Listen.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have, life itself

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Walter Anderson

I choose daily to treasure the gifts of my life.

Those that are AND those that were.

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Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others…for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

— 

Albert Einstein

And how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

Exceedingly and eternally relevant.

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note to self 

During the First World War (1914-1918), soldiers ordered a cease-fire truce during Christmas time, so soldiers wouldn’t have to fight on the holiday.  Soldiers from opposing forces exchanged cigarettes and other goods, and even engaged in activities like football, as depicted in this photo from 1915.  This Christmas Truce is now seen as a symbolic moment of peace amidst one of the bloodiest battles ever fought in history.

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Teachers and impacted lives.

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Stephen McCranie

The last page really… made this all make sense it a way it never has before for me.

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I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

— Maya Angelou (via keepsdiary)

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