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~ There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions. ~


~ Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give. ~


~ There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy ~


~ When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. ~


~ The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated. ~


~ Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. ~


~ Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet. ~


~ All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it. ~


~ Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry. ~


~ My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. ~


~ The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together. ~


~ A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. ~


~ Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last --more than passion or even sex! ~


~ Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. ~


~ Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. ~


~ Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. ~


~ Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible. ~


~ The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. ~


~ You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit. ~


~ You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. ~


~ Take up one idea! Make that idea your life ,Think of it .Dream of it,live on that idea.Let the brain,muscles,nerves every part of your body be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone.This is the way to success. ~


~ The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. ~


~ Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian ~


~ It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action. ~


~ Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. ~


~ Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. ~


~ It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ~


~ You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. ~


~ Charity begins at home and justice begins next door. ~


~ To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth. ~


~ Inspiration: There is no man upon the earth, no foolish man or wise, No man of high or humble birth but somewhere in the skies Can find a star to lead him on if he will lift his eyes. ~


~ Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. ~


~ The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted. ~


~ Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe. ~


~ Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. ~


~ Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings—admiration or pity. ~


~ Set Your Goals High Enough To Inspire You And Low Enough To Encourage You. ~


~ Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. ~


~ Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them. ~


~ The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. ~


~ Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements. ~


~ The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, Nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when they discover that someone else believes in them and is willing to trust them. ~


~ Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. ~


~ There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration. ~


~ The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. ~


~ Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. ~


~ The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. ~


~ When the world says, "Give up," hope whispers, "Try it one more time. ~


~ Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do. ~


~ A leader is a dealer in hope. ~


~ Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. ~


~ Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. ~


~ Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. ~


~ We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. ~


~ Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have. ~


~ The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. ~


~ Hope for the best but prepare for the worst. ~


~ All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope. ~


~ Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. ~


~ Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. ~



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