Thoughts for every day: Menu 1: Select the date • • • • • •
January: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 , 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 February: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 March: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 April: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 May: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 June: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
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Thoughts for every day: Menu 2: Select the date • • • • • •
July: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 August: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 , 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 September: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 , 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 October: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 November: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 December: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
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PEACE OF MIND • The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself. • Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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HAPPINESS • There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy. • Robert Louis Stevenson
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ACCEPTANCE • God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. • Reinhold Niebuhr
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FORGIVENESS • Forgiveness means letting go of the past. • Gerald Jampolsky
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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them. • Aughey
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THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE • Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. • Jean Vanier
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HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • Make yourself necessary to somebody. • Ralph Waldo Emerson
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FRIENDSHIP • True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. • Dave Tyson Gentry
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OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD • When we lose God, it is not God who is lost. • Anon
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FAITH AND BELIEF • Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up. • Guideposts
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PRAYER • Prayer moves the hand that moves the world. • John Aikman Wallace
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SELF-ACCEPTANCE • You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don’t believe in yourself. • William J.H. Boetcker
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SELF-CONTROL • Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. • George Bernard Shaw
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SELF-CONFIDENCE • Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it. • Stan Smith
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SIMPLICITY • What I do, I do very well, and what I don’t do well, I don’t do at all. • Anon
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ONE DAY • Nothing in business is so valuable as time. • John H. Patterson
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YESTERDAY: THE PAST • Enjoy yourself. These are the “good old days” you’re going to miss in the years ahead. • Anon
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TODAY: THE PRESENT • The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. • Elbert Hubbard
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THIS MOMENT • If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done. • Anon
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MORNINGS • Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start. • Edgar Watson Howe
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EVENINGS • Sum up at night what thou has done by day. • Lord Herbert
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TOMORROW: THE FUTURE • Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest. • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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AVERAGE, “BORING” DAYS • Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. • Charles Baudelaire
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DIFFICULT DAYS • The secret of patience … to do something else in the meantime. • Anon
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POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you. • Madeline Bridges
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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 don’t 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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DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US • Skills vary. We must … strive by that which is born in us. • Pindar
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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 one’s 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 there’s no room left for worry thoughts. • Howard Chandler Christy
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DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES • Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning. • George Eliot
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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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WE’LL 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 don’t stand for something, you’ll 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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JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO • God tests His real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones. • Katheryn Hulme
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TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME • I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. • Lord Chesterfield
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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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FAILURES AND MISTAKES • Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. • Bertolt Brecht
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THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY • Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind. • Frank Harris
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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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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. • Karl Barth
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THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE • The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well. • Foe Ancis
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HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice. • Vauvenargues
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FRIENDSHIP • The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen. • Bob Lemon
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ACCEPTANCE • Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity. • G.K. Chesterton
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OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD • Some people talk about finding God, as if He could get lost. • Anon
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FAITH AND BELIEF • Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. • Erich Fromm
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PRAYER • Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. • Soren Kierkegaard
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SELF-ACCEPTANCE • I’m not OK, you’re not OK - and that’s OK. • William Sloane Coffin
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SELF-CONTROL • When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something. • Robert Browning
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SELF-RELIANCE • Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. • Frank Tyger
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SIMPLICITY • What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. • Confucius
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ONE DAY • Nothing is worth more than this day. • Johann von Goethe
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YESTERDAY: THE PAST • Some folks never exaggerate - they just remember big. • Audrey Snead
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TODAY: THE PRESENT • It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. • Jim Bishop
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THIS MOMENT • The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. • Mignon McLaughlin
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MORNINGS • With each sunrise, we start anew. • Anon
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EVENINGS • Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight. • Scottish proverb
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TOMORROW: THE FUTURE • God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. • Isak Dinesen
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AVERAGE, “BORING” DAYS • Being bored is an insult to oneself. • Jules Renard
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DIFFICULT DAYS • Pain is never permanent. • Saint Teresa of Avila
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POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too. • Herbert Samuels
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ENTHUSIASM • You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. • Colette
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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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DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US • You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. • Joan Baez
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DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US • There is just one life for each of us: our own. • Euripides
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MOTIVATION • Don’t 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 don’t 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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DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES • To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything, or nothing, about it. • Olin Miller
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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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WE’LL 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 don’t 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 don’t just luck into things … You build step by step, whether it’s 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
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PERFECTION • If the best man’s faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes. • Gaelic proverb
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JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO • An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. • Friedrich Engels
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TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME • The distance doesn’t matter; only the first step is difficult. • Madame Marquise du Deffand
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PERSEVERANCE • It isn’t hard to be good from time to time … What’s tough is being good every day. • Willie Mays
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PROBLEMS • Every path has its puddle. • English proverb
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FAILURES AND MISTAKES • Our mistakes won’t irreparably damage our lives unless we let them. • James E. Sweaney
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THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY • Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income. • Robert R. Updegraff
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REACTING TO EVENTS • When things go wrong, don’t go with them. • Anon
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THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY • A problem is a chance for you to do your best. • Duke Ellington
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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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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. • Ruth Ann Schabacker
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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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HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? • George Eliot
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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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OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD • Let God love you through others and let God love others through you. • D.M. Street
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FAITH AND BELIEF • I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. • 2 Tm. 4:7
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CHANGE • A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t 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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YESTERDAY: THE PAST • Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it. • Anon
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TODAY: THE PRESENT • Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. • Horace
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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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TOMORROW: THE FUTURE • I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. • Albert Einstein
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DIFFICULT DAYS • God grant us patience! • William Shakespeare
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POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • Change your thoughts and you change your world. • Norman Vincent Peale
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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 don’t 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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DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US • He who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints. • Joan L. Brannon
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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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DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES • The only certainty is that nothing is certain. • Pliny, the Elder
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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 tiger’s 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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WE’LL 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, we’d 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 don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. • Michael Evans
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WORK • Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t 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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JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO • God doesn’t make orange juice, God makes oranges. • Jesse Jackson
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TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME • The distance doesn’t matter; only the first step is difficult. • Madame Marquise du Deffand
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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 isn’t hard to be good from time to time … What’s tough is being good every day. • Willie Mays
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FAILURES AND MISTAKES • The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. • Eleanor Roosevelt
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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. • André 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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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • The mere sense of living is joy enough. • Emily Dickinson
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HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • Charity begins at home, and usually stays there. • Elbert Hubbard
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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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POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. • Lin Yutang
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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 didn’t know you left open. • John Barrymore
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POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it. • Malcolm Forbes
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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 • Life’s 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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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us. • Thomas Fuller
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HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves. • William Hazlitt
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TOMORROW: THE FUTURE • I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. • Albert Einstein
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FRIENDSHIP • We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. • Thucydides
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POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • You can promote your healing by your thinking. • James E. Sweeney
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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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DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US • I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. • George Burns
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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. • Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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 don’t 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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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have. • Ken Keyes, Jr.
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TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME • From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. • Dante Alighieri
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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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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. • English proverb
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HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy. • Luther Burbank
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JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO • With us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles. • 2 Chr.
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TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME • It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. • Chinese proverb
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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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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don’t make. • Bill Veeck
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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 can’t cure. • Ogden Nash
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HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • If you judge people, you have no time to love them. • Mother Teresa
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FRIENDSHIP • One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness. • William E. Holler
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OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD • Talking about God is not at all the same thing as experiencing God, or acting out God through our lives. • Phillip Hewett
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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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YESTERDAY: THE PAST • Never let yesterday use up today. • Richard H. Nelson
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PRAYER • Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t 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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POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • Most of the time we think we’re sick it’s all in the mind. • Thomas Wolfe
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ENTHUSIASM • Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars. • Dwight D. Eisenhower
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DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US • I’d rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city. • William A. Hulbert
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VISUALIZATION • Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born. • Solomon
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ACCEPTANCE • If you want a place in the sun, you’ve 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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DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US • The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. • Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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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 haven’t even begun to live. • William P. Merrill
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FEAR • If you are afraid for your future, you don’t 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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DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES • If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. • Lee Iacocca
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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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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had. • Susan L. Lenzkes
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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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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • He has enough who is contented with little. • Anon
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ACCEPTANCE • There are things I can’t 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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FAILURES AND MISTAKES • The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. • Eleanor Roosevelt
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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. • Estonian proverb
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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 man’s life until there was nothing left but emptiness. • Louis L’Amour
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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • That which does not kill me makes me stronger. • Friedrich Nietzsche
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HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is. • Frank A. Clark
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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 • Day’s 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 aren’t going all the way, why go at all? • Joe Namath
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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • More than enough is too much. • Anon
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YESTERDAY: THE PAST • The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. • Max Beerbohm
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TODAY: THE PRESENT • So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by today’s economies. • John Mason Brown
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MORNINGS • With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun. • Anon
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POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. • Lin Yutang
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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 you’re through changing, you’re 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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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor. • Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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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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POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. • Henry L. Stimson
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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 don’t risk anything, you risk even more. • Erica Jong
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COURAGE • You’re 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 doesn’t matter, it’s 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 man’s life until there was nothing left but emptiness. • Louis L’Amour
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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold. • Maurice Setter
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HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. • George Santayana
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FRIENDSHIP • They are rich who have true friends. • Thomas Fuller
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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet. • Ancient Persian saying
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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
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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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TODAY: THE PRESENT • If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. • Morris West
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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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POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions. • André Godin
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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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DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US • We are betrayed by what is false within. • George Meredith
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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 who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t 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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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. • Robert Quillen
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HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • It is more blessed to give than to receive. • Acts 20:35
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FRIENDSHIP • A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad. • Arnold H. Glasow
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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 you’re going to settle for second, that’s 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 can’t 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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DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US • A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. • Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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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 one’s 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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DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES • Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. • Tehyi Hsieh
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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 can’t cure. • Ogden Nash
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