The Resolute Woman

Category: peace

  • Shifting gears

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    Sometimes, when you’ve been busy getting ready for a vacation, it’s difficult to slow down. This summer, when I was in Eureka Springs in a cabin on a hill, it took me two days to change my pace. But, one afternoon, I sat on the porch with a good book and enjoyed a cool breeze—and…

  • The best day

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    “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year,” Emerson once said.

  • The little things

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    “Delight in the little things,” Rudyard Kipling once said.

  • The silence within yourself

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    “Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose,” Elizabeth Kubler-Ross once said.

  • Better than heroin

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    I’ve never tried heroin. So, I’ll have to believe that Mary Karr knows what she’s talking about. “Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you’re not there anymore,” Karr says. “It’s better than heroin.” I do know that reading has given me great pleasure and comfort. We found Karr’s quote in The…

  • I shall have some peace

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    When I feel stressed, I often find peace during a walk outside—or just standing under a tree for a few minutes and listening to the sounds of the birds and the wind. That’s why I like these lines from William Butler Yeats’ poem “The Lake of Innisfree.” ….And I shall have some peace there, for…

  • Books and music

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    What will Mrs. Dashwood and her daughter Margaret do when her two older daughters go on a trip? “We shall go on so quietly and happily together with our books and our music,” Mrs. Dashwood stresses in Jane Austin’s Sense and Sensibility. I am sure that I wouldn’t want to live in England in the…

  • The case for optimism

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    I often find wisdom in unexpected places. I was standing in line at Chipolte Mexican Grill waiting for a burrito to-go for my husband when I noticed a quote in big letters on a brown paper bag. No, I did not get a burrito for me because I am still trying to lose the five…

  • Share the gift of peace

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    I found this lovely message on a Christmas card from my friend Mary Ann. Peace is not something you wish for. It’s something you make, Something you do, Something you are And something you give away. Share the gift of peace. –Joy

  • How anger can be light

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    Arun Gandhi was 12 years old when he and his family visited his grandfather Mahatma Gandhi. Arum struggled to be a Gandhi, to live up to his famous grandfather’s name and reputation. “Peace and stillness did not come easily to me,” he remembers. One day, when another boy shoved him during a soccer game, Arun…