Positive Quote Of The Day October 2020

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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. - Viktor Frankl

[Jeff]

True, but often unrealized!

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Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with. - John Wanamaker

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Our Similarities bring us to a common ground; Our Differences allow us to be fascinated by each other. - Tom Robbins

[Jeff]

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"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him." - St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274) Italian Dominican friar

Happy Birthday Alita!

[Jeff]

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"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands."- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) American Presbyterian Minister

[Jeff]

:thumbsup:Great

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"Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions, not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy, but forming and informing them as art."- Allan Bloom (1930 - 1992) American Academic and Author

[Jeff]

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"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."- Nicholas Murray Butler (1862 - 1947) American philosopher

[Jeff]

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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

[Jeff]

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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

[Jeff]

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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, (1837 - 1920) American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright

[Jeff]

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"Never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be -- usually is, in fact -- a false alarm that leads to nothing, but it may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance."- Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 - 1955) British microbioligist who discovered penicillin.

[Jeff]

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1 Corinthians 13
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails.

[Jeff]

:thumbsup:Fantastic

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"Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience."- James Freeman Clarke (1810 - 1888) American Unitarian Minister and Author

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"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."~ Abraham Lincoln

[Jeff]

A very wise man!

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"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him had better take a much closer look at the American Indian."~ Henry Ford

[Jeff]

:thumbsup: Well said Mr. Ford.

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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.Sophia Loren

[Jeff]

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"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."- Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907 - 1972) American Jewish theologian

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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

[Jeff]

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"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship."- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet and Essayist

[Jeff]

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela

[Jeff]

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Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul. - George M. Adams

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"A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!"- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471) Dutch Author

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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

[Jeff]

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Promise yourself to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. - Christian D. Larson

[Jeff]

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"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not."- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754) British Playwright and Novelist

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Promise yourself to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. - Christian D. Larson

I have never really understood why people can't celebrate others' successes.

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1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

[Jeff]

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If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top. - Roy Rogers

[Jeff]

:thumbsup:Very true!

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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Jeff]

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"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."- James Allen (1864 - 1912) British philosophical writer

[Jeff]

Good one!

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"There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope."- Bernard Williams (1929 - 2003) English moral philosopher

[Jeff]

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One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul. - Therese of Lisieux


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