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If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino

I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which I must stop and look fear in the face.
I say to myself, I've lived through this
and can take the next thing that comes along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal

Smile.
Today would be a wonderful day
not to take life so seriously.
Today may end up the way you prefer -
and it may not.
Happiness is not about being a winner -
it's about being gentle with life -
being gentle with yourself.
Let life be a dance,
and choose the kind of
dance you want for today -
perhaps a gentle loving dance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow

Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)

Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa

An "enemy" is a mirage -
an image of self reflected on the sands of Hell.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)

A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller

True love has no limits.
- Anonymous

Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

Destiny is not a matter of chance,
It is a matter of choice.
It is not something to be waited for,
But rather something to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan

What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin

You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try.
- Beverly Sills

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie

We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock

Gratitude in advance is the most powerful
creative force in the universe.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.
- Arnold J. Toynbee

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

While they were saying among themselves
it cannot be done, it was done.
- Helen Keller

Today is a Happy Day because I say it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon

What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank

Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller

We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray

We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous

Do what you love, love what you do,
and deliver more than you promise.
- Harvey McKay

Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard

You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau

The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda

This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb

You can do what you want to do.
- David Thomas

Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker

You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen

Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous

Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale

I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill

If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford

Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgement that something else
is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon

People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein

"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong

Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde

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

Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible

One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life.  It Really Is.
      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie