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We Are Branches of the Same Tree

All human beings are limbs of each other,

having been created of one essence.

When time affects a limb with pain,

The other limbs cannot at rest remain.

If thou feel not other’s misery,

A human being is no name for thee.

—Sa’adi, 1210–1290

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Take Positive Action

In a time of destruction, create something.

A poem.

A parade.

A community.

A school.

A vow.

A moral principle.

One peaceful moment.

—Maxine Hong Kingston

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Everything Will Be All Right

I will breathe.

I will think of solutions.

I will not let my worry control me.

I will not let my stress level break me.

I will simply breathe.

And it will be okay.

Because I don’t quit.

— Shayne McClendon

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Still I Rise

You will become a graveyard

of all the women you once were

before you rise one morning

embraced by your own skin.

You will swallow a thousand

different names

before you taste the meaning

held within your own.

—Pavana

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The Soul Walks All Paths

The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs

rise and run murmuring to the sea;

And the treasure of your infinite depths

would be revealed to your eyes.

But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;

And seek not the depths of your knowledge

with staff or sounding line.

For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

Say not, “I have found the truth,”

but rather, “I have found a truth.”

Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.”

Say rather, “I have met the soul walking upon my path.”

For the soul walks upon all paths.

The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

—Kahlil Gibran

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You Are Brave

I am whole.

I am learning.

I am letting go.

I am free.

I am talented and courageous.

I am protecting my joy.

I am brave.

I am healing.

I am loving myself.

Unapologetically.

—Alex Elle

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Do Not Despair

Let no sadness come to this heart.

Let not trouble come to these arms.

Let no conflict come to these eyes.

Let my soul be filled

with the blessing of joy and peace.

—Hamsa Prayer

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Respect Yourself

Learn to be alone

without being lonely.

Learn to admire your beauty

without finding fault.

Learn to love yourself

without the love of others.

—h.r.d.

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I Will Not Die an Unlived Life

I will not die an unlived life.

I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.

I choose to inhabit my days,

to allow my living to open me,

to make me less afraid,

more accessible,

to loosen my heart

until it becomes a wing.

—Dawna Markova

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Live the Life You Always Imagined

I learned this, at least

by my experiment:

that if one advances confidently

in the direction of his dreams,

and endeavors to live the life

which he has imagined,

he will meet with a success

unexpected in common hours.

—Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

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Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water

When trouble is close at hand.

Your Word will be a lamp for me,

a guide to light my way,

a solid place to set my feet,

a compass when I stray.

May I live my life to praise You,

not for fortune, nor for fame,

may everything I say and do

bring glory to Your name.

May my eyes stay fixed upon You

as I seek the way that’s pure,

tasting Your love and goodness

sleeping and rising secure.

Planted by Your living streams

I’ll delight in all Your ways,

hidden by Your sheltering wings

with new mercies for each day.

Even in a dangerous land

when storms threaten to destroy,

at the cross I’ll stand upon the Rock

my Strength, my Hope, my Joy.

Dear Lord, show me Your favor,

at all times keep me blessed,

may Your face ever shine upon me,

with peace and perfect rest. Amen.

—Mary Fairchild

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Stronger than the Storm Within Me

I will trust in the

darkness and know that my

times, even now, are in Your

hand. Tune my spirit to the

music of heaven, and

somehow, make my

obedience count for You.

—The Prayer of Saint Brendan

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Find Refuge Here

He will cover you with his feathers,

and under his wings you will find refuge;

his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

You will not fear the terror of night,

nor the arrow that flies by day,

nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,

nor the plague that destroys at midday.

—Psalm 91:1–16