"Happiness does not depend upon a full pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich thoughts and a heart full of rich emotions."
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"Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance."
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"The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece."
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"Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves."
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"Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person"
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"Imagination helps you to recognize the reality of facts, but then to go beyond them, to penetrate beneath them, to rise above them in your search for creative answers to problems. Imagination "stirs up the gift of God in thee." Through your imagination you touch and express the inspiration of the Infinite. Imagination, in the words of Shakespeare, "gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name." You reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, then you bring it down to earth and make it work."
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"He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him."
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""The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless."
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"He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically accepts failures as a part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of 'nothing attempted, nothing gained' and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed."
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"Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control our surface reactions, but we can sit at the helm of our lives and control our responses to the blows of life."
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"Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes."
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"Work miracles by setting a good example. Others will catch your spirit! The power of a good example is the greatest miracle-working power of all."
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"Imagination is a flame that ignites the creative spirit. Imagination lights up your mind by stoking mental fires. It can be stimulated from the outside through the senses, or from the inside through the driving power of curiosity and discontent."
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"Love is the dynamic motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust that lifts men to the heights."
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"Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines."
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"As you help men to grow, as you work for peace, understanding and good will, your influence will merge, with the good influences of men of every age, into the eternal golden stream of God's goodness."
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"In gratitude for God's gift of life to us we should share that gift with others. The art of giving encompasses many areas. It is an outgoing, overflowing way of life."
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"Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life."
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"Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement put them to work today."
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"I believe that God is a power underneath my life here on earth. His goodness undergirds me and uplifts me."
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