Nourishing Nibbles
#NourishingNibbles centers on getting back in touch with your oldest friend – YOU! This offering features a mix of intimate views from the lives of people who are thriving, expanding boundaries, and exploring the power of gratitude and appreciation.
George Adams
"Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement."
Free To Be Single, 6th Edition
Contributed by Donna Marie When I saw the movie Crazy, Stupid, Love, I couldn't help but notice that the vast majority of the seemingly endless movie previews were of the romantic comedy variety. I'm a sucker for romantic comedies but this got me wondering, "Is the...
Marshall B. Rosenberg
"When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion."
David and Bruce McArthur, The Intelligent Heart
"You deserve the fun, the joy, the freedom, and the pure goodness that flows through the experience of love that indwells you ... the choice is yours."
Oprah Winfrey
"Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand."
Richard Branson
"I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue."
Wednesday’s Spicy Morsels: Friends with Benefits
Contributed by Liam J. According to Urban Dictionary, “friends with benefits” describes two friends who have a sexual relationship without a monogamous relationship or any kind of commitment. I had never imagined being in such a relationship but this is the case. You...
Sam Keen
"The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego -- your need to possess and control -- and transform you into a...
Thich Nhat Hanh
"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green...
Donna Marie
"There is a power available in silence, an at-one-ment with life, where there is no beginning and no end ... simply, the experience of aliveness."
Sylvia Boorstein
"In the light of the wisdom that comes from balanced understanding, attachment to having things be other than what they are falls away."
Mohandas Gandhi
"The world can only be as sane and healthy as the individuals living in it. If we want to live in a balanced environment, we must find and heal what is out of balance with ourselves."
The Islam Nobody Knows
Contributed by Michael Levin, BusinessGhost A year ago, I stopped at a filling station in Fountain Valley to get gas and a snack. The station owner saw me pondering the Vitamin Water, stepped out from behind the counter, and approached. "Are you a Jew?"...
Friday’s Culture Casserole: The Hunger Games
Contributed by Donna Marie I, along with tens of thousands, saw The Hunger Games on opening weekend and, according to Entertainment Weekly's Inside Movies box office update, the opening day box office for the film was the best for a non-sequel. Hoping to avoid...
Pamela Vault Starr
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
Kahlil Gibran
"The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves."
Donna Marie
"The qualities we admire or judge in others are qualities that already exist within ourselves."
Gary Zukav
"You cannot find your soul with your mind, you must use your heart. You must know what you are feeling. If you don't know what you are feeling, you will create unconsciously. If you are unconscious of an aspect of yourself; if it operates outside your field of...
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