Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up!
What other people think of you is none of your business
Look back and thank God.
Look forward and trust God.
Look around and serve God.
Look within and find God
Be careful that the weight of your words doesn't surpass that of your thoughts.

Present

Be present in the present.
Where ever you are, be there totally.

- Unknown

Smile

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

- Unknown
To teach is to touch a life forever.

- Unknown
You are free - the moment you do not look outside yourself for someone to solve your problems.

- Unknown.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

- Mark Twain
No unhappiness is equal to that of anticipating unhappiness.

- Unknown

Generosity

Real generosity is doing something nice to someone who'll never find it out.

- Frank A. Clark
If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

- Unknown
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
Don't be afraid to say "I don't know"

Procrastination

Don't procrastinate. Do what needs doing when it needs to be done.

Courage

Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
Never walk out on a quarrel with your life partner.

- Unknown.
Never underestimate the power of forgiveness.
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail.
Beware of the person who has nothing to lose.
Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war.

Learn

Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade". Instead, learn the trade.
Keep Secrets.

Instructions for Life

  • Compliment three people each day.
  • Watch a sunrise at least once a year.
  • Look people in the eye.
  • Say "Thank You" a lot.
  • Say "Please" a lot.
  • Live beneath your means.
  • Buy whatever kids are selling.

- Unknown

Treat everyone you meet as you want to be treated.
Never take action when you are angry.
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all he or she has.
Never Cheat.
Admit your mistakes.
Not all of us have to possess earth-shaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

- Unknown.
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Dreams

The best way to make dreams come true is to wake up and act.

Time

Time is the scarest resource. Unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.

- Peter Drucker.
When bad things happen to you, you should keep the lesson and throw away the experience.

Wise

A wise man sees as much as he ought to; not as much as he can.

Faith

If you can't see your way out, look up!

Success

Success if failure turned inside out
We cannot all be the top branches of the tree, though we spring from the same root.

Trouble

Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.

Advice

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.

Life

In the game of life even the 50 yard line seats don't interest me. I came to play!

- Unknown

Success

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

- William Feather

Opportunities

Don't wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it.

Today

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Winner

A Winner is always part of the answer;
A Loser is always part of the problem.

Do Good

Do all the good you can.
By all the means you can.
In all the ways you can.
In all the places you can.
At all the times you can.
To all the people you can.
As long as ever you can.

- Unknown

Love

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

- Mother Theresa

Happiness

Happiness depends on what you can give. Not what you can get.

- Mahatma Gandhi
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

- Lance Armstrong
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

- Oscar Wilde

Life

When you were born, you cried, and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

- Unknown

Effort

God doesn’t require that we succeed. He only requires that you try.

- Mother Teresa

Time

Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we have got.
- Art Buchwald

Attitude

You can do it if you believe you can!

Dreams

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Life

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Ability

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Dream

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

- Unknown

Two Roads

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost

Hero

Part of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

Main thing

"The main thing is it to keep the main thing the main thing."

Simple Life

“Simple living frees you to simply live.”

Mistakes

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

Risks

"Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise."

Dream

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
Squirrels end up with millions because they put the nuts away, not because they make lots of nuts.
"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day."

-Alexander Woollcott
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
You must motivate yourself EVERYDAY!
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
There is only one Happiness in life to love and to be loved in return.

Success

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.

- Unknown
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

- Gandhi
Be the change you want to see in the world.

- Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

- Gandhi

Smile

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

- Mother Teresa
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

- Mother Teresa
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

- Mother Teresa

Love

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

- Mother Teresa
In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

- Mother Teresa

Strength

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

- Mother Teresa
Set your goals high enough to inspire you and low enough to encourage you.

Goals

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

Obstacles

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”

- Gandhi

Time

You are not spending time. Time is spending you.
Character is what you are in the dark.
Praise in public. Criticize in private.
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
One man with courage is a majority.

- Andrew Jackson
If you judge people, you will have no time to love them.

- Mother Teresa

Ten Most Expressive Words

The most bitter word is ALONE.
The most reverent word is MOTHER.
The most tragic is DEATH.
The most beautiful is LOVE.
The most cruel is REVENGE.
The most peaceful is TRANQUIL.
The most saddest is FORGOTTEN.
The warmest is FRIENDSHIP.
The coldest is NO.
The most comforting is FAITH.

- Dr. Wilfred Funk
He who can - Does.
He who cannot - Teaches.

- G. B. Shaw
My way of Joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke on earth.

- G. B. Shaw
It is never too late to improve yourself.
Do all the good you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
In all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty.
I woke up and found that life was duty.

- Ellen Hooper
If a child is not getting love and attention at home, he will go somewhere else to find them.
It takes a lot more creativity to find out what is right that what is wrong.
My greatest fear is that in later years I'll look back at a long list of things I never got around to.
Work enjoyed is as much fun as leisure.
If there is something more painful that hate, it is indifference.
What a child learns at home lasts until the grave.
Honesty in little things is not a little thing.

Happiness

Happiness is like perfume. You can't give it away without getting a little in yourself.

Friends

Moving away from your closest friends is much much harder to do than you ever think it would be.
Big problems always start out small.
You can't expect you children to listen to your advice and ignore your example.
Children expect as much from you as you expect from them.
You must fight for the things you believe in.
It always takes a little extra effort to be considered outstanding.
You can never be bored in the presence of a cheerful person.
Being too quick to judge someone can deprive you of a great encounter and the possibility of a wonderful long term relationship.
Although there may be reasons to be cynical, it never helps correct the situation.
You should treasure your children for what they are, not for what you want them to be.
There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.
Fulfilled life is not possible without friends.
If you like yourself and who you are, then you'll probably like almost everyone you meet regardless of who they are.
We are responsible for what we do, no matter what we feel.
It is easier to keep up than to catch up.

Smile

If you smile at people, they will almost always smile back.
The only thing you owe life is to become the best you can be.
Always tell you problems to those who don't like you. They are the only ones who want to hear them.

Jealousy

Jealousy is a form of compliment.
You shouldn't fight a battle when there is nothing to win.
If there were no problems, there would be no opportunities.
It you depend on others to make you happy, you will be endlessly disappointed.
It is impossible to teach without learning something yourself.
Little things make Perfection. But Perfection is not a little thing.
Live Life as an Exclamation, Not an Explanation.
To realize my own self is the only goal of my life.

- Swami Vivekananda
Love life and it will love you back

Knowledge

Knowledge is Power
It is a unique thing about life. If you are not prepared to settle for anything but the best, then you invariably get it.
Out greatest glory is not in never falling . But in raising up every time that we fall.
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

-Albert Einstein
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill
If we did all the things that we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

- Thomas Edison
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

- Gandhi
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