thoughts for every_day
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Thoughts for every day: Menu 1: Select the date
• January: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
• February: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
• March: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
• April: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
• May: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
• June: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
July to December
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Thoughts for every day: Menu 2: Select the date
• July: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
• August: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
• September: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
• October: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
• November: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
• December: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
January to June
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PEACE OF MIND
• The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
• Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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HAPPINESS
• There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
• Robert Louis Stevenson
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ACCEPTANCE
• God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
• Reinhold Niebuhr
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FORGIVENESS
• Forgiveness means letting go of the past.• Gerald Jampolsky
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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
• Aughey
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THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
• Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
• Jean Vanier
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HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• Make yourself necessary to somebody.• Ralph Waldo Emerson
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FRIENDSHIP
• True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
• Dave Tyson Gentry
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OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD
• When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.
• Anon
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FAITH AND BELIEF
• Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.
• Guideposts
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PRAYER
• Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.
• John Aikman Wallace
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SELF-ACCEPTANCE
• You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don’t believe in yourself.
• William J.H. Boetcker
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SELF-CONTROL
• Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
• George Bernard Shaw
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SELF-CONFIDENCE
• Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
• Stan Smith
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SIMPLICITY
• What I do, I do very well, and what I don’t do well, I don’t do at all.
• Anon
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ONE DAY
• Nothing in business is so valuable as time.• John H. Patterson
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YESTERDAY: THE PAST
• Enjoy yourself. These are the “good old days” you’re going to miss in the years ahead.
• Anon
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TODAY: THE PRESENT
• The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
• Elbert Hubbard
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THIS MOMENT
• If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.
• Anon
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MORNINGS
• Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
• Edgar Watson Howe
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EVENINGS
• Sum up at night what thou has done by day.
• Lord Herbert
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TOMORROW: THE FUTURE
• Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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AVERAGE, “BORING” DAYS
• Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
• Charles Baudelaire
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DIFFICULT DAYS
• The secret of patience … to do something else in the meantime.
• Anon
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• Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.
• Madeline Bridges
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
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• Give me a man who sings at his work.• Thomas Carlyle
ENTHUSIASM
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• Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
• Anon
HOPE
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• We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.
• Konrad Adenauer
VISUALIZATION
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• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
• Burke
ROLE MODELS
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• Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
• George Bernard Shaw
CHANGE
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• Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
• Peter Drucker
DECISIONS
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• Systems die; instincts remain.• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
INSTINCTS
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• Skills vary. We must … strive by that which is born in us.
• Pindar
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
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• To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
• Baruch Spinoza
MOTIVATION
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• Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
• Lin Yutang
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
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• The one thing worth living for is to keep one’s soul pure.
• Marcus Aurelius
GOALS
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• Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid.
• Ron Meyer
FEAR
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• Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there’s no room left for worry thoughts.
• Howard Chandler Christy
WORRY
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• Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
• George Eliot
DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES
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• There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.
• General Douglas MacArthur
SECURITY
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• No one reaches a high position without daring.
• Publilius Syrus
RISKS
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• To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
• Confucius
COURAGE
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• The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.
• Anon
WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF
US
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• If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
• Michael Evans
COMMITMENT
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• Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
• Brendan Francis
GETTING GOING
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• The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
• Sir William Osler
SUCCESS
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• The one who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
• B.C. Forbes
LUCK
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• The successful person is one who had the chance and took it.
• Roger Babson
OPPORTUNITY
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• Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.
• Isaac Barrow
COMMITMENT
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• Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.
• Colonel Michael Friedsman
CONCENTRATION
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• Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
• Ulysses S. Grant
WORK
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• The person with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
• Johann von Goethe
PERFECTION
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• God tests His real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
• Katheryn Hulme
JUST DO THE FOOTWORK,THEN LET IT GO
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• I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
• Lord Chesterfield
TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
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• They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
• Samuel Smiles
PERSEVERANCE
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• Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
• Corrie ten Bloom
PROBLEMS
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• Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
• Bertolt Brecht
FAILURES AND MISTAKES
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• Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind.
• Frank Harris
THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY
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• What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
• George Levinger
REACTING TO EVENTS
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• Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
• Helen Keller
SELF-PITY
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PEACE OF MIND
• Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
• Lin Yutang
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HAPPINESS
• Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
• Hosea Ballou
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ACCEPTANCE
• We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
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FORGIVENESS
• The angry people are those people who are most afraid.
• Dr. Robert Anthony
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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.• Karl Barth
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THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
• The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.
• Foe Ancis
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HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
• Vauvenargues
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FRIENDSHIP
• The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen.
• Bob Lemon
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ACCEPTANCE
• Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
• G.K. Chesterton
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OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD
• Some people talk about finding God, as if He could get lost.
• Anon
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FAITH AND BELIEF
• Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
• Erich Fromm
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PRAYER
• Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
• Soren Kierkegaard
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SELF-ACCEPTANCE
• I’m not OK, you’re not OK - and that’s OK.
• William Sloane Coffin
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SELF-CONTROL
• When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.
• Robert Browning
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SELF-RELIANCE
• Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
• Frank Tyger
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SIMPLICITY
• What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
• Confucius
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ONE DAY
• Nothing is worth more than this day.• Johann von Goethe
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YESTERDAY: THE PAST
• Some folks never exaggerate - they just remember big.
• Audrey Snead
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TODAY: THE PRESENT
• It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
• Jim Bishop
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THIS MOMENT
• The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
• Mignon McLaughlin
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MORNINGS
• With each sunrise, we start anew.• Anon
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EVENINGS
• Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.
• Scottish proverb
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TOMORROW: THE FUTURE
• God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
• Isak Dinesen
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AVERAGE, “BORING” DAYS
• Being bored is an insult to oneself.• Jules Renard
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DIFFICULT DAYS
• Pain is never permanent.• Saint Teresa of Avila
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• The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.
• Herbert Samuels
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
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• You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
• Colette
ENTHUSIASM
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• Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do without.
• LeRoy Douglas
HOPE
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• A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it.
• Anon
VISUALIZATION
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• People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.
• Tyron Edwards
ROLE MODELS
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• Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
• Arthur Christopher Benson
CHANGE
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• Full maturity … is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.
• Angela Barron McBride
DECISIONS
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• You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live.
• Joan Baez
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
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• There is just one life for each of us: our own.
• Euripides
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
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• Don’t let other people tell you what you want.
• Pat Riley
MOTIVATION
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• No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
• Mignon McLaughlin
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
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• If you don’t know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?
• Basil S. Walsh
GOALS
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• We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca
FEAR
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• If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
• Krishnamurti
WORRY
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• To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything, or nothing, about it.
• Olin Miller
DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES
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• To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca
SECURITY
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• It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.• Erica Jong
RISKS
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• It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
• James A. Michener
COURAGE
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• We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
• Sir Winston Churchill
WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF
US
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• Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
• Edgar Degas
“IGNORANCE”
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• We will not know unless we begin.• Howard Zinn
GETTING GOING
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• Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.
• Helen Hayes
SUCCESS
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• You don’t just luck into things … You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.
• Barbara Bush
LUCK
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• Opportunity knocks but once.• Anon
OPPORTUNITY
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• He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
• George P. Schultz
COMMITMENT
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• One arrow does not bring down two birds.• Turkish proverb
CONCENTRATION
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• To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
• Katharine Graham
WORK
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• If the best man’s faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.
• Gaelic proverb
PERFECTION
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• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
• Friedrich Engels
JUST DO THE FOOTWORK,THEN LET IT GO
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• The distance doesn’t matter; only the first step is difficult.
• Madame Marquise du Deffand
TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
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• It isn’t hard to be good from time to time … What’s tough is being good every day.
• Willie Mays
PERSEVERANCE
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• Every path has its puddle.• English proverb
PROBLEMS
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• Our mistakes won’t irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.
• James E. Sweaney
FAILURES AND MISTAKES
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• Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.
• Robert R. Updegraff
THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY
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• When things go wrong, don’t go with them.
• Anon
REACTING TO EVENTS
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• A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
• Duke Ellington
THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY
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• The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
• Og Guinness
SELF-PITY
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• If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
• Paula A. Bendry
PEACE OF MIND
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• It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.• Agnes Repplier
HAPPINESS
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• Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
ACCEPTANCE
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• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
• Mahatma Ghandi
FORGIVENESS
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• Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
• Ruth Ann Schabacker
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
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• We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.
• R.H. Stoddard
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
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• What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
• George Eliot
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
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• There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
• Saint Thomas Aquinas
FRIENDSHIP
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• Let God love you through others and let God love others through you.
• D.M. Street
OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD
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• I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
• 2 Tm. 4:7
FAITH AND BELIEF
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• A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
• Sir Winston Churchill
CHANGE
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• When a man begins to understand himself, he begins to live.
• Norvin G. McGranahan
SELF-KNOWLEDGE
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• Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
• Saint Francis de Sales
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
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• As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
• Johann von Goethe
SELF-CONFIDENCE
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• The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
• Swedish proverb
SELF-RELIANCE
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• There is only one meaning of life, the act of living itself.
• Erich Fromm
SIMPLICITY
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• We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
• George MacDonald
ONE DAY
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• Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.
• Anon
YESTERDAY: THE PAST
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• Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
• Horace
TODAY: THE PRESENT
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• If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca
MORNINGS
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• Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.• Eph. 14:26
EVENINGS
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• I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
• Albert Einstein
TOMORROW: THE FUTURE
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• God grant us patience!• William Shakespeare
DIFFICULT DAYS
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• Change your thoughts and you change your world.
• Norman Vincent Peale
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
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• The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
• William McFee
ENTHUSIASM
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• Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
• Eric Hoffer
CHANGE
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• We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.
• Konrad Adenauer
VISUALIZATION
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• A good example is the best sermon.• Anon
ROLE MODELS
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• Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
• Bertolt Brecht
CHANGE
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• One forgives to the degree that one loves.• Francois de La Rochefoucauld
FORGIVENESS
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• The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
• Soren Kierkegaard
INSTINCTS
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• He who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints.
• Joan L. Brannon
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
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• We talk on principle, but we act on interest.
• Walter Savage Landor
MOTIVATION
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• Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
• Jean Vanier
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
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• You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
• Billy Wilder
GOALS
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• Do not think of all your anxieties, you will only make yourself ill.
• Shih King
FEAR
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• Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
• Swedish proverb
WORRY
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• The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
• Pliny, the Elder
DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES
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• No one can build her security upon the nobleness of another person.
• Willa Cather
SECURITY
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• Unless you enter the tiger’s den, you cannot take the cubs.
• Japanese proverb
RISKS
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• Confidence … is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
• John Dewey
COURAGE
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• Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
• Victor Hugo
WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF
US
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• No one knows what he can do until he tries.
• Publilius Syrus
“IGNORANCE”
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• If we really want to live, we’d better start at once to try.
• W.H. Auden
GETTING GOING
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• Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
• Henry Ford
SUCCESS
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• I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
• Mark Twain
OPPORTUNITY
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• If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
• Michael Evans
COMMITMENT
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• Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.
• David Bly
WORK
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• Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.
• Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs
PERFECTION
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• God doesn’t make orange juice, God makes oranges.
• Jesse Jackson
JUST DO THE FOOTWORK,THEN LET IT GO
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• The distance doesn’t matter; only the first step is difficult.
• Madame Marquise du Deffand
TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
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• It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
• Confucius
PERSEVERANCE
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• It isn’t hard to be good from time to time … What’s tough is being good every day.
• Willie Mays
PERSEVERANCE
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• The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
• Eleanor Roosevelt
FAILURES AND MISTAKES
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• Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
• Abraham Lincoln
REACTING TO EVENTS
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• Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
• André Gide
SELF-PITY
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• Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.
• Anon
PEACE OF MIND
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• Happiness depends upon ourselves.• Aristotle
HAPPINESS
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• One cannot get through life without pain … What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.
• Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.
ACCEPTANCE
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• Judge not, that ye be not judged.• Mt. 7:1
FORGIVENESS
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• The mere sense of living is joy enough.• Emily Dickinson
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
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• Charity begins at home, and usually stays there.
• Elbert Hubbard
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
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• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
• Mark Twain
HAPPINESS
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• When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing.
• Anon
FRIENDSHIP
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• Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy?
• A Course In Miracles
HAPPINESS
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• Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
• Lin Yutang
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
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• The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
• Oswald Chambers
PRAYER
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• The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
PERSEVERANCE
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• Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
• Saint Francis de Sales
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
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• Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.
• John Barrymore
HAPPINESS
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• If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it.
• Malcolm Forbes
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
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• Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
• Anon
HAPPINESS
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• We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
• George MacDonald
ONE DAY
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• Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.
• Margaret Mitchell
ACCEPTANCE
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• Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
• Harriet Uts Nelson
FORGIVENESS
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• Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.
• Thomas Fuller
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
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• We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
• William Hazlitt
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
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• I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
• Albert Einstein
TOMORROW: THE FUTURE
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• We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
• Thucydides
FRIENDSHIP
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• You can promote your healing by your thinking.
• James E. Sweeney
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
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• When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.
• Anon
PRAYER
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• All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.
• Alexandre Dumas
HOPE
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• Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!
• J.C.F. von Schiller
ACCEPTANCE
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• There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
• Rollo May
CHANGE
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• Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.
• Harry A. Hopf
DECISIONS
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• They may not deserve forgiveness, but I do.
• Anon
FORGIVENESS
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• I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.
• George Burns
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
212
• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
213
• Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
• Jean Vanier
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
214
• Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.
• Chinese proverb
GOALS
215
• Fear is the absence of faith.• Paul Tillich
FEAR
216
• Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
• Swedish proverb
WORRY
217
• If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job.
• Malcolm Forbes
ACCEPTANCE
218
• It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
• Madame Dorothee Deluzy
FORGIVENESS
219
• Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
• General George S. Patton
RISKS
220
• Confidence … is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
• John Dewey
COURAGE
221
• To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.
• Ken Keyes, Jr.
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
222
• From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
• Dante Alighieri
TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
223
• Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
• Anon
ACCEPTANCE
224
• A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
• William Hazlitt
SUCCESS
225
• I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
• Mark Twain
OPPORTUNITY
226
• When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
• Norman Vincent Peale
FORGIVENESS
227
• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
• English proverb
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
228
• The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.
• Luther Burbank
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
229
• With us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.
• 2 Chr.
JUST DO THE FOOTWORK,THEN LET IT GO
230
• It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
• Chinese proverb
TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
231
• It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.
• Chinese proverb
FRIENDSHIP
232
• There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better, but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better.
• L. Thomas Holdcroft
PEACE OF MIND
233
• Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
• Abraham Lincoln
HAPPINESS
234
• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
• George Bernard Shaw
ACCEPTANCE
235
• Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.
• Arthur J. Rehrat
FORGIVENESS
236
• Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don’t make.
• Bill Veeck
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
237
• The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can’t cure.
• Ogden Nash
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
238
• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
• Mother Teresa
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
239
• One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.
• William E. Holler
FRIENDSHIP
240
• Talking about God is not at all the same thing as experiencing God, or acting out God through our lives.
• Phillip Hewett
OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD
241
• When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can.
• Edward M. Goulburn
PRAYER
242
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
• Eleanor Roosevelt
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
243
• Perhaps I am stronger than I think.• Thomas Merton
SELF-CONFIDENCE
244
• The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
• Sophocles
SELF-RELIANCE
245
• To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
• Mother Teresa
SIMPLICITY
246
• The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.
• Anon
ONE DAY
247
• Never let yesterday use up today.• Richard H. Nelson
YESTERDAY: THE PAST
248
• Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
• Satchel Paige
PRAYER
249
• When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
• Sydney Smith
MORNINGS
250
• Most of the time we think we’re sick it’s all in the mind.
• Thomas Wolfe
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
251
• Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
ENTHUSIASM
252
• I’d rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city.
• William A. Hulbert
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
253
• Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.
• Solomon
VISUALIZATION
254
• If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters.
• Abigail Van Buren
ACCEPTANCE
255
• Nothing in this world is permanent.• German proverb
CHANGE
256
• It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
• Thomas Carlyle
INSTINCTS
257
• The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
258
• A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
• Napoleon Bonaparte
MOTIVATION
259
• We cannot all be masters.• William Shakespeare
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
260
• Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven’t even begun to live.
• William P. Merrill
GOALS
261
• If you are afraid for your future, you don’t have a present.
• James Petersen
FEAR
262
• Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
• A.J. Cronin
WORRY
263
• If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
• Lee Iacocca
DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES
264
• In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.
• Dennis Dugan
RISKS
265
• Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca
COURAGE
266
• Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.
• Janet Erskine Stuart
GETTING GOING
267
• Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.
• Susan L. Lenzkes
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
268
• It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
• Johann von Goethe
GOALS
269
• Necessity is the mother of taking chances.• Mark Twain
RISKS
270
• He has enough who is contented with little.
• Anon
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
271
• There are things I can’t force. I must adjust.
• C.M. Ward
ACCEPTANCE
272
• The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
PERSEVERANCE
273
• The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
• Eleanor Roosevelt
FAILURES AND MISTAKES
274
• Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
• Estonian proverb
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
275
• Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
• Turkish proverb
FRIENDSHIP
276
• No one gives joy or sorrow … We gather the consequences of our own deeds.
• Garuda Purana
HAPPINESS
277
• The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is, who find the least fault.
• Charles Dudley Warner
ACCEPTANCE
278
• Revenge could steal a man’s life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
• Louis L’Amour
FORGIVENESS
279
• That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
• Friedrich Nietzsche
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
280
• To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is.
• Frank A. Clark
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
281
• I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
• Golda Meir
ONE DAY
282
• Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.
• Anon
FRIENDSHIP
283
• Day’s sweetest moments are at dawn.• Ella Wheeler Wilcox
MORNINGS
284
• Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.
• The Desert Fathers
PRAYER
285
• To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
• Anon
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
286
• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
• Francis Bacon
SELF-RELIANCE
287
• If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?
• Joe Namath
SIMPLICITY
288
• More than enough is too much.• Anon
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
289
• The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
• Max Beerbohm
YESTERDAY: THE PAST
290
• So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by today’s economies.
• John Mason Brown
TODAY: THE PRESENT
291
• With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.
• Anon
MORNINGS
292
• Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
• Lin Yutang
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
293
• The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
• Marshal Ferdinand Foch
ENTHUSIASM
294
• Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
• Anon
HOPE
295
• When you’re through changing, you’re through.
• Bruce Barton
CHANGE
296
• Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
• George Bernard Shaw
INSTINCTS
297
• Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox
FRIENDSHIP
298
• Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
299
• The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
• Martin Luther
PRAYER
300
• The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
• Elbert Hubbard
FEAR
301
• The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
• Henry L. Stimson
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
302
• The difference between one man and another is not mere ability … it is energy.
• Thomas Arnold
ENTHUSIASM
303
• And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
• Erica Jong
RISKS
304
• You’re only as sick as your secrets.• Anon
COURAGE
305
• Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
• Alonzo Newton Benn
GETTING GOING
306
• Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
• Sir Winston Churchill
SUCCESS
307
• Whether you are really right or not doesn’t matter, it’s the belief that counts.
• Robertson Davies
COMMITMENT
308
• Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.
• Anon
FEAR
309
• The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
• Moliere
RISKS
310
• Amazing things start happening when we start praying!
• Anon
PRAYER
311
• Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
• Anon
SUCCESS
312
• Humor acts to relieve fear.• Dr. William F. Fry, Jr.
FEAR
313
• Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
HAPPINESS
314
• He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
• David Hume
ACCEPTANCE
315
• Revenge could steal a man’s life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
• Louis L’Amour
FORGIVENESS
316
• Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.
• Maurice Setter
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
317
• Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
• George Santayana
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
318
• They are rich who have true friends.• Thomas Fuller
FRIENDSHIP
319
• I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet.
• Ancient Persian saying
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
320
• Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.
• The Desert Fathers
PRAYER
321
• You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
• Ethel Barrymore
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
322
• God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.
• Josiah Holland
SELF-RELIANCE
323
• What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
• Vincent van Gogh
COURAGE
324
• Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
• Ray Bradbury
RISKS
325
• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
• Samuel Butler
FRIENDSHIP
326
• If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.
• Morris West
TODAY: THE PRESENT
327
• Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
• Thomas B. Brooks
PRAYER
328
• A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
• Charles Darwin
ONE DAY
329
• The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions.
• André Godin
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
330
• He who begins many things finishes but few.
• Italian proverb
GOALS
331
• No great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.
• German proverb
COURAGE
332
• We are betrayed by what is false within.• George Meredith
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
333
• Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.
• Anon
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
334
• The soul that has no established aim loses itself.
• Michel de Montaigne
GOALS
335
• A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
• Billie Jean King
FEAR
336
• The best mirror is an old friend.• Anon
FRIENDSHIP
337
• I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
• Dwight L. Moody
PRAYER
338
• Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions to actual deeds.
• Grenville Kleiser
ONE DAY
339
• God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.
• Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
COURAGE
340
• Hold a true friend with both your hands.• Nigerian proverb
FRIENDSHIP
341
• Every day is a messenger of God.• Russian proverb
ONE DAY
342
• To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
• John Cage
COURAGE
343
• I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
• William J. Locke
GOALS
344
• If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
• Woodrow Wilson
CHANGE
345
• One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca
FRIENDSHIP
346
• How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
• Publilius Syrus
HAPPINESS
347
• Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
• Arthur Christopher Benson
CHANGE
348
• Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.• Isaac Friedmann
FORGIVENESS
349
• If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.
• Robert Quillen
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
350
• It is more blessed to give than to receive.• Acts 20:35
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
351
• A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.
• Arnold H. Glasow
FRIENDSHIP
352
• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
• Oswald Chambers
PRAYER
353
• Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?
• J.C.F. von Schiller
GOALS
354
• Have but few friends, though many acquaintances.
• Anon
FRIENDSHIP
355
• Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you.
• John F. Kennedy
GOALS
356
• A man is known by the company he keeps.
• Anon
FRIENDSHIP
357
• A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
• John Powell
GOALS
358
• With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.
• Anon
MORNINGS
359
• There are things I can’t force. I must adjust.
• C.M. Ward
ACCEPTANCE
360
• It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
• General Douglas MacArthur
ENTHUSIASM
361
• Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
• Oscar Wilde
CHANGE
362
• A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
363
• Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.
• Colonel Michael Friedman
GOALS
364
• The habit of doing one’s duty drives away fear.
• Charles Baudelaire
FEAR
365
• Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
• William Ralph Inge
WORRY
366
• Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
• Tehyi Hsieh
DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES
367
• The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can’t cure.
• Ogden Nash
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE