Thoughts for every day: Menu 1: Select the date

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July to December

Thoughts for every day: Menu 2: Select the date

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January to June

PEACE OF MIND

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

HAPPINESS

There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

ACCEPTANCE

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr

FORGIVENESS

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Gerald Jampolsky

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
Aughey

THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE

Envy comes from peoples ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Jean Vanier

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

FRIENDSHIP

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Dave Tyson Gentry

10

OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD

When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.

Anon

11

FAITH AND BELIEF

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.

Guideposts

12

PRAYER

Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

John Aikman Wallace

13

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you dont believe in yourself.
William J.H. Boetcker

14

SELF-CONTROL

Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

George Bernard Shaw

15

SELF-CONFIDENCE

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Stan Smith

16

SIMPLICITY

What I do, I do very well, and what I dont do well, I dont do at all.
Anon

17

ONE DAY

Nothing in business is so valuable as time.

John H. Patterson

18

YESTERDAY: THE PAST

Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days youre going to miss in the years ahead.
Anon

19

TODAY: THE PRESENT

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Elbert Hubbard

20

THIS MOMENT

If it werent for the last minute, nothing would get done.

Anon

21

MORNINGS

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

Edgar Watson Howe

22

EVENINGS

Sum up at night what thou has done by day.

Lord Herbert

23

TOMORROW: THE FUTURE

Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

24

AVERAGE, BORING DAYS

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Baudelaire

25

DIFFICULT DAYS

The secret of patience to do something else in the meantime.

Anon

26

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS

Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.
Madeline Bridges

27

ENTHUSIASM

Give me a man who sings at his work.

Thomas Carlyle

28

HOPE

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.

Anon

29

VISUALIZATION

We all live under the same sky, but we dont all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer

30

ROLE MODELS

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Burke

31

CHANGE

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw

32

DECISIONS

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker

33

INSTINCTS

Systems die; instincts remain.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

34

DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US

Skills vary. We must strive by that which is born in us.

Pindar

35

MOTIVATION

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Baruch Spinoza

36

REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
Lin Yutang

37

GOALS

The one thing worth living for is to keep ones soul pure.
Marcus Aurelius

38

FEAR

Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid.

Ron Meyer

39

WORRY

Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so theres no room left for worry thoughts.
Howard Chandler Christy

40

DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES

Any coward can fight a battle when hes sure of winning.

George Eliot

41

SECURITY

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthur

42

RISKS

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Publilius Syrus

43

COURAGE

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Confucius

44

WELL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US

The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.
Anon

45

COMMITMENT

If you dont stand for something, youll fall for anything.

Michael Evans

46

GETTING GOING

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
Brendan Francis

47

SUCCESS

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Sir William Osler

48

LUCK

The one who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B.C. Forbes

49

OPPORTUNITY

The successful person is one who had the chance and took it.
Roger Babson

50

COMMITMENT

Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.
Isaac Barrow

51

CONCENTRATION

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Colonel Michael Friedsman

52

WORK

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant

53

PERFECTION

The person with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann von Goethe

54

JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO

God tests His real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
Katheryn Hulme

55

TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield

56

PERSEVERANCE

They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
Samuel Smiles

57

PROBLEMS

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
Corrie ten Bloom

58

FAILURES AND MISTAKES

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht

59

THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY

Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind.
Frank Harris

60

REACTING TO EVENTS

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
George Levinger

61

SELF-PITY

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller

62

PEACE OF MIND

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang

63

HAPPINESS

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou

64

ACCEPTANCE

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

65

FORGIVENESS

The angry people are those people who are most afraid.
Dr. Robert Anthony

66

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Karl Barth

67

THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE

The only normal people are the ones you dont know very well.
Foe Ancis

68

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.

Vauvenargues

69

FRIENDSHIP

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen.
Bob Lemon

70

ACCEPTANCE

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

G.K. Chesterton

71

OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD

Some people talk about finding God, as if He could get lost.

Anon

72

FAITH AND BELIEF

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Erich Fromm

73

PRAYER

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard

74

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

Im not OK, youre not OK - and thats OK.

William Sloane Coffin

75

SELF-CONTROL

When the fight begins within himself, a mans worth something.

Robert Browning

76

SELF-RELIANCE

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.

Frank Tyger

77

SIMPLICITY

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Confucius

78

ONE DAY

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Johann von Goethe

79

YESTERDAY: THE PAST

Some folks never exaggerate - they just remember big.

Audrey Snead

80

TODAY: THE PRESENT

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
Jim Bishop

81

THIS MOMENT

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin

82

MORNINGS

With each sunrise, we start anew.

Anon

83

EVENINGS

Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.

Scottish proverb

84

TOMORROW: THE FUTURE

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
Isak Dinesen

85

AVERAGE, BORING DAYS

Being bored is an insult to oneself.

Jules Renard

86

DIFFICULT DAYS

Pain is never permanent.

Saint Teresa of Avila

87

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS

The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.
Herbert Samuels

88

ENTHUSIASM

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette

89

HOPE

Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do without.

LeRoy Douglas

90

VISUALIZATION

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it.
Anon

91

ROLE MODELS

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.
Tyron Edwards

92

CHANGE

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

Arthur Christopher Benson

93

DECISIONS

Full maturity is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.

Angela Barron McBride

94

DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US

You dont get to choose how youre going to die. Or when. You can only decide how youre going to live.
Joan Baez

95

DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Euripides

96

MOTIVATION

Dont let other people tell you what you want.

Pat Riley

97

REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin

98

GOALS

If you dont know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?
Basil S. Walsh

99

FEAR

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca

100

WORRY

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
Krishnamurti

101

DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything, or nothing, about it.
Olin Miller

102

SECURITY

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

103

RISKS

It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

Erica Jong

104

COURAGE

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

James A. Michener

105

WELL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Sir Winston Churchill

106

IGNORANCE

Painting is easy when you dont know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas

107

GETTING GOING

We will not know unless we begin.

Howard Zinn

108

SUCCESS

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.

Helen Hayes

109

LUCK

You dont just luck into things You build step by step, whether its friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush

110

OPPORTUNITY

Opportunity knocks but once.

Anon

111

COMMITMENT

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
George P. Schultz

112

CONCENTRATION

One arrow does not bring down two birds.

Turkish proverb

113

WORK

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
Katharine Graham

114

PERFECTION

If the best mans faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.
Gaelic proverb

115

JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Friedrich Engels

116

TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME

The distance doesnt matter; only the first step is difficult.

Madame Marquise du Deffand

117

PERSEVERANCE

It isnt hard to be good from time to time Whats tough is being good every day.
Willie Mays

118

PROBLEMS

Every path has its puddle.

English proverb

119

FAILURES AND MISTAKES

Our mistakes wont irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.
James E. Sweaney

120

THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY

Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.
Robert R. Updegraff

121

REACTING TO EVENTS

When things go wrong, dont go with them.

Anon

122

THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Duke Ellington

123

SELF-PITY

The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.

Og Guinness

124

PEACE OF MIND

If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Paula A. Bendry

125

HAPPINESS

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

Agnes Repplier

126

ACCEPTANCE

Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

127

FORGIVENESS

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Ghandi

128

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
Ruth Ann Schabacker

129

THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.
R.H. Stoddard

130

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot

131

FRIENDSHIP

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

132

OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD

Let God love you through others and let God love others through you.
D.M. Street

133

FAITH AND BELIEF

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
2 Tm. 4:7

134

CHANGE

A fanatic is one who cant change his mind and wont change the subject.
Sir Winston Churchill

135

SELF-KNOWLEDGE

When a man begins to understand himself, he begins to live.

Norvin G. McGranahan

136

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

Do not wish to be anything but what you are.

Saint Francis de Sales

137

SELF-CONFIDENCE

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann von Goethe

138

SELF-RELIANCE

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
Swedish proverb

139

SIMPLICITY

There is only one meaning of life, the act of living itself.

Erich Fromm

140

ONE DAY

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

George MacDonald

141

YESTERDAY: THE PAST

Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.
Anon

142

TODAY: THE PRESENT

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Horace

143

MORNINGS

If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

144

EVENINGS

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

Eph. 14:26

145

TOMORROW: THE FUTURE

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

146

DIFFICULT DAYS

God grant us patience!

William Shakespeare

147

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

148

ENTHUSIASM

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

William McFee

149

CHANGE

Every new adjustment is a crisis in selfesteem.

Eric Hoffer

150

VISUALIZATION

We all live under the same sky, but we dont all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer

151

ROLE MODELS

A good example is the best sermon.

Anon

152

CHANGE

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht

153

FORGIVENESS

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

154

INSTINCTS

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

Soren Kierkegaard

155

DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US

He who walks in anothers tracks leaves no footprints.

Joan L. Brannon

156

MOTIVATION

We talk on principle, but we act on interest.

Walter Savage Landor

157

REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.

Jean Vanier

158

GOALS

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

Billy Wilder

159

FEAR

Do not think of all your anxieties, you will only make yourself ill.
Shih King

160

WORRY

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

Swedish proverb

161

DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Pliny, the Elder

162

SECURITY

No one can build her security upon the nobleness of another person.
Willa Cather

163

RISKS

Unless you enter the tigers den, you cannot take the cubs.
Japanese proverb

164

COURAGE

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

John Dewey

165

WELL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo

166

IGNORANCE

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Publilius Syrus

167

GETTING GOING

If we really want to live, wed better start at once to try.

W.H. Auden

168

SUCCESS

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Henry Ford

169

OPPORTUNITY

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Mark Twain

170

COMMITMENT

If you dont stand for something, youll fall for anything.

Michael Evans

171

WORK

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you havent planted.
David Bly

172

PERFECTION

Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.

Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs

173

JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO

God doesnt make orange juice, God makes oranges.

Jesse Jackson

174

TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME

The distance doesnt matter; only the first step is difficult.

Madame Marquise du Deffand

175

PERSEVERANCE

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
Confucius

176

PERSEVERANCE
It isnt hard to be good from time to time Whats tough is being good every day.
Willie Mays

177

FAILURES AND MISTAKES

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Eleanor Roosevelt

178

REACTING TO EVENTS

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
Abraham Lincoln

179

SELF-PITY

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Andr Gide

180

PEACE OF MIND

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.
Anon

181

HAPPINESS

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

182

ACCEPTANCE

One cannot get through life without pain What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.
Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.

183

FORGIVENESS

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Mt. 7:1

184

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

185

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

Charity begins at home, and usually stays there.

Elbert Hubbard

186

HAPPINESS

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain

187

FRIENDSHIP

When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing.

Anon

188

HAPPINESS

Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy?

A Course In Miracles

189

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang

190

PRAYER

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

Oswald Chambers

191

PERSEVERANCE

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

192

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

Do not wish to be anything but what you are.

Saint Francis de Sales

193

HAPPINESS

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didnt know you left open.
John Barrymore

194

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS

If you expect nothing, youre apt to be surprised. Youll get it.

Malcolm Forbes

195

HAPPINESS

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

Anon

196

ONE DAY

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

George MacDonald

197

ACCEPTANCE

Lifes under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Margaret Mitchell

198

FORGIVENESS

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
Harriet Uts Nelson

199

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.

Thomas Fuller

200

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

William Hazlitt

201

TOMORROW: THE FUTURE

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

202

FRIENDSHIP

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Thucydides

203

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS

You can promote your healing by your thinking.

James E. Sweeney

204

PRAYER

When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.
Anon

205

HOPE

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.

Alexandre Dumas

206

ACCEPTANCE

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

J.C.F. von Schiller

207

CHANGE

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

Rollo May

208

DECISIONS

Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.

Harry A. Hopf

209

FORGIVENESS

They may not deserve forgiveness, but I do.

Anon

210

DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US

Id rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

George Burns

211

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

212

REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.

Jean Vanier

213

GOALS

Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.

Chinese proverb

214

FEAR

Fear is the absence of faith.

Paul Tillich

215

WORRY

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

Swedish proverb

216

ACCEPTANCE

If you have a job without aggravations, you dont have a job.

Malcolm Forbes

217

FORGIVENESS

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Madame Dorothee Deluzy

218

RISKS
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
General George S. Patton

219

COURAGE
Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
John Dewey

220

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

To be upset over what you dont have is to waste what you do have.
Ken Keyes, Jr.

221

TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME

From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.

Dante Alighieri

222

ACCEPTANCE

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Anon

223

SUCCESS

A strong passion for any object willensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
William Hazlitt

224

OPPORTUNITY

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Mark Twain

225

FORGIVENESS

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale

226

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

English proverb

227

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.

Luther Burbank

228

JUST DO THE FOOTWORK ,THEN LET IT GO

With us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.
2 Chr.

229

TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese proverb

230

FRIENDSHIP

It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.

Chinese proverb

231

PEACE OF MIND

There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better, but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better.
L. Thomas Holdcroft

232

HAPPINESS

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

233

ACCEPTANCE

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
George Bernard Shaw

234

FORGIVENESS

Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.
Arthur J. Rehrat

235

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

Sometimes the best deals are the ones you dont make.
Bill Veeck

236

THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE

The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money cant cure.
Ogden Nash

237

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

238

FRIENDSHIP

One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.

William E. Holler

239

OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD

Talking about God is not at all the same thing as experiencing God, or acting out God through our lives.
Phillip Hewett

240

PRAYER

When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can.

Edward M. Goulburn

241

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

242

SELF-CONFIDENCE

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

Thomas Merton

243

SELF-RELIANCE

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Sophocles

244

SIMPLICITY

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Mother Teresa

245

ONE DAY

The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.
Anon

246

YESTERDAY: THE PAST

Never let yesterday use up today.

Richard H. Nelson

247

PRAYER

Dont pray when it rains if you dont pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige

248

MORNINGS

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
Sydney Smith

249

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS

Most of the time we think were sick its all in the mind.
Thomas Wolfe

250

ENTHUSIASM

Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

251

DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US

Id rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city.

William A. Hulbert

252

VISUALIZATION

Who is the wise man? He who sees whats going to be born.

Solomon

253

ACCEPTANCE

If you want a place in the sun, youve got to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail Van Buren

254

CHANGE

Nothing in this world is permanent.

German proverb

255

INSTINCTS

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle

256

DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

257

MOTIVATION

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon Bonaparte

258

REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

We cannot all be masters.

William Shakespeare

259

GOALS

Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you havent even begun to live.
William P. Merrill

260

FEAR

If you are afraid for your future, you dont have a present.
James Petersen

261

WORRY

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
A.J. Cronin

262

DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES

If we wait until weve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca

263

RISKS

In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.
Dennis Dugan

264

COURAGE

Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

265

GETTING GOING

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.
Janet Erskine Stuart

266

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.
Susan L. Lenzkes

267

GOALS

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Johann von Goethe

268

RISKS

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Mark Twain

269

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

He has enough who is contented with little.

Anon

270

ACCEPTANCE
There are things I cant force. I must adjust.
C.M. Ward

271

PERSEVERANCE

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

272

FAILURES AND MISTAKES

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Eleanor Roosevelt

273

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
Estonian proverb

274

FRIENDSHIP

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Turkish proverb

275

HAPPINESS

No one gives joy or sorrow We gather the consequences of our own deeds.
Garuda Purana

276

ACCEPTANCE

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is, who find the least fault.
Charles Dudley Warner

277

FORGIVENESS

Revenge could steal a mans life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
Louis LAmour

278

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

279

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is.
Frank A. Clark

280

ONE DAY

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Golda Meir

281

FRIENDSHIP

Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.

Anon

282

MORNINGS

Days sweetest moments are at dawn.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

283

PRAYER

Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.

The Desert Fathers

284

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Anon

285

SELF-RELIANCE

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

286

SIMPLICITY

If you arent going all the way, why go at all?

Joe Namath

287

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

More than enough is too much.

Anon

288

YESTERDAY: THE PAST

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

Max Beerbohm

289

TODAY: THE PRESENT

So often we rob tomorrows memories by todays economies.

John Mason Brown

290

MORNINGS

With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.
Anon

291

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang

292

ENTHUSIASM

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

Marshal Ferdinand Foch

293

HOPE

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
Anon

294

CHANGE

When youre through changing, youre through.

Bruce Barton

295

INSTINCTS

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

George Bernard Shaw

296

FRIENDSHIP

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

297

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

298

PRAYER

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Martin Luther

299

FEAR

The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard

300

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Henry L. Stimson

301

ENTHUSIASM

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy.
Thomas Arnold

302

RISKS

And the trouble is, if you dont risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong

303

COURAGE

Youre only as sick as your secrets. Anon

304

GETTING GOING

Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
Alonzo Newton Benn

305

SUCCESS

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

306

COMMITMENT

Whether you are really right or not doesnt matter, its the belief that counts.
Robertson Davies

307

FEAR

Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.

Anon

308

RISKS

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere

309

PRAYER

Amazing things start happening when we start praying!

Anon

310

SUCCESS

Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

Anon

311

FEAR

Humor acts to relieve fear.

Dr. William F. Fry, Jr.

312

HAPPINESS

Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

313

ACCEPTANCE

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
David Hume

314

FORGIVENESS

Revenge could steal a mans life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
Louis LAmour

315

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

Too many people miss the silver lining because theyre expecting gold.
Maurice Setter

316

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

George Santayana

317

FRIENDSHIP

They are rich who have true friends.

Thomas Fuller

318

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet.
Ancient Persian saying

319

PRAYER

Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.

The Desert Fathers

320

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore

321

SELF-RELIANCE

God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.
Josiah Holland

322

COURAGE

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh

323

RISKS

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

324

FRIENDSHIP

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Samuel Butler

325

TODAY: THE PRESENT

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, youll never enjoy the sunshine.
Morris West

326

PRAYER

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.

Thomas B. Brooks

327

ONE DAY

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

328

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS

The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions.

Andr Godin

329

GOALS

He who begins many things finishes but few.

Italian proverb

330

COURAGE

No great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.
German proverb

331

DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US

We are betrayed by what is false within.

George Meredith

332

REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.
Anon

333

GOALS

The soul that has no established aim loses itself.

Michel de Montaigne

334

FEAR

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

Billie Jean King

335

FRIENDSHIP

The best mirror is an old friend.

Anon

336

PRAYER

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
Dwight L. Moody

337

ONE DAY

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions to actual deeds.
Grenville Kleiser

338

COURAGE

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

339

FRIENDSHIP

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Nigerian proverb

340

ONE DAY

Every day is a messenger of God.

Russian proverb

341

COURAGE

To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

John Cage

342

GOALS

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
William J. Locke

343

CHANGE

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Woodrow Wilson

344

FRIENDSHIP

One whos our friend is fond of us; one whos fond of us isnt necessarily our friend.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca

345

HAPPINESS

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Publilius Syrus

346

CHANGE

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Arthur Christopher Benson

347

FORGIVENESS

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.

Isaac Friedmann

348

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.

Robert Quillen

349

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Acts 20:35

350

FRIENDSHIP

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when theyre not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when theyre not so bad.
Arnold H. Glasow

351

PRAYER

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

Oswald Chambers

352

GOALS

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

J.C.F. von Schiller

353

FRIENDSHIP

Have but few friends, though many acquaintances.

Anon

354

GOALS

Once you say youre going to settle for second, thats what happens to you.
John F. Kennedy

355

FRIENDSHIP

A man is known by the company he keeps.

Anon

356

GOALS

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

John Powell

357

MORNINGS

With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.
Anon

358

ACCEPTANCE

There are things I cant force. I must adjust.

C.M. Ward

359

ENTHUSIASM

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

General Douglas MacArthur

360

CHANGE

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde

361

DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

362

GOALS

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Colonel Michael Friedman

363

FEAR

The habit of doing ones duty drives away fear.

Charles Baudelaire

364

WORRY

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

William Ralph Inge

365

DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

Tehyi Hsieh

366

THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE

The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money cant cure.
Ogden Nash

367