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Quotes
to help you find direction and life purpose
"Twenty years
from now you will be more
disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you
did. So throw off the bowlines,
sail away from the safe harbour.
Catch the trade winds in your
sails. Explore. Dream."
Mark Twain
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"Wheresoever you go, go with all
your heart."
Confucius
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“The
meaning of life is to find your gift;
the purpose of life is to give it away.”
Joy
J. Golliver
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“It takes a lot of courage to release the
familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But
there is no real security in what is no longer
meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous
and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in
change there is power.”
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“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
Unknown
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“Right
now you
are one
choice
away
from a
new
beginning
- one
that
leads
you
toward
becoming
the
fullest
human
being
you can
be.”
Oprah
Winfrey
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Alice came to a fork
in the road. "Which road do I take?"
she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded
the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't
matter."
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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“Are you bored with life? Then throw
yourself into some work you believe in
with all your heart, live for it, die
for it, and you will find happiness that
you had thought could never be yours.”
Dale
Carnegie
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"Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask
yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do
it. Because what the world needs is people who have
come alive."
Harold Thurman Whitman
Philosopher and Theologian
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Inspirational Quotes for Challenging Times
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Every suffering is a seed, because suffering impels us to seek wisdom.”
Bodhidharma
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“Cowardice...is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.”
Ernest Hemingway
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"A smooth sea never made a skilful mariner."
Unknow
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"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to
look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a
sustained look of control and confidence can give
you a mental edge that results in victory."
Arthur Ashe
1943-1993, Professional Tennis Player
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Inspirational Proverbs
“He who blames others has a long way to go
on his journey.
He who blames himself is halfway there. He
who blames no one has arrived.”
Chinese proverb
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"Half an orange tastes as sweet as a
whole one."
Chinese proverb
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"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask is
a fool for ever."
Chinese proverb
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| "Fall 7 times - stand up 8."
Japanese Proverb |
| "A wise man learns by the
mistakes of others, a fool by his own."
Latin Proverb |
Zen
Wisdom
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"Do
not
believe
in
anything
simply
because
you
have
heard
it.
Do
not
believe
simply
because
it
has
been
handed
down
for
many
generations.
Do
not
believe
in
anything
simply
because
it
is
spoken
and
rumoured
by
many.
Do
not
believe
in
anything
simply
because
it
is
written
in
Holy
Scriptures.
Do
not
believe
in
anything
merely
on
the
authority
of
teachers,
elders,
or
wise
men.
Believe
only
after
careful
observation
and
analysis,
when
you
find
that
it
agrees
with
reason,
and
is
conducive
to
the
good
and
benefit
of
one
and
all.
Then
accept
it
and
live
up
to
it."
Buddha |
| "Do not seek to know the truth.
Only cease to cherish your opinions." Zen
Wisdom |
Inspiring Stories
What Goes Around Comes Around
He
almost didn't see the old lady, stranded on the side
of the road, but even in
the dim light of day, he could see she needed help. So
he pulled up in front of her Mercedes and got out.
His Pontiac was still sputtering when he approached
her.
Even with the smile on his face, she was
worried. No one had stopped to help for the last
hour or so. Was he going to hurt her? He didn't
look safe; he looked poor and hungry.
He could see that she was frightened, standing out
there in the cold.
He knew how she felt. It was that chill which only
fear can put in you. He said, "I'm here to help you,
ma'am. Why don't you wait in the car where it's
warm? By the way, my name is Bryan Anderson." Well,
all she had was a flat tire, but for an old lady,
that was bad enough. Bryan crawled under the car
looking for a place to put the jack, skinning his
knuckles a time or two. Soon he was able to change
the tire. But he had to get dirty and his hands
hurt. As he was tightening up the lug nuts, she
rolled down the window and began to talk to
him. She told him that she was from St. Louis and
was only just passing through. She couldn't thank
him enough for coming to her aid. Bryan just smiled
as he closed her trunk. The lady asked how much she
owed him. Any amount would have been all right with
her. She already imagined all the awful things that
could have happened had he not stopped. Bryan never
thought twice about being paid. This was not a job
to him. This was helping someone in need, and God
knows there were plenty,
who had given him a hand in the past. He had lived
his whole life that way,
and it never occurred to him to act any other way.
He told her that if she really wanted to pay him
back, the next time she saw someone who needed help,
she could give that person the assistance they
needed, and Bryan added, "And think of me." He
waited until she started her car and drove off. It
had been a cold and depressing day, but he felt good
as he headed for home,
disappearing into the twilight. A few miles down the
road the lady saw a small cafe. She went in to grab
a bite to eat, and take the chill off before she
made the last leg of her trip home. It was a dingy
looking restaurant. Outside were two old gas pumps.
The whole scene was unfamiliar to her. The waitress
came over and brought a clean towel to wipe her wet
hair. She had a sweet smile, one that even being on
her feet for the whole day couldn't erase. The lady
noticed the waitress was nearly eight months
pregnant, but she never let the strain and aches
change her attitude. The old lady wondered how
someone who had so little could be so giving to a
stranger. Then she
remembered Bryan. After the lady finished her meal,
she paid with a hundred dollar bill.
The waitress quickly went to get change for her
hundred dollar bill,
but the old lady had slipped right out the
door. She was gone by the time the waitress came
back. The waitress wondered where the lady could
be. Then she noticed something written on the
napkin. There were tears in her eyes when she read
what the lady wrote: "You don't owe me anything. I
have been there too. Somebody once helped me out,
the way I'm helping you. If you really want to pay
me back, here is what you do: Do not let this chain
of love end with you." Under the napkin were four
more $100 bills. Well, there were tables to clear,
sugar bowls to fill, and people to serve, but the
waitress made it through another day. That night
when she got home from work and climbed into bed,
she was thinking about the money and what the lady
had written. How could the lady have known how much
she and her husband needed it? With the baby due
next month, it was going to be hard.... She knew how
worried her husband was, and as he lay sleeping next
to her, she gave him a soft kiss and whispered soft
and low, "Everything's
going to be all right. I love you, Bryan Anderson."
Unknown
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Gold Wrapping
Paper
The story goes that some
time ago a mother punished her 5 year old daughter for
wasting a roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. Money
was tight and she became even more upset when the child
used the gold paper to decorate a box to put under the
Christmas tree.Never the less, the little girl
brought the gift box to her mother the next morning and
said, "This is for you, Momma." The mother was
embarrassed by her earlier over reaction, but her anger
flared again when she opened the box and found it was
empty. She spoke to her daughter in a harsh manner.
"Don't you know, young lady, when you give someone a
present there's supposed to be something inside the
package?"
She had tears in her eyes and said, "Oh, Momma, it's
not empty! I blew kisses into it until it was full."
The mother was crushed. She fell on her knees and put
her arms around her little girl, and she begged her
forgiveness for her thoughtless anger.
An accident took the life of the child only a short
time later, and it is told that the mother kept that
gold box by her bed for all the years of her life.
Whenever she was discouraged or faced difficult problems
she would open the box and take out an imaginary kiss
and remember the love of the child who had put it there.
In a very real sense, each of us, as human beings, have
been given a golden box filled with unconditional
love and kisses from our children, family, friends and
GOD. There is no more precious possession anyone could
hold. author unknown |
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