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~ Inspirational Thoughts ~

"We first make our habits,
then our habits make us."

John Dryden

"In a moment of decision,
the best thing you can do
is the right thing to do.
The worst thing you can do
is nothing."

Theodore Roosevelt

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi

Excerpt from the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech

"I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared-for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone."

Mother Teresa, Winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Peace

A sure way to lift oneself up
is by helping to lift someone else.
Booker T. Washington

When you said you'd like to quit your job
to work on a novel,
I thought you meant to write one.

Bunny Hoest and John Reiner

When you have faults
do not fear to abandon them.

Confucius

If a seed were planted
for every time I thought about you,
you would have one very big garden.

Impromtu Hallmark card
from my husband

When a man's undivided attention is centered on one object,
his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape him if his brain were occupied by a dozen different subjects at once.

P.T. Barnum

Never take financial advice from a broke person.

Dave Ramsey

For memory has painted this perfect day
With colors that never fade,
And we find at the end of a perfect day
The soul of a friend we've made.

Carrie Jacobs Bond

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is:
Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

When one door of happiness closes, another opens. But often we look so long at the closed door we do not see the one which has been opened to us."
Hellen Keller

"...the very act of focusing on imperfection pulls us away from our goal of being kind and gentle."

Richard Carlson, PhD.

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

If at first you don't succeed, then you better pass up sky diving.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

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