115 Quotes To Live By
This collection of quotes to live by contain quotes that are full of wisdom
and encouragement to apply in our lives.
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Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
Harriet Nelson
Words To Live By
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We often fall short of time
because we tend to spend more time
on redundant activities which will leave us with very less time for
important activities.
Brian Adams, Time Management
Poems Of Encouragement
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One lesson I can leave you...Do noble things, not dream them all day long
Charles Kingsley, Nobility Of Goodness
Graduation Poems
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Never lose an old friend no matter what the cause.
Author Unknown, Friends
Friendship Poems
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Honesty is a good way to live your life each day because you never have to think what did I say!
Catherine Pulsifer, Being Honest
Poems about Honesty
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Dear God! let me grow from day to day, clinging and sunny and bright!
Mary Mapes Dodge, My Window Ivy
Garden Poems
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A smile given in forgiveness is pure - to stop an argument it can cure.
Catherine Pulsifer, Worth Its Weight In Gold
Smile Poems
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Speak gently; it is better far to rule by love than fear.
David Bates
Poems About Fear
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Our lives are but a speck in time, so make the most out of every day.
Catherine Pulsifer
Short Quotes
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Never regret something that once made you smile.
Amber Deckers
Encouragment Quotes
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa
Weekly Quotes
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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy
Gratitude Quotes
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
Audre Lorde
Valentines Day Poems
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So as one ending occurs look forward, open the doors.
Catherine Pulsifer, Seasons Of Life
Poems About New Beginnings
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And so it [the day] turns from us, and goes away in sad disdain; though we could give our lives for it, it never comes again.
Miss Mulock, This Day Never Comes Again
A New Day Poem
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At our work or by the wayside, while the sunshine's making hay; thus we may, by help of Heaven, learn a little every day.
Unknown, Learn A Little
Motivational Poems
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Though men do contradict, God's words agree; for what the early Bible prophets wrote, we find that Christ and his apostles quote. so, trust no creed that trembles or offends
Unknown, How Readest Thou?
Poems About The Bible
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Focus on the future and forget the "ifs" - don't get caught in the "what if" riff.
Catherine Pulsifer, The Tiny Word of "If"
If Poems
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Wishing no longer shapes my living, my living shapes my wishing.
Julie Hebert, Live Life
Living Life Poem
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If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
W. Clement Stone
Thanksgiving Quotes
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Waste not moments nor your words in telling what you could do
Phoebe Cary, No Time Like The Present
Poems About Procrastination
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It is never too late to make things right.
Unknown
Apology Quotes
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Grant us wisdom and love to help this child learn to sing his own song.
Anne Spring, Prayer For A New Baby
Baby Poems
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert
Poems About Books
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Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.
Eugene Field
Book Quotes
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If you are wise, you will forget yourself into greatness. Forget your rights, but remember your responsibilities.
William Arthur Ward, If You Are Wise
Wisdom Poems
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Remember the saying this shall pass - sadness is not meant to last.
Catherine Pulsifer, This Shall Pass
Sad Poems
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Only the new days are our own; to-day is ours, and to-day alone.
Susan Coolidge, New Every Morning
Morning Prayer Devotion
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...man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest; then do not worry.
Charles F. Deems, Do Not Worry
Poems About Worry
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Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Max Ehrmann
Desiderata Poem
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Life is too short and precious to waste it doing things that don't please you.
D.D. Tai, Mind: How To Pleasure Your Mind Everyday
Life Quotes
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From the high mountain tops that front the day - turn, pilgrim, turn, and take the wiser way, - the upper road.
Priscilla Leonard, The Upper Road
Poems About Mountains
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Forgiving isn’t something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying 'You’re not important enough to have a stranglehold on me."
Jodi Picoult
Forgiveness Quotes
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Angry words! O let them never from the tongue unbridled slip
Unknown, Angry Words
Poems About Anger
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No idling in the pathway hard and slow; I must go forward, or must backward go!
Susan Coolidge, Forward
Poems About Life Struggles
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Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything.
Dwight L. Moody
Thanksgiving Prayers
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Hating no man, scorning no man, wronging none by word or deed; but forbearing, soothing, serving, thus I live - and this my creed.
Joseph Hobbins, You Ask Me How I Live
Life Mottos
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Put a bit of sunshine in the day; others need its cheer and so do you
Juniata Stafford, Scatter Sunshine
Spread Sunshine
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Living a life that you love and loving the life that you are living is the truest demonstration of abundance.
Lisa Nichols, Abundance Now
Poems About Life
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When your plans have gone awry, things will straighten if you try. When perplexed just what to do ...Stick to it!
David v. Bush, Stick To It
Inspirational Poems
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Some will hate thee, some will love thee...cease from man and look above thee; trust in God and do the right.
Norman McLeod, Trust In God, And Do The Right
Trust In God
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When skies are all a perfect blue and wealth and happiness pursue, ah, one must be extremely wise who can detect the world's disguise!
NIxon Waterman, Our Dark-Day Friends
To Know All Is To Forgive All
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I cannot build a mountain, or catch a rainbow fair. But let me be what I know best... A friend who's always there.
Unknown, If I Could Catch A Rainbow
Thank You Friend Poems
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If we were all perfect we would never learn how to handle an obstacle at the next turn.
Catherine Pulsifer, No One Is Perfect
Poems About Mistakes
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If you fall short on a daily goal, make sure not to beat yourself up too much over it.
Bryan Cohen, How to Work for Yourself
Goals Quotes
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Dear little children, never think that you, because you're small,
Have no important place to fill, there's work for one and all.
John Franklin Bair, little Things
Poems For Kids
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Before we indulge in self-pity we should open our eyes and see others in worse situations
Catherine Pulsifer, Habits We Need To Let Go Of
Letting Go Poem
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The man who gets most out of life is the man who takes advantage of every opportunity
Charles Rufus Skinner, Most Out Of Life
Opportunity Poems
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Be the best of whatever you are.
Douglas Malloch
Be The Best You Can Be
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You can give the people who contributed to the betterment
of your life a simple 'Thank You' even through a text message or a short call.
Rocco Cozza, Success Habits For The Morning
Appreciation Quotes
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A good one to live by, a day at a time!
Helen Hunt Jackson, One Day At A Time
Meaningful Poems
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All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
Edwin Markham, A Creed
Poems About Brotherhood
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Let us treat each other right, and live upright, honest and fair
J. J. Thorne
Hopes Of Joy
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We must write the song, whatever the words...and if it is sad, we must make it glad, and if sweet, we must make it sweeter.
Gibbon, Our Lives Are Songs
Life Is Good Poems
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Blessings on the man who smiles...the man who smiles when the clouds lower, when fortune frowns, when the tides are adverse.
George L. Perin, Blessings On The Man
A Face Without A Smile
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Forgive thy brother who has erred...and, as you speak a generous word, assist his feet to stand.
Daniel C. Colesworthy, Forgive Thy Brother
Showing Kindness To Others
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I only need to see my path for this one day.
Mary Frances Butts
Just For Today
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Without the truth, relationships die - There is nothing any worse than a little white lie.
Samatha A. M. Lynch, The Only Way
Poems About Truth
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Gentle words and kindly manners...gain true friends and life is richer, making men seem heaven-born.
W.J.M., Kindness Poem
Kindness Poems
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Those who believe in abundance of time just like any other resource, are able to do so much in a short period of time.
Zeeshan Raza, U Turn Your Life
Abundance Quotes
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Give, give, be always giving; who gives not is not living; the more you give the more you live.
Unknown, Be Always Giving
Poems About Helping Others
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To breathe, and wake, and sleep, to smile, to sigh, to grieve, to move in idleness through earth, this, this is not to live.
Horatius Bonar, Make Haste, O Man! To Live
Poems About Time
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When the motive is right and the will is strong - there are no limits to human power
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Limitless
Positive Poems
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Hold on to God, the Lord is by thy side, when we in His commands abide, hold on to God, help comes at last, if we but wait, and trust, and ask.
A. B. V. Dyke, Hold On To God
Poems About God
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
Voltaire
Quotes about Reading
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For This One Hour I can be unselfish. I can take the Golden Rule off the shelf, .... and put it to work in my thoughts,
words and actions... right now.
William Arthur Ward
For This One Hour
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With aging comes great wisdom, and that should be looked at!
Julie Hebert, Old Age
Poems On Aging
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Christmas is forever, ...not for just one day. For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away.
Norman W. Brooks, Christmas Is Forever
Christmas Poems
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....help me to remember in prayer all those that need your guidance and love each and every day.
Byron Pulsifer, Prayer To Serve
Five Finger Prayer
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When upon us wrong is hurled, strike not back again.
James Henry Thomas, Strike Not Back Again
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Wisdom reflects and ask forgiveness, kind words never die.
J. J. Thorne, Kind Words Never Die
Kind Words Are Like Honey
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Love the sinner and hate the sin.
St. Augustine
Sin Separates Us From God
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Criticism has no place in God’s plan for living; work together for His good, give and keep on giving
Greta Zwaan, Reason to Sing
Poems About God's Grace
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Talk less about the years to come. Give love, and labor more, today.
Alice Cary, Some Days
Easy Poems
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Find what you love - and do it!
Life is too short to waste it doing something you don't enjoy.
Diann B. Murr, Wake Up Successful
Life Is Too Short Quotes
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Where Love resides you'll find a rainbow too, soft colours that enhance and Hope renew
Jaymac, Where Love Resides...
Short Love Quotes
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Let us treat each other right, and live upright, honest and fair
J. J. Thorne
Hopes Of Joy
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Smiles, "hellos", and small talk can go a long way, especially when building your network.
Mark Snyder,
Productive Makeover Success
Smile Quotes
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For the joy of enjoying and the fullness of living are found in the heart that is filled with thanksgiving
Helen Steiner Rice, Fill Your Heart With Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Poems
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It is better to let go then live your life in a low
Catherine Pulsifer, Good To End
Goodbye Poems For Lovers
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So in life the same is true - Take baby steps in all you do. don't try to move the mountain all at once...
Catherine Pulsifer, Life's Baby Steps
Baby Steps
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Do not linger short term goals to make them long term
Edward Kelly, Getting Things Done the David Allen Way
Procrastination Quotes
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You need to speak your truth very kindly to the people around you and they will learn to respect you more.
Michele Gilbert,The Introvert
Truth Quotes
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In careless words we riot, and life would be sore - if tongues would but be quiet, and the heart say more.
Walt Mason, Seeds of Kindness
Planting Seeds of Kindness
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Enjoy what has been given to you; embrace each day as a gift and delight that you are able to make it a day to remember and not a day to despise.
Byron Pulsifer
Autumn Time
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Don't be impatient stop and think: better have cool moments on Despondency's brink
Daniel C. Colesworthy
Don't Be Impatient
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But he who slanders in the open may live to wish he had not spoken.
Arthur Franklin Fuller
Retaliation
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Allow yourself to learn from others without feeling
as if you are coming up short because you didn't know the answer yourself.
Riley Stevens, 50 Ways to Change Your Life in 50 Minutes
Learning Quotes
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Work and family life cannot just exist separately because time
and again, these two things will keep on interfering with each other.
Fhilcar Faunillan, Smart Parenting
Poems About Family
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The power of the mind is paramount to understanding and acquiring happiness.
Roberts Rivers, Happiness Is Possible
Poems About Happiness
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Don't deny the reality that life is going to have ups and downs.
Bad things can and do happen to anyone-
facing that reality and dealing with it head on is so much better than ignoring it.
Krista "KK" Weatherspoon, 50 Things To Know
Difficult
Times Quotes
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Whether it be a business of your own or that dream job that
keeps calling to you, don’t spend another day without doing something
that will bring you a step closer to that dream.
Cary David Richards, The Happiness Habit
Dream Quotes
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In giving criticism to others the key is to avoid a haphazard, ‘shoot-from-the-hip’ approach.
Randy Garner, Constructing Effective Criticism
Criticism Quotes
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Fear closes you down, thwarts creativity and limits choices to those of survival. The same is true for shame, anger, self-doubt, and worry (all brothers and sisters to fear).
Janeen Latini, Love to Lead. Lead to Love
Creativity Quotes
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By changing your perspective on life, you will, in turn, change your life.
Michael Austin Jacobs, Change Your Perspective, Change Your Life
Positive Quotes About Change
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There is nothing more hurtful than sharing with the one you love
and feeling like they are not listening.
Amanda Thompson, The Perfect Husband For Your Wife - You!
Love Quotes
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By reminding ourselves that we are mortal we will be more likely to
make courageous choices, be adventurous, live life to the fullest and
embrace who you are truly meant to be.
Mark
Patterson
Courage Quotes
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I am content with what I have, little be it, or much
John Bunyan, A Song Of Low Degree
Poems About Contentment
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Living your life focusing on money is not going to make you happy.
Riley Stevens, 50 Ways to Change Your Life in 50 Minutes
Wealth Quotes
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Do not wait until tomorrow - do what good you can today
Alfred S. Rctz
Poems
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Successful people know the value of hard work but they also know the
value of rest and relaxation.
Skip Powell, Success Habits 101
Relax Quotes
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A person needs 7-9 hours of sleep a day. You are prone to stress
when you are sleep deprived.
Jonathan
Brown, Depression
Stress Quotes
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We can choose to lose our peace, freak out and get angry
or we can choose to take a deep breath,
look to God and trust that He’s got it all under control.
Rebecca Bryan, The Carols of Christmas
Choices Quotes
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The best lessons our kids learn from us are what they learn by example.
Larry Hagner, The Dad's Edge
Poem About Life Lessons
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Aside from being linked to many health benefits,
eating breakfast can give you the energy that you need for the morning so you can avoid the morning slump.
Josh David, People Skills Guide
Health Quotes
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Your values serve as another foundation of how you make decisions in life.
Ace McCloud, Confident Communication Skills
Decision Quotes
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To build up your listening skills, spend 5 minutes a day where you just listen
and be aware of all the noises going on around you.
Ben Samson, Confidence Boosting Secrets
Listening Quotes
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You may be having a bad day today, but remember that today is not forever.
AJ Winters, The Motivation Switch
Overwhelmed Quotes
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No matter what skill you betray, the everyday life you are living, is certain to colour the play."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Actor
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The World seems crumbling. But you’re not alone. Because someone cares. Someone is waiting for you, and someone is looking for you!
Rula Osta, Cheer Up! It's A New Day
Cheer Up Quotes
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Don't forget to say your pray'rs, for 'tis God who loves to keep
Jane Taylor, Getting Up
The Baby
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May life bring hellos a lot more and let the goodbyes go without keeping score.
Catherine Pulsifer, Hello, Goodbye
An Unwanted Goodbye
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You've got to develop the short term action plan -
the budget -
that will allow you to achieve those goals and realize your vision.
Devin D.
Thorpe, 925 Ideas to Help You Save Money
Action Quotes
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Choosing to commit for one month only can ease the pressure
to perform that we often feel when starting out on a lifestyle change.
Maya Green, Resolution Evolution for Moms
Lifestyle Quotes
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The experience can be very bitter or hard but we can learn from this experience and grow as a result.
Edward Dunedin, Inspirational Quotes And Idioms On Life
Experience Quotes
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