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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 1h

5/5/26 PM TM “Still there are moments when one feels free from one’s own identification … gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable: life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only being.” ~ Albert Einstein

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 14h

10/4/26 PM TM It Felt Love “How did the rose Ever open its heart And give to this world All its beauty? It felt the encouragement of light Against its being, Otherwise, We all remain Too frightened How did the rose Ever open its heart … Otherwise, We all remain Too frightened.” ~ Hafiz

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

10/4/26 AM TM “To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.” ~ Simone Weil

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

10/3/26 PM TM “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” ~ Simone Weil

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

10/3/26 AM TM “Be gentle with yourself. Be kind to yourself. You may not be perfect, but you are all you've got to work with. The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.” ~ Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

10/2/26 PM TM “People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.” ~ Seneca

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

10/1/26 PM TM “Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.” ~ Seneca “Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.” ~Seneca

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

10/1/26 AM TM Ripples Reach “If you want a safer world, save something, anything. If you want a loving world, love someone, anyone. If you want a peaceful world, make peace somewhere, anywhere. If you want a better world, … If you wish to make a difference, practice what you seek.” ~Donna Ashworth

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

9/30/26 PM TM Autobiography in Five Short Chapters by Portia Nelson I. I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk I fall in. I am lost ... I am helpless. … II. I fall in again. III. I still fall in I get out immediately. IV. I walk around it. V. I walk down another street.

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

9/30/26 AM TM “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” ~ Søren Kierkegaard

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

9/29/26 PM TM YOU “If every single person who has liked you in your lifetime were to light up on a map, it would create the most glitteringly beautiful network you could imagine … You’re trailing a bright pathway that you don’t even know about. What a thing. What a thing indeed.” ~ Donna Ashworth

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

9/29/26 AM TM “The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; … it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.” ~ Mary Oliver

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

9/28/26 AM TM “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Aristotle

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

9/27/26 PM TM “If you don’t become the ocean, you get will seasick every day!” ~ Leonard Cohen “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

9/27/26 PM TM “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. “ ~ Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh (A. A. Milne)

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

9/26/26 PM TM “Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” ~ Voltaire

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

9/26/26 AM TM “If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

9/25/26 PM TM “You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” ~ C. S. Lewis “If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.” ~ Henry Miller

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

9/25/26 AM TM HELP YOURSELF TO HAPPINESS “Everybody everywhere seeks happiness, it’s true, But finding it and keeping it seem difficult to do. … For in making others happy we will be happy, too. For the happiness you give away returns to shine on you.” ~ Helen Steiner Rice

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

9/24/26 PM TM “When things fall apart and we can’t get the pieces back together… This is our chance to come out of our self-protecting bubble … everyone we meet is essentially just like us. Our own suffering, if we turn toward it, can open us to a loving relationship with the world.” ~ Pema Chodron

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

9/24/26 AM TM “People seek retreats for themselves —— But all this is quite on the surface, when what is open to you, at any time you want, is to retreat into yourself. For nowhere is there more quiet or more freedom from trouble than when you retire into your own soul ….” ~ Marcus Arelius

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

9/23/26 PM TM “I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

9/23/26 PM TM “Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.” ~ Sallust, 86 BC – 35 BC, was a Roman historian and one of the great Latin literary stylists, noted for his narrative writings dealing with political personalities, corruption, and party rivalry.

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

9/22/26 PM TM SMALL KINDNESSES “I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, … What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here, have my seat,” “Go ahead — you first,” “I like your hat.” ~ Danusha Lameris

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

9/22/26 PM TM “Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life—a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy.” ~ Thích Nhất Hạnh

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

9/21/26 PM TM ~ Abraham Lincoln ~ Alexander Pope “The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.” ~ Rev. Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. “Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I need it most.” ~ Swedish proverb

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

9/21/26 PM TM “Always tell the truth. That way you don’t have to remember what you said.” ~ Mark Twain

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

9/20/26 PM TM THE JOURNEY “One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice— though the whole house … determined to do the only thing you could do— determined to save the only life you could save.” ~ Mary Oliver

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

9/20/26 AM TM “Always in the deep woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place . . . There will be, along with the feelings of curiousity and excitement … it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into. What you are doing is exploring.” ~ Wendell Berry

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

9/19/26 PM TM FIRE ~ Judy Brown “What makes a fire burn is space between the logs, a breathing space. Too much of a good thing, too many logs … A fire grows simply because the space is there, with openings in which the flame that knows just how it wants to burn can find its way.”

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

9/19/26 PM TM “To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” ~ Mary Oliver

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

9/18/26 PM TM “It’s madness to hate all roses because you got scratched with one thorn ….. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

9/18/26 PM TM “If we did not worry, most of us would feel we were not alive. To be struggling with a problem is for the majority of us an indication of existence. … Will worry resolve the problem or does the answer … come when the mind is quiet?” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

9/17/26 PM TM "In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business." ~ MARCUS AURELIUS

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

9/17/26 PM TM “… to live in this world you must be able to do three things to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go…” ~ Mary Oliver

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

9/16/26 PM TM “Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, A cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.” ~ Wu-men Huikai (1183–1260) was a Chinese Zen Master

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

9/15/26 PM TM “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” ~ Lau Tzu

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

9/14/26 PM TM “Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.” ~ Linus Pauling “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” ~ Albert Einstein

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

9/13/26 PM TM “At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” ~ Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

9/12/26 PM TM “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” ~ Socrates, 470-399 BC, classical Greek philosopher “Happiness and freedom begin with one principle. Some things are within your control and some are not.” ~ Epictetus, 55-135 AD, Stoic philosopher

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

9/12/26 AM TM Opening the Heart “At the year’s turn in the days between, we step away from what we know into the spaces we cannot yet name. Slowly the edges begin to yield, the hard places soften, the gate to forgiveness opens.” ~ Marcia Falk, author of The Days Between

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11/26 PM TM “Therefore, the pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.” ~ Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

9/10/26 PM TM “Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility… It is therefore able to undertake all things.” ~ St Thomas Aquinas

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

9/10/26 PM TM Shoulders ~ by Naomi Shihab Nye “A man crosses the street in rain, stepping gently, looking two times north and south, because his son is asleep on his shoulder. No car must splash him. No car drive too near to his shadow. … The rain will never stop falling.”

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

9/9/26 PM TM “I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.” ~ Akira Kurosawa

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

9/8/26 PM TM “Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; … Likewise, one does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.” ~ Elizabeth Lesser

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

9/8/26 AM TM “That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.” ~ Simone de Beauvoir

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

9/7/26 PM TM Something Told the Wild Geese “Something told the wild geese It was time to go, Though the fields lay golden Something whispered, "snow." Leaves were green and stirring, Berries, luster- It was time to fly, Summer sun was on their wings, Winter in their cry.” ~ Rachel Field

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

9/6/26 PM TM “It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

9/6/26 PM TM “Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. “ ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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