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Our challenge is to face up heroically to the world as it is and do our very best to make the most of our lives. To strive to live each day with serenity and courage.
Wilferd Peterson
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We can make these three dynamic words - reverence for life - a part of our lives by becoming aware that God is the source of all life and that we are one with life. The good person, said Schweitzer, is the friend of all living things.
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By the grace of God you are what you are glory in your selfhood, accept yourself and go on from there.
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Response is what we have trained ourselves to be it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control our surface reactions, but we can sit at the helm of our lives and control our responses to the blows of life.
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It is in identifying yourself with the hopes, dreams, fears and longings of others that you may understand them and help them.
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Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality.
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Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.
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Imagination inspires you to look at everything with fresh eyes, as though you had just come forth from a dark tunnel into the light of day. Imagination becomes for you a magic lamp with which to search the darkness of the unknown, that you may discover new goals or chart more productive paths to old goals.
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Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.
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Decision is often the difference between greatness and mediocrity. In every man's life there comes a time when he must search for a cause, a work, an ideal to which he can give himself. Whether he says 'Yes' or 'No' to the challenge will determine his future.
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Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.
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Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.
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Change can be accomplished most of all through the power of prayer, because with God all things are possible.
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In gratitude for God's gift of life to us we should share that gift with others. The art of giving encompasses many areas. It is an outgoing, overflowing way of life.
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Tolerance is understanding. It is open to new light. Those who are tolerant are always eager to explore viewpoints other than their own.
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It is great to love life. Accept life as a precious gift from the hand of God and strive to make the most of it.
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Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth.
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Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts!
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You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time. The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts.
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Every forward step achieved by man has been due to the adventurous attitude. This attitude inspires dissatisfaction with the world as it is it arouses the desire to change and improve things. The attitude of adventure is the flame that lights the fuse to explode new ideas.
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