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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

Teach me to do the best I can To help and cheer my fellowman Teach me to lose my selfish need, And glory in the larger deed, Which smothers the road and lights the day, For all who chance to come my way.

Reincarnation People coming back to life at quitting time.

Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your children.

God always answers in the deeps, never in the shallows of our soul.

A patient man is one who can put up with himself.

Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.''

The young sailor at sea was ordered to climb a mast to adjust a sail during a violent storm. He got halfway up, looked down, got dizzy and sick. An old sailor on deck shouted up to him Look up, son, look up. Young sailor looked up, regained his composure, and completed his mission. Moral Look ahead, not back.

Evolution has developed man to such a high degree that he builds zoos to keep his ancestors in cages.

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

The Dead Sea is the dead sea, because it continually receives and never gives.

If you are right, take the humble side -- you will help the other fellow. If you are wrong, take the humble side -- and you will help yourself.

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them --their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

Beware of assumptions Whatever you ''assume'' to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

Ninety-nine percent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings which develop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

We came here to serve not be served.

When one door closes another one opens with great possibilities ahead

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

Somebody did a golden deed Somebody proved a friend in need Somebody sang a beautiful song Somebody smiled the whole day long Somebody thought, 'Tis sweet to live Somebody said, I'm glad to give Somebody fought a valiant fight Somebody lived to shield the right Was that somebody you

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try.

Its quite true there's a fool born every minute. It's also quite true they don't die that fast.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

However far your travels take you, you will never find the girl who smiles out at you from the travel brochure.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

A long tongue shortens life.

The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.

Speak well of your enemies... you made them.

Three levels of organizational vision 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.

Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts.

Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.

Little girl's definition of conscience ''Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does. ''

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight, And walks with you in the shadows.

There is no excellence without labor.

God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them.

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years.

Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying then take a nap during this period.

Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage

Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them.

Getting anything changes it from being desirable to just being taken for granted.

You never know what you can do until you try.

On this mounting the scaffold to be beheaded ''I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.'' To the executioner ''Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thy office my neck is very short take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thy honesty.''

Love at first sight is possible, but it pays to take a second look.

How strange to have failed as a social creature -- even criminals do not fail that way -- they are the law's ''Loyal Opposition,'' so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

Wise men are instructed in reason men of less understanding by experience The most unknowing learn by necessity. Wise men do in the beginning what fools in the end.

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said ''I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.