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Thoughts For Every Day
Thoughts For Every Day
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July to December
January to June
PEACE OF MIND
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
HAPPINESS
There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
FORGIVENESS
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE Envy comes from peoples ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Jean Vanier
FRIENDSHIP
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
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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 dont 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 dont do well, I dont 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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THIS MOMENT
If it werent 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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DIFFICULT DAYS
The secret of patience to do something else in the meantime.
Anon
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ENTHUSIASM
Give me a man who sings at his work.
Thomas Carlyle
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HOPE
Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
Anon
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VISUALIZATION
We all live under the same sky, but we dont all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer
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ROLE MODELS
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Burke
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CHANGE
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
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DECISIONS
Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
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INSTINCTS
Systems die; instincts remain.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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MOTIVATION
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Baruch Spinoza
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REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
Lin Yutang
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GOALS
The one thing worth living for is to keep ones soul pure.
Marcus Aurelius
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FEAR
Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid.
Ron Meyer
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WORRY
Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so theres no room left for worry thoughts.
Howard Chandler Christy
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SECURITY
There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur
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RISKS
No one reaches a high position without daring.
Publilius Syrus
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COURAGE
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius
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WELL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.
Anon
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COMMITMENT
If you dont stand for something, youll fall for anything.
Michael Evans
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GETTING GOING
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
Brendan Francis
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SUCCESS
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Sir William Osler
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LUCK
The one who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B.C. Forbes
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OPPORTUNITY
The successful person is one who had the chance and took it.
Roger Babson
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COMMITMENT
Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.
Isaac Barrow
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CONCENTRATION
Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.
Colonel Michael Friedsman
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WORK
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant
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PERFECTION
The person with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann von Goethe
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PERSEVERANCE
They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
Samuel Smiles
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PROBLEMS
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
Corrie ten Bloom
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REACTING TO EVENTS
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
George Levinger
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SELF-PITY
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller
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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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THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE The only normal people are the ones you dont know very well.
Foe Ancis
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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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PRAYER
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
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SELF-ACCEPTANCE
Im not OK, youre not OK - and thats OK.
William Sloane Coffin
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SELF-CONTROL
When the fight begins within himself, a mans 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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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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DIFFICULT DAYS
Pain is never permanent.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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ENTHUSIASM
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Colette
89
HOPE
Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do without.
LeRoy Douglas
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VISUALIZATION
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it.
Anon
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ROLE MODELS
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.
Tyron Edwards
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CHANGE
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
Arthur Christopher Benson
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DECISIONS
Full maturity is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.
Angela Barron McBride
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MOTIVATION
Dont let other people tell you what you want.
Pat Riley
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REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin
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GOALS
If you dont know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?
Basil S. Walsh
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FEAR
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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WORRY
If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
Krishnamurti
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SECURITY
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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RISKS
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
Erica Jong
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COURAGE
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
James A. Michener
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WELL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Sir Winston Churchill
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IGNORANCE
Painting is easy when you dont know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas
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GETTING GOING
We will not know unless we begin.
Howard Zinn
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SUCCESS
Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.
Helen Hayes
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LUCK
You dont just luck into things You build step by step, whether its friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush
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OPPORTUNITY
Opportunity knocks but once.
Anon
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COMMITMENT
He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
George P. Schultz
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CONCENTRATION
One arrow does not bring down two birds.
Turkish proverb
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WORK
To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
Katharine Graham
114
PERFECTION
If the best mans faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.
Gaelic proverb
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PERSEVERANCE
It isnt hard to be good from time to time Whats tough is being good every day.
Willie Mays
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PROBLEMS
Every path has its puddle.
English proverb
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REACTING TO EVENTS
When things go wrong, dont go with them.
Anon
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SELF-PITY
The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
Og Guinness
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PEACE OF MIND
If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Paula A. Bendry
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HAPPINESS
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
Agnes Repplier
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ACCEPTANCE
Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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FORGIVENESS
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Ghandi
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THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.
R.H. Stoddard
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FRIENDSHIP
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
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CHANGE
A fanatic is one who cant change his mind and wont change the subject.
Sir Winston Churchill
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SELF-KNOWLEDGE
When a man begins to understand himself, he begins to live.
Norvin G. McGranahan
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SELF-ACCEPTANCE
Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
Saint Francis de Sales
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SELF-CONFIDENCE
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann von Goethe
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SELF-RELIANCE
The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
Swedish proverb
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SIMPLICITY
There is only one meaning of life, the act of living itself.
Erich Fromm
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ONE DAY
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
George MacDonald
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MORNINGS
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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EVENINGS
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
Eph. 14:26
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DIFFICULT DAYS
God grant us patience!
William Shakespeare
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ENTHUSIASM
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
William McFee
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CHANGE
Every new adjustment is a crisis in selfesteem.
Eric Hoffer
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VISUALIZATION
We all live under the same sky, but we dont all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer
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ROLE MODELS
A good example is the best sermon.
Anon
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CHANGE
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
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FORGIVENESS
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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INSTINCTS
The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
Soren Kierkegaard
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MOTIVATION
We talk on principle, but we act on interest.
Walter Savage Landor
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REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
Jean Vanier
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GOALS
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Billy Wilder
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FEAR
Do not think of all your anxieties, you will only make yourself ill.
Shih King
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WORRY
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
Swedish proverb
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SECURITY
No one can build her security upon the nobleness of another person.
Willa Cather
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RISKS
Unless you enter the tigers den, you cannot take the cubs.
Japanese proverb
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COURAGE
Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
John Dewey
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WELL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo
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IGNORANCE
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Publilius Syrus
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GETTING GOING
If we really want to live, wed better start at once to try.
W.H. Auden
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SUCCESS
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford
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OPPORTUNITY
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain
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COMMITMENT
If you dont stand for something, youll fall for anything.
Michael Evans
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WORK
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you havent planted.
David Bly
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PERFECTION
Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.
Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs
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PERSEVERANCE
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
Confucius
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PERSEVERANCE
It isnt hard to be good from time to time Whats tough is being good every day.
Willie Mays
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REACTING TO EVENTS
Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
Abraham Lincoln
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SELF-PITY
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Andr Gide
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PEACE OF MIND
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.
Anon
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HAPPINESS
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
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ACCEPTANCE
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.
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FORGIVENESS
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Mt. 7:1
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HAPPINESS
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
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FRIENDSHIP
When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing.
Anon
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HAPPINESS
Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy?
A Course In Miracles
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PRAYER
The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
Oswald Chambers
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PERSEVERANCE
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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SELF-ACCEPTANCE
Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
Saint Francis de Sales
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HAPPINESS
Happiness sneaks in through a door you didnt know you left open.
John Barrymore
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HAPPINESS
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
Anon
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ONE DAY
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
George MacDonald
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ACCEPTANCE
Lifes under no obligation to give us what we expect.
Margaret Mitchell
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FORGIVENESS
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
Harriet Uts Nelson
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FRIENDSHIP
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides
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PRAYER
When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.
Anon
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HOPE
All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas
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ACCEPTANCE
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!
J.C.F. von Schiller
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CHANGE
There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
Rollo May
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DECISIONS
Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.
Harry A. Hopf
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FORGIVENESS
They may not deserve forgiveness, but I do.
Anon
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REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
Jean Vanier
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GOALS
Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.
Chinese proverb
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FEAR
Fear is the absence of faith.
Paul Tillich
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WORRY
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
Swedish proverb
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ACCEPTANCE
If you have a job without aggravations, you dont have a job.
Malcolm Forbes
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FORGIVENESS
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
Madame Dorothee Deluzy
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RISKS
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
General George S. Patton
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COURAGE
Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
John Dewey
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ACCEPTANCE
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Anon
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SUCCESS
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
William Hazlitt
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OPPORTUNITY
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain
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FORGIVENESS
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale
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FRIENDSHIP
It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.
Chinese proverb
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PEACE OF MIND
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
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HAPPINESS
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
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ACCEPTANCE
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
George Bernard Shaw
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FORGIVENESS
Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.
Arthur J. Rehrat
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THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money cant cure.
Ogden Nash
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FRIENDSHIP
One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.
William E. Holler
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PRAYER
When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can.
Edward M. Goulburn
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SELF-ACCEPTANCE
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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SELF-CONFIDENCE
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
Thomas Merton
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SELF-RELIANCE
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Sophocles
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SIMPLICITY
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
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ONE DAY
The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.
Anon
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PRAYER
Dont pray when it rains if you dont pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
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MORNINGS
When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
Sydney Smith
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ENTHUSIASM
Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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VISUALIZATION
Who is the wise man? He who sees whats going to be born.
Solomon
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ACCEPTANCE
If you want a place in the sun, youve got to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail Van Buren
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CHANGE
Nothing in this world is permanent.
German proverb
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INSTINCTS
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle
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MOTIVATION
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
We cannot all be masters.
William Shakespeare
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GOALS
Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you havent even begun to live.
William P. Merrill
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FEAR
If you are afraid for your future, you dont have a present.
James Petersen
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WORRY
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
A.J. Cronin
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RISKS
In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.
Dennis Dugan
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COURAGE
Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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GETTING GOING
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.
Janet Erskine Stuart
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GOALS
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Johann von Goethe
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RISKS
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain
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ACCEPTANCE
There are things I cant force. I must adjust.
C.M. Ward
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PERSEVERANCE
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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FRIENDSHIP
Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
Turkish proverb
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HAPPINESS
No one gives joy or sorrow We gather the consequences of our own deeds.
Garuda Purana
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ACCEPTANCE
The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is, who find the least fault.
Charles Dudley Warner
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FORGIVENESS
Revenge could steal a mans life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
Louis LAmour
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ONE DAY
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir
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FRIENDSHIP
Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.
Anon
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MORNINGS
Days sweetest moments are at dawn.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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PRAYER
Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.
The Desert Fathers
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SELF-ACCEPTANCE
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Anon
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SELF-RELIANCE
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
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SIMPLICITY
If you arent going all the way, why go at all?
Joe Namath
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MORNINGS
With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.
Anon
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ENTHUSIASM
The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch
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HOPE
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
Anon
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CHANGE
When youre through changing, youre through.
Bruce Barton
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INSTINCTS
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw
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FRIENDSHIP
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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PRAYER
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Martin Luther
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FEAR
The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
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ENTHUSIASM
The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy.
Thomas Arnold
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RISKS
And the trouble is, if you dont risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
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COURAGE
Youre only as sick as your secrets.
Anon
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GETTING GOING
Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
Alonzo Newton Benn
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SUCCESS
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill
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COMMITMENT
Whether you are really right or not doesnt matter, its the belief that counts.
Robertson Davies
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FEAR
Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.
Anon
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RISKS
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
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PRAYER
Amazing things start happening when we start praying!
Anon
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SUCCESS
Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
Anon
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FEAR
Humor acts to relieve fear.
Dr. William F. Fry, Jr.
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HAPPINESS
Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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ACCEPTANCE
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
David Hume
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FORGIVENESS
Revenge could steal a mans life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
Louis LAmour
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FRIENDSHIP
They are rich who have true friends.
Thomas Fuller
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PRAYER
Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.
The Desert Fathers
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SELF-ACCEPTANCE
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore
321
SELF-RELIANCE
God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.
Josiah Holland
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COURAGE
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh
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RISKS
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
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FRIENDSHIP
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
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PRAYER
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
Thomas B. Brooks
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ONE DAY
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
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GOALS
He who begins many things finishes but few.
Italian proverb
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COURAGE
No great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.
German proverb
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REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.
Anon
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GOALS
The soul that has no established aim loses itself.
Michel de Montaigne
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FEAR
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King
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FRIENDSHIP
The best mirror is an old friend.
Anon
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PRAYER
I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
Dwight L. Moody
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ONE DAY
Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions to actual deeds.
Grenville Kleiser
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COURAGE
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
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FRIENDSHIP
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
Nigerian proverb
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ONE DAY
Every day is a messenger of God.
Russian proverb
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COURAGE
To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
John Cage
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GOALS
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
William J. Locke
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CHANGE
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
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FRIENDSHIP
One whos our friend is fond of us; one whos fond of us isnt necessarily our friend.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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HAPPINESS
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus
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CHANGE
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
Arthur Christopher Benson
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FORGIVENESS
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
Isaac Friedmann
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FRIENDSHIP
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when theyre not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when theyre not so bad.
Arnold H. Glasow
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PRAYER
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
Oswald Chambers
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GOALS
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?
J.C.F. von Schiller
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FRIENDSHIP
Have but few friends, though many acquaintances.
Anon
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GOALS
Once you say youre going to settle for second, thats what happens to you.
John F. Kennedy
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FRIENDSHIP
A man is known by the company he keeps.
Anon
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GOALS
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
John Powell
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MORNINGS
With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.
Anon
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ACCEPTANCE
There are things I cant force. I must adjust.
C.M. Ward
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ENTHUSIASM
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
General Douglas MacArthur
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CHANGE
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
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GOALS
Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.
Colonel Michael Friedman
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FEAR
The habit of doing ones duty drives away fear.
Charles Baudelaire
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WORRY
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
William Ralph Inge
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THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money cant cure.
Ogden Nash
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