Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass
H. JACKSON BROWN JR.Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.
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Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Every person that you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them.
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Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
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Spend your life lifting people up, not putting them down.
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Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.
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Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
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Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.
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Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
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Remember that no time is ever wasted that makes two people better friends.
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Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
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It’s not your job to get people to like you, it’s your job to like people.
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Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
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Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.
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Believe in miracles but don’t depend on them.
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Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece – by thought, choice, courage, and determination.
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Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
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When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails
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Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.
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Become the kind of person who brightens a room just by entering it.
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Remember that everyone is influenced by kindness.
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
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While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
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