“Let me tonight look back across the span

‘Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say –

Because of some good act to beast or man –

‘The world is better that I lived today.’”

~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“When you play it too safe,

you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. 

Time is the only wealth we’re given.”

~Barbara Sher

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“The world is full of abundance and opportunity,

but far too many people come to the fountain of life

with a sieve instead of a tank car ...

a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel.

They expect little and as a result they get little.”

~Ben Sweetland

“Every time something bad happens to me,

I don't ask the question, ‘Why did it happen to me?’  

The question I ask is, ‘Why did it happen for me?’”

~Elijah Cummings

“He who knows no hardships

will know no hardihood. 

He who faces no calamity will need no courage. 

Mysterious though it is,

the characteristics in human nature

which we love best

grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.”

~Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Let others have their experience – people learn, and build self-esteem and self-confidence by experience.

People grow by effort – do you want someone to grow

or do you want to control?”

~Jo-Ann Downey

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“Don't just count your years, make your years count.”

~George Meredith

“We cling to our own point of view,

as though everything depended on it.  

Yet our opinions have no permanence;

like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.”

~Zhuangzi

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“Love flows unstoppably downward,

 around every obstacle – like water.

  Love and water seek not the higher place

 but always the lower.

  That’s why forgiveness is often

 the most powerful display of love in action.”

~Richard Rohr

“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”

~Zig Ziglar