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Inspiration
THESE ARE MY WISHES FOR YOU
May you find serenity and tranquility in a world you may not always understand.
May a kind word, a reassuring touch, and a warm smile be yours every day of your life,
and may you give these gifts as well as receive them.
May you find time each day to see beauty and love in the world around you.
May you find enough inner strength to determine your own worth by yourself and
not be dependent on another's judgement of your accomplishments.
May you always feel loved.
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The Language of a Smile
There's a special language spoken by everyone on Earth,
No matter what their country, no matter what their birth,
It crosses every border, it transcends all time and space-
It's known alike by young and old, and found in every place.
Those who speak it often, always find that it's worthwhile,
Everybody understands it - it's the language of a smile! |
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
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The LAW of LIFE
The tree that never had to fight
For sun and sky and air and light,
That stood out in the open plain,
And always got it's share of rain,
Never became forest king.
The man who never had to toil,
Who never had to win his share,
Of sun and sky and light and air,
Never bacame a manly man,
But lived and died as he began.
Good timber does not grow in ease;
The stronger the wind, the tougher the trees;
The more the storm, the more the strength;
By sun and cold, by rain and snow,
In tree or man, good timber grows.
Where thicket stand the forest growth,
We find the patriarchs of both,
And they hold converse with the stars
Whose broken branches show the scars,
Of many winds and much strife,
This is the Law if Life.
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I ASKED GOD
I asked God for strength, that I might achieve.
I was made weak, that I might learn to obey.
I asked for health, that I might do greater things.
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.
I asked for riches, that I might be happy.
I was given poverty, that I might be Wise.
I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men.
I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life.
I was given life, that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing I asked for, but everything I had hoped for.
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.
I am among all men, most richly blessed!
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MYSELF
I have to live with myself and so,
I want to be fit for myself to know.
I want to be able as days go by;
Always to look myself straight in the eye.
I don't want to stand with the setting sun,
And hate myself for the things I have done.
I want to go with my head erect,
I want to deserve all mens respect.
But here in the struggle for fame and self,
I want to be able to like myself.
I don't want to look at myself and know,
That I'm bluster and bluff and empty show.
I never can hide myself from me,
I see what others may never see.
I know what others may never know,
I never can fool myself - and so,
What ever happens I want to be
Self respecting and conscious free.
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and just be my friend."
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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints on your heart.
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To handle yourself, use your head.
To handle others, use your heart. |
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
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He who loses money, loses much;
He who loses a friend, loses much more;
He who loses faith, loses all.
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature.
Beautiful old people are works of art.
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Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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"Life is a do-it-yourself project."
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Your life tomorrow will be the result of your attitudes and the choices you make today.
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Creating a dream is exactly like formulating a goal,
for the dream comes from the heart while the goal comes from the mind.
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"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed.
No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined.
No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled.
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined.
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"No one is any better than you,
but you are no better than anyone else until you do something to prove it."
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One good mother is worth a thousand good teachers.
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"Men stumble over the truth from time to time,
but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
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"Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much."
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Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Choose your words, for they become actions.
Understand your actions, for they become habits.
Study your habits, for they become character.
Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny.
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"Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You must do that which you think you cannot do."
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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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"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong..., because at sometime in your life you will or will have been all of these."
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We make a living by what we get;
We make a life by what we give. |
"A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove..., but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child."
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| We don't remember days, we remember moments. |
Of all the blessings that time and earth bestow, there is none so precious as one true friend.
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| Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying "I will try again tomorrow." |
"Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it... but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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"If you chase two rabbits, both will escape"
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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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God gives every bird its worm, but He doesn't throw the worm into its nest."
"The virtue of all achievement is victory over oneself.
Those who know this victory can never know defeat."
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it."
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| Only those who do nothing at all never make mistakes. |
"The virtue of all achievement is victory over oneself.
Those who know this victory can never know defeat."
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"If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart."
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Hardening of the heart ages people more quickly than hardening of the arteries.
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"Anger is never without reason, but seldom a good one."
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"When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry."
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| The wind of anger blows out the lamp of intelligence. |
The three attitudes in the Parable of the Good Samaritan:
The thief's: What's yours is mine, if I can get it.
The priest's: What's mine is mine, if I can keep it.
The Samaritan's: What's mine is yours, if you need it.
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| Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. |
Little they are, but fond and loyal,
And if fame has passed them by -
What would become of the rivers royal
If the little streams went dry?
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
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"Every fact is a battle.
The bigger the fact the bigger the battle it precipitates.
Pure Christianity is the biggest fact in the world."
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"Who dares nothing need hope for nothing"
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Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me;
And may there be no moaning at the bar,
When I put out to sea.
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"An honest death is better than a dishonest life."
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"Men fear death as children fear the dark."
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"Now the time has come to go, I to die and you to live, which of us goes to the better thing no one knows but God."
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"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
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"To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself, for every man hath need to be forgiven."
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"To be virtuous is to be truly free. Vice is the real slavery."
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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of tyrants.
It is its natural manure."
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"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men."
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A friend is one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
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| Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them. |
For the friendship of two the patience of one is necessary.
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"If a clock proves the existence of a clock maker and the world does not prove the existence of a Supreme Architect, then I consent to be called a fool."
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"Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances."
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Enjoy the little you have while the fool is hunting for more.
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"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
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| Happy is the man who can enjoy the scenery when he has to take a detour. |
"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history."
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"Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are alive."
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"The struggle between belief and unbelief is the only thing in the memoirs of humanity worth considering."
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"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves
on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
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"I am only an average man, but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man."
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| Knowledge is indeed that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raise one man above another. |
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything - except what is worth knowing."
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.
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"The wise are instructed by reason,
ordinary minds by experience,
the stupid by necessity,
and the brutes by instinct."
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"Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing with which we fly to heaven."
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Opportunity knocks. Temptation kicks the door down.
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Life is a gift of nature, but beautiful living is a gift of wisdom
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"To love is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
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We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives the rose.
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"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."
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If you think you are beaten - you are.
If you think that you dare not - you don't.
If you'd like to win but fear you can't
It's fifty to one you won't.
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"No man is free who is not master of himself."
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| The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. |
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is merely a detour.
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"I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest."
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"I care not if God is on my side; my constant hope and prayer is that I may be found upon God's side."
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"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this."
"Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action."
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"The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
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"The past is gone and static. Nothing we do can change it. The future is before us and dynamic. Everything we do will affect it."
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"It is good to think well; it is divine to act well."
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"White lies are but ushers to black ones."
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"A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence."
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"In all thy actions, think God sees thee; and in all His actions, labour to see Him."
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Do your best to make certain you are the sort of person you want your children to become.
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| Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. |
Sign in front of a church in Sydnet, Australia:
Your home is the laboratory where your religion is tested.
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"There is no substitute for the home. Its foundation is as ancient as the world, and its mission has been ordained of God from the earliest times."
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The fruits of humility are love and peace.
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When the hour of action rises,
The hour of preparation is past.
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Have you ever noticed how shore birds and gulls face into the wind when they are at rest on the beach?
Of course - it keeps their feathers in perfect position.
A good philosophy is to face your troubles; don't let them ruffle your feathers.
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| Over a well-worn bench hung these words: "If you haven't the time to do it right the first time, when are you going to have the time to do it over?" |
Without faith and enterprise, nothing is begun; without patience and perseverance, nothing is finished.
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Happiness has been defined as having things;
better still, as having what you want;
still better, as being able to do without what you want. |
"God ever works with those who work with Him."
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I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says, "There, she's gone."
Gone where? Gone from my sight, that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side, and just as able to bear her load of living weight to the place of destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her; and just at the moment when someone at my side says: "There, she's gone," there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, "There, she's coming." And such is dying. |
"The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with.
Success depends on which one we use the most."
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"Life is like riding a bicycle. you don't fall off unless you stop pedalling."
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"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
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| Temper is what gets most of us into trouble; Pride is what keeps us there. |
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
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Four things come not back,
The spoken word,
The sped arrow,
The past life,
The neglected opportunity.
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What you are thunders so loudly in my ears that I cannot hear what you say.
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Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light.
Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times."
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"Kindness has more power than compulsion."
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A Good Deed Is Never Lost
He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship;
He who plants kindness, gathers love;
Pleasure bestowed upon a grateful mind was never sterile,
but generally gratitude begets reward.
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Reputation is what men and women think of us;
character is what God and angels know of us.
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"For Death is no more than a Turning over of us from Time to Eternity."
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"Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening."
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The only way to take the sorrow out of death is to take the love out of life.
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When God sends forth a tiny soul
To learn the ways of the earth,
A mother's love is waiting here -
We call this wonder - birth.
When God calls home a tired soul
And stills a fleeting breath,
A Father's love is waiting there,
This too is birth - not death.
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"Heaven will not be heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there."
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"No cognate reason remains for supporting the soul with the body... We (scientists) find strong reasons for believing that man is of extraordinary importance in the cosmic scheme... It takes a lifetime to build the character of a noble man. The exercise and discipline of youth, the struggles and failures of maturity, the lonliness and tranquility of age - these make the fire through which he must pass to bring out the pure gold of his soul. Having been thus perfected, what shall Nature do with him, annihilate him? What infinite waste! As long as there is in heaven a God of love there must be for God's children Everlasting Life!
~ Dr. Arthur H. COMPTON
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"Night never had the last word. The dawn is invincible."
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"I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It requires Intelligence to create it and it requires Intelligence to keep it on its course... It is mathematical in its precision."
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"The virtue of all achievement is victory over oneself.
Those who know this victory can never know defeat."
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