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Positive Thoughts for Today
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LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.
-Hilaire Belloc
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-Helen Keller
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while.
So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.
-George Asaf (George H. Powell)
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The $20 dollar bill
By: Author Unknown
A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up
a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked. "Who would like
this $20 bill?"
Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20
to one of you - but first, let me do this."
He proceeded to crumple the 20 dollar note up. He then asked.
"Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air.
"Well," he replied, "what if I do this?" He dropped it on the
ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe.
He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. "Now, who still wants it?"
Still the hands went into the air.
"My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson.
No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it
because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20.
Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground
into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances
that come our way.
We feel as though we are worthless; but no matter what happened
or what will happen, you will never lose your value.
Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless
to God and to those who love you.
The worth of our lives comes, not in what we do or who we know,
but by ...WHO WE ARE.
You are special -- don't ever forget it.
You may be only one person in the world,
but you may also be the world to one person.
Marilyn L. Ali
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