Day #230 - Make your circumstances.

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"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.  I don't believe in circumstances.  The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."  --George Bernard Shaw

Day #230 - Make your circumstances.

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Day #229 - Take advantage of your common sense.

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"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."  --Harriet Beecher Stowe

Day #229 - Take advantage of your common sense.

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Day #228 - Keep yourself centered.

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"You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered."  --Wayne W. Dyer

Day #228 - Keep yourself centered.

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Say #226 - Maintain your enthusiasm.

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          And soon you'll forget
That you ever were sad. 
                        --Anonymous

Day #226 - Maintain your enthusiasm.

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Day #225 - Make every moment of your life count.

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"What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment.  And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new.  Right now."  --Anonymous

Day #225 - Make every moment of your life count.

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Day #224 - Think before you speak.

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"Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts.  I wonder why we think faster than we speak.  Probably so we can think twice."  --Bill Watterson

Day #224 - Think before you speak.

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Day #223 - Live as an example to those around you.

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"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."  --Mark Twain

Day #223 - Live as an example to those around you.

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Day #222 - Your secret to success is in your effort.

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"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind."  --Anonymous

Day #222 - Your secret to success is in your effort.

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Day #221 - Listen well.

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"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." --Robert McCloskey

Day #221 - Listen well.

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Day #219 - Always choose joy.

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"I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure."  ---Lawana Blackwell

Day #219 - Always choose joy.

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Day #218 - Change the way you treat those with whom you disagree.

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"If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secret of getting along---whether it be business, family relations, or life itself."  ---Bernard Meltzer

Day #218 - Change the way you treat those with whom you disagree.

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Day #217 - Start today to grow, develop, and change.

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"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."  ---Oliver Wendell Holmes

Day #217 - Start today to grow, develop, and change.

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Day #215 - Be aware of your habits.

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"Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them.  And you don't have to keep them either.  They keep you."  ---Frank Crane


Day #215 - Be aware of your habits.

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Day #214 - Look how others treat strangers.

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"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."  ---John Wesley

Day #214 - Look how others treat strangers.

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Day #213 - Enjoy the best years of your life.

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"The moment you wake up is the instant you realize that the teacher is in you and that all your happiness, as well as all of your problems, are your own."  ---Richard L. Weaver II

Day #213 - Enjoy the best years of your life.

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Day #211 - Reserve your judgment.

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"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils.  The thing to do is to supply light and not heat."  ---Woodrow Wilson

Day #211 - Reserve your judgment.

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Day #209 - Support your government, but remain skeptical.

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"No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades---that of government.  ---Socrates

Day #209 - Support your government, but remain skeptical..

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"Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration." ---Thomas Alva Edison

Day #208 - Do not strive for genius.

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Day #205 - Control your desires.

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"Our desires always increase with our possessions.  The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us."  ---Samuel Johnson

Day #205 - Control your desires.

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Day #204 - Avoid apathy.

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"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all---the apathy of human beings."  ---Helen Keller

Day #204 - Avoid apathy.

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Day #202 - Live life completely from moment to moment.

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"My candle burns at both its ends;
It will not last the night;
But of, my foes, and oh, my friends---
It gives a lovely light." ---Edna St. Vincent Millay
      

Day #202 - Live life completely from moment to moment.

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Day #201 - Be a friend to others.

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"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."  ---Laurence J. Peter

Day #201 - Be a friend to others.

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Day #199 - Be a master of your destiny.

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"If you create an act, you create a habit.  If you create a habit, you create character.  If you create a character, you create a destiny." ---Andre Maurois

Day #199 - Be a master of your destiny.

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Day #198 - Be willing to work hard.

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"Continuous effort---not strength or intelligence---is the key to unlocking our potential." ---Liane Cordes

Day #198 - Be willing to work hard.

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Day #196 - Reduce your anxiety.

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"Anxiety is the feeling of apprehension you have before doing anything to which you are unaccustomed, and the best way you have of reducing your nervousness is by active and continuous preparation so that whatever it is you want to accomplish can be approached with a feeling of complete confidence and assurance.  ---Richard L. Weaver II

Day #196 - Reduce your anxiety.

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Day #195 - Give meaning to your life.

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"The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning." ---Mitch Albom

Day #195 - Give meaning to your life.

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Day #194 - Make progress every day of your life.

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"When Pablo Casals reached ninety-five, a young reporter threw him a question, 'Mr. Casals, you are ninety-five and the greatest cellist who ever lived.  Why do you still practice six hours a day?'  And Mr. Casals answered, 'Because I think I'm making progress.'"  ---Anonymous

Day #194 - Make progress every day of your life.

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Day #193 - Look fear in the face.

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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every
experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror.
I can take the next thing that comes along.' . . . You must
do the thing you think you cannot do. ---Eleanor Roosevelt

Day #193 - Look fear in the face.

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Day #191 - Set high standards.

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"Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom.  If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness.  Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to."  ---Greg Anderson

Day #191 - Set high standards.

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Day #189 - Do it now.

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"What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Courage has genius, power, and magic in it;
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated.
Begin it, and the work will be completed."
                                                        ---Anonymous

Day #189 - Do it now.

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Day #188 - Never let floors become ceilings.

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"No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." ---Charles Francis Adams

Day #188 - Never let floors become ceilings. 

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Day #187 - Resist the temptation of doing nothing

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"Life is inherently risky. there is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing." ---Denis Waitley

Day #187 - Resist the temptation of doing nothing. 

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Day #186 - Never forget those who helped you get where you are

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"Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it." ---Ralph Marston

Day #186 - Never forget those who helped you get where you are. 

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Day #185 - Engage in careful planning

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"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." ---Alexander Graham Bell

Day #185 - Engage in careful planning. 

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Day #183 - Revere science and its contributions

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"Realize that how we understand the whole of human history, comprehend all that humans know of themselves, and discover new evidence and theories regarding the future of humans on this earth, is because of an understanding of and a belief in science and the process of scientific investigation." ---Richard L. Weaver II


Day #183 - Revere science and its contributions. 

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Day #180 - Be careful of any advice you give

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"Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples." ---La Rochefoucauld


Day #180 - Be careful of any advice you give. 

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Day #179 - Tolerate ignorance

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"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." ---Galileo Galilei

Day #179 - Tolerate ignorance. 

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Day #177 - Cultivate courage.

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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." ---Eleanor Roosevelt

Day #177 - Cultivate courage. 

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"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be." ---John Heywood

Day #176 - Make something of everything that happens to you. 

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"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another." ---Ernest Hemingway

Day #175 - Success in in the details. 

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"Knowledge can be memorized. Wisdom must think things through. Wisdom is the something that enables us to use knowledge rightly. Wisdom does not climb on the bandwagon. It does not follow the crowd. Wisdom gives generously but it does not let money be taken away. Wisdom may buy but it does not let itself be 'sold.' Wisdom resists group pressures, thinks for itself, and is reconciled to the use of its own judgment." ---Anonymous

Day #174 - Seek wisdom, and if not a seeker, appreciate wisdom in others. 

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"Prepare yourself now in every way that you can, as often as you can, and as much as you can. In that way, you will have no excuse for missing an opportunity." ---Richard L. Weaver II

Day #173 - Prepare yourself in all ways. 

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"You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening. ---Daisaku Ikeda

Day #171 - Push yourself.

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"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." ---Josh Billings

Day #170 - Make certain you live well.

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"Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending." ---Virgina Satir

Day #168 - Take notice of even your smallest gestures.

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"In general those who nothing have to say
Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it." ---Lowell


Day #167 - Let thinking guide your talking.

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"The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival...because when you are unhappy, you also throw unhappiness all around." ---Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Day #165 - Enjoy being festive.

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"If we fill our hours with regrets over the failures of yesterday, and with worries over the problems of tomorrow, we have no today in which to be thankful." ---Apples of Gold

Day #123 - Be thankful every day.

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"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." ---Chinese Proverb

Day #121 - Be willing to ask questions.

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"The really great people are the ones who know how to make the little people feel great." ---Ashleigh Brilliant

Day #118 - Strive for greatness.

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"If you wish in this world to advance
Your merits you're bound to enhance;
You must stir it and stump it,
And blow your own trumpet,
Or, trust me, you haven't a chance."
---W.S. Gilbert, Ruddigore

Day #117 - Never doubt your own power and abilities.

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