“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
– Lewis B. Smedes, was a best-selling and renowned Christian author.
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Phillipians 3:12-14
“Phil:3:12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”
“Toiling upward in the night”
“Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.”- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Longfellow was an American educator and poet.
Common sense
“Common sense is quite rare.” Voltaire
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Your Time Is Limited, Do What You Love
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
– Carl Jung, Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology.
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Five simple rules of happiness
1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less.
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Create the Perfect Love
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
– Tom Robbins, Robbins is a best-selling American author.
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Live!
“Death tugs at my ear and says: “Live, I am coming.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Holmes was an American physician and professor who also achieved fame as a writer.
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Start Now!!
“A year from now you will wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb, Lamb was the wife of long-time mayor of Milwaukee.
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The Way To Happiness
“There is only one way to happiness, and that is cease worrying about the things which are beyond the power of our will.” Epictetus, a Greek Stoic philosopher.
Chuck Swindoll on attitude
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than the past, than education, than money, than what people say or do. The remarkable thing is that we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace. We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”
Jefferson on Character
“The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early discontents, I expect that a just, dispassionate and steady conduct, will at length rally to a proper system the great body of our country. Unequivocal in principle, reasonable in manner, we shall be able I hope to do a great deal of good to the cause of freedom & harmony.” True today?
Hamilton on power
“A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired.” –Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775
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