Someone once asked me “why do you always insist on taking the hard road?” and I replied “why do you assume I see two roads?”
—Unknown
Our background and circumstances may influence who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.
—Unknown
Instead of telling God how big your storm is, tell your storm how big your God is.
—Unknown
A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live.
—Unknown
A friend is a person who knows all about you but likes you anyway.
—Unknown
Defeat isn’t bitter, as long as you don’t swallow it.
—Unknown
Life does not require us to be the biggest or the best: It asks only that we try.
—Unknown
Your decisions determine your direction,|and your direction determines your destiny.
—Unknown
Some men have a den in their home, while others just growl all over the house.
—Unknown
It’s not whether you win or lose; it’s how you play the game that counts.
—Unknown
If you are feeling low, don’t despair.
The sun has a sinking spell every night,
but it comes back up every morning.
—Unknown
There are three things which are real:|God, human folly and laughter.|The first two are beyond our comprehension|so we must do what we can with the third.
—Unknown
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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To be listened to and to be loved are so much alike -|that most people think they are the same.
—Unknown
The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.
—Unknown
I was strongest when I laughed at my weakness.
—Unknown
If you speak before you think,|you find out what’s really on your mind.
—Unknown
When the wise get angry, they lose their wisdom.
—Unknown
Say to yourself – Yesterday I thought something was a problem.|Today I see it as a divine opportunity to stretch myself and progress.
—Unknown
In the race to be better or best, miss no the joy of being.
—Unknown
Laugh, Live, Smile, and Love… for what you get out of life comes from what you put in.
—Unknown
Live today to the fullest. Remember it’s the first day of the rest of your life!
—Unknown
A great mentor is one who aims for others’ abilities to surpass his own.
—Unknown
Don’t tell me I’m burning the candle at both ends, tell me where to get more wax.
—Unknown
You will not find what you do not live.
—Unknown
Hold your head up because you have every right to. Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself, for if you don’t believe in yourself, it will be hard for others to believe in you.
—Unknown
It is useless to tell a river to stop running; the best thing|it to learn how to sail in the direction it is flowing.
—Unknown
The past is behind; learn from it. The present is here; live in it. The future is ahead; prepare for it.
—Unknown
Music is the way our memories sing to us across time.
—Unknown
Live every day as if it is your last—and one day you’ll be right.
—Unknown
The best way to spend Christmas is within your income.
—Unknown
Falling doesn’t make you a failure, staying down does.
—Unknown
If you believe in yourself, then nothing can stop you from achieving what you believe in.
—Unknown
P.R.I.D.E.|Personal Responsibility In Delivering Excellence.
—Unknown
The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
—Unknown
We live in the present,
We dream of the future,
and we learn eternal truths from the past.
—Unknown
I Will
I will think of better ways.
I will develop ways to achieve positive attitude.
I will keep reviewing my goals.
I will accept that I cannot change.
I will learn from my mistakes.
I will start living.
I will smile.
I will be happy.
I will enjoy myself.
I will be honest.
I will remain humble.
I will put myself in the other person’s shoes.
—Unknown
Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not take money.
—Unknown
When we stop judging ourselves we stop judging other people. When we start loving ourselves, we start loving other people.
—Unknown
Often people who lack inner peace are victims of a|self-punishment mechanism. God will forgive them,|but sometimes they will not forgive themselves.|Often people will over-work to relieve feelings of guilt.
—Unknown
One of our most useless weights is to believe in the necessity of human conflict.
—Unknown
It’s not our job to change other people—it’s our job to love them, while they change themselves.
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When sorting junk and clutter put it into|one of 3 catagories – Duck, Dump, or Don’t do.
—Unknown
Why are the words good-bye, I’m sorry, and I love you so easy to pronounce but so hard to say?
—Unknown
Before you go to bed at night give all of your cares and worries to God, He’ll be up all night anyways.
—Unknown
Be happy; Be supportive; Be Naughty;
Be just like the way you are;
But don’t get bored.
—Unknown
Grief is a most peculiar thing;|we’re so helpless in the face of it.|It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord.|The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver.|But it opens a little less each time and a little less;|and one day we wonder what has become of it.
—Unknown
Don’t let a tragic past get in the way of a bright future.
—Unknown
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair; the beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
—Unknown
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
—Unknown
Triumph is the extra umph added to the try.
—Unknown
You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough.
—Unknown
Fear and guilt are unpleasant bedfellows who disturb our sleep.
—Unknown
Don’t Re-Anything. Don’t re-do, re-peat, re-cover, re-finance—do it right the first time.
—Unknown
Nobody ever choked through swallowing pride.
—Unknown
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is nothing.
—Unknown
I’m too religious to believe in religion. You don’t have to believe in a sacred world. It slaps you in the face. It’s everywhere.
—Unknown
You have a gold mine when you have a goal mind.
—Unknown
Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments.
—Unknown
The first stage of a huge shock is disbelief -|I can’t believe that’s happened.|As soon as you learn to accept what’s happened,|you are ready to move on in life and pretty soon|you see a job that’s interesting, or meet someone who looks good,|or find a project you want to be involved with,|and start putting emotions there that up till then you|had been pouring down the hole of your previous disaster.
—Unknown
When you have a lot of problems,|and you think you can’t go on -|Isn’t it a blessing to find out you’re wrong.
—Unknown
Teach children to use SPICE—and use it yourself.
S-Skill building.
P-Problem solving.
I-Imagination.
C-Communication.
E-Ego building.
—Unknown
The way to create happiness:|Keep your heart free from hate,|your mind from worry.|Live simply, expect little, give much.|Fill your life with love, scatter sunshine.|Forget self, think of others.|Do as you would be done by.|Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
—Unknown
Service is nothing but love in work clothes.
—Unknown
Sympathy sees and says, ‘I’m sorry’.|Compassion sees and says, ‘I’ll help’.|When we learn the difference, we can make a difference.
—Unknown
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
—Unknown
Friendship is like a treasure. When you find it, you share it.
—Unknown
Life is too short to settle for anything less than a 110% effort!
—Unknown
Fifty years from now it will not matter what kind of car you drove, what kind of house you lived in, how much you had in your bank account or what your clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better place because you were important in the life of a child.
—Unknown
If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.
—Unknown
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
—Unknown
Topics: Happiness, Action
It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you’re not.
—Unknown
Don’t be afraid to attempt something new. Remember, it was amateurs who built the ark. It was professionals who built the Titanic.
—Unknown
One cannot change the past, but one can ruin the present by worrying over the future.
—Unknown
Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.
—Unknown
Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers.
—Unknown
Love means the unconditional desire for the eternal well-being of a soul.
—Unknown
Debt is the noose and Satan is the hangman,|and executions take place every day.
—Unknown
There are a handful of people in this cold world|Who can warm the hearts of others.|Their happiness is genuine, their smiles sincere.|At first glance they appear to be like everyone else,|But a second look reveals an extra-ordinary person.|Thank you for being one of those people.
—Unknown
Be brave. Even if you’re not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.
—Unknown
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
—Unknown
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
—Unknown
Don’t compare yourself to what others are, but to what you could be.
—Unknown
In an argument, retaliation leads to escalation.
—Unknown
Kites rise against, not with the wind.
—Unknown
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
—Unknown
Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you—not because they are nice, but because you are.
—Unknown
Pain is inevitable but suffering is your own decision.
—Unknown
Look at yourself but never ask why you are you… .|There is a meaning for each being|Someone needs you, somewhere, sometime … .
—Unknown
Milk is a high fat fluid exclusively designed for turning a sixty-five pound calf into a 400 pound cow in a year!
—Unknown
Use the talents you possess; for the woods would be very silent, if no birds sang except for the very best.
—Unknown
Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.
—Unknown
Topics: Responsibility
Real love is believing in someone until|they are strong enough to believe in themself.
—Unknown
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels.|The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes.|The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules.|And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them.|Disagree with them. Glorify, or villify them.|But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.|Because they change things. They push the human race forward.|And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.|Because the people who are crazy enough to think|they can change the world, are the ones who do.
—Unknown
Life is not the way it is supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
—Unknown
Who tries, can. Who wills, does. Who learns, lives.
—Unknown
The more I encourage a child to think for|himself, the more he will care what I think.
—Unknown
A friend is a person who knows|all about you but likes you anyway.
—Unknown
Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
—Unknown
Kiss your life. Accept it, just as it is. Today. Now. So that those moments of happiness you’re waiting for don’t pass you by.
—Unknown
As long as you have your ‘prickles’ out,|like a porcupine, no-one can get near you to hurt you.|You can’t hurt a porcupine – but you can’t hold|a porcupine either. So it’s not a win-win situation.
—Unknown
Those who say a thing cannot be done should not stand in the way of those who are doing it.
—Unknown
If you always blame others for your mistakes and failure, do you also credit them with your successes?
—Unknown
From the ashes of failure bloom the roses of success.
—Unknown
Failure is not getting knocked down, It’s refusing to get up.
—Unknown
Love is not a feeling, it is a decision—to do the very best we can for the other person.
—Unknown
I believe in the Sun … even when it’s not shining.
I believe in Love … even when I feel it not.
I believe in God … even when he is silent.
—Unknown
People who lack energy may be disorganised by|their deep emotional and psychological conflicts.
—Unknown
God gave us mouths that close and ears that don’t. That should tell us something.
—Unknown
Happiness is a decision, not an experience.
—Unknown
When you read a book, it’s not just paper and ink. you feel for the charectors, gasp when they die, get hurt or get trapped. or cheer when they get out of a mess or do somthing great.
—Unknown
Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.
—Unknown
Good management isn’t about doing everything faster, it’s about not doing things you don’t need to do.
—Unknown
Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.
—Unknown
Too often we are so preoccupied with the destination, we forget the journey.
—Unknown
In every pain there is tremendous opportunity for overwhelming gain. Use it to your advantage.
—Unknown
We are judged by our actions, not our intentions. We may have a heart of gold, but so does a hardboiled egg!
—Unknown
I don’t have problems, just challenges. My mistakes and failures are my lessons, while my triumphs are milestones of my journey in life, for life would be meaningless if I ended my journey of learning and improving myself.
—Unknown
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
—Unknown
It’s not what you gather,|But what you scatter,|That tells what kind of life you have lived.
—Unknown
A friend is there before you know it, to lend a hand before you ask it, and give you love just when you need it most.
—Unknown
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events,|have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.|I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t|arrived yet.|I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
—Unknown
Children are the dreams we send to a future that we will never see.
—Unknown
It’s easy enough to be happy when life is flowing like a song, but the man worthwhile is the man who will smile when everything goes wrong.
—Unknown
A lot of people come in and out of our lives;
But only a treasured few make a difference;
Leave an impression of love that lasts forever.
—Unknown
The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It’s then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.
—Unknown
I believe you can get people to do anything by loving them into doing it.
—Unknown
Children need a father who is gentle beneath his firmness,|and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
—Unknown
May there always be a smile on your face and laughter in your heart.
—Unknown
God says, “If you can see it, I can build it.|If you can believe it, I can do it”.
—Unknown
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
—Unknown
You cannot be a creator and a victim.
—Unknown
Only a light bulb can go out each night and still be bright the next day.
—Unknown
A group of two hundred executives were asked what makes a person successful.|Eighty percent listed enthusiam as the most important quality.
—Unknown
Do it|Delegate it, or|Dump it.
—Unknown
If you have someone special in your life, don’t wait to start loving them. Do not put it off for even one day. Make the choice to love now. Whoever loves you is only on loan from God, and he or she could be taken from you at any moment.
—Unknown
The art of moving between, or switching, fields through different jobs, projects, or hobbies can be an effective way to generate unplanned unique insights. Seek some occupational diversification.
—Unknown
It’s attitude, not aptitude, that affects your altitude.
—Unknown
Better Management. Don’t manage stress or nuisances—get rid of them.
—Unknown
To be truly happy, you have to find a way to give to the world.|When you give to the world, the world gives to you.|What goes around, comes around.
—Unknown
It’s not as hard to die for a friend as it is to find a friend to die for.
—Unknown
RISK IT
To laugh is to risk being a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To express feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd
Is to risk their loss.
—Unknown
Confidence is not always being right, it’s not fearing being wrong.
—Unknown
A deed is judged by its motive.
—Unknown
If you don’t change direction, you’ll end up where you’re going.
—Unknown
Discouragement is the last tool of the devil.|When he can’t ‘down’ you with anything else,|he will use discouragement.
—Unknown
If I had eight hours to chop a tree, I would spend six hours sharpening my axe.
—Unknown
All the skills to solve a problem won’t help,|if you don’t have the will.
—Unknown
Give needed thought to your outer future, but give your whole life to your inner future.
—Unknown
Pain is temporary, pride is forever.
—Unknown
Don’t let the good things of life rob you of the best things.
—Unknown
If you don’t seem to be getting the answers you need -|are you asking the right questions?|What questions should you ask?
—Unknown
A fellow can’t keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.
—Unknown
Although words seem to say so little,|I hope they help in some small way to ease the|sense of loss that you’re experiencing today.
—Unknown
Life is God’s gift to you, what you do with it is your gift to Him.
—Unknown
With your arms, I am strong. With your wisdom, I am a man. With your love, I know who I am.
—Unknown
Who we are is but a stepping stone to what we can become.
—Unknown
Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
—Unknown
The trouble with doing nothing is that|it’s too difficult to tell when you’re finished.
—Unknown
God saw a tear, and wiped it away with a smile from a friend.
—Unknown
Communication is the skeleton key of life. It opens all doors.
—Unknown
You don’t have to know what to do. You have to do what you know.
—Unknown
After all is said and done, there is more said than done.
—Unknown
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
—Unknown
Man succeeds because he believes he can, or he fails because he thinks he will.
—Unknown
Man has a destiny and faith has a destination.
—Unknown
Loneliness is a poignant homing instinct, like that of migratory birds. It guides us back towards this assurance: We are not meant to live cut off from each other, from ourselves, or from the Universal Reality which gives us life. We are meant to dwell in love, which is a wholehearted “yes… to belonging.
—Unknown
Love knows, not its own depth, until the hour of seperation.
—Unknown
Depression is frozen rage—anger that has never been dealt with.
—Unknown
We are unlimited beings experiencing life in a physical body subject to the ceilings of our imagination.
—Unknown
The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
—Unknown
Athletes are driven by commitment to their sport, to themselves, to excellence itself. Commitment fuels the extra mile, the final set, the last quarter, the sprint to the line, going on when the body begs to stop.
—Unknown
Always remember, look forwards not back, believing in making your dreams all come true.
Always believe in the best you can be and have faith in the things that you do.
—Unknown
What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experiences.
—Unknown
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. When health is lost, something is lost. When character is lost, everything is lost.
—Unknown
Happiness is like peeing your pants: Everyone can see it, but only you can feel it’s warmth.
—Unknown
Conscience — the little voice of morality that you wish had a body so you could punch it in the nose.
—Unknown
If you want to touch the past TOUCH A ROCK.
If you want to touch the present TOUCH A ROSE.
If you want to touch the future TOUCH A LIFE.
—Unknown
Those who have nothing on their mind, usually have nothing in their mind.
—Unknown
Your future is determined by the choices you make today. Change your choices, change your life.
—Unknown
Looking back, may I be filled with gratitude;
Looking forward, may I be filled with hope;
Looking upward, may I be aware of strength;
Looking inward, may I find peace.
—Unknown
You cannot lift another soul till you are|standing on higher ground than he or she is.
—Unknown
We can learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp… some are|pretty…|some are dull… some have weird names… and all are different|colors….|But they all have to learn to live in the same box.
—Unknown
He who makes room in his heart for others, will himself find accommodation everywhere.
—Unknown
Let go of the idea that your problem is permanent. Few troubles last forever. And those that cannot be solved can usually be managed.
—Unknown
The key is not to prioritize your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. Do the important things first—because where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going.
—Unknown
Skills are not copyright – they are transferable.
—Unknown
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal, if he does it twice, you are a fool.
—Unknown
When you are in the world of the thinking mind, you are somewhere in the remembered past or the imagined future. You are in a world of thought, memory, concept, idea, opinion and belief. You are not here now. What you are experiencing is not of the present moment. It is not real. You are in a world of illusion (Maya) and yet you have come to believe that it real. Almost the entire human population is lost in this illusion. It is the sole source of our suffering.
—Unknown
Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.
—Unknown
No matter how old you are, you are always somebody’s child, and if you are loved, you are always in somebody’s thoughts.
—Unknown
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
—Unknown
Topics: Failure, Pleasing, Satisfaction, Success
People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
—Unknown
Knock, Knock.
“Who’s there?”
“Opportunity.”
“Can’t be.”
“Why not?”
“Opportunity knocks only once.”
—Unknown
You cannot teach what you don’t know,|Any more than you can come back from a place you ain’t been.
—Unknown
Problems multiply when you take your eye off the goal.
—Unknown
How we affect other people is all we leave behind|when we leave this earth. Once we recognise|that message then we know what we are to do.
—Unknown
Whoever follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.
—Unknown
Communication is to love,|what food is to the body -|without it the relationship dies.
—Unknown
Of course intentions count. At the end of the day, all that matters is whether you were true to your ideals, whether you gave it your best shot, whether you can look yourself in the mirror in the morning and say, “I am proud of what I have done”.
—Unknown
To love someone – is to love their potential into reality.
—Unknown
If the times don’t demand the best from you, invent other times.
—Unknown
Friends bring out the best in us that other people don’t look hard enough to find.
—Unknown
Everyone has a gift. Recognising the latent potential|we each have enables us to look beyond what the person|has done in the past and see that person as they could be.
—Unknown
Identify your strengths and weaknesses. Learn new skills to achieve your goals in life.
—Unknown
The moment you have the power to dream, you have the power to make those dreams come true.
—Unknown
Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.
—Unknown
Sometimes life seems hard and you really don’t know how you’re gonna get through it, some people write their feelings down, but i prefer to read what other people have written because their words really help me.
—Unknown
It’s better for your teenagers to search your fridge late at night,|than some of the darker places they could find.
—Unknown
Give, and forget. Receive, and remember.
—Unknown
When your heart decides the destination, your mind will design the map to reach it.
—Unknown
We don’t need to look where we are,|but where we are going.
—Unknown
A rich man is not one who has the most,|but one who needs the least.
—Unknown
Selfishness is the detonator for the explosion of all other sins.|It is the hammer that breaks the Ten Commandments.
—Unknown
There is no room for road-rage on the straight and narrow.
—Unknown
Success is having. Excellence is being.
—Unknown
Drive carefully – Inland Revenue needs you.
—Unknown
Autograph your work with quality.
—Unknown
If you place a low value on yourself, you can be sure the world will not overprice you.
—Unknown
Happiness is: Looking in a mirror and like what you see.
—Unknown
Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.
—Unknown
There’s so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.
—Unknown
The special moments and memories of your life will never change.|They will always be in your heart today and forever more.
—Unknown
Discipline is organised love.
—Unknown
Search for better ways to do things|and you will find success.
—Unknown
Opportunity doesn’t come to those who wait, they are captured by those who dare to attack.
—Unknown
If you drop a white glove into the mud, the glove will get muddy but the mud will never get glovey.
—Unknown
Today’s mighty oak is just yesterdays seed that held its ground.
—Unknown
You are what you are today because of what you lived yesterday.
—Unknown
No one can predict the height you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings.
—Unknown
Life is like a book. You can’t look at the beginning and the end and know what it’s all about. You have to live it all the way through.
—Unknown
The greatest home-run hitters still failed more than half the time! Don’t think of slip-ups as setbacks, realign your mind and think mistakes as learning opportunities.
—Unknown
A friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
—Unknown
You are immortal. Do not burden yourself with earthly|limitations. Every regret for shattered hopes of success|must be transformed into the joy of new achievements.
—Unknown
You don’t know me until you’ve walked in my footsteps and viewed the world from my perspective. You don’t know me until you’ve suffered my pain and endured my happiness. You don’t know me until you’ve bored my soul and died my death.
—Unknown
To kill time – try working it to death.
—Unknown
Ability & Attitude & Activity – Excuses = Success.
—Unknown
Common people working for a common end produce uncommon results.
—Unknown
You have only failed if you fail to try.
—Unknown
You never realize how much you love something till its gone.
—Unknown
Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak…sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
—Unknown
To be old and wise, you first have to be young and stupid.
—Unknown
The more we co-operate, the better we operate.
—Unknown
Always imitate the behavior of the winner when you lose.
—Unknown
Topics: Acting As If
Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings.
—Unknown
You’re not a failure because you don’t make it, you’re a success because you tried.
—Unknown
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
—Unknown
Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about what you have tried and failed, but what is still possible for you to do. To live is to change.
—Unknown
A ship in a port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.
—Unknown
Smile
Smile, even if it is a sad smile,
Because sadder than a sad smile
Is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.
—Unknown
Learn from the past
Live for today
Look for tomorrow
Take a nap this afternoon.
—Unknown
Love is the greatest gift we can give or be given.
—Unknown
If you love something; set it free. If it comes back; it was meant to be.
—Unknown
Don’t be irreplaceable. If you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.
—Unknown
Of course I don’t look as busy as the men, I did it right the first time.
—Unknown
I now appreciate all that I have. I am grateful for the smallest things today. I can always find something in my life for which to be grateful. I give thanks for everything that is now coming into my life. I rejoice in the wonders of life.
—Unknown
Mothers are not paid for their work because it is priceless.
—Unknown
It is love, not money – that makes you rich.
—Unknown
It takes as much time to wish as to plan.
—Unknown
We can’t live our life over again, but we can really live up to our potential from this moment on.
—Unknown
To change family life—
Husbands love your wives,
Wives respect your husbands,
Children obey your parents.
—Unknown
^Six Secrets of Success^|Expect to succeed.|You are what you think.|You become like those you associate with.|Really excel in one thing in life and it will spread to other things.|Education is worth any price you have to pay for it.|Then is then, and now is now. Forgive yourself, and move on and progress.
—Unknown
What we get is what we expect.
—Unknown
A challenge gives you the opportunity to flex your spiritual muscles.
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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other’s minimum daily requirements.
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Phrases you’ll never hear a man say
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Yesterday is past—we cannot change it. Tomorrow is the future—it is unknown. But today is a gift—that’s why it is called the present.
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Let your mind go, and your body will follow.
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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
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A well-beaten path does not always make the right road.
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You have to be different to make a difference.
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Days are like a suitcase -|some can pack in a lot more than others.
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Make changes with SNAPS
S-Specify the situation
N-Name your feelings
A-Ask for what you want to happen
P-Pay off—will be either positive or negative
S-So go for the positive result
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As you awaken, your experience of yourself and the world will dramatically change. Fear, anxiety and conflict disappear as you enter into a world of love, peace and abundance. You come to know yourself as LOVE. You encounter the living Presence of God within you and within everything around you. It is as if the present moment is God. Separation dissolves as you enter into Oneness. This is what is meant by enlightenment. It is what Buddha spoke of. It is what Jesus spoke of. It is what Lao-Tzu and Krishna spoke of. It is what God promised to Abraham.
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The probability of someone watching you is|proportional to the stupidity of your action.
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It is urgent for us to see this: Nothing can improve until we see the link between our psychological level and the things that happen to us. If we are secretly blaming people or events for our problems, we miss the mark completely. There is a human cause for everything troublesome, and that cause is the very person who experiences the effect.
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A bell does not sound till you ring it,|A song does not sound till you sing it,|And love was not put in your heart to stay,|For love is not love till you give it away.
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When you sing, don’t worry about the sound you hear. Or you’ll miss the music you could make.
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A smile is the light in the window of your soul.
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More children are punished for copying their parents, than for disobeying them. We should be what we want to see.
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^A child learns …^|If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn;|If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight;|If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient;|If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy;|If a child lives with encouragement, he learns confidence;|If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate;|If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice;|If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith;|If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself;|If a child lives with acceptance and friendship,|He learns to find love in the world.
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Even if courage fails you, tell that special someone that you love them in anyway possible.
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Forget about mistakes you made yesterday|The lessons you learned are good for today.|Never give up and think that you’re through|There’s always tomorrow to start off brand new.
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Winners don’t blame fate for their failures nor luck for their successes. They know that a goal is only as worthy as the effort that’s required to achieve it.
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We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
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We need the power of love -|not the love of power.
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We tell lies when we are afraid. Afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what other might think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But, everytime we tell a lie, that thing we fear grows stronger.
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Be a lion at heart and do not forget the tact of a fox.
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Today I will not imagine what I would do if things were different.|They are not different. I will do my best with what material I have.
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If obstacles are getting in you way, you’re not seeing the goal clearly enough.
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When you’re a little child your life is written in pencil.|When you’re older it is written in pen.|Repentance is what we use to erase our mistakes.
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Parents are not there to make their children happy,|because you don’t have any control over another person’s happiness.|They are there to teach frustration-tolerance and self-discipline.
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Big people give encouragement, little people give criticism.
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To awaken means to awaken out of the illusory world of the thinking mind into the real world of the present moment. This does not mean thatyour memory of the past or your sense of the future disappears. It is just that you no longer choose to live in the past or the future. You know that only the present moment can fulfil you and so you choose to live more and more in the present.
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Memories are the glue that holds families together.
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Here, you have the remote. We’re lost. Let’s stop and ask for directions. Why don’t we go and see a romantic film for a change. No, let me take out the rubbish. I’ll just separate the white clothes from the coloured ones. Isn’t it my turn to change the baby? I’ll turn off the rugby so we can talk.
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Imagination
Imagination—sparks dreams and laughter,
Dissolves barriers, expands knowledge and lights the mind.
Imagination also holds captive in dark places
Both the weak and strong, liquefies courage,
Builds enormous insurmountable fear.
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Topics: Courage, Fear, Imagination, Knowledge
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
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All the joy in the world comes from focusing on the well-being of others, all the suffering in the world comes from focusing on our own.
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Unless you are prepared to take risks,|you will do nothing, have nothing, and be nothing.
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Live more simply, so that you can find time to enjoy the little pleasures of life.
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It is better to forget and smile, than to remember and be sad.
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Children are messengers that|we send to a time that we will never see.
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Heroes don’t ask us to believe in them, They teach us to believe in ourselves.
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Never grow older. Just find a bigger playground.
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Your toughest opponent is the little voice inside you telling you to give up.
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There is a world out there waiting for me—and I intend to conquer it.
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90 percent of the decisions can be taken immediately on the basis of past experience, and only 10 percent require in-depth analysis.
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To worry is like rocking in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but gets you nowhere.
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Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
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Topics: Judgment, Experience
Some people come into our lives and quickly go away…
Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts…
And we are never, ever the same…
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Fear knocked at the door; faith answered; no one was there!
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Faith will take us to the destination God wants us to get to. We have a destiny.
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Some teachers teach subjects,|some teach life, I think the person who|balances the two are those you never forget.
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Make decisions from the heart.
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It is easy for others to put you down when they are simply agreeing with you.
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Success is a reward in itself. But the greatest reward of success is knowing you achieved it with hard work and dedication.
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You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out your heart is another story.
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Success isn’t the opposite of failure. A runner may come in last, but if he beats his record, he succeeds.
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It doesn’t matter where you go, what you do,|or how much you have. It’s who you have beside you.
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If you haven’t all the things that you want, be thankful for all the things that you don’t have that you didn’t want.
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.
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When in danger of becoming too self-important remember what the mother whale told her baby. “When you get to the top and start to ‘blow’ that’s when you get harpooned!”
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The path towards the goal is always more interesting and enjoyable than reaching the actual goal itself; so start chasing your dreams and love every moment of the chase.
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A match-stick has a head, but it does not have a brain.
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Success comes when preparation meets opportunity.
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Intimacy occurs when the boundaries between|you and someone else melt, and your hearts touch.
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Worrying about what’s right is always more important than worrying about who’s right.
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Blaming yourself or others, or feeling hurt,|angry or worthless, mean you can keep the situation the same|and not have to move on. Therefore you don’t have to make changes.|So life stays safe – but you don’t make progress.|In what ways should you be making progress now?|What do you do and say to stop that happening?|Isn’t it time you stopped Saying and doing that?|If you saw your good friend Saying or doing this,|what would you wish they would do about it?
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The battery in a car works only because it has a positive and a negative. As parents we also must have the same balance and be kind and loving, but also tough when it is necessary.
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A house becomes a home when you can write, ‘I love you’ on the furniture.
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The most important issue is your spiritual growth. This is your real life.
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We receive only that which we are willing to let in.
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Total silence does not exist for where there is life there is sound.
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Leadership is like moving a string: you cannot move it by pushing from behind; what you have to do is to get ahead and pull.
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Your biggest challenge isn’t someone else. It’s the ache in your lungs and the burning in your legs, and the voice inside you that yells “Can’t”, but you don’t listen. You just push harder. And then you hear the voice whisper “can”. And you discover that the person you thought you were is no match for the one you really are.
—Unknown
Life isn’t a destination, it’s a journey.
We all come upon unexpected curves and turning points,
Mountain tops and valleys.
Everything that happens to us
Shapes who we are becoming.
And in the adventure of each day,
We discover the best in ourselves.
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Having is not so pleasing as wanting, it may not be logical, but it is often true.
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Nobody gives you power. You just take it.
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Money is an excellent servant, but a horrible master.
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Be silent, or speak something worth hearing.
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Prayer should be our first resource rather than our last resort.
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Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, begin it well and serenly and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear with its hopes and invitations to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
—Unknown
A smile is of no value until it is given away.
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In our lives we each act, evaluate, correct, then act again.
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Those who have passed from this world die|only when we, whom they loved, forget them.
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If you don’t change today, your tomorrows will be like your yesterdays.
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To be a star you must follow your own light, follow your own path, and never fear the darkness, for that is when the stars shine the brightest.
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Success is often a matter of hanging on|longer, when others have given up.
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If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer.
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Discover the power of praise—it will make your world a better place.
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Choose to say kind and tender words, for one day you might have to eat them.
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Love heals what hate breaks.
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Your success will depend on your attitude to life.
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Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
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Life is a one-way street.|No matter how many detours you take, none leads back.|You must do the best you can with what you have.
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No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.
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Why worry about tomorrow, when today is all we have?
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Stop looking at yourself through your own eyes, and see yourself through God’s eyes.
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A wise man learns something new every day… The fool knows it all already.
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Being average is neither here nor there,|you are as close to the top as you are the bottom.
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Personality can open the door but only character can keep them open.
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You have only one life, and it will soon be past, and only what’s done for God will last.
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How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
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No one is ever promised tomorrow, so make today your best.
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In truth, there is no life outside of the present moment. We must come to terms with this simple fact.
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Every job is self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
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Don’t be someone to please everyone else, but be someone to please yourself.
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An international distress signal is discouragement.
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Life is much like writing in ink. All you can do is read over your past and look forward to a blank page for your future that will soon be filled with words that can never be erased.
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I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
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Conceit is a strange disease. It makes everyone else sick except the person who has it.
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It’s maturity that brings “impulse control”.
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If we are to progress we must go forwards, not backwards. We can look backwards, we can learn from backwards, but we must not go backwards.
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Don’t worry about knowing people—just make yourself worth knowing.
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Hold fast to your memories,|to all of the cherished moments of the past.|To the blessings and the laughter, the joys and|the celebrations, the sorrows and the tears.
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If you have a strong mind,|and plant in it a firm resolve,|you can change your destiny.
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If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten.
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The changing attitudess to life, from before to after having a family.
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Our love is a circle, No beginning, no end.|For you are my partner And I am your friend.
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To love is one thing, to be loved is something and to have both is everything.
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The surest way to happiness is to lose yourself in a cause greater than yourself.
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To reach the destination, you have to move.|To move, you might have to fall down.|If you are afraid of falling down, don’t move.|If you don’t move, you won’t reach the destination.
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No matter what your present difficulty may be, someone else has been healed of it and so can you be healed.
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Courtesy is the oil that greases the wheels of life.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can do – begin it.
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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
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Write your plans in pencil but give God the erase.
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Love is a funny thing; you can never see how one could love another until you do so yourself.
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The ratio between hard work and luck is 70:30.
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You can take the day off—but you can’t put it back on again.
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It’s only the view from where you sit that makes you fear defeat, But life is full of many aisles, so why don’t you change your seat?
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The door to success is labelled push.
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Some have the wisdom of old age and the energy of youth. Most have the wisdom of youth, and the energy of old age.
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Do something bad and regret it. Do something good and forget it.
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Everyone you meet gives you exactly what he is, so wisely discover what he is.
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Life is like a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Winners find reasons to … losers find excuses not to.
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A smile shortens the distance between two people.
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Today I will be unafraid.|I will enjoy what is beautiful,|and I will believe that as I give to the world,|the world will give to me.
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Follow the Master,
Face the Devil,
Fight to the end,
Finish the game.
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Friends come and go, but the memory of them will last forever.
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Lessons taught in fear are remembered, but lessons taught in love are cherished.
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The great teachings unanimously emphasize that all the peace, wisdom, and joy in the universe are already within us; we don’t have to gain, develop, or attain them. We’re like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight. We don’t need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we really are — as soon as we quit pretending we’re small or unholy.
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There ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.
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The trouble with opportunity is that it only knocks. Temptation kicks the door in.
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If your dog plays checkers with you, don’t criticize his game, just be glad he plays the game at all.
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You are unique. In all the world’s history,|there was never anyone like you, and in all|the histories to come there will never be another you.|Do it now, make your success. Make it count.
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You don’t know what tomorrow holds, but you know who holds tomorrow.
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All the happiness you ever find lies in you.
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Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.
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True friendship is like a star: you don’t see it’s light in the brightness of prosperity, but in the darkness of adversity.
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Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass—it’s about learning how to dance in the rain
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Risks must be taken because, The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. Only a person who risks is free.
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When love becomes thin, faults become thicker.
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A list of man’s enemies is often a truer guide to his character than a list of his friends.
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Live every day as if it were your last because you never know when it might be.
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There are two days about which nobody should ever worry, and these are yesterday and tomorrow.
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This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind… let it be something good.
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Thoughts are boomerangs, returning with precision to their source. Choose wisely which ones you throw.
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Clear the clutter to create SPACE.|S-Sort – things into groups and piles|P-Purge – throw out or give away|A-Assign – things to new places|C-Containerise – put things in containers|E-Everything in its place.
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Be courageous and bold. When you look back on your life, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the ones you did.
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Leaving things to the last minute makes you edgy|and more likely to make mistakes. You lose time and|credibility, miss opportunities, and disappoint others.
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We do the best with what we know.|When we know better, we do better.
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A particular breed of dog may cost a lot of money, but only love will make its tail wag.
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If you don’t have a test, you won’t have a testimony.
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No one ever collapsed under the burdens of a single day. It is when the burdens of tomorrow are added to it that it becomes unbearable. Live one day at a time—it’s all that we have that is a certainty anyway.
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A good leader recognizes the difference between popularity and respect.
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Bad things are always going to happen in life. People will hurt you. But you can’t use that as an excuse to hurt someone back. You’ll only hurt yourself.
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Religion is for people afraid of going to hell; spirituality is for people who know that hell is simply having fear and not knowing of a love for all without condition.
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The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
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We are not here to pursue happiness, but to pursue those things which produce happiness.
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When confronted with a Goliath-size problem, which way do you respond– “He’s too big to hit”, or “He’s too big to miss”?
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Give us Lord, a bit o’ sun,|A bit o’ work and a bit o’ fun;|Give us all in the struggle and sputter|Our daily bread and a bit o’ butter.
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The only difference between a rut and a groove is their dimensions.
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It’s not just that honesty is the best policy,|but honesty is the only policy.
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You laugh at me because I’m different, and I laugh at you because you’re all the same.
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Sometimes, if you aren’t sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.
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We teach some by what we say. We teach more by what we do. We teach most by what we are.
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Yesterday is a cancelled cheque. Tomorrow is a promised note. Today is ready cash, use it!
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Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.
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You find out who you are in silence. Go there by not trying to take your own thoughts with you.
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The world when seen through a little child’s eyes, greatly resembles paradise.
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.
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Success is never lasting, And failure is never final.
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The winner says, “It may be difficult but it’s possible;” the loser says, “It may be possible but it’s difficult.”
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Don’t ask meaningless questions and you won’t get meaningless answers. Ask something with a full heart And you might get somewhere.
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There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart… pursue those.
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The focusing power of attention never fails.|It is the secret of success.|Concentrate. Then go after what you want.
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Its not the ups and downs that make your life difficult, its the way you choose to deal with them.
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Those who dance are thought to be quite insane by those who can not hear the music.
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Often what we choose for our lives is the choice for the next generation too.
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You can make your mind recall anything you want, but it can only give back what it was first given.
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There is no indigestion worse than that which comes from having to eat your own words.
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The optimist says, ‘My cup runneth over, what a blessing’. The pessimist says, ‘My cup runneth over, what a mess.’
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Persistence prevails when all else fails.
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The only person you have to be better than,|is the person you were yesterday.
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Let go and let God reveal to you who you are and what you can be.
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Time is like money: you can either spend, waste, or invest!
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In the morning sometimes I wake up grumpy|and sometimes I let him sleep in.
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When we don’t speak up about something through cowardice we must remember, Silence is not always golden, sometimes it’s just plain yellow.
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Happiness is found along the way, not at the end of the road.
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Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when|our spirit has trouble remembering how to fly.
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A hug is the body’s battery re-charge
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Accentuate the positive, Eliminate the negative, Latch on to the affirmative, And don’t mess with Mister-In-Between.
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He who never walks except where he sees other men’s tracks will make no discoveries.
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The difficulties we experience always illuminate the lessons we need most.
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You can never make your own dreams come true by oversleeping.
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Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired—it can only be earned.
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Beautiful young people are acts of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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