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The Mission of Sunshine and Vine
- Find sunshine – mental and physical.
- Focus on what I have learned from the hurricane of fearless-ish women and men who have been pursuing truth, strength and compassion since time began.
- Share every-day issues faced by the many women who struggle with self-doubt, fear, shame, guilt, anxiety, frustration, anger, or depression.
- Build on life’s experiences – lovely and hard.
- Be committed to truth.
- Be empathic.
- Be the hero of my story.
- Avoid focusing, to extreme, on any single group – religious or political.
- Always, always, always have spiritual integrity.
Disclaimer
The views and opinions expressed are my own. They are not intended to advise or direct. They are an expression of my experiences and understandings throughout my life. As such, they may change. I reserve the right to change my mind, learn and grow. My intention is to entertain and give and receive strength as we humans are happier and stronger together. I am not responsible for others comments. I reserve the right to remove offensive comments. As this blog is my own work, it is subject to copyright laws.
Favorite Quotes
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “We gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.”- Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.” – Michelle Obama, First Lady and Author of Becoming
- “Strength and dignity are her clothing and she laughs at the days to come.” – Proverbs 31:25 ESV
- “It’s very bad for a girl to be too pretty. It stops her from developing a sense of humor…or personality.” – Lindsay Duncan from the Movie, About Time
- “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain
- “The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know…Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.” – John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
- “Stress Makes You Stupid.” – Tracy Hollinshead and a Lot of Other Stressed Humans
