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Puppy Love
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. -- Josh Billings
Internet Freedom
The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet ...
Passing Away
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. -- Zhuangzi
Too Long
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. -- e. e. cummings
Faithful Planter
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. -- B. C. Forbes
Harmony in Autumn
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Winners Think
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do. -- Dennis Waitley
History Shows
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. -- B.C. Forbes
Winners
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts. -- Sylvester Stallone
Attitude
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. -- Lou Holtz
Changing a Weakness
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength. -- Michael Jordan
Feeling
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude. -- John C. Maxwell
Drive
I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish. -- Chuck Norris
Greater Danger
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. -- Michelangelo
Right Mental Attitude
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. -- Thomas Jefferson
Achieving Goals
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. -- Henry David Thoreau
Great Deception
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Peace
Peace begins with a smile. -- Mother Teresa
Racism
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final ...
The Way
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me. -- Jesus Christ
Vulnerability
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, ...
A Real Lover
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space. -- Marilyn Monroe
Moving Forward
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. -- Denis Waitley
Defining Character
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - ...
The Truth
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. -- Winston Churchill