • • • • • • • • • • | balance • being better • change • freedom • kindness • parenting • personal growth • positive thinking | No Comments

“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself.” ~Walt Whitman It was a chilly afternoon, and my older son had pulled in the driveway after a vocal performance test. Eager to hear how he thought he had done, I raced outside without a sweater. “I nailed […]

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An Abandoned Life

May 7, 2017 | suezquesteen | • • • | balance • being better • change • character • freedom • healthy body • kindness • parenting • personal growth • positive thinking | No Comments

I like to think the abandoned house is happy, burden-free, collapsing into itself like a body that has had enough of living and is ready to let go, to relinquish its heart to any weather, thankful to be at home in nature.  The Beauty of Abandonment~Jane Ellen Glasser There are some really neglectful parents out […]

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Thoughts to Encourage

Joy is the will which labors, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.~ William Butler Yeats

Whether you think you can or think you can’t you’re right. - Henry Ford

The best way out is always through. ~ Robert Frost

Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~ Theodore N. Vail

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. ~ Oliver Goldsmith

You must be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing helps like a good nap…

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