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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Inspirations for Thur., Dec. 1, 2011


Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
- Eileen Caddy, Author
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In every moment, the quality of your life is on the line. In each, you are either fully alive or relatively dead.
- Dan Millman
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Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know why I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.
- Will Rogers

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Inspirations for Wed., Nov. 30, 2011


If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Author and Philosopher
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My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.
- Susan Powter, Author
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Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.
- Matthew Arnold

Monday, November 28, 2011

Inspirations for Tue., Nov. 29, 2011

I have never been a millionaire, but I have enjoyed a great meal, a crackling fire, a glorious sunset, a walk with a friend, a hug from a child, a cup of soup, a kiss behind the ear. There are plenty of life's tiny delights for all of us.
- Jack Anthony
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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else.
- John Burroughs
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Vision is perhaps our greatest strength. It has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries; it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
- Li Ka-Shing

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Inspirations for Mon., Nov. 28, 2011

"We WAIT for Thanksgiving to GIVE THANKS.  We WAIT for Christmas to GIVE GIFTS.  We WAIT for Valentine's Day to SHOW LOVE.  And meanwhile the clock ticks."

Above paraphrased from comments by Joel Osteen.

And the question is, Why are we waiting?

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Inspirations for Fri., Nov. 25, 2011


It is now long ago that I resolved that I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
-Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915, Educator and Author
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The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing. 
-John Harvey Kellogg
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The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you finish the work.
-Pat Clifford

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Inspirations for Thur., Nov. 24, 2011


The future is open; we decide what's in it.
-Wolfgang Sonnenburg - Founder of Winspiration Day
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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
-Thomas Szasz - Psychiatrist and Author
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Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. And if you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of time with them.
-- Unknown

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Inspirations for Wed., Nov. 23, 2011

The greatest gift you will ever receive is the gift of loving and believing in yourself. Guard this gift with your life. It is the only thing that will ever truly be yours.
-Tiffany Loren Rowe
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There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less.
-Kurt Hahn
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If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
-Norman Vincent Peale - 1898-1993, Minister and Author

Monday, November 21, 2011

Inspirations for Tue., Nov. 22, 2011


Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
- Hannah Arendt - 1906-1975, Political Theorist
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Credibility is about your past, your present, and also your future. If you have aspirations about getting promoted, you have to think forward five years and start projecting and presenting that persona.
- Karen Berg
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If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives.
-- Mike Zimmerman

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?
-- Parker Palmer
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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- Susan B. Anthony
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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
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- Helen Keller - 1880-1968, Author and Lecturer


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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Inspirations for Fri., Nov. 18, 2011

We know what we are, but not what we may be.
-- William Shakespeare   

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Watch your thoughts; they lead to attitudes.
Watch your attitudes; they lead to words.
Watch your words; they lead to actions.
Watch your actions; they lead to habits.
Watch your habits; they form your character.
Watch your character; it determines your destiny.

- Author Unknown 
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Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do. 
- Brian Tracy

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Inspirations for Thur., Nov. 17, 2011

Be able to overcome the adversity and obstacles that will come along. You've got to get up one more time than you fall down. 
- Homer Drew
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If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
- Bob Dylan
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
- Richard Bach - Author
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Inspirations, Wed., Nov. 16, 2011


Knowledge is only an instrument in the hand of wisdom. 

Daniel Payne

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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. 

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan
1934-1996, Astrophysicist and Author

Monday, November 14, 2011

Inspirations, Tue., Nov. 15, 2011

You all have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations in your own mind as to what you cannot do. Don't think you cannot. Think you can. 


Darwin P.Kingsley


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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Mahatma Gandhi



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The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Mark Caine
Author

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Inspirations for Mon., Nov. 14, 2011


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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Inspirations for Fri., Nov. 11, 2011

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Catholic Nun and Founder of Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta



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Think as you work, for in the final analysis your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems but in anticipating them. 


Herbert H. Ross  




Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Inspirations for Thur., Nov. 10, 2011

Inspirations for Thur., Nov. 10, 2011


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Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Albert Schweitzer

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Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.


Willie Nelson - Singer-Songwriter

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Love and laughter hold us together. 

Ingrid Trobisch  


Tuesday, November 08, 2011


Inspirations for Wed., Nov. 9, 2011

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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky - 1821-1881, Writer

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One difference between successful people and all the rest is that successful people take action.

Bob Proctor - Speaker and Author



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Monday, November 07, 2011

Inspirations for Tue., Nov. 8, 2011


Inspirations for Tue., Nov. 8, 2011

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PLEASE VOTE!

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It's up to each of us to take the time and invest the energy to tap our wells of personal skills and talents. Scott C. Miller

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There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.  

John Andrew Holmes

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Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. Author unknown


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Sunday, November 06, 2011

Inspirations for Mon., Nov. 7, 2011


Inspirations for Mon., Nov. 7, 2011

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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.

Marcia Wieder - Author and Speaker

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We must not only give what we have; we must also give what we are.

Desire-Joseph Mercier

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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man.  The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Hindu proverb


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Thursday, November 03, 2011

Inspirations for Fri., Nov. 4, 2011


Inspirations for Fri., Nov. 4, 2011

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.  

Duguet

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The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it.

Dwight L. Moody


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Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Inspirations for Thur., Nov. 3, 2011


Inspirations for Thur., Nov. 3, 2011

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There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

John Farrar - Australian Composer

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Have a reason for making a decision. You won't always be right, but be sure your reasoning was correct.

Eddie Kasko

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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English Poet

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Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Inspirations for Wed., Nov. 2, 2011


Inspirations for Wed., Nov. 2, 2011

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I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

Harrison Ford - Actor

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Obey the voice within--it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive.

Kirk Douglas

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The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory.

Pristine Bradley



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