Reflect on your present blessings,
of which every man has many,
not on your past misfortunes,
of which all men have some.
~Charles Dickens
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The word recreation is really a very beautiful word.
It is defined in the dictionary as
"the process of giving new life to something,
of refreshing something, of restoring something."
This something, of course,
is the whole person.
~Bruno Hans Geba
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We must be wise taskmasters
and not require of ourselves
what we cannot possibly perform.
Recreation we must have.
Otherwise, the strings of our soul,
wound up to an unnatural tension,
will break.
~Elizabeth Prentiss