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RE: thought for the day - 8/24/2010 2:22:56 PM
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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. - Charles Kingsley
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RE: thought for the day - 8/25/2010 4:22:48 PM
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. - Albert Einstein
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RE: thought for the day - 8/26/2010 7:37:41 PM
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. - Joseph Addison
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RE: thought for the day - 8/27/2010 1:20:20 PM
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Amen! That reminds me of a quote I live by...if you give enough people what they want, you will receive what you want.
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RE: thought for the day - 8/27/2010 11:42:17 PM
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Which reminds me of another l like a lot. 
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran
Which is a good thing because that's about all I can afford to give! 
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RE: thought for the day - 8/28/2010 7:41:33 PM
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Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another. -Richard Bach, Illusions
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RE: thought for the day - 8/29/2010 11:20:00 AM
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To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there. - Kofi Annan
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RE: thought for the day - 8/30/2010 12:21:44 PM
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I struggle with the part, what do I stand for? I am nothing but a noddle. I know what I stand for but settle for less or different....often. Too often.
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RE: thought for the day - 8/30/2010 10:39:32 PM
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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.- Lord Herbert
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RE: thought for the day - 9/1/2010 12:02:38 AM
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw
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RE: thought for the day - 9/1/2010 11:07:58 PM
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There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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RE: thought for the day - 9/2/2010 1:34:48 PM
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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. - Arthur Schopenhauer
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RE: thought for the day - 9/4/2010 1:19:08 AM
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There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. - Nathaniel Branden
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RE: thought for the day - 9/4/2010 6:56:19 PM
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Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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RE: thought for the day - 9/6/2010 1:57:13 PM
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door-or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. - Joan Rivers
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RE: thought for the day - 9/7/2010 7:29:23 PM
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Human fallibility being what it is, victory and truth do not always go together. Therefore, if you have to always win, you can't always be true. - Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
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RE: thought for the day - 9/8/2010 10:51:24 AM
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Oh, that's a good one. I had to read it over a few times! I love it!
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RE: thought for the day - 9/9/2010 2:20:05 PM
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Good! Glad you liked it. :)
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
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RE: thought for the day - 9/10/2010 10:26:41 PM
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The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. - Jill Churchill
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RE: thought for the day - 9/11/2010 2:15:28 PM
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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. - May Sarton
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