wisdom
Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin
today's happiness.
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of
others, but from doing something worthwhile.
- Wilfred Grenfell (1865 - 1940), English medical missionary
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Life consists not in holding good cards but playing the cards dealt.
-anon
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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
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The length of our life is less important than its depth.
- Mary David Fisher, Writer
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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
- Lee Salk
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Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.
- George Weinberg
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Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared
for things we are not equipped to handle now.
When we face our challenges with faith, prepared
to learn, willing to make changes, and if necessary,
to let go, we are demanding our power be turned on.
- Iyanla Vanzant
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When you reach a point of clarity and sanity in your life you:
Fix - what is fixable
Make possible - what is possible
Accept what is
And learn to live with the rest.
- Susan C. Sommerfield
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To make no mistake is not in the power
of man; but from their errors and mistakes
the wise and good learn wisdom for the
future. - Plutarch
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Have old memories but young hopes.
-anon
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Hope makes today possible and tomorrow attractive, or at
least less threatening. Hope makes death bearable...hope is
the mainstay of our energy. We go forward - because we
hope.
-anon
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It's only when we truly know and understand that we have
limited time on earth - that we have no way of knowing when
our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the
fullest, as if it were the only one we had.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Physician and writer
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Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a
nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed
for its fulfillment.
- Robert Collier, advertising copywriter
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There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry
for yourself. The great power you have is to let it go...You
focus on what you have, not that which has been mean, or unkindly
removed. - Minnie Driver
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Most people are so busy knocking themselves out
trying to do everything they think they should
do, they never get around to what they want to
do. - Kathleen Winsor
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A man cannot be comfortable without his
own approval. - Mark Twain
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Whether is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether
one has succeeded, failed or just muddled
along; whether yesterday was full of sun or
storm, or one of those dull days with no
weather at all, life begins each morning!...
Each morning is the open door to a new
world - new vistas, new aims, new tryings.
- Leigh Mitchell Hodges
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you
will be happy to live with all your life. Make the
most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks
of possibility into flames of achievement.
- Foster C. McClellan
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"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but
what they become by it."~~~-- John Ruskin
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"No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back."
-- Turkish proverb
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"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."
-- Miguel de Cervantes
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is
where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
-- Henry David Thoreau
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"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated
simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."~~~-- Charles Mingus |
