Or at least I think this stuff is, anyway! =)

Everyone needs a little inspirational stuff in their lives and this is a good place to get it! Check out the stuff below and take heart: it's never as bad as it seems!

DON'T QUIT

• Don't quit when the tide is lowest
• For it is just about to turn.
• Don't quit over doubts and questions
• For there is something you may learn.
• Don't quit when the night is darkest
• For the race is almost won.
• Don't quit when the hill is steepest
• For your goal is almost high.
• Don't quit, for you are not a failure,
• Until you fail to try.

• Class never runs scared. It is sure-footed and confident. It can handle whatever comes along.
• Class has a sense of humor. It knows a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations.
• Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes.
• Class knows good manners are nothing more than a series of small, inconsequential sacrifices.
• Class bespeaks an aristocracy that has nothing to do with ancestors or money. Some wealthy "blue-bloods" have no class, while some individuals who are struggling to make ends meet are loaded with it.
• Class is real. It can't be faked.
• Class is comfortable in it's own skin. It never puts on airs.
• Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.
• Class can "walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch" (Rudyard Kipling). Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste and remember what peace there may be in silence...As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit...If you compare yourself with others, you may become bitter or vain, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time...Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism...Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass...Take kindly the counsel of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness...Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as is should. Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be...And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all it's sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

~Max Ehrmann

• Funny, me being here, and you
• Being where you are.
• Everyone in their places,
• Doing everything.

• We sit and talk about the past
• And future, as the present lives itself out.

• This is how it will be, you and I
• Spectators of an intricate sport,
• Life.

• We play our own special roles,
• Ours somewhat different; yet
• We feel their pain and concern.
• We have played and will again.
• But now we are content to
• Watch.

(Note: Scott MacDonald is a good friend of mine!)

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