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Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.

Ninety-nine percent of everything you do in life is attitude. If you have a relationship with God...you're going to learn to ask the one question in life that covers everything: How can I help you?

No great thing is created suddenly.

...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

No matter what the situation is...close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.

None of us is born thinking we are ordinary. Feeling special is an essential part of the human birthright. If you don't think you are special, you won't seek to contribute your gift to the world.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

One returns to the place one came from.

Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this.

Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.

Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

Seek to live,remembrance is for the old.

Seek that your last days may be your best days, and so you may die in a good old age, which may be best done when you die good in old age, and are such as St. Paul the aged who had finished his course.

Prosperity Comes When You Do the Right Things with Your Life

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life.

The best of times is now.

Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and to the entire world. The Declaration of Independence declared that people can govern themselves, that they can live in freedom with equal rights, that they can respect the rights of others.

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

The more the merrier.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.