Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience
with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own
imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every
day begin the task anew.
... Francois de Sales (1567-1622)
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If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I
would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no
difference. He is praying for me.
... Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813-1843)

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Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are
tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving
(1783-1859, American Author)
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Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except
what you're going to do now and do it.

William Durant
(1885-1981, American Historian, Essayist

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"Many men storm imaginary mountains all their lives and die in the
foothills cursing difficulties that do not exist." Anonymous

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Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience
and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and
controversy.

Marting Luther King, Jr.

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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly
given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and
never persist in trying to set people right.

Hannah Whitall Smith

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Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that.
That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a
stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible. - Sir Douglas Bader was a British fighter pilot who lost both legs in a flying accident, but still fought in World War Two. He was knighted for his work with the disabled, and the quote above is from his talk to a 14-year-old boy who had lost a leg in a car accident.

--- Sir Douglas Bader (1910-1982)

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I have always been delighted at the prospect
of a new day, a fresh try, one more start,
with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere
behind the morning.

- J. B. Priestley

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To exist is to change, to change is to mature,
to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

- Henri Bergson

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You can discover more about a person in an
hour of play than in a year of conversation.

- Plato
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Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed
sense of fear and no concept of the odds against
them. They make the impossible happen.

- Dr. Robert Jarvik
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There is a time to let things happen
and a time to make things happen.

- Hugh Prather

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"People do not lack strength; they lack will."

-- Victor Hugo

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"Ask wisely, with love, for everything you want."

-- Mark Victor Hansen


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"When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to
step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two
things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you
will be taught how to fly."

-- Barbara J. Winter

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"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from
the losers."

-- Brian Tracy