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Life is Beautiful

Words that inspire... Words that empower...
From people equally inspirational and empowering
From ordinary people, even unknowns, who unknowingly uttered simple truths and ideals...
about life, love, kindness and the power of God
From these I draw encouragement, strength and wisdom
to teach me lessons, both old and new
to stay focused and on the right track
to get me through the daily grind
to remind me of what matters most

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month -- get married.
If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help others.

- Chinese Proverb -

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them
than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.
- Charles Allen -

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.
One helps you make a living,
the other helps you make a life.

(Sandra Carey)

Love, and do what you like.
.. Saint Augustine ..

When you learn not to want things so badly,
life comes to you.

Jessica Lange

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
- Robert Frost -

It is not the cards you are dealt but what you do with them that counts.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

William Faulkner

Adversity introduces a man to himself. (Anonymous)

Minds are like parachutes --
they only function when open.

- Thomas Dewey -

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.

-- Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief --

You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.

(Homer Simpson)

Tell me whom you love,
and I will tell you who you are.
(Houssaye)

Wrinkles
should merely
indicate where
the smiles
have been

MARK TWAIN

"Regret for wasted time is more wasted time."
- Mason Cooley -

If you can dream it, you can do it.
(Walt Disney)

"I know for sure you can't give what you don't have.
If you allow yourself to be depleted to the point where your emotional and spiritual tank is empty and you're running on fumes of habit, everybody loses.
Especially you."

- Oprah Winfrey -

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.

Margery Williams, "The Velveteen Rabbit"

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and I could say, "I used everything that you gave me."

(Erma Bombeck)

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

(Josh Jenkins)

I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. (Helen Keller)

"Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always 20 times better."
[ Margaret Oliphant ]

Sioux Indian prayer

Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.

Even God doesn't plan to judge a man till the end of his days, why should you and I?

Unknown

Conscience is God's presence in man. <Emanuel Swedenborg>

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
(Sallust)

"There are two kinds of people:
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there."

INDIRA GANDHI

INDIRA GANDHI

"To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world -- the most difficult and the most intellectual."

-- Oscar Wilde --