The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Eat cookies

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    “Today I will live in the moment—unless it’s unpleasant in which case I’ll eat cookies.” I found this quote in the latest FemaleCreations catalog. I found it the day I felt a bit lethargic because I had eaten too many cookies the day before. I enjoyed the cookies, but I ate too many!

  • A female liver?

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    “There is no female mind,” declared Charlotte Perkins Gilbert, who was born in 1860 and died in 1935. “The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.” I found this quote in Sarah Herman’s book Feminism in 100 Quotes. –Joy

  • Compounds of good and evil

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    “Idealism is too oblivious of the ironic perils to which human virtue, wisdom and power are subject,” writes Reinhold Niebuhr, in his book The Irony of American History. “It is too certain that there is a straight path toward the goal of human happiness; too confident of the wisdom and idealism that prompt men (and…

  • Saved by love

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    “Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime,” writes Reinhold Niebuhr, in his book The Irony of American History. “Therefore, we must be saved by hope. “Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we…

  • Serenity

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    “The final wisdom of life requires, not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it,” writes Reinhold Niebuhr, in his book The Irony of American History. y

  • Namaste

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    My husband, Jerry, and I are going to yoga classes. At the end of every class, the teachers says, “Namaste.” And, we return the greeting. I checked and namaste is “a gesture to send a message of peaceful spirituality to the universe in the hopes of receiving a positive message back.” In our class, we…

  • The great harmonies

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    Reinhold Niebuhr, in his book The Irony of American History, talks about happiness as harmony. “Happiness is desired by all men and women; and moments of it are probably attained by most men and women,” Niebuhr writes. “Only moments of it can be attained because happiness is the inner concomitant of the neat harmonies of…

  • Be present gratefully

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    “Look back forgivingly,” Maya Angelou once said. “Look forward prayerfully. Be present in the present gratefully.”

  • Wine for the soul

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    “Gratitude is wine for the soul,” said Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet. “The emotion of gratitude has so much energy that people get uplifted when we express it. Gratitude gets us drunk with a different texture of love that makes us realize the beauty and marvel of life.”

  • Three gifts

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    “Life is the first gift, love is the second and understanding the third,” wrote poet Marge Piercy.