** Quotes of Note **
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Believe in yourself! You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think....
"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you."
Lewis B. Smedes
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The following verse adorned the walls of Mother Teresa’s home and was adapted from the work of Kent Keith (2002).
“People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone will destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see in the final analysis it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.”
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"If you want others to be happy…, practice compassion. If you want to be happy…, practice compassion."
--Dalai Lama--
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“One can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
"I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word and thought throughout our lifetime."
-- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross --
"They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself."
-- Andy Warhol --
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself."
-- Ethel Barrymore --
"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."
-- E.E. Cummings --
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
-- Carl Sagan --
"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
-- Stephen Covey --
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."
-- Anatole France --
"Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh."
-- Katharine Hepburn --
"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all."
--Miguel de Cervantes --
"The most important things in life aren't things."
-- Anthony D'Angelo --
"Give people a fact or an idea and you enlighten their minds; tell them a story and you touch their souls."
-- Hasidic Proverb --
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
-- T.S. Eliot --
"The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains."
-- Josephine Baker --
"Our own well-being is always the result of healthy decisions for ourselves coupled with disengagement from the choices of others."
-- Karen Casey --
"Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems."
-- Anthony J. D'Angelo --
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit."
-- Robert H. Shaffer --
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."
-- Vince Lombardi --
"Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."
-- Ambrose Bierce --
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson --
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
-- Zig Ziglar --
"Courage is a door that can only be opened from the inside."
-- Terry Neil --
"With more understanding, we can meet in the middle and walk the rest of the way together."
-- Eric Harvey --
"Step out of your comfort zone once more each week and create over 50 additional opportunities for excitement, challenge and possibility each year. This is what life's about."
-- Sam Parker --
"Just remember… you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears."
-- Gillian Anderson --
"Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back a lot more than you'd expect."
-- Robert Half --
"When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty."
-- Thomas Fuller --
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change."
-- Charles Darwin --
"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."
-- Lord Byron --
“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
-- Stephen Covey --
"Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future."
-- Dale E. Turner --
"Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever."
-- Lance Armstrong --
"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment - full effort is full victory."
-- Mahatma Gandhi --
"Understand your purpose in life by feeling your heart's desires."
-- Marcia Wieder --
"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
-- Socrates --
"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."
-- Grace Hopper --
"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
-- J. K. Rowling --
Some Final Words to Remember…
Don’t let go of hope. Hope gives you the strength to keep going when you feel like giving up.
Don’t ever quit believing in yourself. As long as you believe you can, you will have a reason for trying.
Don’t let anyone hold your happiness in their hands; hold it in yours, so it will always be within your reach.
Don’t measure success or failure by material wealth, but by how you feel; our feelings determine the richness of our lives.
Don’t let bad moments overcome you; be patient, and they will pass.
Don’t hesitate to reach out for help; we all need if from time to time.
Don’t run away from love, but toward love, because it is our deepest joy.
Don’t wait for what you want to come to you. Go after it with all that you are, knowing that life will meet you halfway.
Don’t feel like you’ve lost when plans and dreams fall short of your hopes. Anytime you learn something new about yourself or about life, you have progressed.
Don’t do anything that takes away from your self-respect. Feeling good about yourself is essential to feeling good about life.
Don’t ever forget how to laugh or be too proud to cry. It is by doing both that we live life to its fullest.
- Nancye Sims
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