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A Accomplishment Accomplishment and success are often the result of
Achievement If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe, I know I can achieve it! Reverend Jesse Jackson Ninety-fiver percent of achieving anything is knowing what you want and paying the price to get it. John Maxwell Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller The greatest satisfaction in life is achieving what everyone said could not be done. Chinese Proverb Action To make progress in any field, you have to take action. John Maxwell, Thinking for a Change When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happines without action. Imperfect action is better than perfewct inaction. Harry Truman Advice Write down the advice of him who loves you When we ask advice, we are usually looking for The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the
thought of it himself. Aging Agony There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou Ancestors To forget one's ancestors is to be a book without a source, a tree without a root. Chinese Proverb Anger Anger is our friend. Not a nice friend. Not a gentle friend. But a very, very loyal friend....It will always tell us that it is time to act in our own best interests. Julia Cameron The Artist's Way
Agreeable If
you want others to agree with you, you must first be Aim Men his only what they aim at. Henry David Thoreau A soul without a high aim is like
a ship without a rudder. All None of us is as smart as all of us. ken
Blanchard Altering Circumstances Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.Mother Maribel CSMV Anger Anger is something we feel. It exists for a reason and always deserves our respect and attention. Harriet Goldhor Lerner, The Dance of Anger Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy. - Aristotle Let not the sun go down on your wrath. Ephesians 4:26 Anxiety Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. Arthur Somers Roche
Anyway
Approval Argue Art of Living Living well is an art which can be developed. Of course, you will Art -Francis Bacon Art - Salvador Dali Art - Charlie Chaplin Art -Roy Lichtenstein Art --Rene Magritte Art - Michelangelo Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. Beauty is the purgation of
superfluities. Art -Pablo Picasso There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. Every child is an artist. The
problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. I begin with an idea and then it becomes
something else. Painting is just another way of keeping
a diary. Art - Auguste Rodin Art/Artist A man who works
with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain
is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his
heart is an artist. -Louis Nizer, lawyer (1902-1994) Aspiring Astonish If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves. Thomas A. Edison Attention That which holds our attention determines our action. William James
A great attitude
is not the result of success; success is The greatest discovery of this generation is that a human being can alter their life by altering their attitude. William James
First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us. Dennis Waitley They are able who think they are able. Virgil Attitude Outlook determines outcome; attitude determines action. Warren Wiersbe Author B Battle There is in true beauty something which vulgar souls
cannot Beauty is not diminished by being shared. Become You become what you think about. Earl Nightingale (Ear said if you spent one hour a day pursuing your dream, you'd be a national expert in 5 years.) Beginning Behavior How can you know what is in your heart? Look at your behavior. LeRoy Eims Being We are what we seem to
be. Everybody must learn this lesson somewhere - that it costs something to be what you are. Shirley Abbott, Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South
Believe When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already. Norman Vincent Peale Best - Doing the Best It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very
best you Choose always the way that seems best, however rough it may be.
Pythagoras Believe in the best, think your best, study your best, have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run, things will turn out for the best. Henry Ford Bicycle Biography Blessings Blessings come disguised as problems. Work through your problems, and blessings will follow. L. Walkup Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of
pains, It is difficult to accept adversity as a blessing, but time
Bliss Follow your bliss. Joseph Campbell Books & Reading Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. Kathleen Norris. A book is like a garden carried in a pocket. -- Chinese proverb The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. Mark Twain The end of reading is not more books, but more life. Holbrook Jackson. I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book. -- Groucho Marx Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes. Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536). Nothing will take the place of a shelf full of books by one's own chair. -- A. Edward Newton Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes the day happier. Kathleen Norris The worse thing about new books is that they keep us from reading old ones. Joseph Joubert Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. That is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with dilligence and attention. Francis Bacon Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.Ruth Rendell Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles Eliot The true university of these days is a collection of books. Thomas Carlyle Books are the carriers of civilization. Barbara Tuchman, People who censor books are usually illiterate. John D. MacDonald, A Purple Place for Dying, 1964 When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes. Desiderius Erasmus There is something special about people who are interested in the printed word. They are a species all their own - learned, kind, knowledgeable and human.Nathan Pine Certain books have exerted a profound influence on history, culture, civilization and scientific thought throughout recorded time.... In every historical era, we find overwhelming evidence of the power of the written word without which a high state of civilization and culture is inconceivable in any time or place. Robert Downs It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one should not read. More than half of modern culture depends on what one should not read. Oscar Wilde The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write.Unknown No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally, and often far more, worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.C. S. Lewis The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. Mark Twain Tis the good reader that makes a good book. Emerson Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. F. Bacon We read to know we're not alone -- C. S. Lewis Born We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Mary Antin, The Promised Land
Bravery Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
Busy
Can If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. Mary Kay Ash, New York Times Candidates Capturing ideas If you haven't been capturing your ideas on paper, you're missing an opportunity to take them to the next level. John Maxwell Thinking for a Change Career The best careers advice to the young is: "Find out what you like doing best t\and get someone to pay you for doing it." Katharine Whitehorn. English Newspaper Columnist Challenge Accept the
challenges, so that you may feel the Give
yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master
and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original
difficulty. William J. Bennett Change 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 Character Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. Thomas Paine Character is simply habit long continued. Plutarch Character is
like a tree and reputation like its shadow. Personality can
open doors, but only character can keep Changes Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin To change one's life, start immediately. William James There is nothing permanent except change. Heraclitus, Greek philosopher Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. James Maxwell People are more scared of than than they are scared of death. C. Myss God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed; give us the courage to change what should be changed; give us the wisdom to distinguish one from the other Reinhold Niebuhr, Religious and Social Thinker No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. Marilyn Ferguson If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. you have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. Marian Edelman All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! Character People grow
through experience if they meet life honestly Character is the
only secure foundation of the state. Character is
like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think
of it; the tree is the real thing. Character, not circumstance, makes
the person.
The function of
education is to teach one to think intensively and to think
critically... Intelligence plus character that is the goal of true
education. The measure of a
man's character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found
out. You can easily
judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing
for him. Our
character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more Every man has three
characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he
thinks he has. Children In raising my children, I have
lost my mind but found
Choices Life is the sum of your
choices.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. George Eliot Circumstance Civilization The true test of
civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops
no, but the kind of man the country turns out. Cleanliness Better keep yourself clean and bright - you are the window through which you must see the world. G. B. Shaw To clean up the universe, clean up your own backyard. Zen saying Coffee Coffee is the common man's gold and like gold, it brings to every man the feeling of luxury and nobility. Abd-Al-Kadir 1587 I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. T.S. Eliot (The love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock) [Coffee is]...the most precious of blisses. Johann Sebastian Bach Where coffee is served, there is grace and splendor (anonymous) Good coffee is black as sin, pure as the angels, strong as death, and sweet as love. Creole saying College Comfort Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. The Beatitudes Commitment Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what Loving involves commitment. We are not automatic lovers of Communication Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kind of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him. Virginia Saatir Peoplemaking
Compassion Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all. Theodore Isaac Rubin Every moment spent expressing compassion for another is a holy moment. Dr. Richard Carlson Complaining I never complained of my condition but once, said an old man - when my feet were bare, and I had no money to buy shoes; but I met a man without feet, and became contented. H. K. White Compromise Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. Computers Conscience Cowardice asks
the question, Is it safe? I know what conscience is, to begin with. It is not what you
Never do anything against conscience even if the state
Conservative Consultant
Cooperation - Working Together Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. -- Stephen Covey Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. - Helen Keller Concern Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. Karen Horney, Self-Analysis
Contentment He who is not contended with what he has, would not be contended with what he would like to have. Socrates Courage A very popular error - having the courage of your Whatever you do, you need courage. Ralph W. Emerson Courage does not always road. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying, "I will try again tomorrow." Mac Anderson There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete. Helen Keller, Let us Have Faith Courage is a door that can only be opened from the inside. Terry Neil Courage is fear that has said its prayers. -- Dorothy Bernard Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Mark Twain Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not that one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. Maxwell Maltz Motivational Writer You become courageous by doing courageous acts... Courage is a habit. -- Mary Daly Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Raymond Linquist
Courage
is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more
important than fear.-Ambrose Redmoon Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910) It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the Courage is going from failure to failure without losing Courtesy Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. it is the cheapest of the pleasures: costs nothing and conveys much. Erastus Wilman Cowards Creativity The most valuable resource you bring to your work and to your firm is your creativity. Annette Moser-Wellman, The Five Faces of Genius Creativity Credit
Crisis Critic Criticize He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. Abraham Lincoln Crown Your cross is your crown. L. Walkup
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a Crown Your cross is your crown. L. Walkup Cynic D
Dare Days How we spend our days is how we spend our lives. -- Annie Dilliard A day will never be anymore than what you make of it.
Death
Decision The most
difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest
William O. Douglas writes that Chief Douglas Charles Evans Hughes told him, "Justice, Douglas, you must remember one thing. At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predictions." Once a decision was made, I did not worry about it afterward. --Harry S. Truman It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is Deeds Defeat
Tend to your dreams and your heart's deepest desire, for they are seeds planted by God in the garden of your soul. (The Latin root of the word desire is "de -- sire" meaning "of the Father" ) L Walkup Lord grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. Michelangelo It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. --Rebecca West There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're
Destiny Destiny is not a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan Destruction What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and
Destiny No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently estiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. William Jennings Bryant Destiny To grow, you must be willing to let your present and Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter
of
Destroy Man is doomed to destroy one another unless God steps in. Fessio [Naples, Florida, Ave Maria] Diamond Let us not be too particular: it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. -- Mark Twain Difficulties The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the
obstacles There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. --Phyllis Bottome The best way out of a difficulty is through it --Anon. Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. William Channing Welcome difficulties and obstacles as valuable steps in The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? Cicero
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in Direction The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can Dirt Discipline Discontent Discouragement often is a result of listening to people Discovery What people discover for themselves is far more meaningful and useful than what others tell them. Dr. Philip Ney, Ending the Cycle of Abuse, Page 23 I invent nothing. I rediscover. -- Auguste Rodin Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce Disposition The world improves people according to the dispositions Dispute Distress Dividing Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford Divine Dog
Doing The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one proposes to do. Pablo Casals A true friend is someone who can make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo Emerson The man who does things makes mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing. Benjamin Franklin Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 Doing The Right Thing
We can do only what we can do. But if we do that
each
day we can sleep at night and do it again the next day. -Albert Schweitzer Physician, philosopher, musician, theologian I expect to pass through this world but once. Doing the impossible Doing the impossible is the greatest form of revenge. L. Walkup Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said could not be done. Sam Ewing Dreams A man is never old until regrets take the place of his dreams. John Barrymore Dog Doing Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. - Mary Frances Berry
Lives
based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on
being. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt To love what you do, and feel that it matters. How could
anything be more fun?- Katherine Graham Whatever you do, don't do halfway Bob Beamon Don't just do something, sit there! Sit there long enough The time when you need to do something is when no one You do what you have to do, to do what you want to
do. Always do more than what is required of you. George S. Patton Doing Whenever you do a little thing, act as if all the world were watching. Thomas Jefferson
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John
Wooden What one has to do usually can be done. --Eleanor Roosevelt The way to do well is to do well. Donald Rumsfeld (Rummy's Rules by Kinney Bennett) It is not what happens that determines the major part of You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt You have not lived a perfect day, even though you earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. --Ruth Smeltzer How to succeed: try hard enough. If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. Tony Robbins Done Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do. --John Milton Door
Dots Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can Doubt Dream To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test you limits, that is the courage to succeed. -- Bernard Edmonds It may be that those who do most, dream most. To accomplish
great things, we must not only act, but also It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of
It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it To accomplish great things we must not only
act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, Some dream worthy accomplishments; other stay awake and do them. If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep. Yiddish proverb Reach high, for stars lie hidden
in your soul. Dream deep, Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken- Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them.--Phantom F. Harlock The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die A person with big dreams is more powerful than a person All successful men and women are big dreamers. They Dreams expand our universe. Dreams are the heart.
A dream without a goal is just a wish. Bill Cole I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the
stuff A person with big dreams is more powerful than a person Dull Man It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. H. L. Mencken
Duty Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. Abraham Lincoln
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Education
Effort Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the
Emotion Dr. Phil: "You must get past the myth of willpower. Willpower is fueled by emotion and emotions are fickle. We make resolutions when we're emotionally pumped, but five weeks later, those emotions aren't there. And that's when it has to be about more than emotion. You have to set up your life so it's easy to do what you need to do and hard to do what you shouldn't do. If you had a toothache, you wouldn't cancel an appointment with the dentist because your sister needed your help to move her fridge; don't cancel an appointment at the gym because your sister needs your help. You deserve to make your own priority list. Dr. Phil from "Dr. Phil's Wise Words Good Housekeeping February 2005 page 157 End If you reach an admirable end through the wrong means, the
Endurance Enduring Enjoying When you enjoy what you do, you never get tired. Donald Trump Enthusiasm Nothing great was was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson Enthusiasm is the element of success in everything. It is There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. -- Norman Vincent Peale Environment You are a produce of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. W. Clement Stone Evil Excellence The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To
know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl Buck
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or
Exceptional The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is
Excuse Hold yourself responsible to a higher standard than anybody else expects of you; never excuse yourself. Henry Ward Beecher Exhilaration Expectations It is folly to expect men to do all that they may be reasonably expected to do. Richard Whately Experience There is only one thing more painful than learning Evaluation Criteria Everyday Excellence Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. Booker T. Washington Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. John Gardner The greatest enemy of excellence is good. Zig Ziglar Don't try to become great; be great now, and discover that excellence is a reward you don't need others to confirm. Guy Finley Excellence is the result
of I am always careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. Michael Fox Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. Pat Riley There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. David Starr Jordan The excellent becomes the permanent. Jane Addams I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether a field, or a home, or a country. Thornton Wilder Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. Rick Pitino The price of excellence is discipline. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential...these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Eddie Robinson If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Excuses
He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at
anything else. -- Benjamin Franklin Expectations Experience Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Rodin There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.--Archibald McLeish Expression Eyes The Eyes are the window of the soul anon The eyes are the
outward extension of the brain.
When the eyes are steady, the mind becomes steady. http://innerhappiness.com/photosbeginner1.html
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Facts
Faith
Faith untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our
doubts of today; Let Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall
Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is
Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement. Thomas N. Carruther Fall Family Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. Gail Lumet Buckley The family you come from isn't as
important as the family What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way. Jean Clarke, Self-Esteem: A Family Affair Fantasy Fate Faults Fear He that fears not the future may enjoy the present. --Thomas Fuller Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Marie Curie I am never afraid of what I know. Anna Sewell, Back Beauty He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. -- Madame Marie Curie There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.
It is better to be feared than loved, if
you cannot be both. - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince" Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in ll forms of fear produce fatigue. -- Bertrand Russell.
The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody. --J. C. F. von Schiller. Action conquers fear. --Peter N. Zarlenga Fear less, hope more; The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for
Feelings Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. Audre Lorde, Black Women Writers at Work , Claudia Tate, ed. Few Focus on the critical few...not the insignificant many. Mac Anderson Fiction Finish No one is rewarded for what they start, only for what they finish. Conover Swofford First Step Fist Focus Fool Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own. H.G. Bohn A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top . -- Unknown. Forgiveness To err is human, to forgive divine. Alexander Pope, The Eternal Now Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the handcuffs of hate. William Ward There is not revenge so complete as forgiveness. Josh Billings If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others. Dolores Hueta, "Stopping Traffic: one Woman's Curse" The Progressive, Barbara L. Bael He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Forgiveness is the oil of relationships. Josh McDowell The words, "I forgive" pierce deeper than any arrow. L. Walkup The weak can never forgive. Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.--G. Weatherly
Frangrance The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. Hada Bejar
Freedom To change masters is not to be free. When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not
wish Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law No man is free who is not master of himself. Epictetus Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent,
Friends A friend is a present you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson A true friend is someone who can make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo Emerson The ornament of the house is the friends who frequent it. Ralph waldo Emerson The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. Aristotle Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anais Nin A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one which we take the least thought to acquire.-- Franηois Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-80), French writer, moralist Anger is our friend. Not a nice friend. Not a gentle friend. But a very, very loyal friend....It will always tell us that it is time to act in our own best interests. Julia Cameron The Artist's Way I always thought that the great high privilege - relief and comfort of friendship - was that one had to explain nothing. Katherine Mansfield When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at A single rose can be my garden... To love another person is to see the face of God. The better part of one's life consists of one's friendships. Abraham Lincoln The secret of life is that all we have and are is a gift of grace to be shared. No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. George Eliot Having someone who understands is a great blessing. Janette Oke I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gift. Frances Farmer The greatest gift is a portion of yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson We are the gift of the living God to one another. Reine Duell Bethany Only the heart knows how to find what is precious. Fydor Dostoyevsky True friendships are lasting because true love is eternal. Henri Nouwen You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Dale Carnegie Love has its source in God, for love is the very essence of His being. Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them. Normal Vincent Peale The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives. Alexandre Duman Become genuinely interested in other people. Dale Carnegie Friends may come and go,
but enemies accumulate.
A friend in need is a friend indeed. Latin Proverb A faithful friend is a strong defense; and he that hath found him hath found a treasure. Louisa May Alcott A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself. "C. S. Lewis Think where man's glory begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. -Elbert Hubbard 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 The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. Maya Angelou Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the only one. -Clive Staples Lewis, novelist and essayist (1898-1963) I cannot concentrate all my friendship
on any single one of A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. Frances Ward Weller, Boot Song
Your best friend is the person who brings out of you the best that is within you. Henry Ford Anything, everything, little or big becomes an adventure when the right person shares it.
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil, for if they fall, one will lift up the other. Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
All who joy would win Good company on a journey makes the way seem shorter. Izaak Walton The best thing to hold onto in life is each other Audrey Hepburn Your friends live in you. Louise Walkup Friends live in your heart. L. Walkup I am a part of all that I have met. Alfred Lord Tennyson Every true friend is a glimpse of God. Lucy Larcom When friends meet, hearts warm. Proverb No person is you friend who demands your silence, or
denies Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a
little better. --Edgar Watson Howe A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better for a triple braided cord is not easily broken. Ecclesiastes 4:12 Two are better than one....If one person falls, the other can read out and help. But people who are alone when they fall are in real trouble. Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anais Nin Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. --Socrates True friends don't spend time gazing into each other's eyes. They may show great tenderness toward each other, but they face the same direction - toward common projects, interests, goals - above all toward a common Lord - C.S.Lewis One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Seneca I find friendship to be the true...restorative cordial. Thomas Jefferson Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs. H.G. Bohn Friendship renders prosperity more brilliant, while it lightens adversity by sharing it and making its burden common. Cicero
Frustrations Future The future comes one day at a
time. The future is no more uncertain than the present. -- Walt Whitman Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes -- Dan Burrus Since you can't predict the future, create it. Peter
Drucker The reason why most people face the future with
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Garden We must cultivate our garden. --Voltaire Gardeners Let's be grateful for those who give us happiness; they are the
charming Genius The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor The principal mark of genius is not perfection but Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time. Elbert Hubbard Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. -- Thomas Edison Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. Einstein You are a potential genius -- the number of ideas you can |
