It takes a strong person to deal with tough times and difficult choices. But you are a strong person. It takes courage but you possess the inner courage to see you through. It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driving seat and you can determine the direction you [...]
Faith isn’t anything you can see; it isn’t anything you can touch But yo can feel it in your heart. faith is what keeps you trying when others would have given up. It keeps you believing in the goodness of others and helps you find it. Faith is trusting in a power greater than yourselfand [...]
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Iris Murdoch **************************************************************************************** If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. Thich Nhat Han ************************************************************************************ each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive and it is only by this meeting [...]
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11 ******************************************************************************** You are my refuge and my shield:and my shield; I have put my hope in your word. Psalm 119;114 ********************************************************************************* May the [...]
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Once freedom lights its beacon in a man’s heart the gods are powerless against him. Jean-Paul Sarte (Writer) ************************************************************************ In future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential freedoms. The first is the freedom of speech and expresssion, anywhere in the world. The second is [...]
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It’s impossible to speak highly enough of the virtues, the dangers and the power of shared laughter. Francoise Sagan (Novelist) ***************************************************************************************** Laughter has something in it in common with the ancient winds of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes men forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves; [...]
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do. Eleanor Roosavelt ********************************************************************* Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving the other. Samuel [...]
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What’s the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile, so pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile. George Asaf (Songwriter) *************************************************************** I’ve found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess. Dale Carnegie(Writer) ****************************************************************** You’re only here [...]
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion. To bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony. William Henry Channing ( Minister) ****************************************************************************************************** When [...]
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Look after your health and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of blessing that money cannot buy. Izaak Walton (Writer) ************************************************************************************** The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a [...]
