I am asking these people to join the quote challenge:

Xena, Sedge808 and Carol Carisle

Quote #1  “Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what “it” wanted me to do.”

—Shakti Gawain, spiritual healer and teacher, writer

Shakati Gawain

Quote#2:  “I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.”

—Amy Tan, novelist

                                                        Amy Tan

Quote #3:” I ‘ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.”

—Martha Washington, The First “First Lady” of America

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