Quotes for the day

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And My favorite:

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Albert Einstein

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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. --Henry Ward Beecher

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PATIENCE

"Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit."

Charles Swindoll

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POSITIVE vs. NEGATIVE

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be." -- Charles "Tremendous" Jones

"Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out." -- Eleanor Porter

"Keep your face in the sunshine and you can never see the shadow." -- Helen Keller

"Like taking a morning shower, make the planting of positive thoughts a daily practice." -- Neil Eskelin

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PLANNING

"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." -- Susan Ertz

"God has such a sense of humor... we have the opportunity to do whatever we want with our lives... and He lets us!" -- Doug Firebaugh

"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse." --Benjamin Franklin

"Most of the time, stuff doesn’t just happen to us—we make it happen by what we do and the way we are." --Tony Jeary

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A NEW DAY


Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Charles Reade (1814-1884)
Novelist and dramatist

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LIFE

"The most beautiful thing we experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all sciences. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

Albert Einstein, Ph.D

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Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.
-- Pennsylvania Dutch Proverb

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
-- Mark Twain

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Here's one:

I can't believe that Hillary has a good chance to be President. Sparky216

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PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." -- Denis Waitley

"Errant assumptions lie at the root of every failure. What are yours? What if they are wrong?" -- Brian Tracy

"It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts." --Jim Rohn

"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying." -- John Burroughs

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> "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him,
> but because he loves what is behind him." ---G. K. Chesterton
>
> "Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if
> he is free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free
> to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his
> old age and his family." ---Herbert Hoover
>
> "All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall
> be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the
> first chance to show the stuff that is in him." ---Theodore Roosevelt

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KINDNESS

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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LIFE

[W]e must have something to live by, to live on, and to live for. We must stand aside from the world’s conspiracy of fear and hate and grasp once more the great monosyllables of life: faith, hope, and love. Men must live by these if they live at all under the crushing weight of history.

Otto Paul Kretzmann (1901-1975)
Theologian and university president


Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

James Baldwin (1924-1987)
Novelist

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NEW YEAR

"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the year leaves." -- Bill Vaughn

"Another fresh New Year is here…
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!

This bright New Year is given me
To live each day with zest…
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!"
-- William Arthur Ward

"For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice." -- T.S. Eliot

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day." -- Edith Lovejoy Pierce

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IMPATIENCE

"The twin killers of success are impatience and greed."

Jim Rohn