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Forgiveness
Forgiveness means letting go of the past. Gerald Jampolsky
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. Confucious
Know all and you will pardon all. Thomas a'Kempis
To understand is to forgive, even oneself. Alexander Chase
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. George Bernard Shaw
Forgiveness is all powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills. Catherine Ponder
Those who are free are resentful thoughts surely find peace. Buddha
Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement. Horace Bushnell
Life is an adventure in forgiveness. Norman Cousins
One Day
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. Euripides
He who has lived a day has lived an age. Jean de La Bruyere
Nothing is worth more than this day. Johann von Goethe
We create our fate every day we live. Henry Miller
Who loses a day loses a life. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we only knew the real value of a day. Joseph Farrell
Life mindful of how brief your life is. Horace
Most of us live as if we had another one in the bank. Ben Irwin
Seize the hour. Sophcles
You may ask me for anything you like except time. Napoleon Bonaparte
Wasted time means wasted lives. R. Shannon
There is time for everything. Thomas A. Edison
Adversity
A wounded deer leaps the highest. Emily Dickinson
Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Opposition flames the enthusiast, never converts him. J.C.F von Schiller
Adversity causes sore men to break, others to break records. William A. Ward
Necessity makes even the timid brave. Sallust
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. Walt Schmidt
Life begins on the other side of despair. Jean-Paul Sartre
Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored. Whitney Griswold
When things come to the worse, they generally mend. Susanna Moodie
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. Duke Ellington
Difficult Days
Some days the dragon wins. Anon
This too, shall pass. William Shakespeare
Pain is never permanent. Saint Teresa of Avila
No winner lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. Hal Borland
Sadness flies away on the wings of time. Jean de La Fontaine
Patience and fortitude conquer all things. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience is the best remedy for all troubles. Plautus
If winter comes, can spring be far behind. Percy Bysshe Shelley
If matters go badly now, they will not always so. Horace
The present will not long endure. Pindar
Sadness and gladness succeed each other. Anon
You will suffer and you will hurt. You will have joy and you will have peace. Alison Cheeck
Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone. Rodney Dangerfield
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. Benjamin Franklin
Perfection
The essence of man is imperfection. Norman Cousins
There is no perfection in humanity. Samuel Montagne
He is lifeless that is faultless. English Proverb
Perfection is out of the question Anne Archer
You're only human, you're supposed to make mistakes. Billy Joel
Perfectionism is slow death Hugh Prather
When everything has to be right, something isn't
Stanislaw Lec
Sainthood is only acceptable in saints Pamela Hansford Johnson
It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection Saint Augustine
Security
Security is a false god; being making sacrifices to it and you are lost. Paul Bowles
Happiness, greatness, pride-nothing is secure, nothing keeps. Euripides
The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment. Henry Miller
To be alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die. Oscar Wilde
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself. Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively. Carl Jung
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we find it. John Steinbeck
There is not security on this earth. Only opportunity. General Douglas MacArthur
Realistic Expectations
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No one from the beginning of time has had security. Elenor Roosevelt
No one is happy his life long. Euripides
Hope for a miracle. But don't count on one. Talmud
Life is a perilous voyage. Palladas
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness. Jean Vanier
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. Bernard de Fontenelle
Good is not good, where better is expected. Thomas Fuller
Life didn't promise to be wonderful. Teddy Pendergrass
Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is life. Paul Scofield
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life. Tennensse Williams
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is. Catfish Hunter
Enthusiasm moves the world. J. Balfour
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. Vince Lombardi
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real difference between men is energy. Thomas Fuller
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. Benjamin Disraeli
The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. Marshal Ferdinand Foch
Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Energy and persistence conquer all things. Benjamin Franklin
Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action. Henry Chester
Take One Step At A Time
When you have a difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. Isak Dinesen
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide them into small jobs. Henry Ford
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gogh
Bigness comes from doing many small things.... Individually, they are not very dramatic transactions. Together, though they add up. Edward S. Finkelstein
If you only keep adding little by little, it will soon become a big heap. Hesoid
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. Plutarch
True worth is doing each day some little good, not dreaming of great things to do by and by. Anon
One step and then another, and the longest walk is ended. One stitch and then another, and the longest rent is mended. one brick upon another, and the tallest wall is made. One flake and then another, and the deepest snow is laid. Anon
Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings. Bruce Catton
Victory is won not in miles, but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more. Louis L'Amour
Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures. J.G. Hubbard
The big things that come our way are....the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work. William Feather
Simplicity
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction - W. Somerset Maugham
To be simple is to be great. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do not want done on to yourself, do not do on to others. - Confucius
When you are at sea, keep clear of the land. - Publilius
Keep breathing. - Sophie Tucker
If you want to be found, stand where the seeker seeks. - Sidney Lainer
Do what you can with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. - Rita Mae Brown
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity. - Leo Tolstoy
Helping Other People
In this world we must help one another. - Jean de La Fontaine
He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others. - Publilius Syrus
Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself. - William Blake
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
We are made kind by being kind. - Eric Hoffer
Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve. - Anon
Live and let live is not enough; live and help is not too much. - Orison Swett Marden
Sharing what you have is more important than what you have. - Albert M. Wells Jr.
The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy. - Luter Burbank
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. - Lydia M. Child
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up. - Mark Twain
Security
Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost. - Paul Bowles
God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his works. - Helen Keller
The way to be safe is never to be secure. - Benjamin Franklin
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself. - Marcus Annaeus Seneca
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. - Dag Hammarskjold
Only in growth, reform, and change paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The only peace, the only security, is a fulfillment. - Henry Miller
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament, not of income. - Logan Pearsall Smith
To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die. - Oscar Wilde
Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. - Samuel Johnson
Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively. - Carl Jung
We spend our time searching for searching for security and hate it when we get it. - John Steinbeck
Self-Control
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty. - Lao-tzu
No man is free who is not a master of himself. - Epictetus
He that would govern others should first be the master of himself. - Phillip Massinger
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. - Michel de Montaigne
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. - Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Self-command is the main elegance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. - George Bernard Shaw
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Decisions
You are the one who must choose your place. - James Lane Allen
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. - Timothy Fuller
Choices are the hinges of destiny. - Edwin Markham
Decisions determine destiny. - Frederick Speakman
We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions. - Vauvenargues
You cannot have your cake and eat it. - Anon
You cannot have it both ways. - Anon
Both choices are painful, but only one is therapeutic. - Albert M. Wells Jr.
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile. - Bertrand Russell
Once a decision was made, I did not worry about it afterward. - Harry S. Truman
Tomorrow: The Future
The future comes one day at a time. - Dean Acheson
There is no data on the future. - Laurel Cutler
Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future. - Jakob Burckhardt
He that not fears the future may enjoy the present. - James Petersen
It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear. - E.H. Harriman
If you are afraid of your future, you don't have a present. - James Petersen
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers. - Ruth Benedict
The future is the shape of things to come. - H.G. Wells
You cannot plan the future by the past. - Edmund Burke
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson
The future is hope! - John Fiske
The future is much like the present, only longer. - Dan Quisenberry
Opportunity
Know thine opportunity. - Pittacus
Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity. - Marie von Ebner- Eschenbach
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen; men fairly breathe it in and do not know it. - Doc Sane
It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks of life and those of opportunity. - Frederick Phillips
Opportunity knocks but once. - Anon
I was seldom able to see and opportunity until it had ceased to be one. - Mark Twain
He that waits on fortune is never sure of dinner. - Ben Franklin
There is no security on this earth on opportunity. - General Douglass MacArthur
A wise man will make more opportunities then he finds. - Francis Bacon
If you want to succeed in the world, you must make your own opportunities. - John B. Gough
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity. - B. C. Forbes
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes
Ability is of little account without opportunity. - Napoleon Bonaparte
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. - Publilius Syrus
Commitment
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. - MLK
Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning. - Woody Hayes
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. - Michael Evans
If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life? - Harvey Fierstein
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all? - Joe Namath
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win. - General Douglas MacArthur
The man who sees both sides of an issue is very likely on a fence or up a tree. - Anon
There is nothing harder then the softness of indifference. - Juan Montalvo
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them. - Ray Bradbury
Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack on determination. - Charles Swindoll
He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides. - George P. Schultz
Perseverance
but I suceeded
because I keep going, and going, and going.
unremitting devotion
to the things you want to see happen.
have let go.
invariably
be
the most successful.
The secret of success is
constancy of purpose.
enough and
loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
positively,
persue persistently.
Hope If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. Thomas Fuller
Everybody lives for something better to come. Anon
At first we hope too much; later on, not enough. Joseph Roux
Great hopes make great men. Thomas Fuller
A leader is a dealer in hope. Napoleon Bonaparte
Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, is hope. John Armstrong
Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. Anon
No hope, no action. Peter Levi
The miserable have no medicine but hope. William Shakesphere
Hope is but the dream of those that wake. Matthew Prior
All human wisdom is summed up in two words – wait and hope. Alexandre Dumas
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. George Weinberg
Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one Ambrose Bierce
In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope. O. Carl Simonton
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. Robert G. Ingersoll
Goals You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. Billy Wilder
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. Benjamin Mays
The poor man is not he who is with out a cent, but he who is with a dream. Harry Kemp
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche
Purpose is what gives life a meaning. C.H. Parkhurst
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose. Michel de Mantaigne
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Washington Irving
Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven't even begun to live. William P. Merrill
Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. David Starr Jordan
To live means to have...a mission to fulfill- and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Jose Ortega y Gasset
To seek one's goals and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting! Henrik Ibsen
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. Marcus Aurelius
The purpose of life is life of purpose. Robert Byrne
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes of the goal. Hannah More
You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. Charles C. Noble
The soul that has no established aim loses itself. Michel de Montaigne
If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there? Basil S. Walsh
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan
Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. Dag Hammarskjold
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself. J. Hawes
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among stars. Les Brown
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcott
A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. Marcus Aurelius
Self-Acceptance
Hardship
or brave action.
What we call the beginning is
often an end. And to make an end is to make Success
The successful person is the
individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to
do. Friendship
To have a good friend is one of the best delights of life; to be a good friend is one of the noblest and one of the most difficult undertakings. -Anon
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Saint Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together. Woodrow Wilson
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error: to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of their life, to assist them to noble needs. Aristotle
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppression, the sanctuary of our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds, the emission of our thoughts, the exercise and improvement of what we dedicate. Jeremy Taylor
Friends are the sunshine of life. John Hay
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. Epicurus
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation. Helen Keller
It is not much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. Epicurus
HOW TO BE A BETTER FRIEND
The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph waldo Emerson,
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first…. When you learn to live for others, they will live for you. Paramahansa Yogananda
Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give it , we will receive it. Harry E. Humphreys
When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything You can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. Edgar Watson Howe
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much Agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. George Eliot
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. Sophocles
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because You will lose one friend : on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept, because you will gain one friend. Saint Augustine A true friend embosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues to be a friend unchangeably. William Penn
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. John D. MacDonald
Faith and Belief
Faith or Belief in Ourselves
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. -Eric Fromm Faith in one self… is the best and safest course. -Michelangelo
Faith in Other People
We must have infinite faith in each other. -Henry David Thoreau Faith in our associates is part of our faith in god. -Charles Horton Cooley He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them. -Lao-Tzu
We must have faith in what we can’t see
Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther then it can see. -William Newton Clark Faith is like radar that sees through the fog-the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see. -Corrie Ten Boom Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receivers the impossible. -Anon Faith is to believe what we do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. -Saint Augustine
Faith, Believe, Reason, Knowledge, and Understanding
Faith doesn’t wait until it understands; in that case it wouldn’t be faith. -Vance Havener You faith is what you believe, not what you know. -John Lancaster Spalding Faith is the sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far, but faith has no limits. -Blaze Pascal It is the heart which experiences God and not reason. -Blaze Pascal If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope. -Jacques Cousteau Reason is the triumph of the intellect, faith of the heart. -James Schouler The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. -Benjamin Franklin Faith is believing what we cannot prove. -Alfred Lord Tenison
How to develop Faith
Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it’s the right move. -Dr. Robert H. Schuller The principal part of faith is patience. -George McDonald Faith is an attitude of the person, it means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so. -Arthur M. Ramsey
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Worry
Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects the health. You have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt. -Charles W. Mayo, M.D.
Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek the lightness form the pulse; it takes away the appetite , and turns the hair gray. -Benjamin Disraeli
If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset. -Krishnamurti
If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is. -Anon
Bacteria and other microorganisms find it easier to infect people who worry and fret. -Leo Rangell
Anxiety is the poison of human life, the parent of many sins and of more miseries…Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events? -Paxton Blair
A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt. -George Herbert
Worry is a futile thing, it’s somewhat like a rocking chair, Although is keeps you occupied, it doesn’t get you anywhere. -Anon
Worry never climbed a hill, worry never paid a bill, worry never dried a tear, worry never calmed a fear, worry never darned a heel, worry never cooked a meal, it never led a horse to water, nor eer did a thing it “oughter.” -Anon
I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart ‘til it stops beating.” -E.B. White
You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that, you would never do anything. -Tom Monaghan
Worry doesn’t help tomorrow’s troubles, but it does ruin today’s happiness. -Anon To Ease Your Worries
If we would keep filling our minds with the picture of happy things ahead, many worries and anxieties, and perhaps ill health, would naturally melt away… Always expect the best. Then if you have a hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so. -George Matthew Adams
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry. -B.C. Forbes
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety. -Bernard Russell
Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there’s no room left for worry thoughts. -Howard Chandler Christy
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars… or your two legs… or your hands… or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you’ll find that you won’t sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself. -Dale Carnegie
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