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True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.

Og Mandino

A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.
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Gift Myself Power Smile
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
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Best Plant Result Yourself
Never settle for the crumbs of life.
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Inspirational Life One Liner
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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Darkness Endurance Light Love Myself
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
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Character Company Listen
My reasoning they may counter; my speech they may distrust; my apparel they may disapprove; my face they may reject; and even my bargains may cause them suspicion; yet my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest clay.
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Appearance Cold Deep Heart Love Myself Sun Talk Trust
My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.
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Change End Life Mistake Myself Personality
Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.
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Beginning Human Self Love Walk Worth Yourself
Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.
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Inspirational Limitation Mindset Yourself
You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.
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Attitude Character Success Win Yourself
With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.
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Achievement Break Dream Goal Strategy
Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.
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Inspirational Start Wasted Time
Use wisely your power of choice.
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Choice Power Wisdom Yourself
If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.
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Choice Goodness Habit Myself Slave
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow’s good luck.
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Carry Fortune Goodness
Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.
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Attitude Future Gift God Life Moments Pain Planning Poison
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.
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Beginning Care Death Kindness Life Reward Understand Yourself
And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature’s greatest gifts and I will waste it no more.
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Gift Greatness Laugh Myself Nature Poor
Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
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Blessing Break Confidence Courage Life Music Play Smile Strength Sun Value Yourself
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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Determination Enough Failure Myself Strong Success
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
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Career Defeat Importance Necessary Struggle Success
Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat never take yourself too seriously.
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Decision Defeat Depression Laughter Life Pain Perspective Serious Yourself
Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.
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Business Expectation Greatness Inspirational Opportunity Time
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.
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Darkness Direction Failure Hide Moments Peace Satisfaction Success Time
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.
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Accomplishment Effort Failure Live Power Result Strong Weakness
True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.
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Deep Oneself Security True
I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think, and now I know a great secret of life, for I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements , and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise.
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Eyes Greatness Heart Broken Life Myself Opportunity Problem Secret Thinking Truth

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