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(Spring: Rebirth, Renewal, Regrowth) · A Gallery of my own photographs & Quotations about life, love and God

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I used to pray for answers, but now I’m praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.

Mother Teresa (via quotemadness)

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Being honest in a relationship is at times exceedingly difficult and painful. Yet the moment a person evades the truth, central fibers of the self pull away and the person initiates a process of deception—a way of manipulating the other person by preventing the person from discovering "real thoughts and real feelings."

Clark Mustakas, Creative Living

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Most of us have known the pain that comes from deception, especially when we are deceived by those we love.

Leo Buscalgia, Loving Each Other

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...there is always an element of risk in lying. One's lie may be discovered. The deceiver must, therefore, be forever cautious to keep a record of falsehoods and, as time passes, is often forced to explain and rationalize with more and more lies. It is said that liars must have excellent memories, for once caught, their credibility is forever in question.

Leo Buscalgia, Loving Each Other

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I think back fondly and plaintively of the many individuals I have encountered in the past with whom I have shared days, months, and even years of extreme joy, but whom I no longer see. Where are they? What are they doing, thinking? Why could I not seem to keep them in my life?

Leo Buscalgia, Loving Each Other

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Sharing, so vital in loving communication, stops when you sense the other person is not listening or caring, and the sad part is that often we are not given a second chance.

Leo Buscalgia, Loving Each Other

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We have all experienced the feeling of being totally captivated and enamored by strangers, who, after a few weeks of relationship, cause us to wonder what we ever saw in them.

Leo Buscalgia, Loving Each Other

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'And they lived happily ever after...' is one of the most fragile sentences in literature. It is tragic because it tells a falsehood about life and has led countless generations of people to expect something from human existence which is not possible on this fragile, failing, imperfect earth.

Joshua Liebman

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When we give ourselves in love, we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

Leo Buscalgia, Loving Each Other:  The Challenge of Human Relationships

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Horizon

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Hazy Sunday morning. First photo for 2012.

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A buck's reflection

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Merry Christmas everyone! :)

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The Nativity

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If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

Melchizedek, The Alchemist