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Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions.

William Arthur Ward

The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven’t.
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Blessing Gratitude Luxury
Will someone else’s life be brighter tomorrow, because of what you have done today?
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Bright Life Yourself
The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.
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Attitude Patience Understand
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
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Faith Fear Feeling Freedom Friendship Possible Spirit Strength True Weakness
Commend while others are criticizing, persist while others are quitting.
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Persistence Praise Quit
Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.
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Prayer Purpose Success Weakness World
Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.
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Death Effect Fly Human Lose
The adventure of life is to learn.
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Adventure Learning Life
For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
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Feeling Gift Gratitude Health Light Morning Night
Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.
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Accomplishment Challenge Death Experience Failure Honesty Ourselves
Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.
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Challenge Future Impossible Present
To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
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Difference Perspective Thinking
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
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Believe Force Ignorance Love Myself Praise Yourself
Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.
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Day Live
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.
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Difference Encouragement Generosity Trouble
A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.
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Gratitude Heart Reveal Talk

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