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    “To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

      “By choosing to embrace and practice good values every day, you choose the higher course in life. And your life goes in a direction that you will always feel good about. You may not always get what you desire, but you will always be the person you desire to be.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Today Matters

        “Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running in a different race.” ~ Ken Blanchard

          “If you’re not giving of yourself as much as you’re giving of your wallet, are you really generous down deep? We should work hard to make the Virtuous Circle of Generosity the number-one epidemic in the United States – giving of wealth, giving of self. Unstoppable and unending. ~ Dave Thomas, Wendy’s

            “People give not from the top of their purses, but from the bottom of their hearts.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Today Matters

              “A person’s level of income and their desire to give have nothing to do with one another.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Today Matters

                “The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you brought to other people’s lives that you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.” ~ Harold Kushner

                  “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” ~ Maya Angelou

                    “You can’t light another’s path without casting light on your own.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Today Matters

                      “You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of home and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” ~ Woodrow Wilson

                        “No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. You must live for others if you wish to live for yourself.” ~ Seneca

                          “How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them. People of small caliber are always caring. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. But magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, they have no reserves, and they feed on the true and solid wherever they find it.  And what is more, they find it everywhere.” ~ Van Wyck Brooks

                            “I think many people believe the best way they can help others is to criticize them, to give them the benefit of their ‘wisdom.’ I disagree. The best way to help people is to see the best in them.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Today Matters

                              “We don’t seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it’s purposeful. Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle. We could have been ourselves without our delights, but not without the misfortunes that drive our search for meaning. ‘Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities,’ St. Paul wrote in Second Corinthians, ‘for when I am weak, then I am strong.'” ~ Andrew Solomon, TED

                                “You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you’ve come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.” ~ Andrew Solomon, TED

                                The Ship

                                  I am standing on the seashore.

                                  A ship appears

                                  and spreads her white sails

                                  to the morning breeze

                                  and starts for the ocean.

                                  She is an object of beauty

                                  and I stand watching her

                                  till at last she fades away on the horizon,

                                  and someone at my side quietly says,

                                  “She is gone.”  Gone where?

                                  Gone from my vision, that is all;

                                  she is just as large as when I saw her last.

                                   

                                  The diminished size

                                  and the total loss of sight

                                  is in me, not in her;

                                  and just at the moment

                                  when someone at my side says,

                                  “She is gone,”

                                  There are others who are watching

                                  her coming and other voices

                                  take up a joyful shout,

                                  “There she comes!”

                                   

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                                  Source: Today Matters by John C. Maxwell