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QUOTATIONS  AND IDEAS THAT INSPIRE   Everything Happens for a Reason  (This thought-provoking text that makes one feel good even after a painful experience in life has been reproduced from the Phoenixmasonry website)  Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there, to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson, or to help you figure out who you are or who you want to become.  You never know who these people may be (possibly your roommate, neighbor, teacher, fraternal brother or sister, long lost friend, lover, or even a complete stranger), but when you lock eyes with them, you know that at that very moment they will affect your life in some profound way.  And sometimes things happen to you that may seem horrible, painful, and unfair at first, but in reflection you find that without overcoming those obstacles you would have never realized your potential, strength, willpower, or heart.  Everything happens for a reason.  Nothing happens by chance or by means of good luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness, and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without the small tests, whatever they may be, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight flat road to nowhere.  It would be safe and comfortable, but dull and utterly pointless.   The people you meet who affect your life, and the success and downfalls you experience, help to create who you are and who you become.  Even the bad experiences can be learned from.  In fact, they are probably the most poignant and important ones. If someone hurts you, betrays you, or breaks your heart, forgive them, for they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to when you open your heart.  If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but because in a way, they are teaching you to love and how to open your heart and eyes to things. Make every day count.  Appreciate every moment and take from those moments everything that you possibly can for you may never be able to experience it again. Talk to people that you have never talked to before, and actually listen.  Let yourself fall in love, break free, and set your sights high. Hold your head up because you have every right to.  Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself, for if you don't believe in yourself, it will be hard for others to believe in you.  You can make your life anything you wish.  Create your own life and then go out and live it with absolutely no regrets.  Most importantly, if you love someone tell them, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.  And finally, enjoy looking forward to learning a new lesson each day and enjoying the journey.  Well here then is a very HONEST QUESTION. Is your partner the reason for your ups, some happy tiffs, obstacles, motivaton, true lover which you really cherish???????---Answer this yourself!!!

The times change, people change, fashions come and go but you can remain true to yourself - if you have character. (GPJ)

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. - Thomas Babington Macaulay

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don't. - Harvey MacKay

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. - Gerard Way

You must take personal responsibility for your life. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. - Jim Rohn

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas Edison

Four little words that you might need to comfort yourself when you are down: This too shall pass. Click for story.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. - Dr. Seuss

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. - Thomas Paine

Irish Philosophy  There are only two things to worry about - either you are well, or you are sick  If you are well then you have nothing to worry about  If you are sick there are two things to worry about - either you will get well, or you will die  If you get well then there is nothing to worry about  If you die there are two things to worry about - either you will go to heaven, or hell  If you go to heaven there is nothing to worry about  But if you go to hell you'll be so damn busy shaking hands with all your friends down there you won't have time to worry!

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King Jr.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default. - J.K. Rowling

Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. Be wise and keep moving! -Darren Shan

Don't worry about people from your past,  There's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

When you look at a person, any person, remember that everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed them.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.  Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.  Just walk beside me, and be my friend. - Albert Camus

Don't criticize anyone till you walk a mile in their shoes so when you finally do criticize them...you're a mile away and have their shoes.

Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. How should you know how dear he can be when you try to weigh his merits against his faults? When I must punish him he becomes all the more a part of my being. When I cause his tears to come my heart weeps with him. I alone have a right to blame and punish, for he only may chastise who loves. - Rabindranath Tagore

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its strength. - A.J. Cronin

Always be yourself because the people that mind don't matter and the people that matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss

The happiest people don't have the best of everything but make the best of everything they have. - Marcus Aurelius

There are only two ways to live life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is. - Albert Einstein

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come. - Leonardo da Vinci

The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another. -Albert Camus

That's what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. - Richard Bach

I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. - Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies and satisfy your widest ambition. - William Osler

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

The true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. — Mahatma Gandhi

Brilliant people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people.

A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. No one is so rich or mighty that he can get along without it, and no one is so poor that he cannot give it. A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters goodwill in business, and is the cornerstone of friendship. It brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and is nature's best antidote for trouble. Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. When people are too tired to give you a smile, give them one of yours. No one needs a smile so much as he who has none to give. - Author unknown

The next time you get the urge to shut somebody up because they don't see the world exactly the same way you do, take a deep breath, get out your Bill of Rights, and count to the ten amendments. - Dennis Miller

Making happiness and misery the same, making success and failure the same, fight thou on - Gita

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down. - Wilson Mizner

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. - Chinese proverb

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. - Harper Lee

The education of a person is never completed until he dies. - Robert E. Lee

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. - E.E. Cummings

We can make mountains of molehills and molehills of mountains. Our thoughts can heal us and our thoughts can make us ill.

I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect. - Jackie Robinson

Motto: Hope for the best, but expect the worst.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. - Arnold H. Glasow

A truly rich man is one whose children will run into his arms when his hands are empty.

Never judge another until you have walked two weeks in his shoes.

The person who is straightforward and honest doesn't have to worry about a faulty memory.

No one is better than another. We are all different.

A wise man knows when to keep his mouth shut.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. - John Churton Collins

It's better to lose your ego to the one you love than to lose the one you love because of ego. - John Keats

I was grumbling because I had no shoes on my feet - and then I saw a man who had no feet.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitude. - William James

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision. - Pope John Paul II

Unless we dream the best dreams of which we are capable, the future will be poorer than it might be. --Brian Stableford

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising each time we fall. (Can someone kindly tell me who said this? Some attributed it to Oliver Goldsmith, some to Ralph Waldo Emerson and others to Confucius. - PJG)   My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success. - Helen Hayes Great tranquillity of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. - Thomas A. Kempis Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart. - Joni Mitchell No one can be wrong all the time. Even a clock that has stopped running is right twice a day. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. - Carl Jung The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied. Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters. - Lin Yu-tang I would like to be able to admire a person's opinions as I would their dog - without being expected to take it home with me. - Frank A. Clark Fame is vapour, popularity an accident; Riches take wings; those who cheer today will curse tomorrow, only one thing endures, and that is character. - Horace Greely (1811-1872) We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. - Anonymous. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. - Frederick Langbridge I have learned that a man only has the right to look down on another man when it is to help him to stand up. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Here is my secret. It is very simple: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly. The essence is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince (In French): "Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate.... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. - Chinese proverb A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone. - Saul Bellow (1915-2005) My favourite quote. This statement actually comes from one of Bellow's books. Sorry I forgot to jot down the book title when I copied from it. - PJG I set it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. - Pascal The biggest mistake you can make is to always be right. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. - Lao-Tzu When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. - Helen Keller If you give a man a fish, he will have food for a day. If you show him how to fish, he will have food all his life. People only see what they are prepared to see. - Ralph Waldo Emerson In life we have to jostle and be jostled. We elbow our way through life, giving and receiving offence. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell Do unto others as you wish others do unto you. - Confucius The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton

 

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