“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · You Learn by Living, 1960, pp. 29-30
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If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice.
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Eckhart, a 14th-century mystic, argues that a thank you is a complete prayer. It's the shortest prayer on this list and probably the hardest to fake.
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