From Dr Matt's
Changing Your Stripes Manual.
the CYS Manual contains over 600 quotes on .
living richly — how to
live your best life!
(Here are some of the 600)
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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come.
We have only today. Let us begin.
- Mother Teresa .
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Don't wait for your "ship to come in,"
and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't.
Get going with something small.
- Irene C. Kassoria .
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Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.
- Mother Teresa .
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences
come from little things . . . I am tempted to think there are no little things.
- Bruce Barton .
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The dewdrop fulfills the Lord's will
as much as the thunderstorm.
- Anon. .
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I love little children.
And it is not a slight thing when they,
who are fresh from God, . . . love us.
- Charles Dickens .
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If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa .
Love is the harmony of two souls singing together
- Gregory P. J. Godek .
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We are each of us angels with one wing, and can only fly embracing each other.
- Luciano De Crescenzo .
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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much
- Helen Keller .
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Kindness, a language which the dumb can speak,
and the deaf can understand.
- Bovee' .
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A growing relationship can only
be nurtured by genuineness.
- Leo Buscaglia .
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You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi .
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Between stimulus and response,
people have the freedom to choose.
- Stephen R. Covey .
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** Dr Matt's Rebuttal: The "freedom to choose" in the face of constraining stimuli, is not as free as some suppose, for we are shackled by our very disposition. Impatient people are not immediately free to choose patience. The saying is better said: "Between stimulus and response there is a choice, and the limits of that choice is determined by disposition."
The only true freedom is the freedom to be what you are as a self.
Complete self-responsibility is the only road to complete freedom. As you learn this,
there is less and less choice about what to be. When you can freely be your self,
you are what you are. Your continuing freedom is only to grow and expand,
not to be something else. An oak tree cannot choose to be a holly bush.
- Thomas Patrick Malone .
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation.
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. .
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We begin to change the dynamic of our relationships as we are able to share
our reactions to others without holding them responsible for causing our feelings,
and without blaming ourselves for the reactions that other people have in response to
our choices & actions. We are responsible for our own behavior and
we are not responsible for other people's reactions;
nor are they responsible for ours.
- Harriet Lerner .
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Be content with a little light, so it be your own. Explore and explore.
Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry.
Neither dogmatize, nor accept another's dogmatism.
Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house and barn?
Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson .
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** Dr Matt Comment: G.K. Chesterton said, "The point of having an open mind, like having an open mouth, is to close it on something nourishing." Do we inquire and explore a lifetime and never "close" upon something solid? Do we fly freely in the broad blue sky of ideas, and never safely land? Do we simply wander in "star-lit" deserts as if Truth itself can never quench our thirst sufficient to finally end . . . "explore and explore." Can Truth "chide a person out of a position of perpetual inquiry" and persuade instead "perpetual commitment." Rather than traversing dry deserts that only leave you thirsty for more endless inquiry, . . . commit yourself to explore, inquire, and traverse the fertile green pastures of a Truth that can make all individual dogma disappear; a Truth that supplies the comfort and clarity of Pure White Light.
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If you're too open-minded, your brains will fall out.
- Anon. .
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Real winners are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.
- Anon. .
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What the future holds for us depends on what we hold for the future.
Hard-working "todays" . . . make high-winning "tomorrows."
- William E. Holler .
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You cannot dream yourself up a mountain;
One step at a time, you must toil and labor till you reach the top.
- Matt Moody .
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You Need to Put your
Peepers on the Words in My Book.
You'll be so much Smarter and
Happier if you do!
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Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain .
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No ray of sunlight is ever lost,
but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout,
and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.
All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
- Albert Schweitzer .
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden .
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No man is free who is not a master of himself
- Epictetus .
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Habits are like a cable.
We weave a strand of it every day
and soon it cannot be broken.
- Horace Mann .
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,
but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then,
is not only an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle .
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus .
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The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
- Martha Washington .
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Sow an act, and you reap a habit.
Sow a habit, and you reap a character.
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
- Charles Reade .
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If you don't stand for something,
you'll fall for anything
- Anon. .
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We may be personally defeated, but our principles . . . never.
- William Lloyd Garrison .
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Happiness is a natural byproduct of Integrity:
When what you do is aligned with what is True.
- Matt Moody .
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The good I stand on
is my honesty and truth
- Shakespeare .
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Most people are about as happy
as they make up their minds to be
- Abraham Lincoln .
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** Dr Matt Rebuttal: A man is most happy when he doesn't "think himself" at all!
"He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it."
Further, when people betray the truth, . . . they cannot "make up their mind" to be happy.
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A man is not happier than he think himself
- French Proverb .
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One's destination is not just a place, . . .
but a new way of looking at things.
- Henry Miller .
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt .
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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims,
of our history, controlling our own destiny without
giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
- John F. Kennedy .
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Only those who risk going far
can possibly know
- T.S. Eliot .
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To dare is to lose your footing momentarily.
To not dare is to lose your self.
- Soren Kierkegaard .
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The moment we definitely commit ourselves, Providence moves, too.
- W. H. Murray .
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Our doubts are traitors, and oft make us lose
the good we might win by fearing to attempt.
- Shakespeare .
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow
will be our doubts of today.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt .
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Worry is a futile thing, It's somewhat like a rocking chair.
Although it keeps you occupied, It doesn't get you anywhere.
- Anon. .
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Hindsight is 20/20,
Foresight requires bifocals
- Matt Moody .
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Trust your hopes, not your fears.
- David Mahoney .
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You Need to Put your
Peepers on the Words in My Book.
You'll be so much Smarter and
Happier if you do!
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I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
- Anon. .
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot
be seen or even heard. They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller .
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As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.
- Katherine Francke .
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If your troubles aren't big enough to pray about,
then they aren't big enough to worry about.
- Anon. .
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Kindness has converted more sinners
than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
- Frederick W. Faber .
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Whatever the agenda of the ACLU, as long as there are pop quizzes
in the classroom, . . . there will be prayer in public schools.
- Matt Moody .
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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
- Emerson .
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The highest reward for a man's toil is not
what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
- John Ruskin .
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Our pain carves out a larger space for love to fill.
- Kahlil Gibran .
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Life is a trial, by the mile.
Life is hard, by the yard.
But it's a cinch, by the inch.
- Anon. .
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Character grows like a muscle,
with consistent use, it gets stronger.
- Matt Moody .
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Be advised that every time you avoid doing right,
you increase your disposition to do wrong.
- Anon. .
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Never look back unless you plan on going that way.
- Anon. .
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If God is for us, who can be against us?
- Paul, the Apostle .
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If you find yourself growing angry or frustrated,
or impatient at others, pray for them; negative emotions
cannot survive in an atmosphere of prayer.
- Anon. .
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Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
- Johann Von Goethe .
To blame and accuse other people,
is to choose to empower them, to control us.
- Stephen R. Covey .
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Sometimes men are the masters of fate:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in our selves.
- Shakespeare .
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The secret of happy living is not
to do what you like, but to like what you do.
- Anon. .
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Fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
- Chinese Proverb .
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Remember the tea kettle - it is always
up to its neck in hot water, yet it still sings!
- Anon. .
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Keep a green bough in your heart,
and the singing bird will come.
- Chinese Proverb .
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There's a song in the air! There's a star in the sky!
There's a mother's deep prayer, and a baby's low cry!
And the star rains its fire while the beautiful sing,
For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a king!
- Anon. .
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Some people grumble
because roses have thorns.
I am thankful that thorns have roses.
- Anon. .
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Praise is more spontaneous when things go right;
but it is more precious when things go wrong.
- Anon. .
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That which we persist in doing become easier for us to do.
Not that the nature of the thing itself has changed,
but our ability to do it is increased.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson .
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The best way to help a man increase his output
is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man,
and he will just naturally do better—on the job and off.
- Earl Nightingale .
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Success comes before work . . . only in the dictionary.
- Anon. .
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
- Anon. .
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music,
or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. .
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It is not the employer who pays wages—he only handles the money.
It is the product that pays wages.
- Henry Ford .
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For the tree is known by its fruit,
by their fruits ye shall know them.
- Jesus of Nazareth .
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By the work, one knows the workman.
- La Fontaine .
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All I have seen teaches me to trust
the Creator for all I have not seen.
- Anon. .
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness,
making all in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
- Washington Irving .
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Never think that God's delays are God's denials.
Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
- Comte de' Buffon .
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If you only think once,
you're bound to speak twice.
Open mouth . . . insert foot.
- Matt Moody .
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If you find yourself growing angry at someone, pray for him.
Anger cannot live in an atmosphere of prayer.
- Anon. .
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Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance;
it is laying hold of His highest willingness.
- Anon. .
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And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity,
and the water of affliction, . . . Thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee,
saying, This is the way, walk ye in it.
- Isaiah, 700 B.C. .
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson .
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People will forget what you said,
I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it
is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble
tasks as though they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller .
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people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Bonnie Jean Wasmund .
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Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing things right.
- Stephen R. Covey .
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What ever is worth doing at all is worth doing well
- Lord Chesterfield .
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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,
I would still plant my apple tree.
- Martin Luther .
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Always put off till tomorrow what you shouldn't do at all
- Anon. .
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein .
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Storms make trees take deeper roots.
- Claude McDonald .
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If you find a path with no obstacles,
it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
- Anon. .
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To get out of a difficulty,
one usually must go through it.
- Samuel Easton .
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The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne .
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There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear:
because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
- The Apostle John .
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For God hath not given us the spirit of fear;
but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
- The Apostle Paul .
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Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart
I have written my law, fear ye not the reproach of men,
neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
- Isaiah, 700 B.C. .
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.
By yielding, I endure. The empty space is filled.
When I give of myself, I become more.
When I feel most destroyed,
I am about to grow.
When I desire nothing, A great deal comes to me.
- Tao of Leadership .
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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
- Euripides, 480 B.C. .
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You Need to Put your Peepers on the Words in My Book.
You'll be so much Smarter and Happier if you do!
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
- Lucy Maud Montgomery .
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Sometimes the Lord calms the storm,
but sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms the child.
- Anon. .
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Prayer does one of two things: It either frees us from the trouble we fear,
or gives us the strength and courage to meet trouble when it comes.
- Anon. .
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility
he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits
for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life.
He who knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."
- Victor Frankl .
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We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well.
He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced,
he would have an entirely different view.
- Mao Tse-Tung .
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations.
What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer
the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe.
Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
- Stephen Hawking .
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When we allow our conscience to be our guide,
then our purpose in life will be fulfilled.
- Donna A. Favors .
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Ask not to understand, that thou mayest believe;
but believe, that thou mayest understand.
- Anon. .
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The soul would have no rainbow,
if the eye had not a tear.
- Anon. .
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I never spoke with God nor visited in Heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot as if the chart were given.
- Emily Dickinson .
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Dig a well before you are thirsty.
- Chinese Proverb .
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Real difficulties can be overcome;
it is only the imaginary ones that are impossible.
- Anon. .
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And what is fear of need, but need itself?
Is not dread of thirst when your well is full,
the thirst that is unquenchable.
- Kahlil Gibran .
I believe in God, like I believe in the sun,
not because I see him, but because by him,
I can see everything else.
- C. S. Lewis .
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We drag our troubles behind us like anchors in the sand;
we commence recovery by simply letting go.
- Matt Moody .
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines,
- Ralph Waldo Emerson .
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A wise man will change his mind, a fool never does.
- Anon. .
The point of having an open mind, like having an open mouth,
is to close it on something nourishing.
- G.K. Chesterton .
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Happiness is not measured by how much we have, but by how much we enjoy.
- Anon. .
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To be upset over what you don't have, is to waste what you do have.
- Ken Keyes .
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Waste not, want not, willful waste makes woeful want.
- St. Basil .
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Discontentment makes rich men poor while
contentment makes poor men rich.
- Anon. .
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Why should we be in such desperate
haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps
it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music
which he hears, however measured or far away.
- Henry D. Thoreau .
Intentions are invisible but they are the true test of character.
- Alfred A. Montapert .
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** Dr Matt Rebuttal: Intentions are NOT invisible. They are abundantly evident in our conduct and countenance; our motives appear in the way we enact our priorities; intentions show in everything we do, and are seen in the clarity of our eyes.
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You know what you really want
by what you're getting.
- Matt Moody .
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It is vain to try and hide a bad spirit from the eyes of them who are spiritual,
for it will show itself in speaking and in writing as well as in all other conduct,
it is also useless to make great pretensions when the heart is not right before God,
for God looks at the heart, and where the heart is not right
the Lord will expose it to the view of the faithful.
- Joseph Smith Jr. .
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The way you spend your time, think your thoughts, and speak
your words, reflect the intents and motives of your heart.
- Matt Moody .
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A light heart lives long.
- Shakespeare .
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If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands
toward him; if iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not
wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot;
yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and
remember it as waters that pass away: And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning. And thou shalt be secure,
because there is hope; yea, . . . and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid.
- Job, 1850 B.C. .
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When one door shuts another opens. He that would struggle with the world,
and bear up in adversity, ought still to resolve not to be discouraged, for resolution
is the mother of fortitude, and necessary to our support and deliverance.
- Samuel Palmer .
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For his anger is kindled against the wicked; but if they repent,
in a moment it is turned away, and they are in his favor, and he giveth them life;
therefore, weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
- David, King of Israel, 1055 B.C. .
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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are,
raise your sights and see the possibilities--always see them, for they're always there.
- Norman Vincent Peale .
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Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not
your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.
- Stephen R. Covey .
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson .
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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci .
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** Dr Matt Rebuttal: Leonardo needs to stick with doing art. "All our knowledge has its origins" in experience, and that experience is "known" according to the "abundance of the heart." Perception is a word that represents "what you think you see" and "what you think you know"—whether true or contrived. Perception is distorted when human beings betray Life's inherent harmony. Through the distorted filters of a Migraine Mental Block, reality can be interpreted unreasonably and irrationally-but the perception is still responding to, and originating from, directly-lived experience. Further, human experience is not at the complete mercy of unbridled perception. The tangible world presents obdurate realities that constrain interpretive views. Life is Self-Correcting! The real world will stubbornly keep telling you what it is about, until you "get it right." Perception can't turn a black cat into a white cat. For those who never do get it RIGHT, they will be "grouped" with people who perceived things similarly . . . in the eternal world.
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Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
- Leonardo da Vinci .
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable
ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.
- Henry David Thoreau .
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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
- Edward Lytton .
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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man give his life by unfolding his powers.
- Erich Fromm .
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I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me,
and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.
- Jesus of Nazareth .
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He who joy would seek must share it, happiness was born a twin.
- Anon. .
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There are bad things that may happen to me, and there are the bad things that I do.
The bad that I do . . . is my failure to be True . . . and this is within my control, and
when bad things happen beyond my control, if I am True, . . . there is inner Peace.
- Matt Moody .
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Trust in the Lord with all thine heart;
and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge him,
and he shall direct thy paths.
- King Solomon .
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I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln .
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer, until I prayed with my legs.
- Frederick Douglass, escaped slave .
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Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
- Anon. .
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
- Henry Ward Beecher .
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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes
than on the knees of your trousers.
- Austin O'Malley .
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It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers,
that we may not unsay them in our practice.
- Matthew Henry .
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When praying, be willing to act on your inspiration,
the Lord cannot steer a parked car. .
- Anon.
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We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts,
to praying about the things that are breaking His heart.
- Margaret Gibb .
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Give a man a fish, and you will feed him for a day;
Teach a man how to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime.
- Anon. .
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Give a man a fish, and you will feed him for a day;
Give him a religion, and he will starve to death while praying for a fish.
- Anon .
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You Need to Put your Peepers on the Words in My Book.
You'll be so much Smarter and Happier if you do!
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann von Goethe.
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It is not enough merely to possess virtue,
as if it were a piece of art on display; it should be practiced.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero .
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Anything less than a conscious commitment
to the important . . . is an unconscious
commitment to the unimportant.
- Stephen R. Covey .
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People should think less about what they ought to do,
and more about what they ought to be. If only their living were good,
their work would shine forth brightly.
- Meister Eckhart .
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** Dr Matt's Comment: This statement points up the different between doing and being. It is a common error to bifurcate Who You Are (human being) from What You Do (human doing); the erroneous conclusion is that the YOU are not your behavior. While aspects of "doing" and "being" can be "talked about" separately, they do not exist separately, . . . rather, they exist in one undivided whole. The error of bifurcating the human Self can be illustrated in a misinterpretation of this maxim: "God loves the sinner, but hates the sin." The incorrect conclusion is this: "Since God loves me, . . . but hates my sins, then Who I Am must be separate from my sinful deeds, else how could God love me." In reality, when we sin, we really ARE our sins, and God indeed "loves" us even while "in" our sins; a love that is manifest as chastening (Job 5:17). The fact that all human beings will ultimately give an accounting to the Creator of all thoughts, words, and deeds (Mosiah 4:30) means that "what you do" IS inseparable from "who you be." God does abhor all acts of sins, but He "responds" to us while "in" our sins with loving correction.
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When all is well, we forget God, and
only as our foundations are shaken do we remember and return.
In the growth of character acquired through trials and troubles, we realize
that it is often a wise and loving Father who does the shaking.
- Matt Moody .
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Character is higher than intellect.
Thinking is the function, . . . living is the functionary.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson .
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The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule,
but to schedule your priorities.
- Stephen R. Covey .
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If your fishing rod holds more power over you
than your family, . . . then you're hooked.
- Matt Moody .
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We write our own destiny. We become what we do.
- Chiang Kai-shek .
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
- George Eliot .
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We are what we repeatedly do.
- Aristotle .
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Use what language you will, you can never
say anything but what you are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson .
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Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.
- Jesus of Nazareth .
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What we love, we grow to resemble.
- Anon. .
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Francis Bacon .
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Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye .
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There is a great man . . . who makes every man feel small.
But the really great man . . . is the man who makes every man feel great.
- Chinese Proverb .
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There was never yet a truly great man that
was not at the same time truly virtuous.
- Benjamin Franklin .
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness;
nothing so gentle as real strength.
- Anon. .
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To get people to understand our point of view,
we must first try to understand theirs.
- Sidney Keyes .
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz .
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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
- Oliver Goldsmith .
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The certainty of the journey is that it will end
and as the last day's stone is laid One turns to look upon the path to say:
"If I could have I would have laid the stones just this way."
- Em Laer .
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The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli .
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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right;
decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
- George Eliot .
I too have learned this in my experiences with the Spirit of God.
Every situation can be redeemed and turned into exactly the preparation
we require for a fullness of joy—to the extent of ourfaith in Christ's redemptive power.
To that extent, the very circumstances we may have cursed
will turn out to be our schooling for salvation.
- C. Terry Warner .
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Ascending lofty mountaintops may be exhilarating and motivating, but
it is the faithful, unfaltering trek through gloomy valleys
that is expanding and maturing.
- Matt Moody .
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Many are the afflictions of the righteous:
but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
- David, King of Israel .
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Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life.
Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
Don't let your special character and values . . .
get swallowed up
by the great chewing complacency.
- Meryl Streep .
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Not to worry, not to sweat.
All is well, but not quite yet!
- Anon. .
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not
to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln .
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A small leak can sink a large ship.
- Anon. .
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The faith to move mountains is a reward
to those who have moved little hills.
- Anon..
The longer I live, the more
convincing proofs I see of this truth:
That God governs in the affairs of men.
- Benjamin Franklin .
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God loves us, not because we are good,
but because He is Good.
- Anon. .
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We love him, because he first loved us.
- John, the Apostle .
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This is the day which the Lord hath made;
we will rejoice and be glad in it.
- David, King of Israel .
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I believe in God, like I believe in the sun, not because I see him,
but because by him, I can see everything else.
- C. S. Lewis .
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