Positive Quote Of The Day June 2014

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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.— Richard David Bach

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My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.— Joseph Brotherton

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.-- Joseph Conrad

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Give us, O give us, the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time -- he will do it better, he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible of fatigue whilst he marches to music.-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish Writer

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We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.— Dorothy Day

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Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.-- Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696) French Moralist and Writer

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The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.-- Anatole France

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Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.-- Nicholas Murray Butler

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What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Playwright

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It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."-- Washington Gladden

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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.-- Samuel Johnson

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The world has battle-room for all. Go fight and conquer if ye can.
But if ye rise or if ye fall, Be each, pray God, a gentleman!

-- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) British Novelist

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If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of
the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands,
but a continent that joins them.

-- Francis Bacon

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The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is best after all.

-- Benjamin Spock (1903-1998) American Pediatrician and Author

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Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.

-- Sir William Osler (1849-1919) Canadian Physician


HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
-- Arthur C. Clarke (1917-) British Science Fiction Writer

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The smaller the thing you can find to be grateful for — from good coffee to soft socks — the happier you will be.
From-- 18 Things We Can Now Tell Our Kids

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Most of us can, if we choose, make this world either a prison or a palace.-- Lord Avebury

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We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.-- Francois Fenelon (1651-1715) French Roman Catholic Theologian

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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.-- Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Russian Dramatist and Writer

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.-- Carol Bernett

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Becoming a star may not be your destiny but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.-- Bryan Lindsay

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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.-- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

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To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think is what makes men martyrs or reformers -- or both.-- Elizabeth Charles (1828-96) British Writer

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Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.-- Anonymous

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"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything: "I will try" has accomplished wonders.-- George P. Burnham

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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.-- Michel de Montaigne

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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing - advising his daughter Martha, 1787. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States

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Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States

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