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The document contains two menus that list the dates of each month from January to December. Menu 1 lists the dates from January to June, while Menu 2 lists the dates from July to December. Each month is listed with its dates in bullet points. The purpose seems to be providing a daily selection of dates for each month to reflect on thoughts or intentions for that day.
Thoughts for every_day
- 1. 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 1
- 2. 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 2
- 3. PEACE OF MIND • The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself. • Lucius Annaeus Seneca 3
- 4. HAPPINESS • There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy. • Robert Louis Stevenson 4
- 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 5
- 6. FORGIVENESS • Forgiveness means letting go of the past. • Gerald Jampolsky 6
- 7. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them. • Aughey 7
- 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 8
- 9. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • Make yourself necessary to somebody. • Ralph Waldo Emerson 9
- 10. FRIENDSHIP • True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. • Dave Tyson Gentry 10
- 11. OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD • When we lose God, it is not God who is lost. • Anon 11
- 12. FAITH AND BELIEF • Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up. • Guideposts 12
- 13. PRAYER • Prayer moves the hand that moves the world. • John Aikman Wallace 13
- 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 14
- 15. SELF-CONTROL • Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. • George Bernard Shaw 15
- 16. SELF-CONFIDENCE • Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it. • Stan Smith 16
- 17. SIMPLICITY • What I do, I do very well, and what I don’t do well, I don’t do at all. • Anon 17
- 18. ONE DAY • Nothing in business is so valuable as time. • John H. Patterson 18
- 19. YESTERDAY: THE PAST • Enjoy yourself. These are the “good old days” you’re going to miss in the years ahead. • Anon 19
- 20. TODAY: THE PRESENT • The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. • Elbert Hubbard 20
- 21. THIS MOMENT • If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done. • Anon 21
- 22. MORNINGS • Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start. • Edgar Watson Howe 22
- 23. EVENINGS • Sum up at night what thou has done by day. • Lord Herbert 23
- 24. TOMORROW: THE FUTURE • Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest. • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 24
- 25. AVERAGE, “BORING” DAYS • Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. • Charles Baudelaire 25
- 26. DIFFICULT DAYS • The secret of patience … to do something else in the meantime. • Anon 26
- 27. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF- FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you. • Madeline Bridges 27
- 28. ENTHUSIASM • Give me a man who sings at his work. • Thomas Carlyle 28
- 29. HOPE • Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. • Anon 29
- 30. VISUALIZATION • We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon. • Konrad Adenauer 30
- 31. ROLE MODELS • Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. • Burke 31
- 32. CHANGE • Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. • George Bernard Shaw 32
- 33. DECISIONS • Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. • Peter Drucker 33
- 34. INSTINCTS • Systems die; instincts remain. • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 34
- 35. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US • Skills vary. We must … strive by that which is born in us. • Pindar 35
- 36. MOTIVATION • To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. • Baruch Spinoza 36
- 37. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS • Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do. • Lin Yutang 37
- 38. GOALS • The one thing worth living for is to keep one’s soul pure. • Marcus Aurelius 38
- 39. FEAR • Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid. • Ron Meyer 39
- 40. WORRY • 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 40
- 41. DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES • Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning. • George Eliot 41
- 42. SECURITY • There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity. • General Douglas MacArthur 42
- 43. RISKS • No one reaches a high position without daring. • Publilius Syrus 43
- 44. COURAGE • To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. • Confucius 44
- 45. WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US • The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you. • Anon 45
- 46. COMMITMENT • If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. • Michael Evans 46
- 47. GETTING GOING • Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. • Brendan Francis 47
- 48. SUCCESS • The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. • Sir William Osler 48
- 49. LUCK • The one who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck. • B.C. Forbes 49
- 50. OPPORTUNITY • The successful person is one who had the chance and took it. • Roger Babson 50
- 51. COMMITMENT • Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. • Isaac Barrow 51
- 52. CONCENTRATION • Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it. • Colonel Michael Friedsman 52
- 53. WORK • Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. • Ulysses S. Grant 53
- 54. PERFECTION • The person with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. • Johann von Goethe 54
- 55. JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO • God tests His real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones. • Katheryn Hulme 55
- 56. TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME • I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. • Lord Chesterfield 56
- 57. PERSEVERANCE • They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful. • Samuel Smiles 57
- 58. PROBLEMS • Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. • Corrie ten Bloom 58
- 59. FAILURES AND MISTAKES • Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. • Bertolt Brecht 59
- 60. THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY • Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind. • Frank Harris 60
- 61. REACTING TO EVENTS • What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. • George Levinger 61
- 62. SELF-PITY • Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. • Helen Keller 62
- 63. PEACE OF MIND • Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst. • Lin Yutang 63
- 64. HAPPINESS • Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. • Hosea Ballou 64
- 65. ACCEPTANCE • We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. • Martin Luther King, Jr. 65
- 66. FORGIVENESS • The angry people are those people who are most afraid. • Dr. Robert Anthony 66
- 67. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. • Karl Barth 67
- 68. THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE • The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well. • Foe Ancis 68
- 69. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice. • Vauvenargues 69
- 70. FRIENDSHIP • The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen. • Bob Lemon 70
- 71. ACCEPTANCE • Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity. • G.K. Chesterton 71
- 72. OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD • Some people talk about finding God, as if He could get lost. • Anon 72
- 73. FAITH AND BELIEF • Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. • Erich Fromm 73
- 74. PRAYER • Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. • Soren Kierkegaard 74
- 75. SELF-ACCEPTANCE • I’m not OK, you’re not OK - and that’s OK. • William Sloane Coffin 75
- 76. SELF-CONTROL • When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something. • Robert Browning 76
- 77. SELF-RELIANCE • Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. • Frank Tyger 77
- 78. SIMPLICITY • What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. • Confucius 78
- 79. ONE DAY • Nothing is worth more than this day. • Johann von Goethe 79
- 80. YESTERDAY: THE PAST • Some folks never exaggerate - they just remember big. • Audrey Snead 80
- 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 81
- 82. THIS MOMENT • The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. • Mignon McLaughlin 82
- 83. MORNINGS • With each sunrise, we start anew. • Anon 83
- 84. EVENINGS • Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight. • Scottish proverb 84
- 85. TOMORROW: THE FUTURE • God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. • Isak Dinesen 85
- 86. AVERAGE, “BORING” DAYS • Being bored is an insult to oneself. • Jules Renard 86
- 87. DIFFICULT DAYS • Pain is never permanent. • Saint Teresa of Avila 87
- 88. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF- FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too. • Herbert Samuels 88
- 89. ENTHUSIASM • You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. • Colette 89
- 90. HOPE • Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do without. • LeRoy Douglas 90
- 91. VISUALIZATION • A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it. • Anon 91
- 92. ROLE MODELS • People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves. • Tyron Edwards 92
- 93. CHANGE • Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another. • Arthur Christopher Benson 93
- 94. DECISIONS • Full maturity … is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make. • Angela Barron McBride 94
- 95. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US • 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 95
- 96. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US • There is just one life for each of us: our own. • Euripides 96
- 97. MOTIVATION • Don’t let other people tell you what you want. • Pat Riley 97
- 98. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS • No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. • Mignon McLaughlin 98
- 99. GOALS • If you don’t know where you are going, how can you expect to get there? • Basil S. Walsh 99
- 100. FEAR • We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. • Marcus Annaeus Seneca 100
- 101. WORRY • If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset. • Krishnamurti 101
- 102. DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES • To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything, or nothing, about it. • Olin Miller 102
- 103. SECURITY • To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself. • Marcus Annaeus Seneca 103
- 104. RISKS • It takes courage to lead a life. Any life. • Erica Jong 104
- 105. COURAGE • It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. • James A. Michener 105
- 106. WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US • We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. • Sir Winston Churchill 106
- 107. “IGNORANCE” • Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. • Edgar Degas 107
- 108. GETTING GOING • We will not know unless we begin. • Howard Zinn 108
- 109. SUCCESS • Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. • Helen Hayes 109
- 110. LUCK • You don’t just luck into things … You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities. • Barbara Bush 110
- 111. OPPORTUNITY • Opportunity knocks but once. • Anon 111
- 112. COMMITMENT • He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides. • George P. Schultz 112
- 113. CONCENTRATION • One arrow does not bring down two birds. • Turkish proverb 113
- 114. WORK • To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun? • Katharine Graham 114
- 115. PERFECTION • If the best man’s faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes. • Gaelic proverb 115
- 116. JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO • An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. • Friedrich Engels 116
- 117. TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME • The distance doesn’t matter; only the first step is difficult. • Madame Marquise du Deffand 117
- 118. PERSEVERANCE • It isn’t hard to be good from time to time … What’s tough is being good every day. • Willie Mays 118
- 119. PROBLEMS • Every path has its puddle. • English proverb 119
- 120. FAILURES AND MISTAKES • Our mistakes won’t irreparably damage our lives unless we let them. • James E. Sweaney 120
- 121. THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY • Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income. • Robert R. Updegraff 121
- 122. REACTING TO EVENTS • When things go wrong, don’t go with them. • Anon 122
- 123. THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY • A problem is a chance for you to do your best. • Duke Ellington 123
- 124. SELF-PITY • The opposite of having faith is having self-pity. • Og Guinness 124
- 125. PEACE OF MIND • If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. • Paula A. Bendry 125
- 126. HAPPINESS • It is in his pleasure that a man really lives. • Agnes Repplier 126
- 127. ACCEPTANCE • Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary. • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 127
- 128. FORGIVENESS • The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. • Mahatma Ghandi 128
- 129. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. • Ruth Ann Schabacker 129
- 130. THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE • We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are. • R.H. Stoddard 130
- 131. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? • George Eliot 131
- 132. FRIENDSHIP • There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. • Saint Thomas Aquinas 132
- 133. OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD • Let God love you through others and let God love others through you. • D.M. Street 133
- 134. FAITH AND BELIEF • I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. • 2 Tm. 4:7 134
- 135. CHANGE • A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. • Sir Winston Churchill 135
- 136. SELF-KNOWLEDGE • When a man begins to understand himself, he begins to live. • Norvin G. McGranahan 136
- 137. SELF-ACCEPTANCE • Do not wish to be anything but what you are. • Saint Francis de Sales 137
- 138. SELF-CONFIDENCE • As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. • Johann von Goethe 138
- 139. SELF-RELIANCE • The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm. • Swedish proverb 139
- 140. SIMPLICITY • There is only one meaning of life, the act of living itself. • Erich Fromm 140
- 141. ONE DAY • We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. • George MacDonald 141
- 142. YESTERDAY: THE PAST • Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it. • Anon 142
- 143. TODAY: THE PRESENT • Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. • Horace 143
- 144. MORNINGS • If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly. • Marcus Annaeus Seneca 144
- 145. EVENINGS • Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. • Eph. 14:26 145
- 146. TOMORROW: THE FUTURE • I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. • Albert Einstein 146
- 147. DIFFICULT DAYS • God grant us patience! • William Shakespeare 147
- 148. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF- FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • Change your thoughts and you change your world. • Norman Vincent Peale 148
- 149. ENTHUSIASM • The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool. • William McFee 149
- 150. CHANGE • Every new adjustment is a crisis in self- esteem. • Eric Hoffer 150
- 151. VISUALIZATION • We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon. • Konrad Adenauer 151
- 152. ROLE MODELS • A good example is the best sermon. • Anon 152
- 153. CHANGE • Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. • Bertolt Brecht 153
- 154. FORGIVENESS • One forgives to the degree that one loves. • Francois de La Rochefoucauld 154
- 155. INSTINCTS • The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones. • Soren Kierkegaard 155
- 156. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US • He who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints. • Joan L. Brannon 156
- 157. MOTIVATION • We talk on principle, but we act on interest. • Walter Savage Landor 157
- 158. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS • Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness. • Jean Vanier 158
- 159. GOALS • You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. • Billy Wilder 159
- 160. FEAR • Do not think of all your anxieties, you will only make yourself ill. • Shih King 160
- 161. WORRY • Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. • Swedish proverb 161
- 162. DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES • The only certainty is that nothing is certain. • Pliny, the Elder 162
- 163. SECURITY • No one can build her security upon the nobleness of another person. • Willa Cather 163
- 164. RISKS • Unless you enter the tiger’s den, you cannot take the cubs. • Japanese proverb 164
- 165. COURAGE • Confidence … is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. • John Dewey 165
- 166. WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US • Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it. • Victor Hugo 166
- 167. “IGNORANCE” • No one knows what he can do until he tries. • Publilius Syrus 167
- 168. GETTING GOING • If we really want to live, we’d better start at once to try. • W.H. Auden 168
- 169. SUCCESS • Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. • Henry Ford 169
- 170. OPPORTUNITY • I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. • Mark Twain 170
- 171. COMMITMENT • If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. • Michael Evans 171
- 172. WORK • Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted. • David Bly 172
- 173. PERFECTION • Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams. • Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs 173
- 174. JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO • God doesn’t make orange juice, God makes oranges. • Jesse Jackson 174
- 175. TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME • The distance doesn’t matter; only the first step is difficult. • Madame Marquise du Deffand 175
- 176. PERSEVERANCE • It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. • Confucius 176
- 177. PERSEVERANCE • It isn’t hard to be good from time to time … What’s tough is being good every day. • Willie Mays 177
- 178. FAILURES AND MISTAKES • The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. • Eleanor Roosevelt 178
- 179. REACTING TO EVENTS • Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office. • Abraham Lincoln 179
- 180. SELF-PITY • Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. • André Gide 180
- 181. PEACE OF MIND • Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict. • Anon 181
- 182. HAPPINESS • Happiness depends upon ourselves. • Aristotle 182
- 183. ACCEPTANCE • 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. 183
- 184. FORGIVENESS • Judge not, that ye be not judged. • Mt. 7:1 184
- 185. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • The mere sense of living is joy enough. • Emily Dickinson 185
- 186. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • Charity begins at home, and usually stays there. • Elbert Hubbard 186
- 187. HAPPINESS • Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. • Mark Twain 187
- 188. FRIENDSHIP • When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing. • Anon 188
- 189. HAPPINESS • Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy? • A Course In Miracles 189
- 190. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF- FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • 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 190
- 191. PRAYER • The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God. • Oswald Chambers 191
- 192. PERSEVERANCE • The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. • Oliver Wendell Holmes 192
- 193. SELF-ACCEPTANCE • Do not wish to be anything but what you are. • Saint Francis de Sales 193
- 194. HAPPINESS • Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. • John Barrymore 194
- 195. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF- FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it. • Malcolm Forbes 195
- 196. HAPPINESS • Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable. • Anon 196
- 197. ONE DAY • We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. • George MacDonald 197
- 198. ACCEPTANCE • Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. • Margaret Mitchell 198
- 199. FORGIVENESS • Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. • Harriet Uts Nelson 199
- 200. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us. • Thomas Fuller 200
- 201. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves. • William Hazlitt 201
- 202. TOMORROW: THE FUTURE • I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. • Albert Einstein 202
- 203. FRIENDSHIP • We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. • Thucydides 203
- 204. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF- FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • You can promote your healing by your thinking. • James E. Sweeney 204
- 205. PRAYER • When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide. • Anon 205
- 206. HOPE • All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope. • Alexandre Dumas 206
- 207. ACCEPTANCE • Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change! • J.C.F. von Schiller 207
- 208. CHANGE • There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change. • Rollo May 208
- 209. DECISIONS • Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision. • Harry A. Hopf 209
- 210. FORGIVENESS • They may not deserve forgiveness, but I do. • Anon 210
- 211. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US • I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. • George Burns 211
- 212. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. • Ralph Waldo Emerson 212
- 213. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS • Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness. • Jean Vanier 213
- 214. GOALS • Never try to catch two frogs with one hand. • Chinese proverb 214
- 215. FEAR • Fear is the absence of faith. • Paul Tillich 215
- 216. WORRY • Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. • Swedish proverb 216
- 217. ACCEPTANCE • If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job. • Malcolm Forbes 217
- 218. FORGIVENESS • It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. • Madame Dorothee Deluzy 218
- 219. RISKS • Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. • General George S. Patton 219
- 220. COURAGE • Confidence … is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. • John Dewey 220
- 221. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have. • Ken Keyes, Jr. 221
- 222. TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME • From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. • Dante Alighieri 222
- 223. ACCEPTANCE • Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. • Anon 223
- 224. SUCCESS • A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. • William Hazlitt 224
- 225. OPPORTUNITY • I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. • Mark Twain 225
- 226. FORGIVENESS • When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. • Norman Vincent Peale 226
- 227. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. • English proverb 227
- 228. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy. • Luther Burbank 228
- 229. JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO • With us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles. • 2 Chr. 229
- 230. TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME • It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. • Chinese proverb 230
- 231. FRIENDSHIP • It is easier to visit friends than to live with them. • Chinese proverb 231
- 232. PEACE OF MIND • 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 232
- 233. HAPPINESS • Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. • Abraham Lincoln 233
- 234. ACCEPTANCE • The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. • George Bernard Shaw 234
- 235. FORGIVENESS • Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon. • Arthur J. Rehrat 235
- 236. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don’t make. • Bill Veeck 236
- 237. THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE • The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can’t cure. • Ogden Nash 237
- 238. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • If you judge people, you have no time to love them. • Mother Teresa 238
- 239. FRIENDSHIP • One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness. • William E. Holler 239
- 240. OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD • Talking about God is not at all the same thing as experiencing God, or acting out God through our lives. • Phillip Hewett 240
- 241. PRAYER • When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can. • Edward M. Goulburn 241
- 242. SELF-ACCEPTANCE • No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. • Eleanor Roosevelt 242
- 243. SELF-CONFIDENCE • Perhaps I am stronger than I think. • Thomas Merton 243
- 244. SELF-RELIANCE • The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. • Sophocles 244
- 245. SIMPLICITY • To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. • Mother Teresa 245
- 246. ONE DAY • The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now. • Anon 246
- 247. YESTERDAY: THE PAST • Never let yesterday use up today. • Richard H. Nelson 247
- 248. PRAYER • Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines. • Satchel Paige 248
- 249. MORNINGS • When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature. • Sydney Smith 249
- 250. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF- FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • Most of the time we think we’re sick it’s all in the mind. • Thomas Wolfe 250
- 251. ENTHUSIASM • Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars. • Dwight D. Eisenhower 251
- 252. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US • I’d rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city. • William A. Hulbert 252
- 253. VISUALIZATION • Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born. • Solomon 253
- 254. ACCEPTANCE • If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters. • Abigail Van Buren 254
- 255. CHANGE • Nothing in this world is permanent. • German proverb 255
- 256. INSTINCTS • It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see. • Thomas Carlyle 256
- 257. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US • The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. • Anne Morrow Lindbergh 257
- 258. MOTIVATION • A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. • Napoleon Bonaparte 258
- 259. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS • We cannot all be masters. • William Shakespeare 259
- 260. GOALS • Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven’t even begun to live. • William P. Merrill 260
- 261. FEAR • If you are afraid for your future, you don’t have a present. • James Petersen 261
- 262. WORRY • Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. • A.J. Cronin 262
- 263. DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES • If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. • Lee Iacocca 263
- 264. RISKS • In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge. • Dennis Dugan 264
- 265. COURAGE • Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation. • Marcus Annaeus Seneca 265
- 266. GETTING GOING • Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come. • Janet Erskine Stuart 266
- 267. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had. • Susan L. Lenzkes 267
- 268. GOALS • It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself. • Johann von Goethe 268
- 269. RISKS • Necessity is the mother of taking chances. • Mark Twain 269
- 270. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • He has enough who is contented with little. • Anon 270
- 271. ACCEPTANCE • There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. • C.M. Ward 271
- 272. PERSEVERANCE • The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. • Oliver Wendell Holmes 272
- 273. FAILURES AND MISTAKES • The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. • Eleanor Roosevelt 273
- 274. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. • Estonian proverb 274
- 275. FRIENDSHIP • Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless. • Turkish proverb 275
- 276. HAPPINESS • No one gives joy or sorrow … We gather the consequences of our own deeds. • Garuda Purana 276
- 277. ACCEPTANCE • The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is, who find the least fault. • Charles Dudley Warner 277
- 278. FORGIVENESS • Revenge could steal a man’s life until there was nothing left but emptiness. • Louis L’Amour 278
- 279. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • That which does not kill me makes me stronger. • Friedrich Nietzsche 279
- 280. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is. • Frank A. Clark 280
- 281. ONE DAY • I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. • Golda Meir 281
- 282. FRIENDSHIP • Friendship is a plant which must be often watered. • Anon 282
- 283. MORNINGS • Day’s sweetest moments are at dawn. • Ella Wheeler Wilcox 283
- 284. PRAYER • Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks. • The Desert Fathers 284
- 285. SELF-ACCEPTANCE • To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are. • Anon 285
- 286. SELF-RELIANCE • A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. • Francis Bacon 286
- 287. SIMPLICITY • If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all? • Joe Namath 287
- 288. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • More than enough is too much. • Anon 288
- 289. YESTERDAY: THE PAST • The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. • Max Beerbohm 289
- 290. TODAY: THE PRESENT • So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by today’s economies. • John Mason Brown 290
- 291. MORNINGS • With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun. • Anon 291
- 292. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF- FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • 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 292
- 293. ENTHUSIASM • The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. • Marshal Ferdinand Foch 293
- 294. HOPE • Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. • Anon 294
- 295. CHANGE • When you’re through changing, you’re through. • Bruce Barton 295
- 296. INSTINCTS • Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. • George Bernard Shaw 296
- 297. FRIENDSHIP • Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone. • Ella Wheeler Wilcox 297
- 298. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor. • Marcus Annaeus Seneca 298
- 299. PRAYER • The fewer the words, the better the prayer. • Martin Luther 299
- 300. FEAR • The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one. • Elbert Hubbard 300
- 301. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF- FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. • Henry L. Stimson 301
- 302. ENTHUSIASM • The difference between one man and another is not mere ability … it is energy. • Thomas Arnold 302
- 303. RISKS • And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. • Erica Jong 303
- 304. COURAGE • You’re only as sick as your secrets. • Anon 304
- 305. GETTING GOING • Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success. • Alonzo Newton Benn 305
- 306. SUCCESS • Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. • Sir Winston Churchill 306
- 307. COMMITMENT • Whether you are really right or not doesn’t matter, it’s the belief that counts. • Robertson Davies 307
- 308. FEAR • Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed. • Anon 308
- 309. RISKS • The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. • Moliere 309
- 310. PRAYER • Amazing things start happening when we start praying! • Anon 310
- 311. SUCCESS • Success comes before work only in the dictionary. • Anon 311
- 312. FEAR • Humor acts to relieve fear. • Dr. William F. Fry, Jr. 312
- 313. HAPPINESS • Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance. • Oliver Wendell Holmes 313
- 314. ACCEPTANCE • He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. • David Hume 314
- 315. FORGIVENESS • Revenge could steal a man’s life until there was nothing left but emptiness. • Louis L’Amour 315
- 316. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold. • Maurice Setter 316
- 317. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. • George Santayana 317
- 318. FRIENDSHIP • They are rich who have true friends. • Thomas Fuller 318
- 319. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet. • Ancient Persian saying 319
- 320. PRAYER • Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks. • The Desert Fathers 320
- 321. SELF-ACCEPTANCE • You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. • Ethel Barrymore 321
- 322. SELF-RELIANCE • God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest. • Josiah Holland 322
- 323. COURAGE • What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? • Vincent van Gogh 323
- 324. RISKS • Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. • Ray Bradbury 324
- 325. FRIENDSHIP • Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. • Samuel Butler 325
- 326. TODAY: THE PRESENT • If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. • Morris West 326
- 327. PRAYER • Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. • Thomas B. Brooks 327
- 328. ONE DAY • A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. • Charles Darwin 328
- 329. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF- FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS • The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions. • André Godin 329
- 330. GOALS • He who begins many things finishes but few. • Italian proverb 330
- 331. COURAGE • No great things are done more through courage than through wisdom. • German proverb 331
- 332. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US • We are betrayed by what is false within. • George Meredith 332
- 333. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS • Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get. • Anon 333
- 334. GOALS • The soul that has no established aim loses itself. • Michel de Montaigne 334
- 335. FEAR • A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. • Billie Jean King 335
- 336. FRIENDSHIP • The best mirror is an old friend. • Anon 336
- 337. PRAYER • I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone. • Dwight L. Moody 337
- 338. ONE DAY • Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions to actual deeds. • Grenville Kleiser 338
- 339. COURAGE • 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 339
- 340. FRIENDSHIP • Hold a true friend with both your hands. • Nigerian proverb 340
- 341. ONE DAY • Every day is a messenger of God. • Russian proverb 341
- 342. COURAGE • To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid. • John Cage 342
- 343. GOALS • I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. • William J. Locke 343
- 344. CHANGE • If you want to make enemies, try to change something. • Woodrow Wilson 344
- 345. FRIENDSHIP • One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend. • Marcus Annaeus Seneca 345
- 346. HAPPINESS • How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. • Publilius Syrus 346
- 347. CHANGE • Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. • Arthur Christopher Benson 347
- 348. FORGIVENESS • Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. • Isaac Friedmann 348
- 349. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS • If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. • Robert Quillen 349
- 350. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE • It is more blessed to give than to receive. • Acts 20:35 350
- 351. FRIENDSHIP • 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 351
- 352. PRAYER • We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. • Oswald Chambers 352
- 353. GOALS • Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist? • J.C.F. von Schiller 353
- 354. FRIENDSHIP • Have but few friends, though many acquaintances. • Anon 354
- 355. GOALS • Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you. • John F. Kennedy 355
- 356. FRIENDSHIP • A man is known by the company he keeps. • Anon 356
- 357. GOALS • A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. • John Powell 357
- 358. MORNINGS • With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun. • Anon 358
- 359. ACCEPTANCE • There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. • C.M. Ward 359
- 360. ENTHUSIASM • It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. • General Douglas MacArthur 360
- 361. CHANGE • Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. • Oscar Wilde 361
- 362. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US • A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. • Marcus Annaeus Seneca 362
- 363. GOALS • Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it. • Colonel Michael Friedman 363
- 364. FEAR • The habit of doing one’s duty drives away fear. • Charles Baudelaire 364
- 365. WORRY • Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. • William Ralph Inge 365
- 366. DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES • Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. • Tehyi Hsieh 366
- 367. THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE • The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can’t cure. • Ogden Nash 367