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Words of Wisdom

Excellence means when a man or a woman asks of himself more than others do.
Ortega Y Gasset

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

Revenge is just another way of being controlled by others. Do what you, not they decide is for you.

Fighting weakens everyone who participates.

Paul - Romans 12 : 21 " Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with Good. "

Chinese Proverb The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.

Who is among you who by worrying can add one cubit to his stature Matthew 6:27

When we worry, we insult God. Abdulla

If you want to leave a relationship, LEAVE! no need to make the relationship so awful you have to leave.

Free your personal history - Be born again - When people know your histories they exert some control over you. If you don't have a history your not limited to it.

Lincoln - Bettering one's condition

Then you can better your condition so it may go on and on in one ceaseless round, so long as man exists on the face of the earth. Adam Smith

Self - Love, is the real basis for the wealth of a nation.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little soon - forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feelings.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I don't know who my grandfather was. I'm more concerned to
know who his grandson will be.
-Abraham Lincoln

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
Lubbock, Sir John

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. - Goethe

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this. Eleanor Roosevelt

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. - Bertrand Russell

"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper." -- Aristotle

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein

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