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SADNESS/SORROW
Sadness flies
away on the wings of time. **
~Jean de la Fontaine
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SELF-CONFIDENCE
Inaction breeds
doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
~Dale Carnegie
Be like the bird
That, pausing in her flight
Awhile on boughs too slight,
Feels them give way
Beneath her and yet sings,
Knowing that she has wings. **
~Victor Hugo
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SELF-DISCIPLINE
The first and
the best victory is to conquer self.
~Plato
Rule your mind
or it will rule you. *
~Horace
Good habits
result from resisting temptation. **
~Ancient Proverb
To think is
easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is
to act in accordance with your thinking.
~Goethe
The challenge
is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
~Steven Covey
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SILENCE
And Silence,
like a poultice, comes
To heal the blows of sound.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Do not the
most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
~Marcel Marceau
True silence
is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is
to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
~William Penn
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SILVER
LINING
Every adversity,
every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of
an equal or greater benefit.
~Napoleon Hill
Mishaps are
like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them
by the blade or by the handle.
~James Russell Lowell
Affliction
comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us
sorry but wise.
~Henry Ward Beecher
Kites rise
highest against the wind -- not with it.
~Sir Winston Churchill
Things don't
go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and
give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so
you can be all that you were intended to be.
~Charles "Tremendous" Jones
When it gets
dark enough you can see the stars. *
~Lee Salk
Always
Low tide always is followed by high.
Rain always stops when the clouds pass by.
Winter always turns into spring,
and broken hearts always learn new songs to sing.
~Sharron McMIllan
It is not good
for all our wishes to be filled;
through sickness we recognize the value of health;
through evil, the value of good;
through hunger, the value of food;
through exertion, the value of rest.
~Greek Proverb
In the midday
sun,
a bright light will be barely noticed.
Yet in the darkest night,
even the smallest light
can make an enormous difference.
~Ralph Marston
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SMILING
Life is short,
smile more often.
~Author unknown
There are hundreds
of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.
~Unknown
A smile costs
nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive, without
making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the
memory of it sometimes lasts forever. *
~Author unknown |
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SOLITUDE
[There is a
need] to discover that we are capable of solitary joy and
having experienced it, know that we have touched the core
of self. *
~Barbara Lazear Ascher
Language...
has created the word "loneliness" to express the
pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude"
to express the glory of being alone.
~Paul Johannes Tillich
It is only
when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that
we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals
to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.
~K.T. Jong
Only in quiet
waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet
mind is adequate perception of the world.
~Hans Margolius
Inside myself
is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew
my springs that never dry up.
~Pearl Buck
To dare to
live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who
had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their
own hearts in their closet.
~Charles Caleb Colton
When we cannot
bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only
companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
~Eda LeShan
I see you,
now that you aren't here. Before
You were and I saw nothing. I shut my eyes.
~Randall Jarrell
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STRENGTH
What does not
kill me makes me stronger.
~Albert Camus
What lies behind
us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what
lies within us.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can make
you feel inferior without your
consent. *
~Eleanor Roosevelt
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STRESS
Don't try to
accomplish everything at once; life can be difficult enough
without adding frustration to the list.
~Author unknown
Slow down and
everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.
~John De Paola
There is more
to life than increasing its speed.
~Mohandas K. Gandhi
Sometimes the
most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between
two deep breaths.
~Etty Hillesum
Men for the
sake of getting a living forget to live.
~Margaret Fuller
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SUCCESS
The three P's
of success:
passion, persistence and patience. *
~Doug Bronson
If you go to
work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If
you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on
you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
~Jim Rohn
Don't judge
each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
Things turn
out best for those who make the best of how things turn out.
**
~Art Linkletter
All that is
necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is
this: act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman,
the formula, the command of right-about-face that turns us
from failure toward success.
~Dorothea Brande
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