Thoughts for 365 days

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Thoughts for every day: Menu 1: Select the date

• January: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

• February: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

• March: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

• April: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

• May: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

• June: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

July to December

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Thoughts for every day: Menu 2: Select the date

• July: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

• August: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

• September: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

• October: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

• November: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

• December: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

January to June

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PEACE OF MIND

• The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca

4

HAPPINESS

• There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

• Robert Louis Stevenson

5

ACCEPTANCE

• God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

• Reinhold Niebuhr

6

FORGIVENESS

• Forgiveness means letting go of the past.• Gerald Jampolsky

7

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

• God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

• Aughey

8

THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE

• Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

• Jean Vanier

9

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

• Make yourself necessary to somebody.• Ralph Waldo Emerson

10

FRIENDSHIP

• True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

• Dave Tyson Gentry

11

OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD

• When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.

• Anon

12

FAITH AND BELIEF

• Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.

• Guideposts

13

PRAYER

• Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

• John Aikman Wallace

14

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

• You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don’t believe in yourself.

• William J.H. Boetcker

15

SELF-CONTROL

• Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

• George Bernard Shaw

16

SELF-CONFIDENCE

• Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

• Stan Smith

17

SIMPLICITY

• What I do, I do very well, and what I don’t do well, I don’t do at all.

• Anon

18

ONE DAY

• Nothing in business is so valuable as time.• John H. Patterson

19

YESTERDAY: THE PAST

• Enjoy yourself. These are the “good old days” you’re going to miss in the years ahead.

• Anon

20

TODAY: THE PRESENT

• The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

• Elbert Hubbard

21

THIS MOMENT

• If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.

• Anon

22

MORNINGS

• Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

• Edgar Watson Howe

23

EVENINGS

• Sum up at night what thou has done by day.

• Lord Herbert

24

TOMORROW: THE FUTURE

• Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

25

AVERAGE, “BORING” DAYS

• Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

• Charles Baudelaire

26

DIFFICULT DAYS

• The secret of patience … to do something else in the meantime.

• Anon

27

• Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.

• Madeline Bridges

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND

ACTIONS

28

• Give me a man who sings at his work.• Thomas Carlyle

ENTHUSIASM

29

• Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.

• Anon

HOPE

30

• We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.

• Konrad Adenauer

VISUALIZATION

31

• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

• Burke

ROLE MODELS

32

• Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.


CHANGE

33

• Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

• Peter Drucker

DECISIONS

34

• Systems die; instincts remain.• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

INSTINCTS

35

• Skills vary. We must … strive by that which is born in us.

• Pindar

DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US

36

• To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

• Baruch Spinoza

MOTIVATION

37

• Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

• Lin Yutang

REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

38

• The one thing worth living for is to keep one’s soul pure.

• Marcus Aurelius

GOALS

39

• Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid.

• Ron Meyer

FEAR

40

• Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there’s no room left for worry thoughts.

• Howard Chandler Christy

WORRY

41

• Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.

• George Eliot

DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES

42

• There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

• General Douglas MacArthur

SECURITY

43

• No one reaches a high position without daring.

• Publilius Syrus

RISKS

44

• To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

• Confucius

COURAGE

45

• The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.

• Anon

WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF

US

46

• If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.

• Michael Evans

COMMITMENT

47

• Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

• Brendan Francis

GETTING GOING

48

• The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

• Sir William Osler

SUCCESS

49

• The one who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

• B.C. Forbes

LUCK

50

• The successful person is one who had the chance and took it.

• Roger Babson

OPPORTUNITY

51

• Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.

• Isaac Barrow

COMMITMENT

52

• Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

• Colonel Michael Friedsman

CONCENTRATION

53

• Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

• Ulysses S. Grant

WORK

54

• The person with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

• Johann von Goethe

PERFECTION

55

• God tests His real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

• Katheryn Hulme

JUST DO THE FOOTWORK,THEN LET IT GO

56

• I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

• Lord Chesterfield

TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME

57

• They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

• Samuel Smiles

PERSEVERANCE

58

• Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

• Corrie ten Bloom

PROBLEMS

59

• Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

• Bertolt Brecht

FAILURES AND MISTAKES

60

• Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind.

• Frank Harris

THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY

61

• What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

• George Levinger

REACTING TO EVENTS

62

• Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

• Helen Keller

SELF-PITY

63

PEACE OF MIND

• Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

• Lin Yutang

64

HAPPINESS

• Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

• Hosea Ballou

65

ACCEPTANCE

• We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

66

FORGIVENESS

• The angry people are those people who are most afraid.

• Dr. Robert Anthony

67


• Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.• Karl Barth

68


• The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.

• Foe Ancis

69


• Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.

• Vauvenargues

70

FRIENDSHIP

• The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen.

• Bob Lemon

71

ACCEPTANCE

• Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

• G.K. Chesterton

72


• Some people talk about finding God, as if He could get lost.

• Anon

73

FAITH AND BELIEF

• Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

• Erich Fromm

74

PRAYER

• Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

• Soren Kierkegaard

75

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

• I’m not OK, you’re not OK - and that’s OK.

• William Sloane Coffin

76

SELF-CONTROL

• When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.

• Robert Browning

77

SELF-RELIANCE

• Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.

• Frank Tyger

78

SIMPLICITY

• What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

• Confucius

79

ONE DAY

• Nothing is worth more than this day.• Johann von Goethe

80

YESTERDAY: THE PAST

• Some folks never exaggerate - they just remember big.

• Audrey Snead

81

TODAY: THE PRESENT

• It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

• Jim Bishop

82

THIS MOMENT

• The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

• Mignon McLaughlin

83

MORNINGS

• With each sunrise, we start anew.• Anon

84

EVENINGS

• Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.

• Scottish proverb

85


• God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

• Isak Dinesen

86

AVERAGE, “BORING” DAYS

• Being bored is an insult to oneself.• Jules Renard

87

DIFFICULT DAYS

• Pain is never permanent.• Saint Teresa of Avila

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• The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.

• Herbert Samuels


ACTIONS

89

• You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

• Colette

ENTHUSIASM

90

• Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do without.

• LeRoy Douglas

HOPE

91

• A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it.

• Anon

VISUALIZATION

92

• People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

• Tyron Edwards

ROLE MODELS

93

• Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

• Arthur Christopher Benson

CHANGE

94

• Full maturity … is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.

• Angela Barron McBride

DECISIONS

95

• You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live.

• Joan Baez


96

• There is just one life for each of us: our own.

• Euripides


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• Don’t let other people tell you what you want.

• Pat Riley

MOTIVATION

98

• No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

• Mignon McLaughlin


99

• If you don’t know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?

• Basil S. Walsh

GOALS

100

• We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

• Marcus Annaeus Seneca

FEAR

101

• If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

• Krishnamurti

WORRY

102

• To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything, or nothing, about it.

• Olin Miller


103

• To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.


SECURITY

104

• It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.• Erica Jong

RISKS

105

• It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

• James A. Michener

COURAGE

106

• We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

• Sir Winston Churchill


US

107

• Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.

• Edgar Degas

“IGNORANCE”

108

• We will not know unless we begin.• Howard Zinn

GETTING GOING

109

• Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.

• Helen Hayes

SUCCESS

110

• You don’t just luck into things … You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.

• Barbara Bush

LUCK

111

• Opportunity knocks but once.• Anon

OPPORTUNITY

112

• He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

• George P. Schultz

COMMITMENT

113

• One arrow does not bring down two birds.• Turkish proverb

CONCENTRATION

114

• To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

• Katharine Graham

WORK

115

• If the best man’s faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.

• Gaelic proverb

PERFECTION

116

• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

• Friedrich Engels


117

• The distance doesn’t matter; only the first step is difficult.

• Madame Marquise du Deffand


118

• It isn’t hard to be good from time to time … What’s tough is being good every day.

• Willie Mays

PERSEVERANCE

119

• Every path has its puddle.• English proverb

PROBLEMS

120

• Our mistakes won’t irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.

• James E. Sweaney


121

• Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.

• Robert R. Updegraff


122

• When things go wrong, don’t go with them.

• Anon

REACTING TO EVENTS

123

• A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

• Duke Ellington


124

• The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.

• Og Guinness

SELF-PITY

125

• If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

• Paula A. Bendry

PEACE OF MIND

126

• It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.• Agnes Repplier

HAPPINESS

127

• Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

ACCEPTANCE

128

• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

• Mahatma Ghandi

FORGIVENESS

129

• Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

• Ruth Ann Schabacker


130

• We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

• R.H. Stoddard


131

• What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?

• George Eliot


132

• There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

• Saint Thomas Aquinas

FRIENDSHIP

133

• Let God love you through others and let God love others through you.

• D.M. Street


134

• I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.

• 2 Tm. 4:7

FAITH AND BELIEF

135

• A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.


CHANGE

136

• When a man begins to understand himself, he begins to live.

• Norvin G. McGranahan

SELF-KNOWLEDGE

137

• Do not wish to be anything but what you are.

• Saint Francis de Sales

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

138

• As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.


SELF-CONFIDENCE

139

• The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

• Swedish proverb

SELF-RELIANCE

140

• There is only one meaning of life, the act of living itself.

• Erich Fromm

SIMPLICITY

141

• We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

• George MacDonald

ONE DAY

142

• Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.

• Anon

YESTERDAY: THE PAST

143

• Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

• Horace

TODAY: THE PRESENT

144

• If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.


MORNINGS

145

• Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.• Eph. 14:26

EVENINGS

146

• I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

• Albert Einstein


147

• God grant us patience!• William Shakespeare

DIFFICULT DAYS

148

• Change your thoughts and you change your world.

• Norman Vincent Peale


ACTIONS

149

• The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

• William McFee

ENTHUSIASM

150

• Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

• Eric Hoffer

CHANGE

151

• We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.

• Konrad Adenauer

VISUALIZATION

152

• A good example is the best sermon.• Anon

ROLE MODELS

153

• Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

• Bertolt Brecht

CHANGE

154

• One forgives to the degree that one loves.• Francois de La Rochefoucauld

FORGIVENESS

155

• The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

• Soren Kierkegaard

INSTINCTS

156

• He who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints.

• Joan L. Brannon


157

• We talk on principle, but we act on interest.

• Walter Savage Landor

MOTIVATION

158

• Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.

• Jean Vanier


159

• You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

• Billy Wilder

GOALS

160

• Do not think of all your anxieties, you will only make yourself ill.

• Shih King

FEAR

161

• Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

• Swedish proverb

WORRY

162

• The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

• Pliny, the Elder


163

• No one can build her security upon the nobleness of another person.

• Willa Cather

SECURITY

164

• Unless you enter the tiger’s den, you cannot take the cubs.

• Japanese proverb

RISKS

165

• Confidence … is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

• John Dewey

COURAGE

166

• Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.

• Victor Hugo


US

167

• No one knows what he can do until he tries.

• Publilius Syrus

“IGNORANCE”

168

• If we really want to live, we’d better start at once to try.

• W.H. Auden

GETTING GOING

169

• Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

• Henry Ford

SUCCESS

170

• I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

• Mark Twain

OPPORTUNITY

171

• If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.

• Michael Evans

COMMITMENT

172

• Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.

• David Bly

WORK

173

• Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.

• Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs

PERFECTION

174

• God doesn’t make orange juice, God makes oranges.

• Jesse Jackson


175

• The distance doesn’t matter; only the first step is difficult.

• Madame Marquise du Deffand


176

• It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.

• Confucius

PERSEVERANCE

177

• It isn’t hard to be good from time to time … What’s tough is being good every day.

• Willie Mays

PERSEVERANCE

178

• The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

• Eleanor Roosevelt


179

• Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

• Abraham Lincoln

REACTING TO EVENTS

180

• Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

• André Gide

SELF-PITY

181

• Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.

• Anon

PEACE OF MIND

182

• Happiness depends upon ourselves.• Aristotle

HAPPINESS

183

• One cannot get through life without pain … What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

• Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.

ACCEPTANCE

184

• Judge not, that ye be not judged.• Mt. 7:1

FORGIVENESS

185

• The mere sense of living is joy enough.• Emily Dickinson


186

• Charity begins at home, and usually stays there.

• Elbert Hubbard


187

• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

• Mark Twain

HAPPINESS

188

• When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing.

• Anon

FRIENDSHIP

189

• Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy?

• A Course In Miracles

HAPPINESS

190

• Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

• Lin Yutang


ACTIONS

191

• The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

• Oswald Chambers

PRAYER

192

• The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

• Oliver Wendell Holmes

PERSEVERANCE

193

• Do not wish to be anything but what you are.

• Saint Francis de Sales

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

194

• Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.

• John Barrymore

HAPPINESS

195

• If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it.

• Malcolm Forbes


ACTIONS

196

• Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

• Anon

HAPPINESS

197

• We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

• George MacDonald

ONE DAY

198

• Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.

• Margaret Mitchell

ACCEPTANCE

199

• Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

• Harriet Uts Nelson

FORGIVENESS

200

• Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.

• Thomas Fuller


201

• We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

• William Hazlitt


202

• I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

• Albert Einstein


203

• We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

• Thucydides

FRIENDSHIP

204

• You can promote your healing by your thinking.

• James E. Sweeney


ACTIONS

205

• When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.

• Anon

PRAYER

206

• All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.

• Alexandre Dumas

HOPE

207

• Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

• J.C.F. von Schiller

ACCEPTANCE

208

• There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

• Rollo May

CHANGE

209

• Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.

• Harry A. Hopf

DECISIONS

210

• They may not deserve forgiveness, but I do.

• Anon

FORGIVENESS

211

• I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

• George Burns


212

• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson


213

• Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.

• Jean Vanier


214

• Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.

• Chinese proverb

GOALS

215

• Fear is the absence of faith.• Paul Tillich

FEAR

216

• Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

• Swedish proverb

WORRY

217

• If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job.

• Malcolm Forbes

ACCEPTANCE

218

• It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

• Madame Dorothee Deluzy

FORGIVENESS

219

• Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

• General George S. Patton

RISKS

220

• Confidence … is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

• John Dewey

COURAGE

221

• To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.

• Ken Keyes, Jr.


222

• From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.

• Dante Alighieri


223

• Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

• Anon

ACCEPTANCE

224

• A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

• William Hazlitt

SUCCESS

225

• I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

• Mark Twain

OPPORTUNITY

226

• When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

• Norman Vincent Peale

FORGIVENESS

227

• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

• English proverb


228

• The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.

• Luther Burbank


229

• With us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.

• 2 Chr.


230

• It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

• Chinese proverb


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• It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.

• Chinese proverb

FRIENDSHIP

232

• There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better, but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better.

• L. Thomas Holdcroft

PEACE OF MIND

233

• Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

• Abraham Lincoln

HAPPINESS

234

• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.


ACCEPTANCE

235

• Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.

• Arthur J. Rehrat

FORGIVENESS

236

• Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don’t make.

• Bill Veeck


237

• The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can’t cure.

• Ogden Nash


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• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

• Mother Teresa


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• One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.

• William E. Holler

FRIENDSHIP

240

• Talking about God is not at all the same thing as experiencing God, or acting out God through our lives.

• Phillip Hewett


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• When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can.

• Edward M. Goulburn

PRAYER

242

• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.


SELF-ACCEPTANCE

243

• Perhaps I am stronger than I think.• Thomas Merton

SELF-CONFIDENCE

244

• The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

• Sophocles

SELF-RELIANCE

245

• To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

• Mother Teresa

SIMPLICITY

246

• The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.

• Anon

ONE DAY

247

• Never let yesterday use up today.• Richard H. Nelson

YESTERDAY: THE PAST

248

• Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

• Satchel Paige

PRAYER

249

• When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.

• Sydney Smith

MORNINGS

250

• Most of the time we think we’re sick it’s all in the mind.

• Thomas Wolfe


ACTIONS

251

• Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

ENTHUSIASM

252

• I’d rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city.

• William A. Hulbert


253

• Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

• Solomon

VISUALIZATION

254

• If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters.

• Abigail Van Buren

ACCEPTANCE

255

• Nothing in this world is permanent.• German proverb

CHANGE

256

• It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

• Thomas Carlyle

INSTINCTS

257

• The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

• Anne Morrow Lindbergh


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• A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

• Napoleon Bonaparte

MOTIVATION

259

• We cannot all be masters.• William Shakespeare


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• Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven’t even begun to live.

• William P. Merrill

GOALS

261

• If you are afraid for your future, you don’t have a present.

• James Petersen

FEAR

262

• Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

• A.J. Cronin

WORRY

263

• If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

• Lee Iacocca


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• In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.

• Dennis Dugan

RISKS

265

• Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.


COURAGE

266

• Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

• Janet Erskine Stuart

GETTING GOING

267

• Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.

• Susan L. Lenzkes


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• It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.


GOALS

269

• Necessity is the mother of taking chances.• Mark Twain

RISKS

270

• He has enough who is contented with little.

• Anon


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• There are things I can’t force. I must adjust.

• C.M. Ward

ACCEPTANCE

272

• The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.


PERSEVERANCE

273

• The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.



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• Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.

• Estonian proverb


275

• Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

• Turkish proverb

FRIENDSHIP

276

• No one gives joy or sorrow … We gather the consequences of our own deeds.

• Garuda Purana

HAPPINESS

277

• The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is, who find the least fault.

• Charles Dudley Warner

ACCEPTANCE

278

• Revenge could steal a man’s life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

• Louis L’Amour

FORGIVENESS

279

• That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

• Friedrich Nietzsche


280

• To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is.

• Frank A. Clark


281

• I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

• Golda Meir

ONE DAY

282

• Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.

• Anon

FRIENDSHIP

283

• Day’s sweetest moments are at dawn.• Ella Wheeler Wilcox

MORNINGS

284

• Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.

• The Desert Fathers

PRAYER

285

• To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

• Anon

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

286

• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

• Francis Bacon

SELF-RELIANCE

287

• If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?

• Joe Namath

SIMPLICITY

288

• More than enough is too much.• Anon


289

• The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

• Max Beerbohm

YESTERDAY: THE PAST

290

• So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by today’s economies.

• John Mason Brown

TODAY: THE PRESENT

291

• With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.

• Anon

MORNINGS

292

• Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

• Lin Yutang


ACTIONS

293

• The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

• Marshal Ferdinand Foch

ENTHUSIASM

294

• Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.

• Anon

HOPE

295

• When you’re through changing, you’re through.

• Bruce Barton

CHANGE

296

• Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.


INSTINCTS

297

• Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.

• Ella Wheeler Wilcox

FRIENDSHIP

298

• Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor.



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• The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

• Martin Luther

PRAYER

300

• The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.

• Elbert Hubbard

FEAR

301

• The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

• Henry L. Stimson


ACTIONS

302

• The difference between one man and another is not mere ability … it is energy.

• Thomas Arnold

ENTHUSIASM

303

• And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

• Erica Jong

RISKS

304

• You’re only as sick as your secrets.• Anon

COURAGE

305

• Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.

• Alonzo Newton Benn

GETTING GOING

306

• Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.


SUCCESS

307

• Whether you are really right or not doesn’t matter, it’s the belief that counts.

• Robertson Davies

COMMITMENT

308

• Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.

• Anon

FEAR

309

• The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

• Moliere

RISKS

310

• Amazing things start happening when we start praying!

• Anon

PRAYER

311

• Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

• Anon

SUCCESS

312

• Humor acts to relieve fear.• Dr. William F. Fry, Jr.

FEAR

313

• Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.


HAPPINESS

314

• He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

• David Hume

ACCEPTANCE

315

• Revenge could steal a man’s life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

• Louis L’Amour

FORGIVENESS

316

• Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.

• Maurice Setter


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• Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

• George Santayana


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• They are rich who have true friends.• Thomas Fuller

FRIENDSHIP

319

• I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet.

• Ancient Persian saying


320

• Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.

• The Desert Fathers

PRAYER

321

• You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

• Ethel Barrymore

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

322

• God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.

• Josiah Holland

SELF-RELIANCE

323

• What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

• Vincent van Gogh

COURAGE

324

• Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

• Ray Bradbury

RISKS

325

• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

• Samuel Butler

FRIENDSHIP

326

• If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.

• Morris West

TODAY: THE PRESENT

327

• Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.

• Thomas B. Brooks

PRAYER

328

• A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.

• Charles Darwin

ONE DAY

329

• The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions.

• André Godin


ACTIONS

330

• He who begins many things finishes but few.

• Italian proverb

GOALS

331

• No great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.

• German proverb

COURAGE

332

• We are betrayed by what is false within.• George Meredith


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• Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.

• Anon


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• The soul that has no established aim loses itself.

• Michel de Montaigne

GOALS

335

• A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

• Billie Jean King

FEAR

336

• The best mirror is an old friend.• Anon

FRIENDSHIP

337

• I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

• Dwight L. Moody

PRAYER

338

• Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions to actual deeds.

• Grenville Kleiser

ONE DAY

339

• God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.

• Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

COURAGE

340

• Hold a true friend with both your hands.• Nigerian proverb

FRIENDSHIP

341

• Every day is a messenger of God.• Russian proverb

ONE DAY

342

• To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

• John Cage

COURAGE

343

• I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

• William J. Locke

GOALS

344

• If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

• Woodrow Wilson

CHANGE

345

• One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.


FRIENDSHIP

346

• How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

• Publilius Syrus

HAPPINESS

347

• Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

• Arthur Christopher Benson

CHANGE

348

• Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.• Isaac Friedmann

FORGIVENESS

349

• If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.

• Robert Quillen


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• It is more blessed to give than to receive.• Acts 20:35


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• A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.

• Arnold H. Glasow

FRIENDSHIP

352

• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

• Oswald Chambers

PRAYER

353

• Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

• J.C.F. von Schiller

GOALS

354

• Have but few friends, though many acquaintances.

• Anon

FRIENDSHIP

355

• Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you.

• John F. Kennedy

GOALS

356

• A man is known by the company he keeps.

• Anon

FRIENDSHIP

357

• A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

• John Powell

GOALS

358

• With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.

• Anon

MORNINGS

359

• There are things I can’t force. I must adjust.

• C.M. Ward

ACCEPTANCE

360

• It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

• General Douglas MacArthur

ENTHUSIASM

361

• Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

• Oscar Wilde

CHANGE

362

• A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.



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• Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

• Colonel Michael Friedman

GOALS

364

• The habit of doing one’s duty drives away fear.

• Charles Baudelaire

FEAR

365

• Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

• William Ralph Inge

WORRY

366

• Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

• Tehyi Hsieh


367

• The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can’t cure.

• Ogden Nash


Thoughts for 365 days

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