Czechs protest pro-Russian president, accuse him of treason
Russia blacklists 8 EU officials in retaliatory action
Moscow decries 'unfriendly actions' as U.S. ends visa services for most Russians
Secretary of State Blinken to visit Ukraine in wake of massive Russian military buildup
Russian military says its troops back to bases after buildup
Moscow is annoyed Eastern European governments no longer turn a blind eye to assassinations by 'Unit 29155'
Russia rejects Ukraine's push to revise 2015 peace deal
Russia expels seven more European diplomats
Russia Challenge Remains Even as Ukraine Crisis Abates
Russian minister: US-Russia ties worse than during Cold War
Bulgaria probes possible Russian involvement in arms depot blasts
Russian military intervenes to halt clashes in Syrian city
Russia holds naval drills as U.S. vessel moves to Black Sea
Ukrainian leader calls for revamp of peace process to end Donbas war
Ukrainian president upbeat on chances of Putin meeting and new ceasefire

German Court Orders Revisions To Climate Law, Citing 'Major Burdens' On Youth
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Germany Will Repatriate Benin Bronzes, Plundered From Africa In The 19th Century

Oil Spill Reported Off China Coast After Tanker, Bulk Carrier Collide
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Myanmar risks coming to standstill as violence worsens -U.N. envoy
UN envoy: Myanmar military faces demands for democracy
Thousands of Myanmar villagers poised to flee violence to Thailand, group says
UN says conflict in Myanmar impedes its humanitarian aid
EU extends Myanmar sanctions, including against junta leader
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Rebels attack Myanmar army near border, junta knocks back ASEAN plan
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Myanmar activists deride ASEAN-junta consensus, vow to continue protests
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Southeast Asian leaders call for end to violence in Myanmar
Southeast Asian leaders to discuss Myanmar with coup leader
Southeast Asian leaders to press Myanmar junta to end violence, allow aid - sources
Thai Premier Says He’s ‘Concerned’ About Situation in Myanmar

75 days - Warren

Virus surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India's borders
U.S. Will Impose New Ban On Travel From India As Coronavirus Rages
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Russia records more than 400,000 excess deaths during pandemic -Reuters calculations
Scientists back Brazil's decision to ban Russian COVID vaccine
India sets another COVID case record, and Brazil’s health minister makes plea for vaccines
Erdogan says Turkey expects more COVID-19 vaccines soon
India cases up as scientists appeal to Modi to release data
Vaccinating more than anywhere else, China still needs to speed up
Pakistan to get over 15 million doses of COVID vaccine in next two months - minister
China's Xi offers more help to India in message to Modi
Brazil COVID-19 Deaths Top 400,000 Amid Fears Of Worsening Crisis
India’s incomplete Covid-19 data doesn’t begin to capture the crisis in Delhi
India to receive first batch of Russia's COVID-19 vaccine on May 1 -RDIF
India's crushing COVID-19 caseload the result of a 'perfect storm' of factors, experts say
Doctors threatened for blowing whistle on India's oxygen crisis
Czechs says they lack info needed to assess Sputnik vaccine for use
Brazil regulator rejects Sputnik vaccine; Russia cries foul
Russia's Sputnik V developers to sue Brazilian regulator for 'false information' about their vaccine
Venezuela gets 80,000 more Sputnik V vaccine doses as COVID-19 cases surge
EU report accuses Russia, China of sowing mistrust in Western vaccines

Stop focusing on: " Loves me? Love me not? " Focus on loving yourself more, so you hold out for someone who makes it clealy they love you. - Karen Salmansohn

The most destructive thing I've ever done is believe someone e'se;s opinion of me. - Teal Blue Jay

Everyone talks about how hard it is to trust people after you've been hurt. But barely anyone talks about how hard it is to trust yourself when you 've had your gut instincts and convictions skilfully undermined by someone. - unknown

I'm afraid they don't love me the way I love them.
They don't. We all love differenlty and lov eis not an equation that can be balanced. Some us need to love deeply and earnestly. Some of us need to feel like love is painful in order to knwo that it is love. Some of us just want to be in the same room as someone else. The question is not , "is their love enough for me," the question is, is your love enough for you?" - Iain S. Thomas

Life isn't a picture of perfection. Rather it's the weaving of imperfect moments and normal times and challenges and good days. Life really is the unfoling of an imperfecly perfect story. - Rachel Marie Martin

The secret to living well. and longer is : eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure. - unknown

Every creative person is a duality or a synthesis of contradictory qualities. One the one side he is human being with a personal life, while on the other he is an impersonal creative process. - Carol Jung

You're not supposed to win or lose arguments. You're suppoed to reach a mutual understanding and agreement. Otherwise, you both lose. - unknown

If you and a fool have an argruemnt, he wins. - African Proverb

愛

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Love is the most healing force in the world. Nothing goes deeper than love; it heals not only the body, not only the mind, but also the soul. - Unknown

When we shift our energy from fear to love, we find our way. - Panache Desai

Being called sensitve for reacting to disrespect is manipulation at its fines. - @STU_07

This is a master manipulator.
“A person who controls or influences others in a clever or unscrupulous way.”
This is why we must love, accept, and trust ourselves, so that we can stand up to unscrupulous behavior.
When we doubt our feelings, and push them away, and then write a story like, “Oh they didn’t treat me so bad, I must have done something to provoke it” or you use toxic positivity and say “I shouldn’t have reacted so negatively” we are giving in to the manipulation and abandoning ourselves. It okay to respond “negatively” there is nothing wrong with you when this happens.
Of course own your response in a situation, but make sure you communicate that the other person MUST own their behavior, otherwise there can be no helpful resolution. Nothing will change and you deserve to be seen and heard. - Barb Schmidt

Any form of image you have about another, or about yourself, prevents the beauty of relationship. - J. Krishnamurti

If it's out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too. - unknown

It's only heavy when you hold it, but when you let it go, it's got no weight at all. - Ajahn Brahm

Complaining is finding faults. Wisdom is finding solutions. - Ajahn Brahm

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“When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.” -Thich Nhat Hanh

Don't let uncertainty talk you into pursuing a back up plan instead of your purpose. - Bob Goff

Be the reason someone feels welcome, seen, heard, valued, loved, and supported. - Unknown

There's a world of possibiliites when you start each day with your herat and soul filled with gratitude. - Susie N. Wilson

Every thought that we put into the world, affects it. Think love, think peace, think harmony. - unknown

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EVEN THE HEALER NEEDS

Sometimes we are exactly what we need.
Eventually, the Helper will need Assistance. The Encourager will need Uplifting. The Comforter needs Reassurance —and even the Healer needs to be Healed.
Through our emotional needs, Life makes itself known, exposes our similarities and insists on the importance of connection within the warmth of empathetic presence.
Developing an awareness of what we need to be healthy, to take in love and to feel safe in the world, then cultivating clear and peaceful language to express each one vulnerably, is a process that can open the door to Harmony.
So, may you learn to listen and follow your heart's insistent cries of longing back to the origin of your earliest pains and bring forward your needs to be heard, finally, with recognition, understanding, and acceptance.
And may you likewise know the content and deserving blessing of feeling met and tenderly received. - Susan Frybot

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Japan government advisers warn birth rate falling at more rapid pace this year

Mexico plays down Sputnik vaccine delays after domestic production deal
Canada military will help out in the province of Ontario as the Covid-19 positivity rate hits an all-time high
Foreign aid trickles in as India's infections reach catastrophic levels
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Japan's unused 14 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines point to logistical hurdles
India’s top doctor association places Modi at the centre of the country’s Covid-19 spread
Russian vaccines sent to Slovakia on hold for at least a month
Brazil regulator rejects Sputnik vaccine; Russia cries foul
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Kazakhstan rolls out its own COVID-19 vaccine
Scientists, doctors slam Hungarian government criticism of western vaccines

You cannot save anyone.
You can be present with them, offer your groundedness, your sanity, your peace. You can even share your path with them, offer your perspective. But you cannot take away their pain. You cannot walk their path for them. You cannot give answers that are right for them, or even answers they can digest right now. They will have to find their own answers, ask their own questions or lose their own questions, make friends with their own uncertainty. They will need to make their own mistakes, feel their own sorrows, learn their own lessons. If they truly want to be at peace, they will have to trust the path of healing that reveals itself step by step.
But you cannot heal them. You cannot diffuse their fear, their anger, their feelings of powerlessness. You cannot save them, or make things right for them. If you push too hard, they may lose their own unique way. Your way may not be their way.
You did not create their pain. You may have done or not done some things, said or not said some things, triggering pain that was already inside them. But you did not create it, and you are not guilty, even if they say you are. You can take responsibility for your words and deeds, yes, you can grieve over a past, but you cannot erase or change what happened, and you cannot control the future. You can only meet them in the here and now, your only place of power. You are not responsible for their happiness, and they are not responsible for yours.
Your happiness cannot come from outside of you. If it does, it is a dependent happiness, a fragile happiness that will turn to sorrow so quickly. And then you will get caught up in a web of blame and guilt, regret and persecution. Your happiness is directly related to your presence, your connection with your breath, your body, the earth. Your happiness is not small, and cannot be removed by fear, or anger, or the most intense shame. Your happiness is not a state, or a passing experience, or even a feeling that others can give to you. Your happiness is vast, ever-present, the boundless space of the heart, in which joy and sorrow, bliss and boredom, certainty and doubt, loneliness and connection, even fear and longing, can move like the weather, like the rain and the sunshine, all held in the hugeness of the sky.
You cannot save anyone, and you cannot be saved if you are looking to be saved. There is no self to save, no self to lose, no self to defend, no self to make perfect or perfectly happy. Let go of every impossible ideal. You are beautiful in your imperfection, outrageously perfect in your doubts, loveable even in your feelings of unlove-ability. All these parts have been given, all are parts of the whole, and you were never less than whole.
You are breathing. You know you are alive. You have a right to exist, feel what you feel, think what you think. You have a right to your joy and a right to your sorrows. You have a right to doubt too. You have a right to walk your path. You have a right to be right and a right to be wrong, a right to this giant happiness that you knew when you were young. You are breathing, and you are inseparable from the life force that animates all things, knows itself as all beings, discovers itself in every moment of this impossibly wondrous existence.
Your self-worth is not tied to what others think of you. It is tied to the moon, to the infinite expanse of the cosmos, to comets blazing towards unknown destinations, to the forgetting of time and the love of solitude and this unspeakable gratitude for each new dawn, unexpected, given. -Jeff Foster

You can't heal the people you love. You can't make choices for them. You can't rescure them. You can't promise that they won't joruney alone. You can loan them your map. But the trip is theirs. - Unknown

Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick. - Hippocrates

Your perception of me is reflection of you; my reaction to you is an awareness of me. - unknown

Sometimes all you can do is accept there's not much you can do. And sometiems all you can control is how well you let go of control. - Lori Deschene

Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you. - Karen Salmnasohn

Sometimes people will hear you better if you speak from a voice of compassion instead of authoirty. They long to be understood more than to be lecture. - Dodinsky

The people who are meant to be in your life, will always gravitate back towards you. No matter how far they wander. - unknown

In order to empathize with someone's experience you must be willing to believe them as they see it and not how you imagine their experience to be. - Brene Brown

If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationships with others, it is only you, mirrored. - Osho

Blessed are they who see beauitful things in humble place where others see nothing. - Camille Pissaro

Even when our #compassion is lost through fear and trauma, it can be reawakened. - Jack Kornfield, The Wise Heart

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. - Carl Jung

Ironically enough, when you make peace with the fact that the purpose of life is not happiness, but rather experience and growth, happiness comes as a natural byproduct. When you are not seeking it as the objective, it will find its way to you. - unknown

Sometimes we forget how magical it is just to wake up in the morning. Take a breath. To wiggle your toes and open your droopy eyes. Take a moment. Be present. Give gratitude first. - unknown

The one who missed the gift of living is empty inside. - unknown

Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the one that finds the gold. - unknown

Every time you decide, you shift. Choose who you want to be and you will shift into that version of yourself. - Bentinho Massaro

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. - unknown

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Masses are rude, lame, unmade, percinious in their demands and influence. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth. - unknown

Germany's Merkel presses China for human rights dialogue
German contender wants tougher stance on China, Russia
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EU blames China for endangering peace in South China Sea
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Racism isn't a touchy topic if you are not a f*cking racist. - unknown

Racism doesn't usually look like someone shouting slurs. It looks like people eagerly looking for a reason why a black kid deserved to die. - unknown

Be kind to all creatures, this is the true religion. - Buddha

People forget years and remember moments. -Ann Beattie

A person's most useful asset is not the head full of knowledge, but a heart full of love, an ear ready to listen and a hand willing to help. - unknown

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Pure love is about appreciation not possession

If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up, it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation. - unknown

"Keep Some Room In Your Heart For The Unimaginable." - Mary Oliver

New York Post Reporter Who Wrote False Kamala Harris Story Resigns via NYT
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She murdered him, she should not be getting away with that.

Lawyer for former police officer Amber Guyger asks appeals court to toss her murder conviction of Botham Jean

Russian authorities paint over large Navalny mural in St Petersburg
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Russian Court Suspends Alexei Navalny's Anti-Kremlin Network
Russian authorities suspend operations of Navalny's offices
YouTube blocks access to Ukrainian TV channels tied to Kremlin ally, Ukraine govt says
Navalny's Novichok poisoning was Putin sending the world a message, experts say
Russian troops start pulling back from Ukrainian border
U.S. seeing some Russian personnel withdrawing but still early, official says
Russia orders troops back from occupied Crimea and border with Ukraine
Czechs order Russia to pull out most embassy staff in worsening spy row
Russia orders soldiers to begin return to bases after drills near Ukraine
U.S. considers more weapons shipments to Ukraine amid Russian buildup
Leaked Ukraine defense memo reveals scope of Russia's aggression
Ukraine leader signs law to call up reservists for military service
Czechs say Russian retaliation stronger than expected, seeks EU solidarity
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Turkish President Erdoğan: U.S. Armenian genocide designation "the wrong step"
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Note to self: You can do it! Don’t forget to breathe. Step away from the screen once in a while and give your eyes and mind a break through nature.

“In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow.” - Pico Iyer

If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change. - Tony Gaskins

Gratitude enables me to fall in love with my life every day. - unknown

Beauty is in hte way you hold yourself. It's how you treat people. The way you love. It's self acceptance. Beauty is in your soul. - unknown

I am thankful every day for my life and all those around me. I live with an attitude of gratitude. - unknown

You become a more positive, peaceful and harmonic person when you don't react to people that use you as a mirror for their own self hate. - unknown

Negative thoughts dissolve in sunshine. If you're feeling down, go play outside. - Karen Salmansohn

The moment you change your perception, is the moemnt you rewrite the chemistry of your body. - Dr. Bruce Lipton

"It is very important to go out alone, to sit under a tree - not with a book, not with a companion, but by yourself - and observe the falling of a leaf, hear the lapping of the water, the fishermen's song, watch the flight of a bird, and of your own thoughts as they chase each other across the space of your mind.
If you are able to be alone and watch these things, then you will discover extraordinary riches which no government can tax, no human agency can corrupt, and which can never be destroyed." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

The sky is not the limit, your mind is. - Lynette Simeone

Letting the opinions of others control your life. - People know your name, not your story. They’ve heard what you’ve done, but not what you’ve been through. So take their opinions of you with a grain of salt. In the end, it’s not what others think, it’s what you think about yourself that counts. Sometimes you have to do exactly what’s best for you and your life, not what’s best for everyone else. - Spiritual Awakenings ॐ

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind. I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Never underestimate your light. A single light can extinguish darkness. - unknown

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1. Live with integrity - Liars don’t heal. People who deliberately says something to hurt others, people who blame others for their problems, etc won’t heal. Make the decision to live a life with integrity.

2. Don’t pass on your suffering, pass on the wisdom you learn - life will never be fair. Look at what happens to you and say that it will never defeat you. Turn into your source of wisdom. Don’t live in woe. Wisdom or woe.

3. The choice to take risks. Don’t wait for proof. Take risks. You will always hit the regret stage when you begin to weaken. How many of your greatest fears has actually happened? How many of the most wonderful things has happened to you?Don’t take the safe path. Don’t look backwards for guidance. Don’t look for over to chart new.

4. Choose new words - Words are powerful. Don’t use the words entitled, blame and deserve.

5. Choose to get up every single day and bless your day - not based on what you have or what you feel, just be grateful because you are. Everything that happens today in this exact way will not happen again. Be thankful for the day and present moment.

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I've learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them. I've learned that no matter how much I care, some people just don't care back. I've learned that it take years to build up trust and only seconds to destroy it. I've learned that it's not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts. - Omer B. Washington

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It's ok if you don't know how to move on. Start with something easier, like not going back. - Steve Maraboli

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The people meant for you will stay with you during transitions into growth and healing. Those with different destinations will fall away as planned by the universe. Allowing space for new soul connections. - unknown

We don't meet people by accident. They are meant to cross our path for a reason. - unknown

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived. - Chinese Proverb

You will never be citicized by someone who is doing more than you. You will only be criticized by someone doing less. - unknown

Sometimes you have to stop thinking so much and just go where your heart takes you. - unknown

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Self - control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don't allow others to control the direction of your life. Don't allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence. - unknown

It takes a very strong individual to sit with themselves, calm their storms, and heal all of their issues without trying to bring someone else into that chaos. Your journey into self-love is just that and yes, you are doing it. - unknown

How do we move to a greater level of consciousness? Simply by not reacting to our environment; by learning how to pause, self regulate, and wait for the chemicals to settle down before we act. This is how we ourgrow victimization, judgement, competition, or the need to gossip or misrepresent someone else. - Dr. Joe Dispenza

There comes a point in your life when your love for yourself must become more important than your need to hold onto the past. - karen Salmansohn

That was her magic, she could still see the sunset, even on those darkest days. - Atticus

You are allowed to make changes to the way you are living. You are allowed to look after yourself. You are allowed to decide what is important to you. And you are allowed to create a life with those things at the center. It's ok to go slowly. It's ok to say no. It's ok to be different. - unknown

You have to stop thinking you'll be stuck in your situation forever. We feel like our heart will never heal or we'l neer get out of this impossible struggle. Don't confuse a seadon for a lifetime. Even your trials have an expiration date. You will grow, life will change, things will work out. - Brittney Moses

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Virginia Immigrants Hit Hard By Pandemic Fear Eviction, Housing Squeeze
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Lawmakers push for $100B+ investment in science and tech to compete with China

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Be kind to the trees. They're busy saving the world. - unknown

Every young child knows what a Tree is, yet incredibly there is no universally recognised definition.
A "Tree" is a term of common parlance, but there is no precise definition of what a tree is, either botanically or in common language. In its broadest sense, a tree is any plant with the general form of an elongated stem, or trunk, which supports the photosynthetic leaves or branches at some distance above the ground. Trees are also typically defined by height, with smaller plants from 0.5 to 10 m (1.6 to 32.8 ft) being called shrubs, so the minimum height of a tree is only loosely defined. Large herbaceous plants such as papaya and bananas are trees in this broad sense. A commonly applied narrower definition is that a tree has a woody trunk formed by secondary growth, meaning that the trunk thickens each year by growing outwards, in addition to the primary upwards growth from the growing tip. Under such a definition, herbaceous plants such as palms, bananas and papayas are not considered trees regardless of their height, growth form or stem girth.
What we can all agree is that Trees are good for our Environment, providing oxygen, shelter and food. - Wildlife.net

USDA Moves To Feed Millions Of Children Over The Summer

"School, and formal learning, does not start in Finland until age seven. Before then, children’s preoccupations are not reading, writing or arithmetic, but, said Salonen, herself a secondary-school teacher in the capital, 'learning more important things.' Those include, she says, how to make friends, communicate, be active, get creative, explore the outdoors and manage risk." - Amy

‘Let children play’: the educational message from across Europe

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. - Howard Zinn

When you stand up in fron tof the whole world, unafraid to express your truth, you clear an easier path for others to do the same. - Stacie Martin

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand, and becoming comfortable with not knowing. - Eckhart Tolle

So many years of education, yet nobody taught us how to unlock our chakras and outgrow toxic relationships. - unknown

"Emotional maturity takes introspection, emotional responsibility and processing, and the ability to reflect, learn, and grow as a person. It's a daily choice and takes thought and effort. Not everyone even realizes that this process needs to happen if they want to enter into healthy, adult relationships." - Doe Zantamata

Is it really Narcissism or is it just Emotional Immaturity?

Put your hand on your heart
in you
there is power
there are ideas
no one has ever thought of
there is the strength to love
purely and intensely
and to be loved back
there is the power to make people happy and to make people laugh
the power to change lives
and futures
don’t ever forget that power
and don’t ever
give up on it. - Atticus

Every act of kindness is a piece of love we leave behind. - Paul Williams

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Be the love you want to see in the world. - unknown

Love is the most powerful vibration in the entire universe. By focusing on love, all negativity will melt away, every obstacle in your path will vanish. - unknown

You were never hard to love. You were just getting harder to manipulate. - unknown


The energy of love is the most powerful, natural force in the universe. - unknown

The Universe is in your bones. The stars in your soul. It's never really the end. - unknown

Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now. - Fred Rogers

Not taking it personal.. no judgement.. everyone's battle is different.

Maybe your life purpose isn't supposed to be a thrill- seeking narrative. What if you're meant to be the sunshine to someone's stormy day? Or the voice of clarity to a frantic friend? You don't have to be a superhero to save the world. - unknown

Don't give people so much power over you that their silence leaves you questioning your worth. - unknown

The most beautiful eyes are those that seek beauty in others. - unknown

When you wish the best for all who cross your path, the universe brings the best to you. - Spiritual Awakenings ॐ

I call them “primal provocations.” They are those experiences, situations and individuals (“primal provocateurs”) that trigger our deepest early wounds and issues. For example, if you grew up with a deep anxiety about homelessness, a primal provocation would be any situation that causes you to worry about your ability to pay your rent or mortgage. Or, if you grew up with an abandoning parent, forging a relationship with someone who always has one foot out the door. Or, growing up with a rager, and then marrying one. There are those who would say that every primal provocation is a welcome visitor, because it allows us to recognize our unresolved wounds. And sometimes, this is true. But not always. Because not all primal provocations are created equal. Some of them can be healed, and some of them cut too deep to be healed in this lifetime. There’s a fine and meaningful line between triggers that support our healing, and those that merely re-traumatize us. Part of becoming healthier is making the grounded distinction between those wound clusters that can be healed, and those that can’t. And if some can’t be healed, consciously learning how to avoid those situations that provoke them. This is where healthy boundaries come in. We don't just boundary ourselves from challenging individuals. We also boundary ourselves against those situations that will bring us back to unresolvable primal terrain. We shield ourselves from harm. - Jeff Brown

Silly girl, your different was your beautiful all along. - Atticus

When they played divide and conquer, we say unite and ascend. - Dauniel Kaluuya

People of color keep winning tonight. Has anyone checked on Tucker Carlson? His head may has exploded already. - George Takei

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Vulnerability is the portal to connection.

That luster shining though your vulnerability is the gold inside your humanness. - Susan Frybort

At the end of the day, I am at peace because my intentions are good and my heart is pure. - unknown

There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen. - Rumi

Good things can still happen in the midst of chaos. - unknown

Transform your mind to stay calm in every situation. - Adeep

The words of others will control you until you control the words you speak to self. - The Magister

When you realize nothing is lacking. The whole world belongs to you. - Lao Tzu

If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind wanders. - unknown

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. - Arthur Ward

To understand nothing, takes times. - Zen Proverb

Do things for other not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are. - Mother Teresa

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you. - Sri Paramhansa Yoganand

Beautiful days do not come to you. You must walk towards them. - Rumi

The message behind the words is the voice of the heart. - Rumi

Election revamp: Urging people not to vote or spoil ballots may be criminalised, even without proof of intent to sabotage poll
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'Curb' Uses Poetry To Scrub At The Wounds Of Anti-Asian Racism
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“You are a piece of them, and it feels like you should inherently just know everything and understand everything about one another. But there is always a big divide. You’re two different people.” - Michelle Zauner

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'I have always found goodness in the people I met everywhere I went in the world So this is for anyone who has the faith and the courage to hold onto the goodness and themselves, and to hold on to the goodness in each other no matter how difficult it is to do that, this is for you, you inspire me to keep going.' - Chloé Zhao
Yuh-jung Youn becomes first Korean to win acting Oscar
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I'd like to thank my two boys, who make me go out and work.. this is the result because mommy works so hard. - Youn Yuh-jung

" .. that same power of the documentary storytelling that is going to ensure that the memory courage and resilience of Latasha Harlands, Horace Bowers, the innocent children of Yemen and the protesters in Hong Kong are not forgotten.." - Anthony Giacchin

Homeless Woman Has a Masters in Mathematics and Engineering

Surround yourself with people who wouldn't change whether your situation was ten times better or ten times worst. - Desmond E. F.

2021 Oscars: Tyler Perry Accepts The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

"Anyone who wants to meet me in the middle — to refuse hate, to refuse blanket judgment, and help lift someone's feet off the ground — this one's for you," - Tyler Perry

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