Inspirational Quote Post

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I personally read 3-5 quotes every 2 hours during the business day to remind myself to reach for greatness, and I look forward to turning this discussion into a section of the network that will inspire us all.

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
Dale Carnegie

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on December 2, 2008 at 1:19am: Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for; He who has God Finds he lacks nothing;

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on December 2, 2008 at 1:20am: Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on December 2, 2008 at 1:21am: In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything!

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on December 2, 2008 at 1:22am: One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on December 2, 2008 at 1:22am: Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on December 2, 2008 at 1:23am: Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on December 2, 2008 at 1:24am: Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on December 2, 2008 at 1:25am: For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on December 2, 2008 at 1:25am: KILL ME TODAY OR ACCEPT ME AS I AM, FOR I WILL NEVER CHANGE.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on December 2, 2008 at 1:25am: A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself; he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on December 2, 2008 at 1:26am: The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on December 2, 2008 at 1:27am: Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets.

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