"MOTIVATION"
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"If you can show me a person who has made no mistakes, I will show you a person who has achieved nothing."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Kelly Paplaczyk
"Your hometown is not where you're from. It's who you are."
--- Arnold Palmer --- Sent in by Chris Nannini --- New Hampshire
"We live as long as we are remembered."
--- Old Russian Proverb --- Sent in by The Matheneys --- Texas
"More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists of history."
--- Robert Brault --- Sent in by Joan Brault
L.I.F.E.
Life Is Facing Everything
An Infinite Loop We'll Always Be In
Live Today For Your Tomorrow
Live Today Like There's No Tomorrow
--- Kelvin Soh
"The tears of today may be just enough eye water to cleanse and clear my vision for seeing a tremendously joyous tomorrow."
--- Brian G. Jett --- Kentucky
"Talent is God-given, be humble. Fame is man-given, be thankful. Conceit is self-given, be careful."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Fonz --- Minnesota
"You never have to worry, about remembering someone you will never forget."
--- John Bafford
"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."
--- Tao Te Ching --- Sent in by Teresa Meyer --- WA., Australia
Forgive yourself for the mistakes you have made.
Forgive others for hurting your heart.
For the things of the past,
you must part.
If you do not,
the present will suffer,
and the future will never start.
--- Stacy Hughes --- Texas
"Make others happy and joyful. Your happiness will multiply a thousand fold."
--- Swami Sivananda --- Sent in by G.Thirunacarasu --- Malaysia
"The great thing about being yourself, is that if you always do it, people expect it, and accept nothing less... no matter how different you may be."
--- Michelle Cole
"Looking back you realize, that a very special person passed briefly through your life; and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again."
--- Robert Brault --- Sent in by Joan Brault
"I may not be who I want to be, and I may not be who I am going to be, but thank God I am not who I was."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Jennifer Mason --- Massachusetts
"Live and create to the point of tears."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Karushka Naidu --- NSW, Australia
"Don't let anyone think you don't deserve what you want."
--- From the movie '10 things I hate about you' --- Sent in by Lara Holmberg
"All men dream: But not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recess of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity: But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible."
--- Thomas Lawrence --- Sent in by Rich Swanson --- New Zealand
"Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back, just might pull someone back from the edge."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Alexis Adams --- Massachusetts
"Everyone has a talent and a mission that could change the face of the world if they were used in a positive and effective way."
--- Pierre Smith --- Haiti
"Life is entirely too short to listen to negativity, irrespective of how it is packaged. If it comes in the form of an individual, don't 'Return to Sender' but rather throw it precisely where it belongs --- the trash can!"
--- Tanya L. Jett --- Kentucky
"In our labor we meet the objective needs and demands of others; our employer, the public, people who are impacted by and through our work. But in leisure we scratch the subjective itches within ourselves."
--- Charles R. Swindoll --- Sent in by Chen Fawn Meng --- Malaysia
"Life is a pretty precious and wonderful thing. You can't just sit down and let it lap around you. You have to plunge into it. You have to dive through it."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Michael Dayes --- Australia
"Kisses are words that cannot be written."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Chris Daleske --- South Carolina
"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened."
--- Billy Graham --- Sent in by Brian G. Jett --- Kentucky
"What is the real good?"
I ask in a musing mood.
"Order," said the law court;
"Knowledge," said the school;
"Truth," said the wise man;
"Pleasure," said the fool;
"Love," said the maiden;
"Beauty," said the page;
"Freedom," said the dreamer;
"Home," said the sage;
"Fame," said the soldier;
"Equity," said the seer.
Spake my heart fully sad:
"The answer is not here."
Then within my bosom,
Softly this I heard:
"Each heart holds the secret:
'Kindness' is the word."
--- John Boyle O'Reilly --- Sent in by Michael Crawley --- New Hampshire
"If you search the world for happiness, you will find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door."
--- Robert Brault --- Sent in by Joan Brault
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
--- Thoreau --- Sent in by Melissa Stroupe --- Virginia
There may be troubles
There may be challenges
There may be storms, too...
But, listen to yourself
Be free for you are free
Follow what your heart desires.
Seek yourself through me
For
I am your friend,
I am your reflection,
I am you.
I'll give you a home
A home free from wearies and heartaches
Remember I'll always be here for you
No matter what happens
No matter whoever you may be
No matter what will happen next...
Friends we'll always be.
--- Copyright © 1999 Bien Ocampo
"Nothing happens until something happens, and then everything happens."
--- Dan Yovich --- Indiana
A BRIDGE OF FRIENDSHIP
We take a little bit of faith
And we mold it with a lot of care
We use the cement of love
And plaster it with a lot of affection
We build some tall towers of commitment
And we connect them with hands of trust
We drop down some wires of peace
And put in some arches of dreams
Together we build this beautiful structure of strength and endurance
And we call it the bridge of friendship.
--- Copyright © 1999 Nirvikar Dahiya --- India
"A dream is the essence of your youth, never let it go. Stay young inside. Never let your dreams go."
--- Adrienne F. Raimer --- Wisconsin
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."
--- Og Mandino --- Sent in by Debbie Bashaw --- New Zealand
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
--- Unknown --- Sent in by Laura --- Kansas
"Help people reach their full potential. Catch them doing something right."
--- Unknown --- Submitted by Brian G. Jett --- Kentucky
"You get credit for what you finish, not what you start."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Jenn --- Pennsylvania
"Don't waste your time worrying about the things you cannot control."
--- Brian Howard --- Sent in by Elizabeth Howard
"The early bird only catches the worm, if her beak is in the hole."
--- Glenn Anaiscourt
"Freedom, is the choice from the available options."
--- Savater --- Sent in by Patrice Boman --- Portugal
"It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts."
--- Thoreau (from Walden) --- Sent in by Frank --- New York
"Happiness is a by-product of productive effort."
--- The Flint School --- Submitted by George Tregea Jr. --- Pennsylvania
Today is going to be my day,
I will let no one stand in my way,
If I think like a champion,
Act like a champion,
I will become a champion.
--- Colin Evans --- Australia --- Sent in by Kaleb Sexton --- Australia
"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."
--- Babe Ruth --- Sent in by Jenn --- Pennsylvania
"The very substance of the ambitions is merely the shadow of a dream."
--- Shakespeare --- Sent in by Andrew Ho --- Malaysia
"Each day comes bearing it's gifts. Untie the ribbons!"
--- Ruth Ann Schabacker --- Sent in by Anita Caponi --- Michigan
"Move - one step at a time, but always forward."
--- From a friend --- Submitted by Anish --- India
"It is better to fail at something that will ultimately succeed, than to succeed at something that will ultimately fail."
--- Unknown --- Sent in by Todd Wielgos
"There is a place in this world which no one else but you can fill."
--- Jigsha Desai --- Pennsylvania
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring shall be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
--- T.S. Eliot --- Sent in by Whisper --- Australia
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
--- Thoreau --- Sent in by Melissa Stroupe --- Virginia
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
--- Winston Churchill --- Sent in by Martha Varzaly --- Pennsylvania
"You know that you are destined to be successful when you spend less time dreaming about IT and more time doing IT."
--- Glen Prendergast --- Ontario, Canada
"In the giving - Is the getting."
--- David Matoc --- Ontario, Canada
"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
--- William James --- Submitted by Maegen Mac --- Michigan
"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Nora Magnus --- Singapore
"You'll never catch anything, unless you put your bait in the water."
--- My Dad --- Sent in by Sean Anderson --- Minnesota
"Success is creating a state of mind that allows you to obtain whatever it is you really want."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Laura M. Ackroyd --- Massachusetts
"From the seed of giving - grows a flower of getting."
--- David Matoc --- Ontario, Canada
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."
--- Sir J.M. Barrie --- Sent in by Andrew Ho --- Malaysia
"Once you have experienced excellence, you will never again be content with mediocrity."
--- Thomas S. Monson --- Submitted by Julia L. Portillo
"Look around and find some wonder in the world today. It's easy, we're surrounded by amazing things. All you have to do is open yourself up to them... see what's already there."
--- Chad O. King --- Texas
"Everyone has their own 'personal tree' to sit in. Life's circumstances sometime seem overwhelming, but we must remember the amazing power of love. Just as the ripples in the ocean shape and form the land - from the cliffs to the tiny grains of sand - so do our actions, words, and thoughts shape and form our reality. Even more, ripples joining one another form tidal waves that change the planet. If we make sure that our every thought, word, and action are based in love then the ripples we create will bring about positive change for a positive future."
--- Julia Butterfly Hill --- Sent in by Melissa Stroupe --- Virginia
"Make good habits and they will make you."
--- Parks Cousins --- Submitted by Martha Varzaly --- Pennsylvania
"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan."
--- Tom Landry --- Submitted by Chen Fawn Meng --- Malaysia
"Faith makes it possible, not easy."
--- Sally Nguyen --- Virginia
Life, what is life?
A newborn baby, a growing child,
A smiling grandma, or is it you and I,
Much, much more, I think,
Greater than merely breathing air,
Far more than merely living what is there,
It is exploring, searching and findings all things,
The vastness of creation,
Relishing in the sunrise, being part of sunset,
Feeling it, living it, breathing it,
Creating life, touching life,
Loving someone, the glory in being loved,
Why do you want more, see what is yours,
Life is appreciation, happiness inside,
Rescuing the bird with the broken wing,
Finding the first brilliant spring bloom and
Leaving it for a butterfly to feed on,
Life is what you are, make or break,
To live is to be life, live it!
--- Copyright © 1997 Teresa Meyer --- WA., Australia
"And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb."
--- Kahlil Gibran --- Sent in by Melissa Stroupe --- Virginia
"Measure success by success, not by the number of failures it takes to achieve it."
--- Harvey Mackay --- Sent in by Chad O. King --- Texas
"Relationships are the grease that smooth the friction of life."
--- Scott Michael --- Sent in by Al Pipkin --- California
"Love is like a piece of canvas. You as the brush, your loved one the paint. If two don't work together, you'll never get the masterpiece."
--- Patricia --- Malaysia
"Dream lofty dreams and as you dream, so shall you become."
--- James Allen --- Sent in by Andrew Ho --- Malaysia
"Our darkest hour only has 60 minutes."
--- Unknown --- Submitted by Meghann Mason --- Texas
"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, no even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casketor coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
I believe that the most lawless and inordinate loves are less contrary to God's will than a self-invited and self-protective lovelessness...We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armor. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as a way in which they should break, so be it."
--- From The Four Loves, CS Lewis
--- Contributed by Charity --- Singapore