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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Fishing

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Fishing

Quotes of the Week from Me: “When things get tangled, start with patience.” “To teach is to learn.” “A good cast starts with height and distance, a great one ends with the right bait in the right location.” Quotes of the Week from Others: “You will earn the respect of all if you begin by earning the respect of yourself.” – Musonius Rufus “When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Live Where You Love

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Live Where You Love

Quotes of the Week from Me: “Today’s the day you do better.” “Never lose today’s potential in anticipation of tomorrow.” “You need to demonstrate how much you want it. Don’t just say it, demonstrate.” Quotes of the Week from Others: “Make the best use of what is in you power, and take the rest as it happens.” – Epictetus “To live outside the law, you must be honest.” – Bob Dylan “Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Memorial Day, 2024

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Memorial Day, 2024

Quotes of the Week from Me: “Work extremely hard for your own satisfaction.” “Enjoy here while you still are.” “We are surrounded by our perception of all we see and feel.” Quotes of the Week from Others: “It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.” – Albert Camus “The art of noticing will make your life forever wholesome.” – Unknown “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: The Cutoff Man

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: The Cutoff Man

Quotes of the Week from Me: “Our lives are full of so much good, so much uncertainty, all at once.” “Intent. Behavior. Habits. Practice.” “Sometimes opportunity just stares at you while it waits for you to engage.” Quotes of the Week from Others: “Some people will not hear you regardless of how much, how loud, how truthful, how loving, or how profound you speak. Wish them well and let them go.” – Unknown “A light here required a shadow there.”…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: The Rope Swing

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: The Rope Swing

Quotes of the Week from Me: “Do our dreams vanish upon living them?” “Your story matters.” “When one door closes another door opens; but know that the next door may be a hole, crack, or tunnel.” Like above, and below, I find it fun to build on famous quotes. You can always redirect or reaffirm what is already said, though I’m not sure this approach is ever fully credible to one owner. More of a sharing of knowledge or thought….

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Candlelight

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Candlelight

Quotes of the Week from Me: “Are you spending enough time?” “Every stage of life offers new wisdom.” “What is ‘understanding’ something?” Quotes of the Week from Others: “I always get to where I’m going by walking away from where I’ve been.” – Winnie the Pooh “Going back to the idea that the living body is like the flame of a candle, we can say that energies of life – in the forms of temperature, light, air, food, and so…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: New Milestones

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: New Milestones

Quotes of the Week from Me: “And one day, you’ll wake to all the right peaces.” “Is the finish line you picture just another milestone?” “Another brand-new day is yours.” Quotes of the Week from Others: “Courage is an expression of fear. You need courage only because there is fear.” – Sadhguru “Ageing is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you should have been.” – David Bowie “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Light and Gentle

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Light and Gentle

Quotes of the Week from Me: “The peace of a blank mind dissolves with the rise of a blind one.” “Perhaps somehow, we could all learn to love ourselves.” “Tap into feeling what’s there, and what’s not.” Quotes of the Week from Others: “In order to realize the worth of the anchor, we need to feel the stress of the storm.” – Corrie Ten Boom “If you feel like you’re losing everything, remember, trees lose their leaves every year, yet…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Questioning Questions

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Questioning Questions

Quotes of the Week from Me: “Make sure you consider all of your options.” “Avoid negative comments about others. Your life will get better.” “It is on you to get you where you want and need to be.” Quotes of the Week from Others: “No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.” – Seneca “Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.” – Epictetus But if progress is…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Is the Oven On?

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Is the Oven On?

Quotes of the Week from Me: “There is always something that needs to get done.” “A broken mirror reveals the frailty of beauty’s imperfection.” “Eliminate distractions.” “Be more intentional with less.” Quotes of the Week from Others: “Only when you realize you are blessed, will you really tap into what you can give.” – Brendan Burchard “The world will only give you what you ask of it.” – Eddie Pinero “If you don’t do your dance, who will?” – Gabrielle…

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