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“One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.”

~ Michael Cibenko

 

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“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.”

~ Doug Larson

 

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“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.”

~ Rudyard Kipling

 

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“Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

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“Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.”

~ Vincent McNabb

 

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“There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.”

~ Robert Brault

 

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“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”

~ Joan Didion

 

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“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

~ Mark Twain

 

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Ring out the old, ring in the new,

Ring, happy bells, across the snow:

The year is going, let him go;

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 

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“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”

~ Hal Borland

 

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The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.

- Leo Stein

 

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When you are in doubt, be still, and wait; when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage.

So long as mists envelop you, be still; be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists -- as it surely will.

Then act with courage.

 

- Ponca Chief White Eagle

 

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“A critical thing is not to waste a minute of life. Throw yourself whole-heartedly into it. Don't waste a minute and try to make a positive difference in as many other people's lives as possible.”

- Sir Richard Branson

 

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- quote by Elizabeth Foley

 

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“The world was made round so that we would never be able to see too far down the road.”

- Isak Dinesen

 

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“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

~ Charles Dickens

 

For most Western Christians, today is the celebration of Christmas.  For more information, consider: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

 

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In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you.

- Matthew 7:12

 

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“Faith is a passionate intuition.”

 

~ William Wordsworth

 

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“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.”

- Ken Keyes Jr.