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  • Many people will walk in and out of your life. But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

  • To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use your heart.
    Anger is only one letter short of danger.

  • If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.

  • Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
    He, who loses money, loses much; He, who loses a friend, loses much more; He, who loses faith, loses all.

  • Beautiful young people are accidents of nature.

  • Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

  • There is no beginning or end .... Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift.

  • Before you say what you think....THINK!!!

  • I hope that when I stand before God at the end of my life that I have not a bit of talent left, so I can say, ‘I used everything you gave me’. –Erma Bombeck

  • Dreams aren’t a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. When I dream, I believe I am rehearsing my future. –David Copperfield

  • The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. –Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Be who you are and say what you feel- those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. –Dr. Suess

  • Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched- they must be felt with the heart. –Helen Keller

  • The only place where dreams are impossible is in your own mind. –Emalie

  • Women can do anything men can do, only we can do it backwards and in heels. –Ginger Rogers

  • There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle of the mirror that reflects it. –Edith Wharton

  • Optimism means expecting the best, but confidence means knowing how to handle to worst.

  • Don’t be pushed by your problems, be lead by your dreams.

  • The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but we aim too low and reach it. –Michelangelo

  • It’s never too early to be happy for the rest of your life.

  • Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • In the book of life, the answers are not in the back of the book. –Charlie Brown

  • In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. –Albert Einstein

  • You need to learn in life how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

  • Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever. –Lance Armstrong

  • When life throws you lemons, break out the watermelons. Who says you can’t retaliate?

  • We only fear what we do not understand.

  • We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. –Aristotle

  • You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. –Harriet Woods

  • It is better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for something you are not. –Andre Gde

  • If God brings you to it He will bring you through it.

  • It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. –Herman Melville

  • "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -Nelson Mandela's 1994 Inaugural Speech 

  • "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength." -A.J. Cronin 

  • "This above all: to thine own self be true." -Shakespeare 

  • "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -Theodore Roosevelt 

  • "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars." -Charles A. Beard 

  • "Be content with what you have, but never with who you are." -Unknown 

  • "Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute." -Unknown 

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

  • "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -Albert Einstein 

  • "It was when I found out that I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something." -Ornette Coleman 

  • "A man's dreams are an index to his greatness." -Zadok Rabinwitz 

  • "Well done is better than well said." -Ben Franklin 

  • "We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvable problems." -Unknown 

  • "It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."-Somerset Maugham 

  • "Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it." -Unknown 

  • "The harder you work, the luckier you get." -Gary Player 

  • "Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway." -Mary Kay Ash 

  • "It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow." -Unknown 

  • "Somebody is always doing what somebody else said couldn't be done." -Unknown 

  • "Don't tell me not to burn the candle at both ends. Tell me where to get more wax." -Unknown 

  • "Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -Mark Twain

  • Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height.  Let the doctors worry about them.  That is why you pay "them”.

  • Keep only cheerful friends.  The grouches pull you down.

  • Keep learning.  Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever.  Never let the brain idle.  "An idle mind is the devil's workshop."  And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.

  • Enjoy the simple things.

  • Laugh often, long and loud.  Laugh until you gasp for breath.

  • The tears happen.  Endure, grieve, and move on.  The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves.  Be ALIVE while you are alive.

  • Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, and hobbies, whatever.  Your home is your refuge.

  • Cherish your health:  If it is good, preserve it.  If it is unstable, improve it.  If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

  • Don't take guilt trips.  Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.

  • Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

  • Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
     

    Children Learn What They Live

    If children live with hostility,
    they learn to fight.

    If children live with ridicule,
    they learn to be shy.

    If children live with tolerance,
    they learn to be patient.

    If children live with encouragement,
    they learn confidence.

    If children live with praise,
    they learn to appreciate.

    If children live with fairness,
    they learn justice.

    If children live with security,
    they learn faith.

    If children live with approval,
    they learn to like themselves.

    If children live with acceptance, and friendship,
    they learn to find love in the world.

    "We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides." ~Author Unknown

     

    A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.  ~Author Unknown  

     

    A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.  ~Author Unknown

     

    "I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand." - Chinese Proverb

     

    We will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

    A Good teacher Explains ... A Superior teacher Demonstrates ... 
    A GREAT teacher Inspires. 
    Unknown

    For teaching children lessons,
     to help them as they grow,
    Let this gift remind you,
    You're the best teacher we know!

    I chose this special present because I wanted you to know,
    That I'm grateful for your hard work in helping me to grow.
    For your constant understanding and for always being there,
    To tell me I can do it and to show me that you care!

    Teacher's Prayer 
     Author Unknown

    Lord, Please help me, 
    To strengthen their voices, 
    bodies and minds, 
    To express their feelings and 
    control them sometimes, 
    To explore what's near 
    and venture afar, 
    But most important to love 
    who they are. 

     

    Why God Made Teachers
    By Kevin William Huff

    When God created teachers, 
    He gave us special friends 
    To help us understand His world 
    And truly comprehend 
    The beauty and the wonder 
    Of everything we see, 
    And become a better person 
    With each discovery. 

    When God created teachers, 
    He gave us special guides 
    To show us ways in which to grow 
    So we can all decide 
    How to live and how to do 
    What's right instead of wrong, 
    To lead us so that we can lead 
    And learn how to be strong. 

    Why God created teachers, 
    In His wisdom and His grace, 
    Was to help us learn to make our world 
    A better, wiser place. 

    GOD MADE TEACHERS . . . 
     Author Unknown

    God understood our thirst for 
    knowledge, and our need to be led 
    by someone wiser; 
    He needed a heart of compassion, 
    of encouragement, and patience; 
    Someone who would accept 
    the challenge regardless of the 
    opposition; 
    Someone who could see potential 
    and believe in the best in others . . . 
    So He made Teachers 

    "A Teacher Is..."

    Someone who is wise, who cares about students and wears no disguise
    But is honest and open, and shares from the heart, not just lessons from books, but life where you are
    A teacher takes time to help and tutor, with English, or math, or on a computer
    It's someone who is patient, even in stress, who never gives less than the very best    .

    As a teacher you have a special place, in this child’s heart.
    Because in this game of life
    You’ve helped me get my start.
    I just want to thank you
    For all the things you’ve done.
    You’re a very special teacher
    And to me you’re number one!

     

 

 

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