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The man who follows the crowd will usually
get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find
himself in places no one has ever been. - Alan
Ashley-Pitt
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As we acquire more knowledge, things do not
become more comprehensible, but more mysterious. – Albert Schweitzer
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that
gives the rose. – Anonymous
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Not everything that is forced can be changed,
but nothing can be changed until it is forced. - James Baldwin
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You cannot
teach a man anything, you can only help him discover it in himself. - Galileo Galilei
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The things we have to learn before we can do
them, we learn by doing them. – Aristotle
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I searched for God and found only myself. I
searched for myself and found only God. – Sufi
Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living
treasure of gold. – Chinese Proverb
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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A little revolution now and again is a good
thing. – Thomas Jefferson
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I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can
do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the
something that I can do. — Edward Everett Hale
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Falling down is part of life. Getting back up is living. — Anonymous
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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing
until you get there. - Josh Billings
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Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an
idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something
about it that makes a difference.
— Nolan Bushnell
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The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business
tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common
is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things. — Mike Dooley
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When
one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully
upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. - Alexander Graham Bell
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day,
or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its
place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
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When
I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I
did ten times more work. - George Bernard
Shaw
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The clearest way into the Universe is through
a forest wilderness. – John Muir
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Only the heart knows how to find what is
precious. – Feodor Dostoyevsky
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is
strong enough. — Og Mandino
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll
land among the stars. - Les Brown
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People who take time to be alone usually have
depth, originality, and quiet reserve. -
John Miller
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You have to know what you want to get. But when you know that,
let it take you. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back
because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. — Gertrude Stein
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It's never too late to be what you might have
been. - George Eliot
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The
older we get the more we realize that service to others is the only way to stay
happy. If we do nothing to benefit others we will do nothing to benefit
ourselves. - Carl Holmes
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the
bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain
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When
people are made to feel secure and important and appreciated, it will no longer
be necessary for them to whittle down others in order to seem bigger by
comparison. - Virginia Arcastle
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You grow up the day you have the first real
laugh-at yourself. - Ethel Barrymore
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I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that
some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle,
and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and
making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious
Ambiguity. — Gilda Radner
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We
act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that
we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Charles Kingsley
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If you believe you can, and believe it
strongly enough, you’ll be amazed at what you can do. — Nido Qubein
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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world
around. — Henry David Thoreau
·
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You
can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know
what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go... — Theodor Seuss Geisel
·
There’s something very freeing about losing the anchors that
have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way,
as well. You’re free to float to the moon and evaporate or sink to the bottom
of the deepest ocean. But you’re free to explore. Some people confuse that with
drifting, I suppose. I like to think of it as growing. — Deborah Smith
·
I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind.
- Mike Todd
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I pray that my heart can continue to open and expand so I can fully
receive love and not waste a drop of it. — Sonia
Choquette
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Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive,
and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. — Howard Thurman
·
Your vision becomes clear when you look inside your heart. Who
looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. — Carl Gustav Jung
·
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to
use ordinary situations - Jean Paul Richter
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He who limps is still walking. - Stanislaw J. Lec
·
People who pray for miracles usually don’t get miracles… But
people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for the grace
to remember what they have left instead of what they have lost, very often find
their prayers answered… Their prayers helped them tap hidden reserves of faith
and courage which were not available to them before. - Harold S. Kushner Rabbi
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He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive
and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. — Robert H. Schuller
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Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought. — Napoleon
Hill
·
Think continually about the things you really want, and refuse
to think about the things you don't want. — Brian Tracy
·
Health is the greatest gift; contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness
the best relationship.
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Wilderness is not a luxury, but a necessity of the human spirit.
— Edward Abbey
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We
can have more than we’ve got because we can become more than we are. — Jim
Rohn
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A good character is the best tombstone. Those
who loved you and were helped by you will remember you. Carve your name on
hearts, not on marble. - Charles H.
Spurgeon
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There is nothing permanent except change. - Heraclitus
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When we really love ourselves, everything in
our life works, including our health.”
—Louise Hay
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In winning souls for the Master, it is not
the first mile of compulsion, duty, or convention that will transform man and
his world, but rather the second mile of free service and liberty-loving
devotion...
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To accomplish great things, we must not only
act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. — Anatole France
·
If one advances confidently in the direction
of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will
meet with a success unexpected in common hours. — Henry David Thoreau
·
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles
have been. – Mark Twain
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I, not events, have the power to make me
happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead -
tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be
happy in it. - Groucho Marx
·
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he
finds it attached to the rest of the world.
— John Muir
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The cure for anything is salt water - tears,
sweat, or the sea. — Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen]
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The bravest thing you can do when you are not
brave is to profess courage and act accordingly - Corra Harris
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Nothing lasts forever—not even your troubles.
— Arnold H. Glasow
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So as long as a person is capable of
self-renewal, they are a living being. — Henri
Frederic Amiel
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There is nothing like returning to a place
that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. — Nelson Mandela
·
Better to seek change by inspiration, than
out of desperation.
— Denis Waitley
·
To find the universal elements enough; to
find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or
an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a
bird's nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the
simple life. — John Burroughs
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Very few of the great leaders ever get
through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically. - Philip B. Crosby
·
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth
find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is
something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the
assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. — Rachel Carson
·
Knowledge can be had by education, but
wisdom, which is indispensable to true culture, can be secured only through
experience and by men and women who are innately intelligent.
·
Conscience is not a divine voice speaking to
the human soul...it simply represents the humanly conceived ideal of reaction
in any given set of circumstances.
·
Surrender to what is, let go of what was,
have faith in what will be. — Sonia Ricotti
·
Your life does not
get better by chance; it gets better by change. — Jim Rohn
·
You aspire to do great things? Begin with
little ones. - Augustine of Hippo
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As soon as you honor the present moment, all
unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease.
When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued
with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action. — Eckhart
Tolle
·
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the
most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in
life. Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of
embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death,
leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is
the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. — Steve
Jobs
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The best thing about the future is that it
comes only one day at a time. - Abraham
Lincoln
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because
those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss
·
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance
of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening
to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is,
without either clinging to it or rejecting it. — Sylvia Boorstein
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You must live in the present, launch yourself
on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island
of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is
no other life but this. — Henry David
Thoreau
·
Humankind is what it believes. - Anton Chekhov
·
Nothing frees you like the truth, and nothing
holds you back more than not knowing it. — Mike
Dooley
·
We spend precious hours fearing the
inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing
our friends and living our lives. — Maya
Angelou
·
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless - Mother
Teresa
·
All of this magnificent creation, including
yourself, was not made just for you. This is not an egocentric universe.
The Gods have decreed, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive,' and said
your Master Son, 'He who would be greatest among you let him be server of all.
·
You can do very little with faith, but you
can do nothing without it. – Samuel
Butler
·
A human being is a part of the whole called
by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his
thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical
delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons
nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of
nature in its beauty. — Albert Einstein
·
Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
It is the courage to continue that counts - Winston
Churchill
·
People can't be just tied together. They have
to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot. — Ai Yazawa
·
It is man's social nature which distinguishes
him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is
equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be
independent of everybody else and be self-contained. — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
·
[The Apostles)...made the important discovery
that many human perplexities are in reality nonexistent, that many pressing
troubles are the creations of exaggerated fear and the offspring of augmented
apprehension.
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Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all
of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine. — Ernest Hemingway
·
Your true evolution is not what you do out
there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of
awareness in you as you go about your life. - Eckhart Tolle
·
The most basic and powerful way to connect to
another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we
ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more
power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. — Rachel Naomi Remen
·
You cannot tailor make the situations in
life, but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations before they
arise.
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we
would listen more and talk less. — Diogenes
of Sinope
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I believe the unarmed truth and unconditional
love will have the final word in reality. -
Martin Luther King, Jr
·
The ideals which have lighted my way, and
time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been
kindness, beauty, and truth - Albert
Einstein
·
Science is engaged in the age long contest
between truth and error while it fights for deliverance from the bondage of
abstraction, the slavery of mathematics, and the relative blindness of
mechanistic materialism.
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Most people do not listen with the intent to
understand; they listen with the intent to reply. — Stephen R. Covey
·
Courage is what it takes to stand up and
speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. — Sir Winston Churchill
·
Listening is an attitude of the heart, a
genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. — L. J. Isham
·
We make progress in society only if we stop
cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do
something about them. - Elisabeth
Kubler-Ross
·
Character cannot be developed in ease and
quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be
strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. - Helen Keller
·
Good manners will open doors that the best
education cannot. — Clarence Thomas
·
The world lies in the hands of those who have
the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams – each
according to his own talent. - Paulo
Coelho
·
Neither science, philosophy, nor theology can
validate the personality of God. Only the personal experience of the faith sons
of the heavenly Father can effect the actual spiritual realization of the
personality of God
·
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the
feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no
matter what fork you use. — Emily Post
·
In order to move others deeply we must
deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal
sensibility - Joseph Conrad
·
The missing ingredient is wisdom, which
actually is a spiritual dimension and is best defined as "the correct use
of the truth in the knowledge which we have."
·
Good manners sometimes means simply putting
up with other people's bad manners. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
·
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful
lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. - Theodor
Seuss Geisel
·
Treat everyone with politeness, even those
who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are. — Unknown
·
The will to succeed is important, but what's
more important is the will to prepare. - Bobby
Knight
·
The more man meditates upon good thoughts,
the better will be his world and the world at large. – Confucius
·
You have to create the quiet to be able to
listen to the very faint voice of your intuition. – Jon Favreau
·
Friends and good manners will carry you where
money won't go. — Margaret Walker
·
Revealed truth, personally discovered truth,
is the supreme delight of the human soul; it is the joint creation of the
material mind and the indwelling spirit. - Teachings
of Jesus
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Believe that you can attain anything you
wish, and that you will receive all the help you need as long as you stay
focused on your goal.”
—Dr. Wayne Dyer
·
The highest happiness is indissolubly linked
with spiritual progress. Spiritual growth yields lasting joy, peace which passes
all understanding.
·
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity
cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you
make. - Eckhart Tolle
·
Believing in yourself is essential to
creating lasting change and a happy life.
– Tara Stiles
·
As we express our gratitude, we must never
forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by
them. — John F. Kennedy
·
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home
and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale
Carnegie
·
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of
appreciation for goodness. — The 14th
Dalai Lama
·
Courage is what it takes to stand up and
speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill
·
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up
having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever
have enough. — Oprah Winfrey
·
Be nice to people on your way up because
you'll meet them on your way down. — Wilson
Mizner
·
[The] concept of love generates in the soul
of man that superanimal effort to find truth, beauty, and goodness; and when he
does find them, he is glorified in their embrace; he is consumed with the
desire to live them, to do righteousness.
·
Trade your expectation for appreciation and
the world changes for you. — Anthony
Robbins
·
And now would I make it plain to you that
this kingdom of my Father will not come with an outward show of power or with
unseemly demonstration. You are not to go hence in the proclamation of the
kingdom, saying, 'it is here' or 'it is there,' for this kingdom of which you
preach is God within you. - Jesus
·
In virtually every area of your life, the
more you give away, the more you get back. — Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
·
All our dreams can come true if we have the
courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney
·
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door. - Milton Berle
·
It is through gratitude for the present
moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up. - Eckhart Tolle
·
Life is supposed to be fun, you know. – Chris P. Bacon
·
Do all the good you can. By all the means you
can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you
can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can. — John Wesley
·
All our dreams can come true if we have the
courage to pursue them. - Johnny Carson
·
Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber - Elbert Hubbard
·
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
·
The heart that gives, gathers. — Marianne Moore
·
The only limits you have are the limits you
believe. — Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
·
Give yourself entirely to those around you.
Be generous with your blessings. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only
compassion can heal. — Steve Maraboli
·
The difference between ordinary and
extraordinary is that little extra. - Jimmy
Johnson
·
No one has ever become poor by giving. — Anne Frank
·
See yourself through the eyes of the angels,
who observe the goodness and beauty within you.” —Doreen Virtue
·
Unless the moral insight and the spiritual
attainment of mankind are proportionately augmented, the unlimited advancement
of a purely materialistic culture may eventually become a menace to
civilization. - Teachings of Jesus
·
When you become aware of silence, immediately
there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped
out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning. - Eckhart Tolle
·
I believe that animals are on the planet so
that we can know love and compassion. – Louise
Hay
·
Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I
am grateful that thorns have roses. — Jean-Baptiste
Alphonse Karr
·
You must do the thing you think you cannot
do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
·
Giving is so often thought of in terms of the
things we give, but our greatest giving is of our time, and kindness, and even
comfort for those who need it. We look on these gifts as unimportant – until we
need them. — Joyce Sequichie Hifler
·
There's a way to do it better - find it. - Thomas Edison
·
One of the apostles once asked: 'Master, what
should I do if a stranger forced me to carry his pack for a mile?' Jesus answered:
'If you can think of nothing more effectively positive to do, you can at least
carry the pack a second mile. That will of a certainty challenge the
unrighteous and ungodly stranger.'
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As your star students scan the heavens, they
will ... seldom detect evidence of the formation of those small, nonluminous
collections of matter which serve as inhabited planets, the most important of
the vast material creations.
·
If we magnified blessings as much as we
magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier. — John R. Wooden
·
Man was designed for accomplishment,
engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
·
For each new morning with its light, For rest
and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything
Thy goodness sends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
·
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to
go after it with a club. - Jack London
·
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It
turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house
into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. — Melody Beattie
