Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
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A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
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