What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered.

The knowledge
that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also
means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped
our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to
examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the
elements.
Anas Nin, The Diary of Anas Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Anas Nin

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in Neuilly, France
February 21, 1903
died
January 14, 1977
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What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge
that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also
means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped
our feelings, to cg, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine
how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.
Anas Nin, The Diary of Anas Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Dare to Be
When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.
When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.
When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.
When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.
When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.
When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.
When youre feeling tired, dare to keep going.
When times are tough, dare to be tougher.

When love hurts you, dare to love again.

When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.
When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.
When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.
When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.
When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.
When the day has ended, dare to feel as youve done your best.
Dare to be the best you can
At all times, Dare to be!
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see
you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have
to go.
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Life doesnt get easier or more forgiving,
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

we

get

stronger

and

more

resilient.

Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge &
harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have
hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

A
kind
gesture
can
reach
a
wound
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

that

only

The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Enter, stranger, but take heed

Of what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn.
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

compassion

can

heal.

There's a sucker born every minute

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"There's a sucker born every minute" is a phrase most likely spoken by David Hannum, in
criticism of both P. T. Barnum, an American showman of the mid 1800s, and his customers. The
phrase is often credited to Barnum himself. It means "Many people are gullible, and we can expect
this to continue."
Contents
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1 Attribution to Barnum

2 History

3 See also

4 References

5 External links

Attribution to Barnum[edit]
When Barnum's biographer, Arthur H. Saxon, tried to track down when Barnum had uttered this
phrase, he was unable to verify it. According to Saxon, "There's no contemporary account of it, or
even any suggestion that the word 'sucker' was used in the derogatory sense in his day. Barnum
was just not the type to disparage his patrons."[1]

Photo of P T Barnum by Charles Eisenmann

Some sources claim the quote is most likely from famous con-man Joseph ("Paper Collar Joe")
Bessimer,[2] and other sources say it was actually uttered by David Hannum, spoken in reference to
Barnum's part in the Cardiff Giant hoax. Hannum, who was exhibiting the "original" giant and had
unsuccessfully sued Barnum for exhibiting a copy and claiming it was the original, was referring to
the crowds continuing to pay to see Barnum's exhibit even after both it and the original had been
proven to be fakes.
Another source credits late 1860s Chicago "bounty broker, saloon and gambling-house keeper,
eminent politician, and dispenser of cheating privileges..." Michael Cassius McDonald as the
originator of the aphorism. According to the book Gem of the Prairie: Chicago Underworld(1940)
by Herbert Asbury, when McDonald was equipping his gambling house known as The
Store (at Clark and Monroe Streets in Chicago) his partner Harry Lawrence expressed concern over
the large number of roulette wheels and faro tables being installed and their ability to get enough

players to play the games. McDonald then allegedly said, "Don't worry about that, there's a sucker
born every minute."[page needed]
The phrase is the title of the opening song in the Broadway musical Barnum, about P.T. Barnum's
life.

History[edit]
The earliest appearance of the phrase in print is in the 1885 biography of confidence man Hungry
Joe, The Life of Hungry Joe, King of the Bunco Men.[3][4] Another early appearance is in Opie Read's
1898 novel A Yankee from the West.[5]
In a slightly different form, the phrase shows up in the January, 1806, European Magazine: "It was
the observation of one of the tribe of Levi, to whom some person had expressed his astonishment at
his being able to sell his damaged and worthless commodities, 'That there vash von fool born every
minute.'"[6]
According to David W. Maurer, writing in The Big Con (1940),[7] there was a similar saying amongst
con men: "There's a mark born every minute, and one to trim 'em and one to knock 'em". Here 'trim'
means to rip off, and 'knock' means to persuade away from a scam. The meaning is that there is no
shortage of new victims, nor of con men, nor of honest men.
In the 1930 John Dos Passos novel The 42nd Parallel, the quotation is attributed to Mark Twain.