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Beauty, challenges, Eleanor Roosevelt quotes 3-13-2018
Beauty quotes
Beauty is at the heart of God, and the beauty that we see — and even create — is like the trailing wake from God's hand across the ocean of the universe. This is why, in attending to beauty, we become open to the mystery of God.--Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
Beauty is everywhere to he or she who would behold it. When God reigns supreme in the consciousness of man, the tiniest blade of grass speaks of God's beauty.--Frater Achad
Beauty is God's handwriting.--Charles Kingsley
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.--Al Bernstein
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.--David Hume ("Of the Standard of Taste" Four Dissertations)
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.--Khalil Gibran
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Challenges quotes
Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.--Cecile M. Springer
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.--Gen. George S. Patton
Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life -- facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.--John Amatt
Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.--Elizabeth O'Connor (Eighth Day of Creation: Gifts and Creativity)
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.--Roger Crawford
The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.--Jim Rohn ( Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine - February 11, 2003)
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Eleanor Roosevelt quotes
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that’s why they call it the present.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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Apperiaction, beauty, challenges quotes
Appreciation quotes
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.--G. K. Chesterton (Autobiography)
Appreciate what you have, accept the blessings waiting for you to need them, and above all - realize that Source from which it all comes.--Michael Rawls
Appreciation can make a day--even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.--Margaret Cousins
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.--Voltaire
Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.--Marty Rubin
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Beauty quotes
Beauty is God's handwriting.--Charles Kingsley
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.--Al Bernstein
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.--David Hume ("Of the Standard of Taste" Four Dissertations)
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.--Khalil Gibran
Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.--Jean Anouilh (Becket)
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.--George Sand
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Challenges quotes
Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.--Cecile M. Springer
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.--Gen. George S. Patton
Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life -- facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.--John Amatt
All my life I've always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.--Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.--Elizabeth O'Connor (Eighth Day of Creation: Gifts and Creativity)
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.--Roger Crawford
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Pica’s fic stats for July through September 2017
Writing Progress:
Discards (Remus/Sirius, rated M, 76k words) - I finally finished Discards at the end of July. It ended up being much longer than I originally intended, and the reader response has been very gratifying. I even got an offer to publish it as original fiction, but I’m still not sure whether that’s something I want to do.
The Woodsman’s Child (Rowan Hood, T, 1800) - A short fic based on Nancy Springer’s “Tales of Rowan Hood”, featuring Rowan (using heo/heore/heom pronouns), Etty, and the origins of Smudge (OC), their adopted child.
A Ghost Among Ghosts (Voldemort, T, 3500) - Originally a 600 word short called The Tall Man, from the POV of Voldemort’s ghost, I expanded it to three short chapters, encompassing the events of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child -- or at least as much of those events as a ghost haunting Hogwarts would have seen.
Merlin’s Whiskers (Albus/Scorpius, G, 2100) - A short, fluffy (in more ways than one) addition to my Scorbus Arc, wherein Scorpius gets himself something for his 17th birthday.
Editing & Podficing Progress:
A Ghost Among Ghosts was edited, and podfic was recorded and posted.
My Scorbus Arc (apart from Merlin’s Whiskers, which is still too fresh) was edited, and I am in the process of podficing all of it. Best Mates, Hogsmeade Outing, and Protego Club have all been recorded and posted. I’ve recorded raw audio for Albus Day, and audio editing it is next on my “to do” list.
The Outlaw and the Monk, my Rowan Hood romance, has been edited, and I have recorded and edited audio for the first three chapters.
The Square Peg, my nonbinary Hagrid fic, was re-recorded with ey/em/eir pronouns for Hagrid.
Affection Falling Just Short of Love, my WTNV fic featuring teenage Earl Harlan pining over his bff, Cecil, was edited to remove Steve Carlsberg, and to fix a few other details to make it more canon-compliant, and was then re-recorded.
The Dursleys’ Worst Nightmare, my fluffy, humorous fic about Dudley meeting Cho at Harry and Ginny’s wedding, was edited and slightly expanded (+400 words), then re-recorded.
The Woodsman’s Child was edited, and podfic was recorded and posted.
My Dearest Moony, Sirius’s farewell letter to Remus, to be delivered in the event of his death, was re-recorded, due to too fast a reading speed in the original podfic.
Wow! This makes it seem like I have been pretty productive the last few months. And I have no intention of stopping now.
Plans for the near future:
Scorbus Arc: edit audio for Albus Day, and record podfic for No Distractions, The Talk, and Missing Pieces, then edit and record Merlin’s Whiskers.
The Outlaw and the Monk: record and edit audio for the final five chapters.
Consolation Prize: re-record audio, due to too fast a reading speed on original podfic.
A Night Off From the War: 3300 words is nowhere near long enough for a fic like this. It should be about twice as long, if I want to do it justice. I will do a rewrite/expansion in the not-too-distant future.
The Great Unknown: I’m planning to re-write this old fic, to change the setting, among other things (the current version is set in a beyond-the-veil non-place). After going through the Veil, Sirius finds himself trapped in Night Vale, and unsure what to do about it. Finished product will probably be 2500-3000 words.
That Awful Boy, a.k.a. Night Magic: @pommedeplume and I are planning to collaborate on a long Severus/Lily fic called Night Magic (partly based on the musical by Leonard Cohen of the same name). That Awful Boy needs to be edited/re-written before it can be used as a jumping-off point for a longer fic.
[Untitled Discards Sequel]: This will just be a short one-shot, taking place during Remus’s college graduation.
Discards: I plan to edit and podfic early next year.
I guess we shall see how much of this I manage to get done before the end of the year....
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Quotes for Wednesday March 29,2017
Happiness quotes Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” Winnie the Pooh “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” Epictetus “We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” Frederick Keonig “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” Thich Nhat Hanh “Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” Eskimo Proverb “To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” Mary Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Challenges quotes Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.--Cecile M. Springer Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.--Gen. George S. Patton Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.--Cecile M. Springer Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.--Gen. George S. Patton ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Appreciation quotes Appreciate what you have, accept the blessings waiting for you to need them, and above all - realize that Source from which it all comes.--Michael Rawls Appreciation can make a day--even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.--Margaret Cousins Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.--Voltaire Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.--Marty Rubin Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.--Susan L. Lenzkes Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.--Sydney J. Harris Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.--Abraham Joshua Heschel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Encouragement quotes Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Early and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe) It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.--Thomas Fuller I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.--Maya Angelou May the road rise to meet you May the wind be always at your back And until we meet again May God hold you in the palm of his hand.--Irish blessing ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Faith quotes Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.--Voltaire Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened.--Charles Spurgeon Faith is a continuation of reason.--William Adams Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whet's one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.--Mohandas Gandhi Faith is a higher faculty than reason.--Henry Christopher Bailey Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.--Charles Henry Parkhurst (Sermons: Walking by Faith) Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.--Mitch Albom (Have a Little Faith: a True Story) Faith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof.--Kahlil Gibron Faith is affirming success before it comes. Faith is making claims to victory before it is achieved.--Robert Schuller ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thankful quotes For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.--Clarence E. Hodges For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.--Storm Jameson (Journey from the North, v.2) Give thanks for all things. All things great and small, good, bad, for all things are for a purpose.--Ann Herbstreith Giving thanks is one course from which we never graduate.--Valerie Anders God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"--William A. Ward God has need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.--Thomas Aquinas A grateful thought toward Heaven is itself a prayer.--Rudolph Block
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What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God. – Rick Warren
Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.--Cecile M. Springer
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.--Gen. George S. Patton
Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life -- facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.--John Amatt
All my life I've always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.--Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.--Elizabeth O'Connor (Eighth Day of Creation: Gifts and Creativity)
#Rick Warren#– Napoleon Bonaparte#-Cecile M. Springer#-Gen. George S. Patton#challenge quotes#hope quotes
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