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 We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.  Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received. Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign. - Mae West The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. One starts an action simply because one must do something. Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being. All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls. Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss. There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time. To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich. Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day. Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea. He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals. All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. When asked to spell Mississippi the boy asked, "The river or the state?" It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day. Get into the habit of looking for the silver lining of the cloud, and, when you have found it, continue to look at it, rather than at the leaden gray in the middle. It will help you over many hard places. Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. 
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