Inspirations for Monday, May 31, 2010

Inspirations for Monday, May 31, 2010

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Please have a Happy and Safe Memorial Day – And DO NOT Text Message While Driving to let them know you will be there soon, because you might never arrive!

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People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential. John Porter

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All I want to do is just go out there and play hard. If I do that, good things will happen. It's as simple as that.

Carlos Pena
All-Star Baseball Player

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Inspirations for Friday, May 27, 2010


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Learning is the best of all wealth; it is easy to carry, thieves cannot steal it, and tyrants cannot seize it; neither fire nor water can destroy it; and far from decreasing, it increases by giving.

The Naladiyar

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There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Lorraine Hansberry
A Raisin in the Sun

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Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

Ruth McKenney

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Inspirations for Thursday, May 27, 2010

Inspirations for Thursday, May 27, 2010

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It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress will be measured, but also by those we are still asking.

Freda Adler

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Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Jean de la Fontaine

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Inspirations for Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Inspirations for Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

C.A. Beard

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The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.

W.J. Davison

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Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Frederick Wilcox
Writer

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Inspirations for Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Inspirations for Tuesday, May 25, 2010

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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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The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.

Leonard Nimoy
Actor

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Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.

C. Everett Koop

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Inspirations for Monday, May 24, 2010

Inspirations for Monday, May 24, 2010

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THANKS to Robin Farrar-Reaves for sharing the following:

Today well Lived makes every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness and every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.

Native American Wisdom

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Thanks to Sharilyn Whitley for passing this on to us:

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Inspirations for Friday, May 21, 2010

Inspirations for Friday, May 21, 2010

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Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

H. A. Overstreet

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Every creative act of ours in relation to other people--an act of love, of pity, of help, of peacemaking--not merely has a future but is eternal.

Nikolay Berdyayev

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Every time you try to smother a truth, two others get their breath.

Bill Copeland

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Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
1855-1919, Poet and Journalist


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Inspirations for Thursday, May 20, 2010

Inspirations for Thursday, May 20, 2010

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He who graduates today, and stops learning tomorrow, is uneducated the day after.

Newton d. Baker

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try one more time.

Thomas Edison
1847-1931, Inventor and Entrepreneur

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A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

English proverb

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Inspirations for Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Inspirations for Wednesday, May 19, 2010

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For peace of mind...resign as general manager of the universe.

Larry Eisenberg

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

Jane Porter

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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help
them become what they are capable of becoming.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Inspirations for Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Inspirations for Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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Personal growth and increased confidence take place when we are testing the limits of our lives.

Tom Payne

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It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.

Thomas Robert Gaines

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Inspirations for Monday, May 17, 2010

Inspirations for Monday, May 17, 2010

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“Like a pencil, the best part of us is inside.
We make marks as we touch other's lives.
We make mistakes we can correct.
But we become better as we sharpened.

Thanks to Ms. Gen Lozano, a Facebook Friend from Hong Kong

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Sharon IncouragetoEncourage Fuller shares this quotation:

"Don't argue with idiots. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience."

Charles R. Gibson

"If you choose to argue with idiots that are well versed in "idiotolotry", you will in turn gain experience in this area. - SMH.

Lesson learned: Don't entertain mediocre ideas or treatment of others.

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Inspirations for Friday, May 14, 2010

Inspirations for Friday, May 14, 2010

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Check out Earsie Mack at http://www.Etai.organogold.com.

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A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.

Wilma Askinas
American Author

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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford
1893-1979, Actress and Producer

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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an
invincible summer.

Albert Camus (1913-1960)
French Writer

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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Author and Publicist

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Inspirations for Thursday, May 13, 2010

Inspirations for Thursday, May 13, 2010

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What is now proved was once only imagined.

William Blake (1757-1827)
English Poet

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The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.

Barbara Pletcher
Author

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Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too.

David Storey


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Inspirations for Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Inspirations for Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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As small as it may seem, a good deed is always worth doing.

Spark Matsunaga

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The kinder and more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness they can find in other people.

Leo Tolstoy
1828-1910, Novelist and Philosopher

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Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.

John Wooden

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The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.

Confucius (551-479 BC)
Chinese Philosopher


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Inspirations for Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Inspirations for Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

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If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

David Viscott

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

African proverb


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Inspirations Special Mother's Day Edition 5-9-2010

Inspirations Special Mother’s Day Edition – Sunday, May 9, 2010

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In place of our Monday Edition, please accept our sincere appreciation for Mothers everywhere. Whether they are yet living or living in our memory, please honor them by the way you treat others.

And on a more light-hearted note, below are a few comments passed to me by my sister Jean. Many of you will be able to relate to this.

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1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE .
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.
"Because I said so, that's why."

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC .
"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

7. My mother taught me IRONY.
"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."

8. ! My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS .
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
"Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
"This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."

12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
"If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"

13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."

14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION .
"Stop acting like your father!"

15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do."

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
"Just wait until we get home."

17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING .
"You are going to get it when you get home!"

18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they're going to get stuck that way."

19. My mother taught me ESP.
"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?"

20. My mother taught me HUMOR.
"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
"You're just like your father."

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"

24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
"When you get to be my age, you'll understand."

And my favorite: 25. My mother taught me about JUSTICE.
"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you."

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Inspirations for Friday, May 7, 2010

Inspirations for Friday, May 7, 2010

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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Lao Tzu

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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Sir Richard Burton
1821-1890, Explorer

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If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

Buddhist Proverb


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Inspirations for Thursday, May 6, 2010

Inspirations for Thursday, May 6, 2010

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The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a
new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be
released and channeled toward some great good.

Brian Tracy

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Humor is the shortest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.

Brian Tracy

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Inspirations for Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Inspirations for Wednesday, May 5, 2010

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I typically do not share personal drama as a part of Inspirations, because frankly, it is seldom if ever Inspirational. Today I will make an exception because I think it may help establish the need for persistence and expressing gratitude.

As my wife Dianne and I paced the floor at two separate hospitals Tuesday afternoon and evening in prayer and support of two different relatives, one of the many thoughts that occurred to me was, “Well, I suppose I may have to skip sending Inspirations for Wednesday.” After all, I am tired, stressed, hungry (no fat jokes please) and very likely to get home very late.

The good news is that in both instances, prayer and medical know how has given both individuals another day, another chance, another cause for hope. More good news came in the form of me having access to the following quote:

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929-1968, American Civil Rights Leader

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So in this time of personal drama, perhaps the reason I insisted on taking the time to send Inspirations is more to seek your prayers than to inspire you. Often we don’t really know why we persist in the face of adversity or inconvenience, but the important thing is to PERSIST ANYWAY!

Please keep us in your prayers.


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Inspirations for Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Inspirations for Tuesday, May 4, 2010

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I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Abraham Maslow
1908-1970, Psychologist

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At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.

Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)
American Actor

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Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.

Ralph Connor

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There is no modern pain medicine as effective as a mother's kiss.

Author unknown

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Please remember to check out the May-June issue of VISIONS Newsletter. A Big Thank You to everyone who contributed in any way. This issue may be downloaded or simply viewed at http://www.visions.successisyou.org/PDF/Visions_May_2010.pdf.

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Inspirations for Monday, May 3, 2010

Inspirations for Monday, May 3, 2010

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For Today’s Inspirational Message, we are sharing the just released May-June issue of VISIONS Newsletter. A Big Thank You to everyone who contributed in any way. This issue may be downloaded or simply viewed at http://www.visions.successisyou.org/PDF/Visions_May_2010.pdf.

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Feedback from Friday’s Inspirational Message:

Anyway I know you to be an inspirational and motivational speaker but I have not had the opportunity to know you better.

Saheed Gbolagade Olalekan
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I really enjoyed reading your message..thank you and God bless..

Jennelyn Agaton

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Clicked “Like” on Facebook: Jeanette Pintar
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Henry,

I fully agree with what is written below:

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the
deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.

E. Merrill Root (1895-1973)
American Writer

But, would it not be far better if the following were added to the end:

... the deathless dream that all of God's Children are created Equal,
the eternal poetry that we are all Brothers and Sisters,
the perennial sense that we all have the obligation to treat all as our Equals.

Who am I but a grain of sand on a thousand mile beach.

But then again, a single grain of sand can be the catalyst for a priceless Pearl.

Ors


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