HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. - Oprah Winfrey

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From family you learn about good & evil & how real evil are the things that look good, but are filled with malice & hate. - Andre Lodree

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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. – Charles Dickens

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Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves. – Eric Sevareid

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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. – Calvin Coolidge

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Love the giver more than the gift. - Brigham Young

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Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries. – George W. Truett

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!

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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family. – Jonathan Foer

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You can never escape family because wherever you go your family is always with you. - Andre Lodree

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Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. - C. JoyBell C. 

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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. – George Moore

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Spare the rod and spoil the child – that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well. – Martin Luther

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What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. – Mother Teresa

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When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you. – Guy Lafleur

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The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. – Lee Iacocca

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The love, conflict & forgiveness of family ignites the full revelation & understanding of self. - Andre Lodree

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A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know. - Dwight L. Moody

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A man should never neglect his family for business. – Walt Disney

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The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. – Confucius

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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. – Andre Maurois

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When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family. – Jim Butcher

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You are born into your family & your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges. – Elizabeth Berg

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In the valley you find yourself. On the mountain top you show yourself. - @Andre Lodree

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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. - Desmond Tutu

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I sustain myself with the love of family. – Maya Angelou

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. - Nelson Mandela

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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable. – Deb Caletti

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The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career. – C.S. Lewis

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If you want to accomplish more, stop trying and start doing. - Andre Lodree

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To understand your parents’ love, you must raise children yourself.

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My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys. – Bobby Darin

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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. - Henry Ward Beecher

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Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. – David Ogden Stiers

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At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable. – Mark V. Olsen

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The key to love is change, you must be willing to lose in order to win love. - Andre Lodree

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No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude or woman’s love. – William Butler Yeats

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If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies. - Jon Stewart

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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. - Aristotle

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Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. - Andrew Jackson

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Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half of the evil they say of others. - J. Petit Senn

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If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it. - Epictetus

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Tomorrow is only reached by getting through today. - Andre Lodree

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People join organizations; they leave managers. - Bill Hybels

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You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probably reason why so few people engage in it. - Henry Ford

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The universe is change;

our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. - Benjamin Disraeli

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Act as if it were impossible to fail. - Dorothea Brande

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It is time to stop flexing physical muscles & start empowering our spiritual fortitude. - Andre Lodree

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Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs. - Confucius

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The higher our position the more modestly we should behave. - Cicero

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Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time. - Elbert Green Hubbard

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. - Henry David Thoreau

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To be victorious you must engage in the battle. - Andre Lodree

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It is precisely the possibility of realizing a dream that makes life interesting. - Paulo Coelho

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Dreams seldom materialize on their own. - Dian Fossey

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Success is sweet, the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats. - A. Bronson Alcott

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The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance. - Gustavus F. Swift

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Dreams seldom materialize on their own. - Dian Fossey

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. - Napoleon Hill

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Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself. - Plato

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The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think. - James Beattie

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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. - Montaigne

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Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. - William Jennings Bryan

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The soul of conversation is sympathy. - Thomas Campbell

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Time is of the essence, but patience is excellence. - Andre Lodree

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Responsibility - We must respond to our God given ability with positive words, courageous actions & faith in God.

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Men are more mindful of wrongs than of benefits.

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If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it. - Epictetus

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Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.-Ruth

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A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. - Ovid

Question of the Month

Many of us have dreams & goals for our lives. Sometimes it take a long time for our dreams & goals to become a reality, if they happen at all. However, we often use the accomplishment of a goal or the manifestation of a dream to define success in our lives. In this, we tend to neglect the most important aspect to success - REJECTION.

How much REJECTION can/will you take to reach SUCCESS? How many NOs will you take just for 1 YES?

Comments welcomed.

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How can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. - Edmund Spenser

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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? – Robert Browning

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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. - Solon

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The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. - Henry Miller

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By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself. - Menander

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Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone. - Cyrus A. Bartol

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It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are. - Publilius Syrus

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It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of sleep. - Austin Bates

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No longer forward nor behind

I look in hope and fear;

But grateful take the good I find,

The best of now and here. - John G. Whittier

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is the knack of getting along with people. - Theodore Roosevelt

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You must look into other people as well as at them. - Lord Chesterfield

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Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

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Change is not only inevitable, it is essential to survival. Why fear it or fight it when you can simply embrace it?

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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. - Benjamin Disraeli

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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. - Orison Swett Marden

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunities. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. - Helen Keller

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I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. - Charlotte Brontë

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Impatience never commanded success. - Edwin H. Chapin

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The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan

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Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. - Walter Lipman

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All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune. - Henry David Thoreau

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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - John F. Kennedy

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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. - Mother Teresa

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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. - Thomas Jefferson

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Never give up! Failure & rejection are only the first step to succeeding. - Jim Valvano

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed – I well know.
For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. – Georges Clemenceau

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Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. – Theodore Hunger

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Wisdom is better than gold or silver.

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The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize. – Richard Monckton Milnes

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Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. - Albert Einstein

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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. - 

Jean-Paul Sartre

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A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. – Martin Luther King, Jr.