Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Margaret Young
“Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
~ John F. Kennedy
“Every generation needs a new revolution.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
“The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.”
~ Robert P. Vanderpoel
“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”
~ Woodrow Wilson
“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
In order to do what really matters to you, you have to, first of all, know what really matters to you. Dr.
~Edward Hallowell
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Love is the most priceless treasure life affords us.
Alan Harris
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Love is life. . . . And if you miss love, you miss life.Leo F. Buscaglia
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Be a love pharmacist: dispense hugs like medicine – they are!
Terri Guillemets
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The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao-Tzu
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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone;
it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula Le Guin
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Listen to the mustn’ts, child.
Listen to the don’ts.
Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts.
Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me…
Anything can happen, child.
Anything can be.
Shel Silverstein
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.
Tommy Lasorda
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength,
no strength that could not become a defect.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding.  All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.
Og Mandino
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Today a I received a post from FlyEffect for the Motivational post of the last week. It contained a nice quote which I consider it needs to be presented separately too. So here it is.
An inconvenient truth, for some of us:
Another reason why we do not regard others as precious is that we pay attention to their faults whilst ignoring their good qualities. Unfortunately we have become very skilled in recognizing the faults of others, and we devote a great deal of mental energy to listing them, analyzing them, and even meditating on them! With this critical attitude, if we disagree with our partner or colleagues about something, instead of trying to understand their point of view we repeatedly think of many reasons why we are right and they are wrong. By focusing exclusively on their faults and limitations we become angry and resentful, and rather than cherishing them we develop the wish to harm or discredit them. In this way small disagreements can easily turn into conflicts that simmer for months.
An advice:
Do not look for faults in others, but look for faults in yourself, and purge them like bad blood.
Do not contemplate your own good qualities, but contemplate the good qualities of others, and respect everyone as a servant would.
Thanks to FlyEffect
Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow.
Les Brown
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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon Hill
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Unknown
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The Sands of Forgiveness
by Author Unknown
A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face.
The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand:
TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.
They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him.
After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone:
TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE.
The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?”
The other friend replied “When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”
LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE.
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