Positive Quote Of The Day July 2014

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Maintain composure in times of heightened emotion, reacting only when thoughts are calm and clear. Being sensible will open doors for solutions and creativity.— Jaren L. Davis

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Don't just "Say" Thank you, "Do" Thank You.--FWW

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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

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He can do more for others who has done most with himself.-- S.D. Gordon (1859-1936) American Devotional Speaker and Writer

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!

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[Jeff]

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That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.-- Lise Hand, describing Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, who was killed as a result of her investigations of Irish organized crime.

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Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.
— William Arthur Ward

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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look at the stars.-- Henry van Dyke

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet and Essayist

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Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.-- Anthony Trollope

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"You better let someone love you.......before it's too late."--The Eagles

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Do not be afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.-- William James (1842-1910) American Philosopher and Psychologist

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.-- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English Philosopher, Lawyer and Politician

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Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.-- William Hazlitt

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A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.-- Joseph F. Newton

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Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.— Melodie Beattie

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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.— Barbara Bush

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Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.— Jerry Spinelli

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Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet and Essayist

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.-- James Buckham

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.-- James Buckham

Several weeks ago our Pastor reminded us that God gives us a vision for a destination. He doesn't always reveal the journey to get there and for good reason. This quote emphasizes the point for me.

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We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it.-- Mary Blake

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Several weeks ago our Pastor reminded us that God gives us a vision for a destination. He doesn't always reveal the journey to get there and for good reason. This quote emphasizes the point for me.


He is in Control! Thanks for the feedback. :thumbsup:

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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.-- Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) British Theologian and Classicist

[Jeff]

Very true!:thumbsup:

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Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.-- Robert F. Hawes

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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.-- Novalis (Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg) (1772-1801) German Poet

[Jeff]

Not bad thinking for a poet!:thumbsup:

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Do not falter or shrink; But just think out your work, And just work out your think.-- Nixon Waterman

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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.-- Robert Browning

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Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.-- Marie Curie, Polish Scientist and Nobel Prize Winner

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Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.-- Jacopo Sannazaro

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The most that we can do is to hope for the best till we know the worst. Of course, we shall make the best of the worse when it comes.-- William Dean Howells, "The Rise of Silas Lapham"

[Jeff]

Ha! Good one!:thumbsup:

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Thank you for being who you are, even when I wasn't who I should have been.-- As one man said to his friend

[Jeff]

Excellent!:thumbsup:

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Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.— Emanuel Swedenborg

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The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. -- Sarah Ban Breathnack

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