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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.
Topic: Possibilities
Author: Queen Victoria
If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers. We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
Topic: Choices
Author: Dr Elisabeth Kubler Ross
Appreciating each other is a true family value, one that will bail out much of the stress on the planet and help strengthen the universal bond all people have. Doc Childre, The How To Book of Teen Self Discovery When I start appreciating, I look at it like business. I start by appreciating life itself. After all, life is really a gift. It might not always seem like that's true, but it is. If nothing else, it's a gift of discovery. So I appreciate that! Doc Childre and Sara Paddision, HeartMath Discovery Program What you put out comes back. The more you sincerely appreciate life from the heart, the more the magnetic energy of appreciation attracts fulfilling life experiences to you, both personally and professionally. Learning how to appreciate more consistently offers many benefits and applications. Appreciation is an easy heart frequency to activate and it can help shift your perspectives quickly. Learning how to appreciate both pleasant and even seemingly unpleasant experiences is a key to increased fulfillment. Mother Teresa -Sara Paddison.
Topic: Appreciation
Author: Sara Paddison
For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?
Topic: Pen
Author: Sir John Davies
Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
Topic: Drinking
Author: Abraham Cowley
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Topic: Writer
Author: Sinclair Lewis
Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.
Topic: Sun
Author: John Dryden
To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.
Topic: Volunteerism
Author: Mother Teresa
We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
Topic: Brotherhood
Author: Lyndon Baines Johnson
Hindsight is an exact science.
Topic: Hindsight
Author: Guy Bellamy
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Topic: Common Sense
Author: Victor Hugo
I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me; 'tis falsely said That even there was intercourse Between the living and the dead.
Topic: Apparitions
Author: William Wordsworth
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
Topic: Sports
Author: Greg Lemond
And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.
Topic: Toasts
Author: John Dyer
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Topic: Trees
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists.
Topic: Universe
Author: Linda Goodman
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
Author: Elizabeth Ashley
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
Topic: Court
Author: H L Mencken
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
Topic: Opposition
Author: George Eliot
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
Topic: Ugliness
Author: Serge Gainsbourg