One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then … - Marjorie Holmes

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Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care, education, elder care, and other life-affirming programs) would generate huge increases in GDP and incomes, with virtually no impact on the environment.

Marjorie Holmes

One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you - and nobody even notices.

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Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this day. Direct my thoughts and bless them Direct my work and bless it. Direct the things I say and give them blessing, too. Direct and bless everything that I think and speak and do. So that for this one day, just this one day, I have the gift of grace that comes from your presence. . . .

Bless, Blessing, Give, Grace, Life, Thinking

Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.

Course, Happens, Let Me, People, Remember

Death is the perfect knowing.

Death, Knowing, Perfect

simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.

Blessing, Energy, Improve, Joy, Prayer, Somehow

The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

Friendship, Gold, Man, Men, Solid, Usually