For this Day:

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Reaching out...

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."
~ John Andrew Holmes

Teaching vs Learning

"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."
~ Angela Schwindt

...ubhappy like

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do. 
-Cesar Chavez, farm worker and activist (31 Mar 1927-1993)

Seven Success Principles

#1
Take 100% responsibility for your life

#2
Don't talk. Act! 

#3
Get over yourself

#4
Start each day with expectation

#5
End each day with gratitude

#6
Get rid of plan B

#7
Do the work!

Describe others as...

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln

Detrimental to keep...

It's my rule never to lose my temper till it would be detrimental to keep it. 
-Sean O'Casey, playwright (30 Mar 1880-1964)

Fighting a hard battle

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
~ Philo

Acts of greed

"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines."
~ Charles Kuralt

No title or position

"Become the kind of leader people would follow voluntarily, even if you have no title or position."
~ Brian Tracy

Not always the same

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
-Gloria Steinem, activist, author, and editor (b. 25 Mar 1934)

Powerful drug

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
- Rudyard Kipling

Be an...

"Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already."
~ Dave Willis

more the changes

The more things change, the more they are the same.
- Alphonse Karr

Keep your friends

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner

Strong actions!

Strong reasons make strong actions.
– William Shakespeare

Knows the strength...

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
- Woodrow Wilson

Sometimes....

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. 
-Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (23 Mar 1912-1977)

To be earned...

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
- Margaret Thatcher

Prepare now

In fair weather prepare for foul.
- Thomas Fuller

Miles covered...

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. 
-Louis L'Amour, novelist (22 Mar 1908-1988)

Free to practice

Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.
 -John Irving, novelist (b. 2 Mar 1942)

Glory begins and

Think where man;s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
- William Butler Yeats

Only one...

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you have. 
-Émile Chartier, philosopher (3 Mar 1868-1951)