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.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"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.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"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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