"Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it."

Lao-Tzu on power
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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"Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting."

Meltzer, Bernard on giving
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"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."

Peale, Norman Vincent on christmas
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"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree."

Smith, Roy L. on christmas
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"We will either find a way, or make one."

Hannibal on achievement
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"The journey is the reward."

Proverb, Chinese on achievement
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"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."

Picasso, Pablo on achievement
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"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."

Kettering, Charles F. on achievement
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"To spend life for something which outlasts it."

James, William on achievement
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"Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner."

Rutherford, Samuel on comfort   

"There is a tendency for things to right themselves."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"The ancestor of every action is thought."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"Step by step one goes very far."

Proverb on direction   

"Difficulties are stepping stones to success."

Unknown, Source on difficulties
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"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time."

Girard, Joe on success   

"Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise."

Unknown, Source on service
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"Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?"

Holliwell, Raymond on control
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"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought."

Pilgrim, Peace on negativity
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"It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed."

May, Louise on thoughts and thinking   

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

Peale, Norman Vincent on change
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"A winner makes commitment. A loser makes promises."

Unknown, Source on commitment
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"Let God's promises shine on your problems."

Boom, Corrie Ten on problems
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"There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness."

Han Suyin on gentleness   

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship
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"I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception."

Twain, Mark on complaints and complaining   

"No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness."

Brooks, Phillips on goodness
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"Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle."

Masai, J. on feelings
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"Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself."

Teresa of Avila, St. on kindness   

"Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it?"

Connolly, Charles on questions
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"Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art."

Bailey, Philip James on nature
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"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

Lincoln, Abraham on character
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"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on friends and friendship
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"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

Henderson, Nelson on service
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"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."

Keller, Helen on attitude
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"Reason is the enemy of faith."

Luther, Martin on faith
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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on change
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"God give me the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed;Give me courage to change things which must be changed;And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other. "

Niebuhr, Reinhold on uncategorised
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