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Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
Love me and I may be forced to love you.
- William Arthur Ward
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A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward 
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
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Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy,
to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate.
- William Arthur Ward
The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward
This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best.
- William Arthur Ward
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it
is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- William Arthur Ward
When your friends begin to flatter
you on how young you look,
it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Mark Twain
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace,
to All Those Around Me
and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.
- St. Francis of Assisi
My happiness depends on me.
- A Course in Miracles
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have Gratitude for Everything
that has brought me to this moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
RESPONSIBILITY: Fulfill the obligations that the past posts to me.
Embrace the opportunity for service based in love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I Am One With Spirit and All Creation -
I give thanks for the unity of all creation
and for everything that has brought me to this moment.
I release my entire being to the gentle nurture of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
Courage is the ladder that supports me
as I ascend from Fear to Unconditional Love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
- St. Francis of Assisi
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I open myself for the word of Spirit to flow through me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Spirit is within me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
And as he spoke of understanding,
I looked up and saw the rainbow leap
with flames of many colors over me.
- Black Elk
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
I can see, and that is why I can be happy,
in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
- Helen Keller
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn
Today is my day to laugh at life.
Laugh loud - laugh often.
Laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad.
Laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I say "YES" to the opportunities life offers me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I thank Spirit for EVERYTHING
that has brought me to this moment,
and entrust my entire being
to the gentle nurture of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
I follow my intuition,
and it leads me along the Right Path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness comes when I remember that others' opinions of me
are just their opinions - nothing more.
I find happiness in moving toward my goals
regardless of the applause or the jeers of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I serve others by living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am one with Spirit. Spirit is within me.
Spirit permeates me and surrounds me.
Spirit is my comfort and my strength.
I am one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am so honored that the Power of the Universe
has chosen for me to be ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am Honored that Spirit has chosen to create ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tell me what company thou keepst,
and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I allow life to wash over me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Spirit has unlimited patience,
and will wait for me to evolve.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bless EVERYTHING That Has Occurred To Bring Me To This Instant.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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