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Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes. - Dr. James Dobson

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When you had out candy tonight, take the time to compliment every kid!

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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. - Phyllis Bottom

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Burdens become light when cheerfully borne. - Ovid

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Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. - Mario Fernandez

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Diligence is the mother of good luck. - Benjamin Franklin

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Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity - bravery - respect - freedom - discipline - sacrifice - godliness. - Charles R. Swindoll

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. – Cicero

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. - James Baldwin

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Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.  - Roger Lewin

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There is nothing permanent except change. (observation made in 513 B.C.) - Heraclitus of Greece

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Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than solving a problem. - Peter Ginter

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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.  - John Wooden

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Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. - Margaret Fuller

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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Goethe

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Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. (from An Acceptable Time - Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - Madeleine L'Engle

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see. - Vincent van Gogh

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Beauty is whatever gives joy. - Hugh Nibley

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Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.  Norman Vincent Peale

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Hope is a waking dream.  Aristotle

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Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose. Stephen Covey

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Gratitude is heaven itself. William Blake

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f the only prayer you say in your life is "thank you," that would suffice. Meister Eckhart

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Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. Gladys Berthe Stern

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I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.  Confucius

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Appreciation is yeast, lifting ordinary to extraordinary.  Maryann Petro

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It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment. Naomi Williams

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For the wise man, every day is a festival. Plutarch

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There are no little things. "Little things" are the hinges of the universe. Fanny Fern

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Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Robert Fulghum