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KINDNESS AND COURAGE.

Life is mostly froth and bubble
Two things stand like stone;
Kindness in another´s trouble;
Courage in your own.

Adam Lindsay Gordon.

ON THE OFFICE WALL.

It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song,
But the man worthwhile
Is the man who can smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.
When the whole blamed world seems gone to pot,
And business on the bum,
A lifted chin and a two-cent grin
Help some, my boy, help some!

Failure

Don´t fear failure:

"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all
over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished
a purpose--not the one you began with perhaps, but one you´ll
be glad to remember."
--Anne Sullivan

"Good people are good because they´ve come to wisdom through
failure."
--William Saroyan

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve
greatly."
--Robert F. Kennedy



"Happiness is the only thing one should ever be resigned to."
--Alfred Capus

Mistakes

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make
anything."
--Bishop W. C. Magee

Life Instruction

"Instructions for Life"

1. Give people more than they expect
2. Memorise your favourite poem
3. Don´t believe all you hear, spend all you have
or sleep all you want
4. When you say you´re sorry, look the person in
the eye
5. Be engaged at least 6 months before you get
married
6. In disagreements, fight fairly no name calling
7. Never laugh at anyone´s dreams. People who
don´t have dreams don´t have much
8. Love deeply and passionately. You might get
hurt but its the only way to live life completely
9. Believe in love at first sight
10. Don´t judge people by their relatives
11. Talk slowly but think quickly
12. Remember that great love and great
achievements involve great risk
13. Say "bless you" when you hear someone
sneeze
14. When you lose, don´t lose the lesson
15. Remember the three R´s. Respect for self,
respect for others, responsibility for all your actions
16. Don´t let a little dispute injure a great friendship
17. Smile when you pick up the phone
18. Marry someone you love to talk to. As you get
older their conversational skills will be as important
as any other
19. Spend some time alone
20. Open your arms to change, but don´t let go of
your values
21. Remember that silence is sometimes the best
answer
22. Read more books and watch less television
23. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get
older and you think back, you´ll get to enjoy it a
second time
24. Trust in God but lock your car
25. Read between the lines
26. Share your knowledge, it´s a way to achieve
immortality
27. Be gentle with the earth
28. Meditate. There´s immeasurable power in it
29. Never interrupt when you are being flattered
30. Mind your own business
31. Don´t trust a man/woman who doesn´t close
his/her eyes when they kiss
32. Once a year go somewhere you have never
been before
33. Remember that not getting what you want is
sometimes a stroke of luck
34. Learn the rules then break some
35. Judge your success by what you had to give
up to achieve it
36. Approach love and cooking with reckless
abandon

Doing well

"We only do well the things we like doing." --Colette
"In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope." --Dr. Bernie Siegel
"Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty." --Dr. Martha Friedman


If you possibly can, stay out of debt: "Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt." --Henrik Ibsen
"Be not made a beggar by banqueting on borrowing." --Bible, Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 18:13
"Who goeth a borrowing / Goeth a sorrowing." --Thomas Tusser


"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it." --George C. Scott
"Faith and doubt both are needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve." --Lillian Smith
"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice." --Confucius

Keep your cool: "When anger spreads through the breast, guard thy tongue from barking idly." --Sappho
"Thar ain´t no sense / In gittin´ riled." --Bret Harte
"It usually takes two people to make one of them angry." --Laurence Peter

Change

"What one has to do usually can be done." --Eleanor Roosevelt

"How to succeed: try hard enough. "How to fail: Try too hard." --Malcolm Forbes

"What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed." --Thomas Fuller

Don´t fear change: "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." --Guiseppi di Lampedusa

"It´s the most unhappy people who most fear change." --Mignon McLaughlin

"What we need is a flexible plan for an everchanging world." --Jerry Brown

Potential

"The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good." -- Brian Tracy


"A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."-- William Shedd


"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." -- George Bernard Shaw


"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."-- Helen Keller

Positive change

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."
--Ellen Glasgow

"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into
its nest."
--J.G. Holland

"I think in terms of the day´s resolutions, not the year´s."
--Henry Moore

"What else are we gonna live by if not dreams?"
--Jill Robinson

"I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one
advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with
a success unexpected in common hours."
--Henry David Thoreau

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there
are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn
one into the other."
--Douglas Everett

Criticism

"When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer." -- Denis Waitley


"When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams." -- Les Brown


"If I had listened to the critics I´d have died drunk in the gutter."
-- Chekov


"If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it wonít be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret." -- Jim Rohn

Take the time.

Take Some Time

Take some time to smell the flowers
As you walk the paths of life.
Take some time to ease the tensions
From the challenges and the strife.

Take some time to hear the birds sing
As they usher in the dawn.
Though the day be just emerging,
Too soon it will be gone.

Take some time to watch a sunrise,
Now and then a sunset too.
Just be sure that seeking pleasure
Isn´t all you ever do.

Take some time to count your blessings,
Though you feel they´re not that great.
You will find they´re more abundant
Than you thought, at any rate.

Take some time to banish hatred
When and where you can.
Just detest man´s evil ways
And not your fellow man.

Take some time to love your children
Every moment you are free.
The benefits exceedeth
A university degree.

Take some time to love your neighbor
And even more important still,
Take some time to love yourself
Or not many others will.

And if you don´t like that image
Of yourself that others see,
Take some time to make some changes,
Be the best that you can be.

Take some time to help another
Who you think might need a hand.
You will find the satisfaction
Leaves you feeling sort of grand.

Take some time to live by virtue
In the best way that is known,
And respect the rights of others
As equal to your own.

Take some time to just appreciate
The fact that you are here,
And to know that Higher Power
And to trust It without fear.

If you do these things with diligence
You will eventually be glad.
If you don´t attempt to do them
You may one day wish you had.

Although this no doubt could impose
Upon your time for seeking wealth,
There should be little question
That it could improve your health.

And though you might not be as wealthy
Nor drive so fine a car,
You´ll find you will be richer
In other ways by far.

Do it

"A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It
has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become
porcelain."
--Mildred W. Struven

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I
am, then I can change."
--Carl Rogers

"I´ll not listen to reason. Reason is always what someone
else has got to say."
--Elizabeth C. Gaskell

Courage

"I´m not going to limit myself just because people won´t
accept the fact that I can do something else."
--Dolly Parton

"We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the
calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires
courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness."
--Maxwell Maltz

"No one is more likely to make a mistake than the man who
acts only on reflection."
--Luc de Clapiers, Marquis Vauvenargues


Take your hunches seriously:

"Trust your hunches. They´re usually based on facts filed
away just below the conscious level."
--Dr. Joyce Brothers

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
--Anon.

My Faves

A few more gems
If I don´t quote source it is because I have lost it a long time ago!!!
words that make me whell!
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The rain is a very sad lady.
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If I expose my nakedness,
as a person to you-
Do not make me
feel shame!
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Live by your own standards,
other people´s will kill you.
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As you try to live your life,
remember others are trying to livew theirs!
*
Just before their periods,
women behave the way men do all the time!
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What is a hero?
Primarily one who has conquered his fears
Henry Miller
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I can help you to accept
and open yourself
mostly by accepting and revealing
myself to you
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The greatest kindness
I have to offer you
is always: the truth
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The behavior of the human being
is always unpredictable.
simply because
it
is
free!*
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Emotional Poignancy

Your slightest look
easily will unclose me
though I have closed
myself as fingers,
you open
always
petal by petal
myself as spring
opens,
(Touching skillfully,
mysteriously )
her first rose.
E.E.Cummings
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Most of us feel that
others will not tolerate
such emotional honesty in communication
We would rather defend our dishonesty
on the grounds that it
might hurt others;
and having rationalized our
phoniness into nobility
we settle for the superficial.
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The fully human person is in deep and meaningful contact with the world outside of him.
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The games we play always follow the programme
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"sorry, bbut theat is the way I am.....I was like this in the beginning, am now, ever more shall be". A handy motto and delusion to have around you,
If you don´t want to grow up!
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Within each of us lies the power of our consent.
To health and to sickness, to riches and to poverty,
To freedom and to slavery
It is we who rule these things,
and not another.
*

You teach best
what you most need to learn
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You are led through your lifetime
by the inner learning creature,
the playful spiritual being
that is your real self
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Don´t turn away from possible futures
before you´re certain
you don´t have anything to learn from them

Expectation

"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful."
-- Norman Vincent Peale

"You begin by always expecting good things to happen." -- Tom Hopkins

It is funny about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it." -- W. Somerset Maugham

"Whether you think you can or think you can´t, you´re right." -- Henry Ford

Desire

"The less of routine, the more of life."
A. B. Alcott

"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the
undertaker will be sorry."
--Mark Twain

"Lord grant that I may always desire more than I can
accomplish."
--Michelangelo

Be hopeful especially when things look grim:

"If you can´t change your fate, change your attitude."
--Amy Tan

"And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope."
--Job, 11:18

"No hope, no action."
--Peter Levi

Happiness within

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." -- Og Mandino


"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."
-- Brian Tracy


"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
-- Norman MacEwan

Business Creed

I know that I have the ability to achieve my definite purpose in life; therefore, I demand of myself massive, immediate, intelligent, persistent, and consistent action towards its attainment. I here and now promise to render such action.
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth, integrity and incredible value; therefore, I will engage in no transaction that does not benefit all whom it affects.
I succeed by attracting to myself the forces that are in harmony with my vision, and the partnership and cooperation of other people. I will induce others to serve me because of my willingness to serve others.
I eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, cynicism, anger, and competition by developing true love for myself and all humanity. I know that there is an unlimited supply of goodness in my universe and that a negative attitude towards others can never bring me success. I compel others to believe in me, because I believe in them and in myself.
This is my creed and my quest. To never stop climbing to the top, to always keep growing and moving forward, to a