Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.
Today I have a choice. I can resist reality and suffer pain or peacefully accept what I cannot change.
Hope gives us something to do when we are afraid of what might happen.
We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.
Miracles are experiences that take us by surprise.
We empower ourselves every time we accept responsibility for choosing the thoughts and feelings we act on.
I will surrender to the moment today.
I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
It's all the same for me, how I teach, how I write, how I think.
There's nothing less than that. I don't care about just going to the playoffs; I've been to the playoffs before.
Under international law, the responsibility for protecting civilians in conflict falls on the belligerents. Under military occupation, responsibility for the welfare of the population falls on the occupiers.