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Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Some people never head a procession until they're dead.

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The only reason I might go to the funeral is to make absolutely sure that he's dead.

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Imagine a baseball thrown thru the air. A high speed camera takes pictures of it showing very great detail -- names, laces, etc. Someone shows you a picture -- can you tell what direction it is travelling? or even if it is moving? NO. You would have to know where it was thrown FROM to know what direction it is going. In times of high change, it's good to know a little bit about the PAST to understand the present freeze frame of the NOW and project to some degree of accuracy where we are GOING (The Future).

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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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We all need to take great interest in the future because we will spend the rest of our life there.

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The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.

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We have inherited the past; we can create the future.

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The young sailor at sea was ordered to climb a mast to adjust a sail during a violent storm. He got halfway up, looked down, got dizzy and sick. An old sailor on deck shouted up to him Look up, son, look up. Young sailor looked up, regained his composure, and completed his mission. Moral: Look ahead, not back.

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Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence; but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

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If you're a generous person you'll have no trouble admitting that somebody else is good. If you're a better person you'll find it's total impossibility.

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So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius

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There is one subtle but important difference between genius and stupidity and that is that genius has its limits. You'll see yourself clearest in the eyes of your friends.

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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable.

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The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it's what you share

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When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

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You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.

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You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

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The Dead Sea is the dead sea, because it continually receives and never gives.

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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Give light and people will find their own way.

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God has given to all men free agency and has granted us the privilege to serve Him or serve Him not, to do that which is right or that which is wrong, but he will hold us strictly to an account for the use that we make of this agency.

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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God gave man the challenge of raw materials -- not the ease of finished things. He left the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation.

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True glory lies in noble deeds.

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The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.

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Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.

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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

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Of toiling, uncheered and alone, That wins us the prizes worth earning, and leads us to goals we would own.

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

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If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

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Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

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The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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Life is a game but golf is serious.

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In golf as in life it is the follow through that makes the difference.

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Only happy people can learn. Only happy people can teach. Our religion should put a sparkle in our eyes and a tone in our voice, and a spring in our step that bears witness of our faith and confidence in the goodness of God.

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Look for no reward in goodness but goodness itself.

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Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

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Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

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An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation.

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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

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Gratitude is the doorman's payment.

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It is not difficult to get away into retirement; and there live upon your own convictions; nor is it difficult to mix with men and follow their convictions; but to enter into the world; and there live firmly and fearlessly according to your own conscience; that is Christian greatness.

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If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.

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There is no growth without discontent.

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Heaviest thing to carry -- a grudge

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It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating as well as quoting.

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People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.

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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.

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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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There is an old saying that, you can't kill a frog by dropping him into hot water. As you drop him into the hot water, he reacts so quickly that he immediately jumps out unharmed. But if you put him in cold water and gradually warm it up until it is scalding hot, you have him cooked before he knows it. The encroachment of bad habits in our lives is very much like this.

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There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

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It's just as easy to form the habit of succeeding as it is to succumb to the habit of failure. Habits aren't instincts; they're acquired reactions. They don't just happen; they are caused. Once you determine the original cause of a habit, it is within your power either to accept or reject it.

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Trivial things do matter... more people are killed each year by the bite of mosquitoes than are stepped upon by charging elephants.

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness.

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

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Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

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Hate pollutes the mind.

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Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.

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If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.

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Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.

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To feel fit as a fiddle you must tone down your middle.

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Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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