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"If you cannot do great things yourself, remember that you may do small things in a great way."
- Swamy Chinmayananda -"

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say,
"Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams."
Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep,
they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box.
It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line,
to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?"
That's where courage comes in."
- Erma Bombeck -

The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials,
the most money, or the most awards.
They are the ones that care.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.
It's already tomorrow in Australia.
--- Charles Schultz--

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity."
- Henry Van Dyke -

"I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives.
Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change."
--Jim Rohn –

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.
If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
- Warren Buffett -

"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things."
--Anthony Robbins –

"Character is doing the right thing when nobody is looking."
--J. C. Watts –

"Anyone who thinks sunshine is happiness has never danced in the rain."
- Author Unknown -

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart."
- Helen Keller -

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"I believe in the sun even when it is not shining.
I believe in love even when not feeling it.
I believe in God even when He is silent."
- Author Unknown -

"Risk! Risk anything!
Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices.
Do the hardest thing on earth for you.
Act for yourself.
Face the truth."
- Katherine Mansfield -

"Let us make one point... that we meet each other with a smile,
when it is difficult to smile ... Smile at each other, make time for each other."
- Mother Teresa -

" You are not beaten until you admit it."
- George S. Patton, Jr.

"The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.'
You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
Do not despise your own place and hour.
Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world."
- John Burroughs -

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."
--Dale Carnegie –

"I believe that none of us ever fails at anything.
Every time we create something we are successful at creation.
However, we do make some poor choices about what we create."
--Author Unknown –

"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.
They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes,
and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted."
--Garrison Keillor –

"We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobile
rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind."
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe
is that none of it has tried to contact us."
--Calvin & Hobbes –

"Always love your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."
--Oscar Wilde –

"Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all."
--G.K. Chesterton –

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe –

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
--A.A. Milne –

"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time."
- Arnold H. Glasow -

"An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have
the propensity to look for the good in every situation."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

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“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."
Kahlil Gibran –

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start,
with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."
- J.B. Priestly -

"Many things in life will catch your eye but few will catch your heart... Pursue those."
Author Unknown –

"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken -

"A mind that has been stretched will never return to its original dimension."
Albert Einstein –

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."
- Mary Hemingway -

"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me,
and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you."
William Arthur Ward –

"I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions, intellectualism and much more,
only to begin to find that truth is basically simple - and feels good, clean and right."
Chick Corea –

"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.
There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative
&
acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap!"
Cynthia Heimel –

"It isn't the burdens of today that drive men mad.
It is the regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow.
Regret and fear are twin thieves who rob us of today."
Robert J. Hastings –

"Don't be discouraged by failure. It can be a positive experience.
Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success,
inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true,
and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."
- John Keats -

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"I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors.
Your attitude - your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself,
how you feel about other people - determines your priorities, your actions, your values.
Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself."
Carolyn Warner –

"Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change.
And when we are right, make us easy to live with."
Author Unknown –

"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey! "
- Barbara Hoffman -

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
Carl Jung –

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start,
with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."
J.B. Priestly –

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde –

"I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand,
and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."
Bernard Berenson -

"Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm.
Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation,
no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning.
Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity
but with it you can accomplish miracles."
--Unknown--

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song."
- Maya Angelou -

"Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt,
those who have searched, and those who tried,
for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives."
- Author Unknown -

"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents,
works his tail off to develop them into skills,
and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."
- Larry Bird -

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford -

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Edison -

"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are...
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.
One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in my pillow,
or stretch myself taught,
or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return."
- Mary Jean Iron -

"I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me."
- Anna Quindlen -

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"In three words I can sum up everything I know about life:
it goes on."
- Robert Frost -

"Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to the end,
requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

"As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move and the map to move by,
we have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths, and an infinity of dreams."
- Author Unknown -

"Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect.
There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it.
There is someone who would miss you if you were gone.
There is a place that you alone can fill."
- Jacob M. Braude -

"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
- Mother Teresa -

"Life is not what you expect.
It's what you don't expect that makes life worth living."
- Lauren Cairns -

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
While a pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
..The truly wise person is color-blind.
Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965)

"Life is what happens while you are making other plans."
- John Lennon -

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity."
- Albert Einstein -

"Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be."
- Kurt Vonnegut -

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else.
I only try to dance better than myself."
- Mikhail Baryshnikov -

"To love what you do and feel that it matters -
how could anything be more fun?"
- Katharine Graham -

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"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."
- Thomas Jones -

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
- Albert Einstein -

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
- Helen Keller

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things."
- Elinor Smith -

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
- Friedrich Neitzsche -

"Love is an attempt to change a piece of dream into reality."
- Theodor Reik -

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
- Oscar Wilde -

"Who will, can; Who tries, does; and Who loves, lives."
--Unknown--

"It is the heart that makes a man rich.
He is rich according to what he is,
not according to what he has."
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87)
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"One of the best, beautiful qualities in a true friendship is to be understood."
- Seneca -

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up
and look for the circumstances they want,
and, if they can't find them, make them."
- George Bernard Shaw -

"And life is what we make it, always has been and always will be."
- Grandma Moses -

"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast -
you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
- Eddie Canto

"Ideas are like rabbits.You get a couple and learn how to handle them,
and pretty soon you have a dozen."
- John Steinbeck -

"Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble."
- French Proverb -

" He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. "
- Benjamin Franklin -

"Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot,
and anyone going faster than you is a maniac."
- George Carlin -

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take
But by the moments that take our breath away.
--Unknown-

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THINGS TO CONTEMPLATE IN LIFE
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry.

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to,
doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.

Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Don't waste your time on a man/woman, who isn't willing to waste their time on you.

Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one,
so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.

Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened.

There's always going to be people that hurt you so what you have to do is keep on trusting
and just be more careful about who you trust next time around.

Make yourself a better person and know who you are
before you try and know someone else and expect them to know you.

Don't try so hard, the best things

--Auther Unknown--

REMEMBER: WHATEVER HAPPENS, HAPPENS FOR A REASON.
-unknown-

True friends: How many people actually have 8 true friends?
Hardly anyone I know ! But some of us have all right friends and good friends!!!
-Unknown-

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"The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many',
and the word 'ticks,' meaning 'blood sucking parasites'."
- Larry Hardim -

"I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
- Bill Cosby -

"Destiny is not a matter of chance -- it is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for -- it a thing to be achieved."
- William Jennings Bryan -


"Courage is the most important of all the virtues,
because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency."
- Maya Angelou -

"I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors.
Your attitude - your perspective, your outlook,
how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people
- determines your priorities, your actions, your values.
Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself."
- Carolyn Warner -

"Paint a portrait of life to be proud of that could not be sold for all the money on earth.
Hang that portrait in your mind and understand its ever presence.
Reflect on every brush stroke that makes all the mountains and valleys and rivers and skies the most beautiful in the land. Share your portrait with others but beware their brushes.
Select only those whose brush will add to the beauty and structure of your masterpiece."
- Chris Ensor -

"Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement,
and you are bound to become an excited person.
Life will take on a new zest, deeper interest and greater meaning.
You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness.
By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy."
- Norman Vincent Peale -

"In a nutshell, just be good and kind to your children,
because not only are they the future of the world,
but they are the ones who can eventually sign you into the home."
- Dennis Miller -

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"Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much."
- John Wayne -

"You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change."
- Les Brown -

"If you think you can do a thing or you think you can't do a thing, you're right."
- Henry Ford -

"Are you bored with life?
Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart,
live for it, die for it,
and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."
- Dale Carnegie -

"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."
- Jean Baptiste Massieu

"The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy."
- Luther Burbank

"My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am."
- Author Unknown-

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
- Allan K. Chalmers -

"A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine."
- Old West Pioneer Saying -

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"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light."
- Jennie Jerome Churchill -

"I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness or abilities that I can show to any fellow creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
- William Penn -

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,
a smile, a kind word, a listening ear,
an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
- Leo Buscaglia -

"Give me a stock clerk with a goal
and I'll give you a man who will make history.
Give me a man with no goals
and I'll give you a stock clerk."
- J.C. Penney -

"Don't work for my happiness, my brothers --
show me yours --
show me your achievement --
and the knowledge will give me courage for mine"
- Ayn Rand -

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Now that I'm "older" (but refuse to grow up), here's what I've discovered:

1) I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.
2) My wild oats have turned into prunes and All Bran.
3) I finally got my head together; now my body is falling apart.
4) Funny, I don't remember being absent minded...
5) Funny, I don't remember being absent minded...
6) What were we talking about?
7) It's easier to get older than it is to get wiser.
8) Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.
9) I wish the buck stopped here; I sure could use a few.
10) Kids in the back seat cause accidents.
11) Accidents in the back seat cause kids.
12) It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.
13) The only time the world beats a path to your door is when you're in the bathroom.
14) If God wanted me to touch my toes, he would have put them on my knees.
15) When I'm finally holding all the cards, why does everyone else decide to play chess?
16) It's not hard to meet expenses.. . . they're everywhere!
17) The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
18) These days, I spend a lot of time thinking about the hereafter. I go somewhere to get something and then wonder what I'm here after.
19) If all is not lost, then where is it?
20) Did I send this to you already?
Unknown

A list to Live by....
The most destructive habit................................ Worry
The greatest joy ..............................................Giving
The greatest loss.....................................Self-respect
The most satisfying work.........................Helping Others
The ugliest personality trait..........................Selfishness
The most endangered species............. Dedicated Leaders
Our greatest natural resource........................ Our Youth & Our Elderly
The greatest "shot in the arm".................Encouragement
The greatest problem to overcome......................... Fear
The most effective sleeping pill................. Peace of mind
The most crippling failure disease.......................Excuses
The most powerful force in life...............................Love
The most dangerous outcast.............................A Gossip
The worlds most incredible computer.................The Brain
The worst thing to be without...............................Hope
The deadliest weapon................................ The Tongue
The two most power-filled words......................... "I can"
The greatest asset..............................................Faith
The most worthless emotion.............................Self-pity
The most beautiful attire.................................. A Smile
The most prized possession..............................Integrity
The most powerful channel of communication......... Prayer
The most contagious spirit............................ Enthusiasm
Our greatest teacher ....................................Experience
To the world, YOU may be one person;
but to one person, you may be the world!!
Unknown

ANDY ROONEY ON MATURE WOMEN
Andy Rooney says,
"As I grow in age, I value women who are approaching or are over 40 most of all.
Here are just a few reasons why:
An older woman will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask," What are you thinking?"
She doesn't care what you think.
An older woman knows herself well enough to be assured in who she is,
what she is, what she wants and from whom.
Few women past the age of 40 give a damn what you might think about her.
An older single woman usually has had her fill of "meaningful relationships" and "commitment."
The last thing she needs in her life is another dopey, clingy, whiny, dependent lover.
Older women are dignified.
They seldom have a screaming match with you at the opera or in the middle of an expensive restaurant.
Of course, if you deserve it, they won't hesitate to shoot you if they think they can get away with it.
Most older women cook well. They care about cleanliness and are generous with praise, often undeserved.
An older woman has the self-assurance to introduce you to her women friends.
A younger woman with a man will often ignore even her best friend because she doesn't trust the guy with other women.
Older women couldn't care less.
Women get psychic as they age. You never have to confess your sins to an older woman. They always know.
An older woman looks good wearing bright red lipstick. This is not true of younger women or drag queens.
Once you get past a wrinkle or two, an older woman is far sexier than her younger counterpart.
Her libido's stronger, her fear of pregnancy, gone!
Her experience of lovemaking is honed and reciprocal and she's lived long enough to know how to please a man in ways her daughter could never dream of. (Young men, you have something to look forward to.) Older women are forthright and honest. They'll tell you right off you are a jerk if you are acting like one.
Yes, we praise older women for a multitude of reasons.
Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal.
For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman of 40+,
There is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year-old waitress.
Ladies, I apologize for all of us." Andy Rooney

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