Upbeat Stuff - to Start Your Day Right ~~~~

[Sharon Westwood]

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~ Confucious
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How far you go in your life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~ George Washington Carver**************

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. ~ Corita Ken
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The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Any one of them could change the course of his life overnight. — Mark Caine
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Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination. ~ Robert Schuller

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - Marcel Proust
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Nothing happens unless first we dream. ~ Carl Sandburg
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Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. ~ Tom Barrett
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Wisdom begins with wonder. Be what you wish to seem. ~ Socrates
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Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands and then eat just one of the pieces. - Judith Viorst
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To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world that I am able to change it in positive ways. - Maxine Hong Kingston

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
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Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. ~ Gregory Peck
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Writers really live in the mind and hotels of the soul. ~ Edna O'Brien
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. - Malcolm S. Forbes
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The Sun will not rise, or set, without my notice and thanks. Winslow Homer
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Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength. ~ Anonymous
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Motivation will almost always beat mere talent! ~ Norman Augustine
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Man is a universe within himself. ~ Bob Marley
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way. ~ Virginia Woolf
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There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. - Norman Vincent Peale
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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions. - Kahlil Gibran
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You live for two months on a good compliment. ~ Mark Twain
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The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears. ~ James Allen
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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. ~ Dr. Stephen Covey
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - Marcel Proust
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The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~ William Wordsworth
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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. ~ Carl Jung
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~ Victor Hugo
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! – John Muir
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius. ~ Elbert Hubbard
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The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~ Robert Byrne
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. ~ George Washington Carver
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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, never in want. ~ Irish toast
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Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
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Gratitude is the heart's memory. ~ French Proverb
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Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ~ Charles Dickens
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. ~ Napoleon Hill
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To Climb Steep Hills requires slow pace at first. - William Shakespeare
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. ~ Goethe
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. Dale Carnegie
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By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path. ~ Julia Cameron
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When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. ~ Wayne Dyer
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Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying. ~ Harry Anderson
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My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all. ~ Stephen Hawking

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it. ~ William Osler
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The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, … Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things. ~ Okakura Kakuzo
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Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. - Brian Tracy
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The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. - Napoleon Hill
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. ~ Martha Graham
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. ~ Walter Winchell
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Sometime in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself. ~ Katherine Sharp
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~ Victor Hugo
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Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination."
~ Robert Schuller
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Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~ Martin Buxbaum
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read. - Mark Twain
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds."
~ Earl Nightingale
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ~John Muir
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. - Helen Keller
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How wonderful is it that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~ Anne Frank
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Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. ~ Les Brown
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. ~ Anatole France
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. ~ James Oppenheim
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend.... ~ Anais Nin
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All life is an experiment. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am a part of all that I have touched and that has touched me. ~ Thomas Wolfe
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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. ~ Michelangelo
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Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ~ Howard Thurman
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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. ~ John D. Rockefeller
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~ American Proverb
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Adopt the peace of nature. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everyone has secrets of greatness inside. ~ Joel Osteen
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A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. - Denis Waitley
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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~ C.S. Lewis
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Knowledge is the food of the soul. ~ Plato
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More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams. ~ Amy Grant
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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. ~ Don Marquis
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anais Nin
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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. ~ Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~ Walt Emerson
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ~ Albert Einstein
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ~ Anais Nin
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When it is dark enough, you can still see the stars. ~ Charles Austin Beard
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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. ~ Albert Einstein
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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ~ Helen Keller
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ~ Mark Twain
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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. ~ Mark Twain
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Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~ Hans Christian Anderson
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Do not fail
To learn from
The pure voice of an
Ever-flowing mountain stream
Splashing over the rocks.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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The world of reality has limits; the world of the imagination is boundless. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. ~ Og Mandino
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something different. ~ Author Unknown
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People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.~ Bonnie Jean Wasmund
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To have more, become more. ~ Jim Rohn
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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. ~ Richard M. DeVos
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When people said, 'It's impossible, it can't be done', that's where my imagination came into play ~ Michael Phelps
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Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundarie ~ Corita Ken
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Will someone else's life be brighter tomorrow because of what you have done today? ~ William Arthur Ward
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. 
Live the life you have imagined. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles... but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly ~ Buddha
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Vision is the art of seeing the invisible. ~ Jonathan Swift
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To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation ~ Chinese Proverb
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If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine Floor ~ Neil Simon
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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again. ~
Charles F. Kettering
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Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are -- Marianne Williamson
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when first produced.~ Alfred North Whitehead ___________________________________________________________________________________

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.~ Mother Teresa ___________________________________________________________________________________
But words are things, and a small drop of ink Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. ~ Sir Aubrey De Vere
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Ebullient (i-BUL-yuhnt, -BOOL-) adjective - Bubbling with enthusiasm or excitement.
The cranky senior citizen of the televised leaders' debate was replaced by an ebullient man with a spring in his step and an enthusiastic handshake."
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"I am ebullient about this site. Isn't it cool?" ~ Sharon