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Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
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"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."


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"Follow your wishes and dreams today
so that tomorrow you don't have to say, "I wish I did that."
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"I think I'm more difficult than critical."

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"Good works are links that form a chain of love."

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"Five great enemies of peace inhibit us:
avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride."


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Hi chet bake ur speech is effective and right:
Unfortunately, how many people can live free? If you are an office clerk, you have to stay in office for more than 10 hours a day, you may have 1.5 days off if you are lunck. "Free" is too expensive for someone who don't have money to support themseleve and their family.
thank you cuz u remember me about freedom.
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Krisi wrote: "Here I am. Not there. Not where I used to be or where I will be someday or where I wish I were. But here. In this place. Amid this specific circumstances. Here I am. Not as I was yesterday, or as I will be tomorrow or as I wish I were. But as I am. In this condition, this shape. With this particular thoughts and feelings.
Here I am, GOD."


This was shared to me. And I love it. I'm sharing this to all.
This is really special! :)
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"Learning how others face their challenges
can give us the courage to deal with our own."
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When I opened my book this morning, the message below caught my eye.

"Being told you can't do something motivates you to prove them wrong."

Maybe you'll find this inspiring as well... :-)
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enkey wrote:True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
Yes, it's true enkey... :-)
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Hello lovely friends, today (and forever will...) this inspires me... :-)

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

-Mother Teresa-

Please reflect on this and let's all listen to our innerself. And maybe you'll come to understand why I find this inspiring.
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"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."

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Krisi wrote:Hello lovely friends, today (and forever will...) this inspires me... :-)

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

-Mother Teresa-

Please reflect on this and let's all listen to our innerself. And maybe you'll come to understand why I find this inspiring.
Do u know that Mother Teresa is like me Albanian
:?: :?: :?: ;-) :oops:
If you don`t like me remember it's mind over matter..I don't mind and you don't matter..
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• Good..BeTTer..BesT..Never LeT iT resT..`TiL ur good is beTTer nd ur beTTer is BEST..!
I also like some others but I have them in my pc at home nd now I`m in work :oops: .
If you don`t like me remember it's mind over matter..I don't mind and you don't matter..
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Annaa wrote:
Krisi wrote:Hello lovely friends, today (and forever will...) this inspires me... :-)

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

-Mother Teresa-

Please reflect on this and let's all listen to our innerself. And maybe you'll come to understand why I find this inspiring.
Do u know that Mother Teresa is like me Albanian
:?: :?: :?: ;-) :oops:
but she changed to Indian nationality.
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She didn`t change :oops: :-? .
If you don`t like me remember it's mind over matter..I don't mind and you don't matter..
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Annaa wrote:She didn`t change :oops: :-? .
I just can't remember. I have read her autobiography long time ago, I think I have to read it again. Maybe you're correct.
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Maybe
If you don`t like me remember it's mind over matter..I don't mind and you don't matter..
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Tobacco is a filthy weed,
Which from the Devil does proceed;
It drains your purse, it stains your clothes,
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Chuck wrote:Tobacco is a filthy weed,
Which from the Devil does proceed;
It drains your purse, it stains your clothes,
And makes a chimney of your nose

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I personally like this very much...

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."

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Krisi wrote:I personally like this very much...

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."

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I like it, too.
We're all friends, right?
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Bambang wrote:
Krisi wrote:I personally like this very much...

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."

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I like it, too.
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You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
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"We are all pencils in the hand of God."

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Be strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

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"Flee the assiduous inquirer, for he is also a blabber."

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"We're building up or tearing down in everything we do;
Are we in the construction gang or
on the wrecking crew?"
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"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."

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He best can pity who has felt the woe...
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Some shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able and yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
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George Arliss wrote: Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
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"He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven."

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"Don't fix the blame, fix the problem."

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"When we blame, we give away our power."

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"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

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People only see what they are prepared to see. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. -David Tyson Gentry
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. -Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

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"It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually."

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"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

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LIFE IS DREAM OR NIGHTMARE
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"Some shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able and yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom."
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"Let Nature be your Teacher" by William Wordsworth's poem"The Tables Turned"
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Be not as others are,
but simply as who you are.


I hope you are all doing fine.
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Strength doesn't come from what you can do,
It comes from overcoming.
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"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself".

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“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

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It is a very dangerous thing to listen. If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person.
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