Health And Health Practitioners

Patient, on telephone: Doctor, there’s something very wrong with me. My head feels squashed, my voice sounds strange, I smell something peculiar, and one of my feet is cold. What could be wrong with me?
Doctor: You are probably wearing one of your socks on your head.
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“The greatest reward of medicine isn’t the title, it’s the difference you make in someone’s life.” -Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
 
A doctor told a man that if he ran 5 miles a day for 300 days, he would lose 75 pounds. At the end of 300 days, the man called the doctor to report he had lost the weight, but he had a problem. “What’s the problem?” asked the doctor. The man said, “I’m 1,500 miles from home.”
 
“We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.” -Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965) (about 1957): as quoted by Norman Cousins
 
Tonsillectomy
“Your tonsils, it seems, are too big,”
Said my doctor, and straightened his wig.
     “There isn’t a doubt
     That they’ll have to come out.”
And he giggled and danced a short jig.
 
By Author Unknown
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“The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it’s to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.” -Hunter Doherty ‘Patch’ Adams (born 1945)
 
One afternoon, a man went to his doctor and told him that he had not been feeling well lately. The doctor examined the man, left the room, and came back with three different bottles of pills. The doctor said, “Take the green pill with a big glass of water when you wake up. Take the blue pill with a big glass of water after you eat lunch. Then, just before going to bed, take the red pill with another big glass of water.” Surprised to be put on so much medicine, the man stammered, “Doc, exactly what is my ailment?” The doctor replied, “You are not drinking enough water.”
 
“He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834): as quoted in Henry N. Coleridge: “Specimens of the Table Talk of S. T. Coleridge” (1833), ‘2 January 1833’
 
A doctor was consulting with his patient. “I checked your symptoms on Google. If you want a second opinion, I’ll check with Yahoo.”
 
“Aye, if we mixed laughter, love, and work in the right proportion, medicine would be but a dream of things that once were.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
 
Patient: Doctor, you have to help me!
Doctor: What seems to be the problem?
Patient: I have some coins stuck in my ear.
Doctor: How long have they been there?
Patient: A year.
Doctor: Why did you not come in sooner?
Patient: I did not need the money until now.
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“The doctor of the future will be oneself.” -Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
 
A man walked into a doctor’s office and was sent immediately to an exam room. The doctor entered and looked him over. The man had a green bean sticking out of his left ear, a carrot sticking out of his right ear, and a celery stalk sticking out of one nostril. “Doc, it is just terrible, I am in awful shape - what do you think it could be that is the matter with me?” The doctor replied, “Well, for starters, you are not eating properly.”
 
“Better name for the general practitioner might be multispecialist.” -Martin H. Fischer (Martin Henry Fischer (1879 - 1962))
 
Patient: Doctor, Doctor, I feel like a pair of curtains.
Doctor: Pull yourself together, man!
 
“Quack: A doctor who ducks the law.” -Noah Lott (George V. Hobart (George Vere Hobart (1867 - 1926))): “The Silly Syclopedia” (1905)
 
Doctor: Face the window, please. Now stick out your tongue.
Patient: Why do I have to face the window?
Doctor: Because I want the man next door to see it.
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“Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.” -Arthur Murphy (1727 - 1805)
 
A man sat in a doctor’s office and kept up a strange litany: “I hope I am sick . . . I hope I am sick . . .” Another waiting patient asked, “Why do you want to be sick?” The man replied, “I would hate to be well and feel like this!”
 
“What is diagnosed well, can be cured well.” [translation to English]
“Bene diagnoscitur, bene curatur.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
Doctor: I have some good news and some bad news.
Patient: Tell me the bad news first.
Doctor: You have canary disease.
Patient: What is the good news?
Doctor: It is tweetable.
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“The best doctor gives the least medicines.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790))
 
Doctor: You cough sounds much better today.
Patient: It should - I stayed up all night practicing.
 
“Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.” -Norman Cousins (1915 - 1990): ‘The Mysterious Placebo: How Mind Helps Medicine Work’ published in the “Saturday Review” (1977)
 
A man went to visit his doctor. “Doc, my arm hurts! Can you check it out?” The doctor rolled up the man’s sleeve and suddenly, the man’s arm started talking. “Hello, doctor,” said the arm. “Could you lend me twenty dollars, please? I’m desperate!” “Aha!” said the doctor. “I see the problem. Your arm is broke!”
 
“I have always believed that the primary function of doctors should be to teach people how not to get sick in the first place. The word ‘doctor’ comes from the Latin word for ‘teacher.’” -Andrew Weil (Andrew Thomas Weil (born 1942))
 
A man went to see his doctor. He was suffering from acute anxiety and seemed on the verge of a nervous breakdown. After the examination, the doctor went into the consultation room to discuss the case with the patient’s wife. “What your husband needs most of all is rest and quiet,” said the doctor. “These are tranquilizer pills. You should take one every three hours.”
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“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.” -William Osler (1849 - 1919): as quoted in William Bennett Bean (1874 - 1944), editor: “Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings” (1950), page 105
 
Patient: Doctor, how do I cure my sleepwalking?
Doctor: Put bubble-wrap on your bedroom floor.
 
“There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.” -Oliver Sacks (Oliver Wolf Sacks (1933 - 2016))
 
Have you heard about the doctor who made enough money in his medical practice that he could occasionally afford to tell a patient that there was nothing wrong with him?
 
“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, strength cannot fight, intelligence cannot be applied, art cannot become manifest, wealth becomes useless.” -Herophilos (sometimes Latinized as Herophilus (335 B.C.E. - 280 B.C.E.))
 
Patient: Doctor, I feel like a pony!
Doctor: Do not worry - you are just a little hoarse!
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“Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.” -Martin H. Fischer (Martin Henry Fischer (1879 - 1962))
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A young doctor, raised in the city, opened his practice in a rural area and tried to become a country doctor. The second day, his doorbell rang at 4:30 a.m. He stumbled toward the door; his mind scrambling to be alert for what must be a terrible emergency. Opening the door, he was surprised to see a farmer, looking quite fit. “Good heavens, man, what is it?” the doctor asked. “Nothing much,” said the farmer. “You asked me to drop by for my checkup just before breakfast, and here I am.”
 
“The great secret of medicine, known to doctors but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves.” -Lewis Thomas
 
“We’re living in an age of medical specialists. Nowadays what four out of five doctors recommend is another doctor.” -Robert Orben (1927 - 2023): “2400 Jokes to Brighten Your Speeches” (1984): “2400 Jokes to Brighten Your Speeches” (1984)
 
“If doctors do not know how or why a particular medicine works, what are the chances that it is a placebo, or the power of suggestion, or the body’s natural healing system, that is instead at work?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
Stuart: “First I got tonsillitis, followed by appendicitis and pneumonia. After that, I got erysipelas with hemochromatosis. Following that, I got poliomyelitis, and finally, I ended up with neuritis. Then they gave me hypodermics and inoculations.”
Wallace: “Wow, you had a time!”
Stuart: “I’ll say! I thought I would never pull through that spelling test.”
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“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778))
 
Patient: Doctor, do I have an underactive thyroid?
Doctor: No, just an overactive fork.
 
“Never ask a surgeon whether you need an operation.” -Kocher
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“My doctor is wonderful. Once I couldn’t afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.” -Joey Bishop
 
A fellow walked into a doctor’s office, and the receptionist asked him what he had. He said, “Shingles.” She took down his name, address, medical insurance number, and then told him to have a seat. Fifteen minutes later a nurse’s aide came out and asked him what he had. He said, “Shingles.” She took down his height, weight, and medical history, and then told him to wait in the waiting room. Half an hour later, a nurse came in and asked him what he had. He said, “Shingles.” So she gave him a blood test, a blood pressure test, an electrocardiogram, and then told him to take off his clothes and wait for the doctor. An hour later, the doctor came in and asked him what he had. He said, “Shingles.” The doctor said, “Where?” The man said, “Outside on the truck. Where do you want them?”
 
“The best of healers is good cheer.” -Pindar (about 518 B.C.E. - about 438 B.C.E.): “Nemean Ode”
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Would you believe it - he insists that he is a real doctor!
 
F is for Fracture,
     A painful affair;
Put the two ends together,
     And then keep ’em there.
-Cyril Barnert: “The A. B. C. of Surgery” (1917)
 
Patient: “When I touch my tongue to aluminum foil wrapped around a balloon while leaning against a washing machine, I feel a peculiar tingling in my toes - what is wrong with me?”
Doctor: “You have too much spare time.”
 
“Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.” -Cass Canfield
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“I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.” -Henny Youngman (Henry ‘Henny’ Youngman (1906 - 1998))
 
“I wonder why you can always read a doctor’s bill, but you can never read his prescription.” -Finley Peter Dunne (1867 - 1936)
 
“Did you ever have the measles, and if so, how many?” -Artemus Ward (about 1860)
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Parent: Doctor, Doctor, my child has swallowed a pen!
Doctor: Do not worry - just use a pencil until I get there.
 
If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does he doctor the doctor the way a doctor who doctors doctors doctors doctors?
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“No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries*.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior (1841 - 1935): “Medical Essays”
*apothecaries are similar to pharmacists but different somehow
 
“Dr. Tilden is . . . a medical heretic. He has broken away entirely from the tenets of the regular school of medicine and burnt the bridges behind him: he does not resort to medicine as a cure for sickness, but cures by correcting the patient’s diet and other habits of living.” -Helen Sayr Gray
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A saintly Christian fellow went to the doctor for a medical checkup. He said to the doctor, “I feel terrible. I have excruciating pains in my head. Please tell me what is wrong with me.” “Let’s begin with a few questions,” said the doctor. “Do you drink much?” “Alcohol?” said the man. “I’m a teetotaler. Never touch a drop of that stuff.” “How about smoking?” asked the doctor. “Never,” replied the man. “Tobacco is bad and I have strong principles against it.” “Are you up late nights?” asked the doctor. “Oh, no,” said the man. “Worldliness is a sin. I’m against it. I am always in bed by 9:30 every night - always have been.” “I have seen this before,” said the doctor. “It just may be that your halo is on too tight.”
 
“First, do no harm.” [translation to English]
“Primum non nocere.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown: “Hippocratic Oath”
 
“In teaching the medical student, the primary requisite is to keep him awake.” -Chavalier Jackson
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“Sometimes, the best thing we can do for our patients is to tell them what the best behavior is and then negotiate something they can live with.” -Nancy Dickey
 
Patient: I think I’m losing my memory.
Doctor: When did it start?
Patient: When did what start?
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A young woman went to her doctor complaining of pain. “Where are you hurting?” asked the doctor. “You have to help me, I hurt all over,” said the woman. “What do you mean, all over?” asked the doctor, “be a little more specific.” The woman touched her right knee with her index finger and yelled, “Oh, that hurts!” Then she touched her left cheek and again yelled, “Ouch! That hurts, too.” Then she touched her right earlobe, “Even that hurts,” she cried. The doctor checked her thoughtfully for a moment and then told her his diagnosis: “You have a broken finger.”
 
“The best six doctors: sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise, diet.” -Wayne Fields
 
Bumper Sticker: Orthopedists Get All The Breaks.
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Doctor: You appear to have a cold.
Patient: Actually, I am just rehearsing for the part of Sneezy in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”
 
“Doctor: The only person who actually enjoys poor health.” -Author Unknown
 
A Short History of Medicine: “Doctor, I have an ear ache.”
2000 B.C.E.: “Here, eat this root.”
1000 B.C.E.: “That root is heathen, say this magic spell.”
C.E. 1850: “That magic spell is superstition, drink this potion.”
C.E. 1940: “That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill.”
C.E. 1985: “That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic.”
C.E. 2000: “That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root.”
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Mister Lee was terribly overweight, so his doctor put him on a diet. “I want you to eat regularly for two days, then skip a day, and repeat this procedure for two weeks. The next time I see you, you will have lost at least five pounds.” When Mr. Lee returned, he shocked the doctor by having lost nearly sixty pounds. “Why, that is simply amazing!” the doctor said, “Did you follow my instructions?” Mr. Lee nodded. “I will tell you though, I thought I was going to collapse on the third day.” “From hunger, you mean?” “No, from skipping.”
 
A man walked into a doctor’s office and said, “Doctor, Doctor, I have a strawberry growing on my arm!” The doctor replied, “I can give you some cream for that.”
 
Will doctors ever go from ‘practicing medicine’ to ‘conducting medicine’?
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“A stethoscope is not just an instrument. It is jewelry.” -Author Unknown
 
Patient: Doctor, I think my eyesight is getting worse.
Clerk: It certainly is - this is a jewelry store!
 
“Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.” -H. G. Bohn (Henry George Bohn (1796 - 1884))
 
“The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.” -Martin H. Fischer (Martin Henry Fischer (1879 - 1962))
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“My stomach has been bothering me, Doctor,” complained the patient. “What have you been eating?” asked the doctor. “I only eat jelly beans.” “Jelly beans?!” exclaimed the astonished doctor. “Maybe that is the trouble. What kind do you eat?” “All kinds,” replied the man, “Red ones for breakfast, yellow and orange ones for lunch, blue ones for afternoon snacks, and purple and black for dinner.” “I see the problem,” said the doctor. “You haven’t been getting any greens!”
 
A nurse was giving a young medical intern a tour of the hospital. The intern approached one bedridden patient and asked, “Why are you here?” The patient replied, “O my Luve’s like a red, red rose that’s newly sprung in June.” The intern moved on to the next bed and asked the same question, “Why are you here?” The patient answered, “Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!” The intern moved on to a third bed and asked again, “Why are you here?” to which the third patient replied, “The best laid plans of mice and men may often gang awry.” At this, the intern turned to the nurse and asked, “What ward is this anyway?” The nurse answered, “It’s the Burns Unit.”
 
Patient: Doctor, doctor, I keep thinking I’m a yo-yo.
Doctor: Are you stringing me along?
 
“Doctor’s office: A place where people who are run down wind up.” -Author Unknown
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Patient: Doctor, Doctor, I keep thinking there are two of me.
Doctor: One at a time, please.
 
“I cannot do the things I used to do,” a patient said to the doctor. “I wish you had some magic way of making me younger.” “You have it all wrong,” the doctor said. “My job is to see that you get older.”
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Doctor: Have you ever had trouble with dyspepsia?
Patience: Only once.
Doctor: When was that?
Patient: When I tried to spell it.
 
A typical American hospital has three to six times more employees than patients. So, the next time you go to the hospital, perhaps it should be to fill out an employment application.
 
Patient: Doctor, how long will my arm be in this cast?
Doctor: At least six weeks.
Patient: When you remove it, will I be able to play the violin?
Doctor: Of course.
Patient: That is great, because I could never play one before.
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A woman rushed into a doctor’s office and shouted, “Doctor, I think I’m shrinking!” The doctor calmly responded, “Now settle down. You will just have to be a little patient.”
 
Patient: Doctor, can you give me something for my liver?
Doctor: Certainly - here is an onion!
 
Doctor: Your pulse is as steady as a clock.
Patient: You have your hand on my wristwatch.
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Farmer: Doctor, I have potatoes in my ears.
Doctor: How did that happen?
Farmer: I do not know - I planted carrots.
 
Have you heard about the doctor who wrote out a prescription in the usual doctor’s fashion? The patient used it for two years as a railroad pass. Twice it got him into Radio City Music Hall, and once into Yankee Stadium. It came in handy as a letter from his supervisor to the personnel director to increase his salary. And, to top it off, his daughter played it on the piano and won a scholarship to the Curtis Music Conservatory.
 
“Medical education is not completed at the medical school, it is only begun.” -William H. Welch
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Patient on phone: I cannot sleep, Doctor. Can you do anything for me?
Doctor: Stay on the phone, and I will sing you a lullaby.
 
A doctor decided to take a week off from the pressures of his busy medical practice, and went skiing. Alas, no sooner did he reach the slopes than he heard an ominous rumbling. Seconds later, a sheet of snow came crashing toward him. Fortunately, the doctor was able to jump into a cave just before the avalanche could overtake him. Just as luckily, he had matches with him and was able to light a fire. Hours later, when everyone but the doctor had returned to the lodge from a day of skiing, a rescue team was sent out to search for him. It was nearly dark when the searchers saw smoke curling from the cave and went to investigate. Poking his head in the cave, one of the rescuers yelled, “Doctor, are you in there? It’s the Red Cross.” Bristling, the harried doctor called back, “I already gave at the office!”
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“Everything is so expensive. What hospitals really need is cheaper equipment - like an X-ray machine that takes four poses for a quarter.” -Robert Orben (1927 - 2023): “2400 Jokes to Brighten Your Speeches” (1984)
 
Podiatric Oralist: A foot and mouth doctor.
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A doctor had worked out the vacation plans for the people he had working in his office. As they looked at the schedule, the doctor said, “All in favor, stick out your tongues and say, ‘Aaahhh.’”
 
“He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.” -Author Unknown
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“The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is after all the most important part of his education.” -John Shaw Billings
 
Patient: Doctor, doctor, I am afraid of squirrels!
Doctor: Afraid of squirrels - are you a nut?
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“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” -Author Unknown: Irish proverb
 
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.” -William Osler (1849 - 1919)
 
“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.” -William Osler (1849 - 1919)
 
If these jokes are not making you feel better, it may be time to see your doctor, and if these jokes are making you feel better, it may be time to see your doctor - what do we know, we are not doctors and we do not give medical advice . . . we are MFOL!

Magic And Illusion

“Magic is all around, you just have to believe.” -Author Unknown
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“Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
 
“The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we all live with a sense of wonder, our lives will become filled with joy.” -The Great Doug Henning (Douglas James Henning (1947 - 2000))
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“It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done.” -Terry Pratchett (Terrence David John ‘Terry’ Pratchett (1948 - 2015))
 
The word ‘abracadra’ may have originated from the Aramaic phrase ‘avra kehdabra’ meaning ‘I will create as I speak.’
 
In 1799, Count de Grisley became the first magician to perform the trick of sawing a woman in half, and ever since then, women everywhere have been eagerly lining up to be sawed in half - or perhaps not!
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Magic
 
It cost so little, I wonder why
     We give it so little thought;
A smile, kind words, a glance, a touch -
     What magic by them is wrought.
 
By Author Unknown
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“Doing magic, you not only have to be able to do a trick, you have to have a little story line to go with it.” -Ken Kesey (Kenneth Elton Kesey (1935 - 2001)): as quoted in “The Sun Times” (29 August 1999) interview
 
Magic Words
- Abracadabra!
- Hocus-pocus!
- Hot potato, jump-rope, kick-the-can!
- Parsley, peas, potatoes!
- Presto, change-o!
Many magicians create their own magic words, and so can you.
 
First Magician: What happened to the saw-a-woman-in-half act you used to do?
Second Magician: My assistant left me - she moved to New York and Los Angeles.
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Howie: How many magicians does it take to change a light bulb?
Howard: That is one trick they do not know - and besides, that is why they have assistants!
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“I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man’s way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you’ve got an act.” -Steve Martin (Stephen Glenn ‘Steve’ Martin (born 1945)): as quoted in “Time Magazine” (24 August 1987)
 
One technique for creating funny magic words is to ask for audience participation. Would someone please name a color? Would someone please name an animal? Would someone please name a food? Then you combine their answers, which might make something silly, such as, “Purple elephant ice cream!” which you use as the ‘magic words’ during your show.
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​In 1814, Louis Comte of France became the first magician to pull a rabbit out of a top hat.
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Boris: Why did the magician have to cancel his show?
Doris: He had just washed his hare and could not do anything with it.
 
“Abracadabbler: An amateur magician.” -Author Unknown
 
Examples Of Magic Tricks
- Pulling a coin out from behind someone’s ear.
- Making a person or an object disappear and then reappear.
- Cutting something in half or destroying it and then making it reappear whole and undamaged, as for example, money or a handkerchief.
- Levitating (floating) someone or something.
Can you think of other magic tricks?
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Just as there are silent movies with musical accompaniment, there are magicians who perform without speaking, sometimes with dramatic music played during their shows or even a person who stands offstage or a short distance from the magician’s side and narrates, or describes what is happening, during the show, by reading from a memorized or prepared printed script or cue cards.
 
A magician was driving down a road when, Poof! - he turned into a parking lot.
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People who learn to do magic in front of an audience also learn showmanship: timing, quick comebacks, appropriateness and inappropriateness of certain language, and the skill of continuing on even when things go wrong.
 
Camilla: You know, I have half a mind to become a professional magician.
Pamela: That should do.
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“Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.” -Margot Fonteyn (stage name of Margaret Evelyn de Arias (born Margaret Evelyn Hookham (1919 - 1991))): as quoted in James Randall Miller: “Thoughts from Earth” (2004)
 
One way to make yourself and your magic show memorable is to do something that is unusual, different, or unique. For example, maybe you could use fruit such as apples, oranges, and bananas in your act. Make a piece of fruit disappear and reappear, and then toss it to a member of the audience. Make a piece of fruit levitate, and then throw it to someone in your audience. You could have someone dressed in a gorilla costume as your assistant. Instead of pulling a live rabbit or a toy rabbit out of a hat, you could pull balloon animals out of your hat and then hand them to children in the audience. Put your imagination to work!
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The most accomplished female magician in the world is Dorothy Dietrich (born 1969). She performs regularly at the Houdini Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She is also a ‘debunker,’ or someone who exposes lies, deceptions, and false ideas.
 
“We do not need magic to change the world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.” -J. K. Rowling (Joanne Kathleen ‘Jo’ Rowling (born 1965)): in a speech (2008) to Harvard Alumni Association
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“Spring animals are fake animals that are often used by magicians, clowns, comedians, and other entertainers. They can be made to appear very realistic with practice. The basic construction of the animal is of a spring wrapped in either real or artificial animal fur. Different colored fur is used for different spring animals.” -Greg McMahan (born 1960) at http://www.MisterGreggy.com/

“Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.” -Nora Roberts (born 1950 as Eleanor Marie Robertson): “Charmed” (1992)
 
“Indeed, what is magic but impossible science?” -Michael Swanwick (born 1950): “Stations of the Tide” (1991), Chapter 8
 
If you were going to pull a rabbit out of a hat, would you wave a magic wand . . . or would you entice the rabbit by waving a bright orange carrot?
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A magician seeking to have his act booked at Radio City Music Hall asserted, “I’ve got a trick that will panic them.” “What is it?” asked the manager. “I saw a woman in half,” announced the magician proudly. “You call that a new trick?” scoffed the manager. “Why, they’ve been doing that around here for years.” “Oh, yeah,” snapped the magician. “How about lengthwise?”
 
Whether you are an amateur or a professional magician, you must consider safety before doing any magic. You might develop a safety checklist to go over before each show. You would probably want to avoid using fire and flames and heat to avoid injuries to yourself, your assistant, any living creatures used in your act, and your audience members, and to avoid costly damage to your equipment or the building in which you are doing your show. If you use live animals, you will want to have the telephone number of more than one veterinarian in case an animal becomes sick or injured. You will likely want to either exercise caution or even completely avoid using anything with a sharp edge that could injure someone, including breakable glass and knives. Once you are certain everything is safe, get the show started and have fun!
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Ask for a volunteer from the audience. Tell the person to take a coin from his or her pocket and hold it up in a closed fist so that you cannot see the date on the coin, and announce that you are going to tell everyone the date. Then, you say today’s date, which might be, for example, something like, “It’s Saturday, April 30, 2021,” even though the actual date on the coin might be something like just the year 1983. This is usually good for a laugh from the audience.
 
A teacher was discussing different jobs held by the parents of the students. When she called on Little Johnny, she asked, “And what does your father do?” “Oh, he’s a magician,” replied Johnny. “Really - and what’s his best trick?” “His best trick is sawing people in half.” “Wonderful!” exclaimed the teacher. “Tell me, are there any more children in your family?” “Yes ma’am, I have a half-brother and two half-sisters.”
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Marlene: Why did illusionist Harry Houdini spend hours at the gym?
Arlene: He wanted to be fit to be tied.
 
Magicians and their magic acts are the center of their shows; however, magicians may have assistants. A magician’s assistant often does not speak during the magic acts, but stands by quietly and helps with the props or becomes a prop in the act, as when he or she is made to disappear, is sawed in half, or is levitated. Sometimes magicians encourage audience participation by asking people to be part of a magic act or to provide simple props such as coins or bills. While these audience members may seem to be randomly chosen people who are like everyone else in the audience, they actually may be friends or people the magician met with before the show and practiced the act with to be sure everything goes as planned.
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“Perform as many times as you can in front of people you don’t know.” -Lance Burton (William Lance ‘Lance’ Burton (born 1960)), advice to those who would be magicians
 
“Well, I believe in magic, too, but it’s the magic that can turn a caterpillar into a butterfly, the natural wonder and beauty of the world that’s all around me.” -Charles de Lint (born 1951)
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In addition to their costumes, magicians have ‘props’ that they use in their magic acts. Typical props might be a deck of playing cards, a small lightweight table with a tablecloth, several colored handkerchiefs, rabbits, birds, large coins, and specially made items for tricks. Once magic props have been acquired, the emphasis of the magician turns to rehearsing and practicing each trick and the key to magic, which is showmanship.
 
If you did the old magic trick of sawing a lady in half, and you put the top half together with another lady, what you’d have is a ‘gallon a half’ . . . quite possibly that joke needs a little more work . . .
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Magicians We Have Yet to See
- Cheery Houdini . . . the happy, smiling clown magician.
- Dairy Moodini . . . the cow magician.
- Fairy Houdini . . . does sprightly winged magic.
- Hairy Houdini . . . the monkey magician with a human assistant.
- Harry Linguini . . . the pasta chef magician.
- Hippie Houdini . . . does groovy magic with peace and love, man.
- Santa Houdini . . . arrives in a magic flying sleigh and pulls Christmas presents from a magic sack.
- Scary Houdini . . . shows up at your door on Halloween and makes your candy magically disappear.
Can you add to this list?
 
“Magic is a secret, and without the secret there is no magic.” -Author Unknown
 
Marvin: What bird does magic tricks?
Margaret: Hoo-hoo-hoooooo-dini!
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Martin: Have you heard about the magician who fell through the floorboards in the middle of his performance?
Marvin: Yes, but it is all right - he was just ‘going through a stage.’
 
“You know, I do believe in magic. I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians. Oh, most everybody else didn’t realize we lived in that web of chance and circumstance. But I knew it all along. When I was twelve years old, the world was my magic lantern, and by its glow I saw the past, the present, and into the future. You probably did too; you just don’t recall it. See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, lightning bugs, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in dewdrops. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it disciplined out, washed out, and combed out. We are told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up for goodness’ sake. And you know why we were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad of what they had allowed to wither in themselves. After you go so far away from it, though, you can never really get it all back. You can get seconds of it. Just seconds of knowing and remembering. When people get weepy at movies, it is because in that dark theater the golden pool of magic is touched, just briefly. Then they come out into the harsh sunlight of logic and reason again and it dries up, and they are left feeling a little heart-sad and not knowing why. When a song stirs a memory, when motes of dust twirling in a shaft of light takes your attention from the world, when you listen to a coyote howling in the distance and wonder what it might be saying, you step beyond who you are and where you are. For the briefest of instants, you have stepped into the magic realm.” -Robert R. McCammon (Robert Rick McCammon (born 1952)): “Boy’s Life” (1991) novel, ‘Introduction’ at https://www.robertmccammon.com/.
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Famous People Who Started Out As Magicians
- Bob Barker (Robert William ‘Bob’ Barker (born 1923))
- Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger (1908 - 2002))
- Bill Bixby (Wilfred Bailey Everett ‘Bill’ Bixby III (1934 - 1993))
- Johnny Carson (John William ‘Johnny’ Carson (1925 - 2005))
- Dick Cavett (Richard Alva ‘Dick’ Cavett (born 1936))
- Charles Dickens (Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 - 1870))
- Cary Grant (pseudonym of Archibald Alexander Leach (1904 - 1986))
- Steve Martin (Stephen Glenn ‘Steve’ Martin (born 1945))
- Jimmy Stewart (James Maitland ‘Jimmy’ Stewart (1908 - 1997))
- Dick van Dyke (Richard Wayne ‘Dick’ Van Dyke (born 1925))
Will you get your start to fame with a magic act?
 
“A little magic can take you a long way.” -Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990): “James and the Giant Peach” (1961)

​A magician’s costume is commonly a top hat, a magic wand, and a set of clothes meant to help hold the audience’s attention through the use of eye-catching colors, quaint old-fashionedness, or an exotic appearance. A magician’s clothes may have many hidden pockets sewn into them. Some magicians also wear capes, false mustaches, false eyebrows, false beards, face paint, and other theatrical effects.
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“As a magician I promise never to reveal the secret of any illusion to a non-magician, unless that one swears to uphold the Magician’s Oath in turn. I promise never to perform any illusion for any non-magician without first practicing the effect until I can perform it well enough to maintain the illusion of magic.” -Author Unknown: Magician’s Oath
 
“That’s the thing with magic. You’ve got to know it’s still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.” -Charles de Lint (born 1951): “Dreams Underfoot: The Newford Collection” (2003), ‘Ghosts of Wind and Shadow,’ page 183
 
Whenever something goes wrong in your magic show, just tell your audience, “That is just how I planned it!” Then pause momentarily and continue on to your next trick.
 
Rufus: What do you call a dog that does magic tricks?
Freddy: A Labracadabrador!
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Attempts have been made to link performance magic, or magic tricks, to occultism, but this is a misuse of magic by occultists to try to make their occult beliefs appealing to people, and thereby draw people into occultism. Performance magic stands on its own and is not to be confused with occultism.
 
Allison: What does a martial arts magician say?
Allie: Jitsu-judo-karate . . . chop!
 
“Cats are magical . . . the more you pet them, the longer you both live.” -attributed to Stephen King (Stephen Edwin King (born 1947)) (We suspect some sneaky cat slipped that line in here, because it is not exactly relevant to this topic.)
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“Nothing I do can’t be done by a 10-year-old with 15 years of practice.” -Harry Blackstone, Junior (Harry Bouton Blackstone, Junior (1934 - 1997))
 
Double or Nothing Magic Trick. Tell a friend or an adult that you will be able to double their money without buying anything, going on the Stock Exchange, or using a computer. Then ask them for a dollar bill. Simply fold the bill in half and say, “There! I doubled your money!”
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“My hobby is magic. I learned the rudiments with Murry Dickson from a fellow who was at our training camp in St. Petersbug in 1942 and liked it. I help entertain at parties and sometimes on trains.” -Stan Musial (Stanley Frank Musial (born Stanislaw Franciszek Musial (1920 - 2013))): as quoted in Les Biederman: ‘The Scoreboard: Private Life of Stan Musial’ published in “The Pittsburgh Press” (15 May 1955), Section 4, page 3
 
“Shazam!” is a magic acronymic word created from Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury, and it is said to invoke their powers. An acronym is a word created typically by combining the first letter in each word in a phrase or list.
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“The world is its own magic.” -Shunryu Suzuki (1904 - 1971)
 
Some magic wands are hollow inside to conceal handkerchiefs, powders that produce puffs like smoke but without fire or flames, or shiny colorful glitter. Magic wands can be made from rolled-up sheets of paper or wood or plastic sticks. Magicians typically wave their magic wands or tap other props such as their magic hats atop their heads, while saying magic words such as, “Abrakadabra alakazam, let’s hope this goes as planned!”
 
“Everything is made out of magic: leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes, and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.” -Frances Hodgson Burnett (Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849 - 1924)): “The Secret Garden” (1911)
 
What do magicians have in common with clowns, actors, musicians, and authors? Like the aforementioned folks, most professional, part-time, and amateur magicians have stage names, or names that they use in association with their magic acts, often in conjunction with somewhat exaggerated descriptive words about their acts and personas. Their stage names include words such ‘the Great’ or ‘the Amazing.’ So, if you are Jimmy O’Reilly in your private life, you might take up your hat, wand, and cape to become ‘Jacob the Fantastical Wizard of Illusion and Master of Magical Mayhem’ or if you are Sarah Sumner in your personal life, you might grab your rabbits, doves, baby chicks, and artificial flowers to become ‘the Astounding Animal Acts and Flying Floral Arrangements of Mrs. Priscilla Piccadilly’ (any resemblance to persons living or otherwise is purely coincidental). Even the magical Harry Houdini had a real name: Erich Weiss (born Erik Weisz and also known as Harry Weiss and possibly by other names (1874 - 1926)).
 
Henry: There ain’t no such thing as magic, is there?
Bollie: I guess not, Henry. Or maybe . . . maybe there is magic. And maybe there’s wishes, too. I guess the trouble is . . . there’s not enough people around to believe . . .
-Rod Serling (Rodman Edward Serling (1924 - 1975)): “The Twilight Zone,” episode 27: ‘The Big Tall Wish’ (8 April 1960)
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“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” -Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990): “The Minpins” (1991)
 
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Quitting And Trying

You Can Do It!
 
Giving up is easy
     When your dreams seem far away,
And life is full of obstacles,
     You face them every day.
But, no matter what the challenge
     Some faith will get you through it.
So never quit believing,
     Just remember, you can do it!
 
By Author Unknown
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“Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen.” -Phillip Adams (Phillip Andrew Hedley Adams (born 1939))
 
“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.” -Tony Robbins (Anthony Jay ‘Tony’ Robbins (born 1960))
 
“Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try.” -Author Unknown
 
“I already know what giving up feels like. I want to see what happens if I don’t.” -Neila Rey (born 1986) at https://darebee.com
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“Keep trying. It’s only from the valley that the mountain seems high.” -Author Unknown
 
“You don’t have to get it right the first time.” -Barbara Sher
 
“Never quit. If you stumble, get back up. What happened yesterday no longer matters. Today is another day. So, get back on track and move closer to your dreams and goals. You can do it.” -Author Unknown
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“The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.” -Bud Wilkinson (Charles Burnham ‘Bud’ Wilkinson (1916 - 1994))
 
“It’s always too early to quit.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” -George E. Woodberry (George Edward Woodberry (1855 - 1930))
 
“Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.” -Arthur Pine
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“Most of the important things in this world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955))): as quoted in Joseph O’Day: “The Ring of Truth” (2004)
 
“Half the things that people do not succeed in, are through fear of making the attempt.” -James Northcote
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“Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.” -Virgil Thomson (1896 - 1989)
 
“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
 
“Before you quit, try.” -William Arthur Ward (1921 - 1994)
 
“There is an old saying: ‘If you hang in there long enough, keep trying, and don’t give up, something good is bound to happen.’” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” -Cassius Longinus (C.E. 213 - C.E. 273)
 
“If you only do what you know you can do, you never do very much.” -Tom Krause (Tom Gunnar Krause (1934 - 2013))
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“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” -Stephen Kaggwa
 
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” -Samuel Beckett (Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989)): “Worstward Ho” (1983)
 
“Don’t give up. One day you will look back and be glad you didn’t.” -Author Unknown
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“Don’t give up. Moses was once a basket case.” -Author Unknown
 
“No one knows what he can do till he tries.” -Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.): “Public Sayings”
 
“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. You can do better the next time.” -Author Unknown
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​“Try something, anything. If it doesn’t work, try something else. The important thing is that you try, and keep on trying, and never give up trying.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“There’s moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.” -Ashlee Simpson
 
“Never let a stumble in the road be the end of the journey.” -Author Unknown
 
“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 (Charles Franklin Kettering (1876 - 1958))
 
“If you don’t try, you can’t fail . . . or succeed.” -Author Unknown
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“Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.” -Jack Nicklaus (Jack William Nicklaus (born 1940))
 
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” -Maya Angelou (Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))
 
“‘It’s impossible,’ said pride. ‘It’s risky,’ said experience. ‘It’s pointless,’ said reason. ‘Give it a try,’ whispered the heart.” -Author Unknown
 
“The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - and never knowing.” -David Viscott (David Steven Viscott (1938 - 1996))
 
“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.” -Ross Perot (Henry Ross Perot (born 1930))
 
“Trying will do anything in this world.” -Theocritus (about 300 B.C.E. - after 260 B.C.E.)
 
“Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.” -Robert Anthony (Robert Newton Anthony (1916 - 2006))
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“In every triumph there’s a lot of try.” -Frank Tyger (1929 - 2011)
 
“Michelangelo stated, ‘The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but it is too low and we reach it.’ Don’t give up. Success is within reach of everyone, as long as you try. As long as someone is willing to take the first step and continue taking steps, success can be realized. In fact, taking that first step could be the greatest success because it is the building block for all steps that follow and all successes that will be realized in your life. Remember, always try, and remember this simple saying. I never see failure as failure, but only an opportunity to practice and perfect my skills as I take the journey to becoming successful at whatever I decide to do.” -Author Unknown
 
“They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.” -Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836 - 1907)
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“One must learn by doing the thing. For though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.” -Sophocles (496 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)
 
“Always remember: All that other folks can do, why with patient persistent trying should not you? Keep that noble chin up and keep trying - wonderful things can happen when we just try! Now, think happy thoughts, put your smile on, and have the best imaginable day.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

​“When you win, nothing hurts.” -Joe Namath (Joseph William ‘Joe’ Namath (born 1943))
 
“Many a man never fails because he never tries.” -Norman MacEwan (Norman Duckworth Kerr MacEwan (1881 - 1953))
 
“If you never try, you will never know.” -Author Unknown
 
“Life has two rules: Number one, never quit; Number two, always remember rule number one.” -Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)
 
“It is better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.” -Martin Seligman (Martin E. P. ‘Marty’ Seligman (born 1942))
 
“You’ll never find out what you can do, until you do all you can to find out.” -John C. Maxwell (John Calvin Maxwell (born 1947))
 
“You can’t even be a failure if you’ve never tried.” -Andy Capp
 
“One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can.” -Catherine II (also known as Catherine the Great (1729 - 1796))
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“The only failure is a failure to try. Everything else is just learning.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Have you ever considered the cost of quitting? For a real eye opener . . . ask Thomas Edison . . . Steve Jobs . . . Michael Jordan . . . or Jim Carrey . . . ask them how much it would have cost them if they had quit . . . what about you?” -Doug Firebaugh (born 1968)
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Overheard: Give it one more try . . .
 
“To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.” -Chester Barnard (Chester Irving Barnard (1886 - 1961))
 
“Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” -Author Unknown
 
“What isn’t tried won’t work.” -Claude McDonald (Claude Maxwell McDonald (1852 - 1915))
 
“A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.” -George Lucas
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“Try your best, and then on each succeeding try, attempt to best your last try.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“You never fail until you stop trying.” -Florence Griffith Joyner (Florence Delorez Griffith-Joyner (1959 - 1998))
 
“The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke.” -W. J. Cameron (William John Cameron (1879 - 1953))
 
“If you kinda sorta try, you get kinda sorta results.” -Author Unknown

​“When you find yourself around people who tell you that you are a failure before you have even begun to try, you must find a way to begin to try around people who do not condemn you, or in peaceful solitude.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Never quit. It is the easiest opt-out in the world. Set a goal and don’t quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don’t quit until you reach it. Never quit.” -Bear Bryant (Paul William ‘Bear’ Bryant (1913 - 1983))
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“Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.” -L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942)): “Anne of Green Gables” (June 1908), Chapter 35; line spoken by fictional character Anne
 
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” -Beverly Sills (pseudonym of Belle Miriam ‘Bubbles’ Silverman (1929 - 2007))
 
“You won’t succeed unless you try.” -Author Unknown
 
“Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn’t sure he can accomplish.” -Scott Jurek (Scott Gordon Jurek (born 1973))
 
“Do not give up, the beginning is always the hardest.” -Author Unknown
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“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
 
“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.” -George H. Allen (George Herbert Allen, Senior (1918 - 1990))
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“Nothing . . . will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia” (1759),Chapter 6
 
“Losers quit when they are tired. Winners quit when they have won.” -Author Unknown
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“The only ones who truly fail are those that never try.” -Author Unknown
 
“When you feel like quitting, think about why you started.” -Author Unknown
 
“You can’t hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can’t catch fish unless you put your line in the water. You can’t reach your goals if you don’t try.” -Kathy Seligman
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“If you try you might; if you don’t you won’t.” -Author Unknown
 
“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt (Franklin Delano Roosevelt (also known as FDR (1882 - 1945))): “Looking Forward” (1933) book
 
“It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action.” -La Rochefoucauld
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“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” -Ella Fitzgerald (Ella Jane Fitzgerald 1917 - 1996)
 
“Life is trying things to see if they work.” -Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury (1920 - 2012))
 
We are MFOL! . . . we never stop trying . . . and that is why more humor and inspiration and learning is coming up next . . .

Problems And Solutions

​“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.” -Frank A. Clark (Frank Atherton Clark (1911 - 1991))
 
“Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.” -Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))
 
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” -Duke Ellington (Edward Kennedy ‘Duke’ Ellington (1899 - 1974))
 
“The best angle to approach a problem is from the try angle.” -Author Unknown
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“I have been a reader of biographies for many years, and I have yet to find a successful person whose life was free from problems and difficulties.” -Warren W. Wiersbe: “The Bumps Are What You Climb On”
 
“A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.” -Charles F. Kettering (Charles Franklin Kettering (1876 - 1958))
 
“What a pity human beings can’t exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow’s.” -Olin Miller (1918 - 2002)
 
“The problems we face are human problems and therefore are capable of human solutions.” -Frederick Moore Vinson
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“Every big problem was at one time a wee little disturbance.” -Author Unknown
 
“The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one.” -Franklin P. Jones (Franklin Pierce Jones (1908 - 1980))
 
Overheard: Everything is figureoutable.
 
“People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it.” -William Raspberry
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“When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities. He welcomes the challenge of a tough problem and looks for ways to turn it to advantage.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993): “Have a Great Day” (1986), page 2
 
“All life is problem solving.” -Karl Popper (Karl Raimund Popper (1902 - 1994))
 
“I’ve yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn’t become still more complicated.” -Poul Anderson (Poul William Anderson (1926 - 2001)): ‘Call Me Joe’ novelette published in “Astounding Science Fiction” (April 1957) magazine
 
“The world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest business opportunities.” -Peter Diamandis
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“A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com
 
“. . . so it will be forever; that after every storm the Sun will smile, for every problem there is a solution, and that the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer . . .” -William R. Alger (William Rounseville Alger (1822 - 1905)): “The School of Life” (1881), ‘Lesson of Faith,’ page 71
 
“Problems are the price of success.” -Branch Rickey (Wesley Branch ‘Branch’ Rickey (1881 - 1965))
 
“Focus on remedies, not faults.” -Jack Nicklaus (Jack William Nicklaus (born 1940))
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“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” -John Steinbeck (John Ernst Steinbeck, Junior (1902 - 1968))
 
“No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.” -J. P. Morgan (John Pierpont ‘J. P.’ Morgan (1837 - 1913))
 
“There are as many solutions as there are human beings.” -George Tooker (George Clair Tooker, Junior (1920 - 2011))
 
“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” -Joshua J. Marine
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“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.” -Stephen Hawking (Stephen William Hawking (1942 - 2018))

​Oysters have an elegant solution to a problem. When a grain of sand gets inside their shells, they respond by coating the irritant in a layer of the material that lines their shells, commonly referred to as ’mother-of-pearl.’ After repeated coatings, the result is a shiny round object called a pearl. The problem is an irritant such as a grain of sand, and the solution is a pearl. Can oysters teach us how to solve problems?
 
“You can increase your problem-solving skills by honing your question-asking ability.” -Michael J. Gelb
 
“Every problem has a solution; it may sometimes just need another perspective.” -Katherine Russell
 
“The best way to forget your own problems is to help someone else solve theirs.” -Author Unknown
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“The one common challenge of all humanity is the challenge of problems.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895 - 1983))
 
“After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: ‘What did I do right?’ and ‘What would I do differently?’” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com
 
“All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them.” -William F. Halsey (William Frederick ‘Bull’ Halsey, Junior (1882 - 1959))
 
“Dear God, I have a problem, it’s me.” -Author Unknown
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“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.” -René Descartes (1596 - 1650): “Discours de la méthode” (English: “Discourse on Method” (1637)
 
“The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.” -Witter Bynner (Harold ‘Witter’ Bynner (1881 - 1968))
 
“Never solve a problem for someone, instead, help them figure out how to solve it on their own. Otherwise, you destroy their adaptive competence.” -Lord Robin
 
“This problem, too, will look simpler after it is solved.” -Charles F. Kettering (Charles Franklin Kettering (1876 - 1958))
 
“We will find the solution . . . together.” -Author Unknown
 
“The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.” -Alan Saporta (Alan H. Saporta (born 1943))
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“You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution.” -Bob Proctor (Robert Corlett ‘Bob’ Proctor (1934 - 2022))
 
“Nobody, as long as he moves among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.” -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
 
“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.” -Earl Shoaff (John Earl Shoaff (1916 - 1965))
 
“Don’t tell me that this problem is difficult. If it wasn’t difficult, it wouldn’t be a problem.” [translation to English]
“Ne me dites pas que ce problème est difficile. S’il n’était pas difficile, ce ne serait pas un problème.” [original French]
-Ferdinand Foch (Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch (1851 - 1929))
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“An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities - a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity.” -Howard W. Eves (Howard Whitley Eves (1911 - 2004))
 
“Never try to solve all the problems at once - make them line up for you one-by-one.” -Richard Sloma
 
“A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye, and it puts everything out of focus. Hold it at proper viewing distance, and it can be examined and classified. Throw it at your feet, and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway to eternity.” -Celia Luce (Celia Larsen Luce (1914 - 2008))
 
“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.” -Theodore Rubin (Theodore Isaac Rubin (born 1923))
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“There are no problems, just challenges.” -Author Unknown
 
“Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work, and get triumphantly through it.” -Ralph Marston (Ralph Seymour Marston, Junior (born 1955)) at https://GreatDay.com/
 
“I’ve never seen a problem that was solved by only complaining about it.” -Steve Keating (Stephen F. Keating (1918 - 2001))

​Overheard: All of the easy problems have already been solved.
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“To solve a problem, walk around.” [translation to English]
“Solvitur ambulando.” [original Latin]
-Jerome (also known as Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus (about C.E. 347 - C.E. 420))
 
“Avoid problems, and you’ll never be the one who overcame them.” -Richard Bach (Richard David Bach (born 1936))
 
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller, also known as R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983))
 
“Discovery of a solution consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.” -Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893 - 1986)
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“It’s good to remember that the tea kettle, although up to its neck in hot water, continues to sing.” -Author Unknown
 
“Talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.” -Rita Schiano
 
“When you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.” -Steve Jobs
 
“A lot of problems in the world would disappear if we talked to each other instead of about each other.” -Author Unknown
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“If you get stuck, don’t just stare . . . take a walk, draw, listen to music. Great ideas take time to grow.” -Hilary Mantel
 
“There are only two ways to solve a problem: stop dwelling, and start doing.” -Emily Uraih
 
“‘We have a problem.’ ‘Congratulations.’ ‘But it’s a tough problem.’ ‘Then double congratulations.’” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))
 
“Your problems aren’t going to solve themselves, you know.” -Author Unknown
 
“The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.” -Author Unknown
 
“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” -Henry J. Kaiser (Henry John Kaiser (1882 - 1967))
 
“Whatever the problem we have in our life, someone has faced it and overcome it.” -David DeNotaris
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“Focus on the solution, not the problem.” -Walter Anderson (born 1944)
 
“Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. People who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity created the greatest success stories.” -Seth Sugarman
 
“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.” -G. K. Chesterton (Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936)): “The Scandal of Father Brown” (1935), ‘The Point of a Pin’

​“Whenever we have really challenging problems in life, we can work through them the way math teachers help students solve math problems - step by step. This might even be the solution to the mystery of why algebra exists.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.” -Andy Grove (Andrew Stephen ‘Andy’ Grove (1936 - 2016))
 
“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. We seek out problems because we need their gifts.” -Richard Bach (Richard David Bach (born 1936))
 
“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” -Denis Waitley (Denis Edwin Waitley, Senior (born 1933)) at https://deniswaitley.com/
 
“The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity.” -Michael Wickett
 
“Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.” -M. Scott Peck
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“There is a remedy for everything, could men find it.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651)
 
“Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have one answer.” -Edmund C. Berkeley (Edmund Callis Berkeley (1909 - 1988))
 
“Here’s how to look at problems: Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!” -Robert H. Schuller (Robert Harold Schuller (1926 - 2015)): “Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking” (1967)
 
“Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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“The issue is not that our problems are too big but that our imaginations are too small.” -Marianne Williamson (born 1952)
 
“It often happens that I wake at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.” -Pope John XXIII (born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (1881 - 1963))
 
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.” -Alan Watts (Alan Wilson Watts (1915 - 1973))
 
“It is courage which can find the solution to every problem.” -Amit Kalantri
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“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.” -Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
 
“The ‘how’ thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ‘ifs.’” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
 
“I am so grateful for my troubles. As I reflect back on my life, I have come to realize that my greatest triumphs have been born of my greatest troubles.” -Steve Maraboli (born 1975) at https://stevemaraboli.net/: “Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience” (2013)
 
“The first step towards the solution of any problem is optimism.” -John Baines
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“Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” -Theodore N. Vail (Theodore Newton Vail (1845 - 1920))
 
“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778))
 
“There is an awful lot that is wrong with the world, so we had better get started on fixing it right now if we are going to be finished before bedtime.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.” -George Lois
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“Trouble Is My Business.” -Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959): title of article in “Dime Detective Magazine” (August 1939), and the credo of his fictional detective Philip Marlowe
 
“Some of our problems may be frustrating, but when looked at closely, we realize how lucky we are to have such problems.” -Charles F. Glassman: “Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life” (2009)
 
“I am grateful for all my problems. As each of them was overcome I became stronger and more able to meet those yet to come. I grew on all my difficulties.” -J. C. Penney (James Cash ‘J. C.’ Penney, Junior (1875 - 1971))
 
“Do not be pushed by your problems; be led by your dreams.” -Author Unknown
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“For any problem, no matter how big or complex it may be, there is a solution.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989): “Business Life: 2 Amazing Ways to Solve Your Problems” (2015)
 
“Life isn’t about living without problems. Life is about solving problems.” -Tom Krause
 
“Never make troubles of trifles.” -Author Unknown
 
“A problem isn’t a problem once it’s solved, right?” -Florence Perry Heide (born Florence Fisher Parry (1919 -2011)): “The Shrinking of Treehorn” (1971) book
 
“A step at a time . . . One problem at a time - just figure out this one problem.” -Linda Sue Park, A Long Walk to Water
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“The most important thing to do in solving a problem is to begin.” -Frank Tyger (1929 - 2011)
 
We are MFOL! . . . may all of your problems be funny ones . . . and may all of your solutions be fun . . .

Telephones

“I put my cell phone in airplane mode, but for some reason, it won’t fly.” -Author Unknown
 
A man called a company and asked to speak to Bob. The person who answered the telephone said, “Bob will be on vacation for the next two weeks. Would you like to hold?”
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Caller: The Union of Shopkeepers and Alligators, please.
Operator: You mean the Amalgamated Union of Shopkeepers?
Caller: Er, yes . . . that would be the one.
 
The first transatlantic wedding took place on 2 December 1933. The groom was in Michigan. The bride was in Sweden. The ceremony took seven minutes and cost $47.50.
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Caller: I would like the number for a Reverend in Marysville, please.
Operator: Do you have his name?
Caller: No, but he has a dog named Ben.
 
If you are in the United States of America or Canada, free wakeup calls are available from http://www.wakeupdialer.com/. Type in your telephone number and wakeup time, and the service will wake you with a ring. Don’t thank us, thank them!
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In the late 1930’s, Abe Pickens of Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, attempted to promote world peace by placing personal calls to various national leaders. He managed to contact Mussolini, Hirohito, Franco, and Hitler (Hitler did not understand English and transferred him to an aide). Mr. Pickens spent $10,000 on telephone calls in an effort to bring about world peace.
 
“Your cell phone has replaced your watch, camera, etc. Don’t let it replace your friends and family.” -Author Unknown
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​Meet Johnny Jonathan Johnson, shown in the picture just above. Johnny was twelve years old when he got his first cell phone. He became very absorbed in his cell phone and watched the screen constantly. His family and friends said that Johnny had become lost in a world that was not quite real. Consequently, just two years later, he was already seventy-four years old - when he should have been only fourteen! Excessive cell phone use speeds up time and causes accelerated aging, and makes people wonder where all the time went, and also, where their family and friends went. This could happen to anyone, even you. Don’t be like Johnny Jonathan Johnson. (Just kidding.)
 
“I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal and soon they’ll forget my number.” -Edith Armstrong (Edith Armstrong Talbot (1872 - 1955))
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Caller: I would like the number of the Argoed Fish Café in Cardiff, please.
Operator: I am sorry, there is no such listing. Are you sure you have the spelling correct?
Caller: Well, it used to be called the Bargoed Fish Café, but the B fell off the building.
 
Mrs. Rogers picked up the phone to hear an anguished voice on the other end of the line saying, “Ma, this has been the worst day of my life. I am going crazy. The kids are all sick and home from school. I haven’t a thing in the house. I have a doctor’s appointment. I’m going out of my mind!” “I’ll come over,” Mrs. Rogers said, “but I don’t know why Robert can’t take care of the kids.” “Who’s Robert?” “Your husband.” “My husband’s name is William.” “You must have the wrong number.” “Oh . . . does this mean you’re not coming over?”
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How far do you have to stand from a telephone to make a long-distance call?
 
The first telephone conversation happened between two people who were just 18 feet apart - you might say it was a close call.
 
“I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.” -Lee Trevino (Lee Buck Trevino (born 1939))
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Suggested Recordings for Voice Mail and Answering Machines
- Glad you called but I just am not able to entertain you right now. However, if you are offering to buy dinner, I may be available sooner than you think. Don’t forget to leave your name and number so I don’t get mixed up with different offers and go to the wrong restaurant. Bye.
- Hello, this is Beulah’s toaster. Beulah’s new answering machine is in the shop for repairs, so please leave your message when the toast is done . . . ca-chunk!
- Hello. This is Ron. I am home right now but I cannot find the phone. Please leave a message and I will call you as soon as I find it.
- Hi, I am not home right now but my answering machine is, so you can talk to it instead. Wait for the beep.
- Hi, this is Arthur’s answering machine. He is not here, so speak freely at the beep.
- Hi. Now you say something.
- T is for turkey, D is for deer. One of those reasons is why we are not here. So leave a message at the beep.
- This is a test of the Answering Machine Broadcast System. This is only a test.
 
“Information. Can I help you?”
“I’d like the telephone number of the Theater Guild, please.”
“One moment, please . . . I’m sorry, sir, I have no listing for Theodore Guild.”
“No, no, it isn’t a person. It’s an organization. It’s ‘Theater Guild’.”
“I told you, sir, I have no listing for a Theodore Guild.”
“Not Theodore! Theater! The word is theater! T-h-e-a-t-e-r!”
“That, sir, is not the way Theodore is spelled.”
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When telephones were first made available for commercial use, people had to whistle into the receiver to get the attention of the person being called, because telephone bells, or what we today would call ringers, had not yet been invented.
 
“I can see the time when every city will have one.” -Author Unknown: an American mayor’s reaction to the news of the invention of the telephone

​Meet Mister Caveman. Right about now, he’s feeling the way some of us might feel when attempting to figure out how to operate a cell phone, also known as a computer that fits in your hand, pocket, or carrying bag. What will Mister Caveman do now, with his unlimited access to all of the knowledge in the world? What would you do? Oh, that’s right, you already have that access! Wow, do you know you how powerful that makes you? (At least as powerful as Mister Caveman, right?)
 
Darcy: Why are there so many people named Smith in the phone directory?
Craig: Because they all have phones.

Did you know that you can play tunes by pushing the buttons on a telephone? All you need to do is call a friend and push the numbered buttons as shown.
 
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Row, row, row your boat
4, 4, 4, 8, 6
Gent-ly down the stream
6, 2, 6, 9, #
Mer-ri-ly mer-ri-ly
#, #, #, 0, 0, 0
Life is but a dream.
6, 2, 2, 1, 1
 
London Bridge
Lon-don Bridge is fall-ing down
6, 9, 6, 8, 7, 8, 6
Fall-ing down fall-ing down
1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9
Lon-don Bridge is fall-ing down
6, 9, 6, 8, 7, 8, 6
My fair la-day
8, 6, 0, 4
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The first bathtub arrived in 1850. The telephone was not invented until 1876. A lucky gal or guy could have spent twenty-six years in the bathtub without the telephone ringing once!
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​“How does the phone cord get so tangled? All I do is talk, and hang up. I don’t pick it up and do a cartwheel and a somersault.” -Larry Miller
 
“One person’s wrong number is another person’s phone number.” -Author Unknown
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Caller: The water board please.
Operator: Which department?
Caller: Tap water.
 
“For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord.” -Author Unknown
 
John: What do you get if you cross a telephone and a dog?
Nadia: A Golden Receiver.
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The nautical greeting, ‘Ahoy-Hoy,’ was at one time the preferred way to answer a phone. The origin of the word ‘ahoy’ is believed to be in the Middle English exclamation, ‘hoy!’ A theory of the origin of ‘hoy’ is that it is derived from the Dutch word ‘hoi’ meaning ‘hello.’
 
A telephone rang. “Hello! Is your phone number 444-4444?” “Yes, it is,” came the reply. “Thank goodness! Could you call 911 for me? I super-glued my finger to the phone.”
 
Patrick: Why did old Mrs. Crow have such a huge phone bill?
Patricia: She made many long distance caws.
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More Suggested Recordings for Answering Machines and Voice Mail
- Hello, this is Sally’s microwave. Her answering machine just ran away with her tape deck, so I’m stuck taking her calls. Say, if you want anything cooked while you leave your message, just hold it up to the phone.
- Hi. Do you ever feel, like, your head is full of sand, not your regular loose sand, mind you, but compacted sand, and there were like, I dunno, bugs or something jumping up and down on the compacted sand? Well, sometimes I do. Bye.
- You have reached the number you have dialed. Please leave a message after the beep.
- Hello. You are talking to a machine. I am capable of receiving messages. My humans do not need siding, windows, or a hot tub, and their carpets are clean. They give to charity through the office and do not need their picture taken. If you are still with me, leave your name and number and they will get back to you.
- We’re not home, we’re rarely home,
And when we’re home, we’re on the phone,
So please leave a message at the tone!
- Hi! John’s answering machine is taking a day off. This is his refrigerator. Please speak very slowly, and I will stick your message to myself with one of these magnets.
 
A woman was being swamped with calls from strangers. The reason? A billing service had launched a toll-free 800 number that was identical to hers. When she called to complain, she was told to get a new number. “I’ve had mine for twenty years,” she pleaded. “Couldn’t you change yours?” The company refused, so she said, “Fine. From now on, I’m going to tell everyone who calls that their bill is paid in full.” The company got a new number the next day.
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“Uneasy lies the head that ignores a telephone call late at night.” -William Feather (1889 - 1981): “The Business of Life” (1949)
 
Riddle: I have a ring, but no finger - what am I?
Solution: A telephone.
 
Caller: I would like the RSPCA please.
Operator: Where are you calling from?
Caller: The living room.
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“I finally realized it . . . People are prisoners of their phones. That’s why they are called cell phones.” -Author Unknown

​“How do I activate the time-travel and teleportation apps on my cell phone?” -Author Unknown
 
We’re sorry. You have reached an imaginary number. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees, divide by zero, and try again.
 
“Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.” -Doug Larson (Douglas Lincoln ‘Doug’ Larson (1926 - 2017))
 
More than 50 percent of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. They depend on face-to-face, live-in-person, communication instead. If only the rest of us could be so fortunate!
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In Icelandic phone books, people are listed by their first names and not their surnames, or last names.

Eletelephony
 
Once there was an elephant,
     Who tried to use the telephant -
No! No! I mean an elephone
     Who tried to use the telephone -
(Dear me! I am not certain quite
     That even now I’ve got it right.)
 
Howe’er it was, he got his trunk
     Entangled in the telephunk;
The more he tried to get it free,
     The louder buzzed the telephee -
(I fear I’d better drop the song
     Of elephop and telephong!)            
 
By Laura Richards (Laura Elizabeth Richards (1850 - 1943))
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​Meet Nicolos Nicholi Nichman. He got the latest version of the updated GeniusIQ4U smartphone with extended battery life, and has not slept in more than forty-seven hours. Unless somebody like you takes the cell phone away from him and gives him a teddy bear, he may never get to sleep.
 
The scene: Alexander Graham Bell’s laboratory. An exciting new discovery is about to take place. In the next room sits Bell’s assistant, a man named Watson, hard at work on Bell’s new invention to transmit sound over wires. As Mr. Watson toiled away in the room with the receiver, it suddenly rings - it must be Bell! He picked it up, and heard: “Good evening, sir. Are you paying too much for your long distance service?”
 
The next time you try to call someone and their answering machine or voice mail greets you and asks you to leave a message, have a little fun with them. For example, say, “Hello? Hello? Is anybody there? I’m trapped inside your phone. It’s cold and dark in here, and I’m hungry and scared. I’ve got to get out of here. Please, please, help me!”
 
Why are wrong numbers never busy?
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“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” -Author Unknown: attributed Western Union (1876) internal memo
 
“Telepathy: A condition caused by talking too much on telephones.” -Author Unknown
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National Telephone Day is on 25 April each year. We are going to celebrate by giving our telephone the day off . . . oh, wait, it’s ringing . . . Hello?
 
In the first month of the Bell Telephone Company’s existence in 1877, only six telephones were sold. The first telephone book, made in 1878, contained only 50 names. Fast-forward to the present, when the world in which we live is essentially a very large telephone company.
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Riddle: What do you call a rhinoceros in a telephone booth?
Solution: Stuck!

Emergency Use Tips for Cell Phones
 
Your cell phone can actually be an aid to survival in serious emergencies.
 
The emergency number worldwide for cell phones is 112. If you find yourself outside of the coverage area of your cellular network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the service will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and the number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked.
 
Have you locked your keys in the car? Does your car have remote keyless entry? If you lock your keys in the car, and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the cell phone on their end. Your car will unlock. This saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object; you could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other ‘remote’ for your car, you can unlock the doors, or the trunk, if you should somehow become locked inside it.
 
Your cell phone has ‘hidden’ battery power. When your cell phone battery charge is very low, press the keys *3370# or #3370#. Your cell phone will restart with this reserve battery power, and will show a fifty percent increase in battery strength. The reserve battery power will be automatically recharged the next time you charge your cell phone.
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‘Telephone’ is derived from the Greek words ‘tele’ meaning ‘at a distance’ and ‘phonos’ meaning ‘sound.’ A telephone is an electronic apparatus that originally allowed people to send and receive sounds over a distance, and which now also allows people to send and receive text messages and recordings such as music and images such as photographs and video; to visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net; and to search for information, shop, do financial transactions, and much more.
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Smarty: What is your phone number?
Brainy: I don’t know, because I have never had to call myself.
 
Nomophobia is a persistent fear of being out of mobile phone contact . . . and we had always thought it referred to a fear of gnomes . . . those annoying and yet terrifying little figures . . .
 
“Telephones [will] bring peace on Earth, eliminate Southern accents, and save the farm by making farmers less lonely.” -Author Unknown: as printed in “The Wall Street Journal” (1995) ‘Century-old Pronouncements’
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“You could answer a telephone with, “Hello?” However, you could also answer a telephone with, “Yellow?!” and people would simply regard you as being someone with a ‘colorful’ accent.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
The dial tone of a typical telephone is in the key of ‘F.’
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“So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said, ‘Who’s speaking please?’ And a voice said, ‘You are.’” -Tim Vine (Timothy Mark ‘Tim’ Vine (born 1967))
 
Bill was a frequent user of a pay telephone at a popular truck stop, and was greatly inconvenienced when the phone went out of commission. Repeated requests for repair brought only promises. After several days, Bill again contacted the phone company and told them there was no longer a rush. The phone was now working fine, except that all money was being returned upon completion of each call . . . a repairman arrived within the hour!
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There are hundreds of millions of telephones in the world, so when you dial a number right in two tries, you are not doing badly at all.
 
“An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?” -attributed to Rutherford B. Hayes (Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822 - 1893)): telephone call from Washington, District of Columbia to Pennsylvania, using Alexander Graham Bell’s newly patented (7 March 1876) telephone
 
Caller: I would like the number of the Scottish knitwear company in Woven.
Operator: I cannot find a town called ‘Woven.’ Are you sure of the name?
Caller: Yes. That’s what it says on the label - Woven in Scotland.
 
Are you receiving too many telemarketer calls? In the United States, call the Do Not Call Registry at 1-888-382-1222 or go to www.donotcall.gov. If you do not wish to be called by telemarketers, call the preceding number from the cell phone or landline phone you want to have placed on the Do Not Call Registry. Telephone numbers must be re-registered every five years, and people may continue to receive calls from politicians and pollsters, who are inexplicably exempt from the registry.
 
“We can hardly realize now the blissful quietude of the pre-telephone epoch.” -Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas (1868 - 1952)): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
 
We are MFOL! . . . Ring, ring! . . . Hello? Hello? Is anybody there?

Gratitude And Thankfulness

​“There is always something to be thankful for!” -Author Unknown
 
“Live in gratitude. When you are thankful for what you have, you are always rewarded with more.” -Author Unknown
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“Thank you, thank you very much!” -Elvis Presley (Elvis Aron Presley (1935 - 1977))
 
“An old gentleman got up once in a meeting and said he had lived nearly all his life on Grumble Street, but not long ago he had moved over on Thanksgiving Street.” -D. L. Moody (Dwight Lyman Moody (1837 - 1899)): “Power in Prayer” (23 and 24 July 1895) address delivered in the Northfield Auditorium
 
“The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
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“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.” -Ralph Blum
 
“No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” -Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
 
“It is a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.” -Roberto Benigni (Roberto Remigio Benigni (born 1952))
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“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” -William Blake (1757 - 1827)
 
“Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” -Margaret Cousins (Margaret Elizabeth Cousins (1878 - 1954))
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“You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach (born 1947): “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy” (1995) at http://www.sarahbanbreathnach.com/
 
Knock-knock.
Who’s there?
Hank.
Hank, who?
You’re welcome!
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“I believe that appreciation is a holy thing, that when we look for what’s best in the person we happen to be with at the moment, we’re doing what God does all the time; so, in appreciating our neighbor, we’re participating in something truly sacred.” -Fred Rogers (Fred McFeely Rogers (also known as Mr. Rogers (1928 - 2003)))
 
“Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are.” -Bethany Hamilton
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“I am grateful for what I am and have. My Thanksgiving is perpetual.” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): letter (6 December 1856) to Harrison Gray Otis Blake, as published in “The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau” (1958), page 444
 
“The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.” -Michael Josephson
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“How happy a person is depends upon the depth of his gratitude.” -John Miller (1923 - 1961): as quoted in Edythe Draper: “Draper’s Book of Quotations for the Christian World” (1992), Entry 5249
 
“People who live the most fulfilling lives are the ones who are always rejoicing at what they have.” -Richard Carlson (1961 - 2006)
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The Thank You Song
 
For soap and tissues
     And useful things
For jungle gyms
     And slides and swings
For music and stories
     And pictures gay
We sing our thank you song today
     For the blue of the sky
For the gold of the Sun
     For mothers and fathers
And friends and fun
     For bulbs in the soil
And fishes that play
     We sing our thank you song today.
 
By Author Unknown

“The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more you will have to be grateful for. The most poverty stricken of all are the ungrateful. Gratitude can transform common days into Thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” -William A. Ward (William Arthur Ward (1921 - 1994))
 
“It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.” -Germany Kent (born 1975 as Evelyn LaShawn Palmer)
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“When we are grateful for the good we already have, we attract more good into our life. On the other hand, when we are ungrateful, we tend to shut ourselves off from the good we might otherwise experience.” -Margaret Stortz
 
“Gratitude makes everything turn into a gift.” -Author Unknown
 
“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.” -Johannes A. Gaertner (Johannes Alexander Gaertner (1912 - 1996))
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“Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com
 
“Sometimes I just look up, smile, and say, ‘Thank you, God!’” -Author Unknown
 
“Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.” -Eileen Caddy (1917 - 2006)
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“Express gratitude generously and sincerely; receive gratitude humbly and graciously; expect gratitude rarely if ever.” -William A. Ward (William Arthur Ward (1921 - 1994))
 
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” -Aesop (possibly about 620 B.C.E. - about 560 B.C.E. or about 550 B.C.E. - about 470 B.C.E.)
 
“Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build up their philosophy of life.” -A. J. Cronin (Archibald Joseph Cronin (1896 - 1981))
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“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” -William A. Ward (William Arthur Ward (1921 - 1994))
 
“Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.” -Christiane Northrup (born 1949) at https://www.drnorthrup.com/
 
“Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.” -Northrup Christiane
 
“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.” -Jean-Baptiste Massieu (1772 - 1846)
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“Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways, are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.” -Wallace D. Wattles (Wallace Delois Wattles (born Wallace Delois Walters (1860 - 1911)))
 
“Gratitude is a sign of maturity . . . Where there is appreciation, there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))
 
“My life isn’t perfect but I am thankful for everything I have.” -Author Unknown
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“Gratitude is Heaven itself.” -William Blake (1757 - 1827): as quoted in Alexander Gilchrist: “Life of William Blake” (1863), ‘1803 - 1804,’ page 200
 
“Never forget those who helped you along the way.” -Author Unknown
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“Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as special favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean, for nothing can be valueless that is given by the most high God.” -Thomas à Kempis (meaning Thomas of Kempen, born Thomas Hammerken (about 1379 - 1471))
 
“Gratitude in advance is the most powerful creative force in the Universe.” -Neale Donald Walsch (born 1943)
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“Once you start practicing being grateful and thankful for things, people, and events, you may notice that you start to attract more positive things, people, and events in your life.” -Stephanie Conkle
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​“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” -William A. Ward (William Arthur Ward (1921 - 1994))
 
Anna: Thank you very much.
Elena: You’re welcome very much!
 
“A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.” -Author Unknown
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“Persons thankful for little things are certain to be the ones with much to be thankful for.” -Frank A. Clark (Frank Atherton Clark (1911 - 1991))
 
“Be thankful for what you have. Your life, no matter how bad you think it is, is someone else’s fairytale.” -Wale Ayeni
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“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” -A.A. Milne (Alan Alexander Milne (1882 - 1956))
 
“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)
 
“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.” -Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
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“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): as quoted in James Boswell: “The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.” (1785), ‘September 20, 1773’
 
“An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from.” -Timothy Dexter (1747 - 1806)
 
“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” -Melody Beattie (Melody Lynn Beattie (born 1948))
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“No matter how good or bad you think life is, wake up each day and be thankful for life. Someone somewhere else is fighting to survive.” -Author Unknown
 
“‘Merry’ is a word for Christmas . . . ‘happy’ is a word for New Year’s . . . ‘thanks’ is a word for all year long.” -Author Unknown
 
“One act of thanksgiving made when things go wrong is worth a thousand when things go well.” -Author Unknown
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“Gratitude is like a magnet; the more grateful you are, the more you will receive to be grateful for.” -Iyanla Vanzant (born 1953 as Rhonda Eva Harris)
 
“Learn to say thank you every time.” -Jill Griffin
 
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” -William A. Ward (William Arthur Ward (1921 - 1994))
 
A grateful heart a garden is,
     Where there is always room
For every lovely God-like grace,
     To come to perfect bloom.
-Author Unknown: as quoted in “Christian Science Hymnal,” #3
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“A joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “Book of Common Prayer” (1662), ‘Psalm 147,’ verse 16
 
“In everything give thanks.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘First Thessalonians,’ chapter 5, verse 18
 
“What if you woke up today with only the things you thanked God for yesterday?” -Author Unknown
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Hans: What do we often return but never borrow?
Grace: Thanks.
 
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” -John Milton (1608 - 1674)
 
“I woke up. I have clothes to wear. I have running water. I have food to eat. Life is good. I am thankful.” -Author Unknown
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“Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.” -Author Unknown

​“For whatever we have, be it little or much, we should be grateful.” -Author Unknown
 
“Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.” -Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973)
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“It is not happy people who are thankful, but thankful people who are happy.” -Author Unknown
 
“You really can change your life by appreciating what you already have.” -Michael Unks: “Awesome in Hours”
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In our daily lives, we must see
That it is not happiness that makes us grateful,
But the gratefulness that makes us happy.
-Albert Clarke
 
“Thank you for being a friend.” -Andrew Gold
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“The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
 
“The best way to show my gratitude is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.” -Mother Teresa
 
Not for the mighty world, O Lord, tonight,
     Nations and kingdoms in their fearful might -
Let me be glad the kettle gently sings,
     Let me be grateful for little things.
-Edna Jaques (Edna Parliament Jaques (1891 - 1978))
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“The more you thank life, the more life gives you to be thankful for.” -Author Unknown
 
“Every day, be sure to tell somebody, ‘Thank You.’” -Author Unknown
 
“Upon waking, let your first thought be, ‘Thank you.’” -Author Unknown
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“Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” (1601), Act 2, scene 2
 
“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” -Author Unknown
 
“Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.” -Ralph Marston (Ralph Seymour Marston, Junior (born 1955)) at https://GreatDay.com/
 
“Someone else is praying for the things you take for granted. Be thankful.” -Author Unknown
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“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
“This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.” -Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))
 
“The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: Giving thanks for everything.” -Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
 
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more in life there will be to praise and celebrate.” -Author Unknown
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“Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.” -Henri-Frédéric Amiel (also known simply as Henri Amiel (1821 - 1881))
 
“The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
 
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” -Author Unknown
 
“If we appreciate what we have, it becomes more; if we belittle what we have, it becomes less.” -Author Unknown
 
“Take time today to appreciate someone who does something you take for granted.” -Author Unknown

​“Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you’ve sent someone a thank-you note.” -Bernie Brillstein and David Rensin: “The Little Stuff Matters Most” (2004)
 
“Don’t forget to get yourself a ‘Thank Me’ card to give to yourself for all of the things you have done for yourself.” -Author Unknown
 
“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
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“How do you say, ‘thank you,’ for sunshine or health . . . for clear days or gentle rains . . . for happiness, joy, or love? You say it by sharing what you have. You say it by making the world a better place in which to live.” -Thomas D. Willhite (1940 - 1983)
 
Let never day nor night unhallow’d pass,
But still remember what the Lord hath done.
-William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “King Henry VI” (about 1590 to about 1591), Part 2, Act 2, scene 1, line 85
 
“Praise the bridge that carried you over.” -George Colman (also known as George Colman the Younger (1762 - 1836)): ”Heir-at-Law,” Act I, scene 1
 
“Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.” -Susan L. Lenzkes
 
“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
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“Gratitude takes three forms; a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and giving in return.” -Author Unknown
 
“In all things give thanks.” -Author Unknown: “The Bible,” ‘1st Thessalonians,’ chapter 5, verse 18
 
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” -G. K. Chesterton (Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936))
 
“He who can give thanks for little will always find he has enough.” -Author Unknown
 
“Gratitude. It’s finding the blessings in each day.” -Karen Morrissey
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“An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.” -John Templeton (Sir)
 
“The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted . . . As you begin to be grateful for what most people take for granted, the vibration of gratitude makes you more receptive to good in your life.” -Michael Bernard Beckwith
 
O Lord, that lends me life,
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
-William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Henry VI” (about 1590 - 1591), Part II, Act I, scene 1
 
“If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.” -Gerald Good
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“Ingratitude is one of our great sins.” -Ezra Taft Benson (1899 - 1994): as quoted in “Ensign” (May 1977), page 33
 
“Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it.” -Stephen Richards
 
“No better words than ‘thank you’ have yet been discovered to express the sincere gratitude of one’s heart; when the two words are sincerely spoken.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))
 
Overheard: Always say, “Thank you.”
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“I wish that people would take the time to show people that they are important in their lives either at work or at home. Too many times people take others for granted and I think that needs to change. People are so much nicer and willing to help you if you use those two little words that mean so much . . . Thank You!” -Gina Gillespie
 
“Gratitude is the best attitude.” -Author Unknown
 
“Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.” -Al Jarreau
 
“Be thankful for what you have. Work hard for what you don’t have.” -Author Unknown
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I can no other answer make but thanks,
And thanks, and ever thanks.
-William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Twelfth-Night” (about 1601 - about 1602), Act 3, scene 3
 
“A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles.” -Author Unknown
 
“Tell everybody I said, ‘Thanks.’” -Dick Roe
 
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Self-Improvement And Self-Help

“Change yourself and your fortune will change with you.” -Author Unknown
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“How do we become true and good, happy and genuine, joyful and free? Only by getting in touch with good, true, happy, genuine human beings, only by seeking the company of the strong and the free, only by catching spontaneity and freedom from those who are themselves spontaneous and free.” -Charles Malike (1906 - 1988)
 
“If you improve 1 percent a day, then in 100 days, guess what? You’re 100 percent better.” -Kenny Ray Carter (also known as Coach Carter (born 1959)) at https://coachcarter.com/
 
“Improvement begins with I.” -Arnold H. Glasow (Arnold Henry Glasow (1905 - 1998))
 
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” -Carl Rogers (Carl Ransom Rogers (1902 - 1987))
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“Ignore the ones who say it’s too late to start over. Disregard those who say you’ll never amount to anything. Turn a deaf ear to those who say you aren’t smart enough, fast enough, tall enough, or big enough - ignore them.” -Max Lucado (born 1955)
 
“Identify and develop your unique talents and abilities, the things that make you special.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com/
 
“I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.” -D. L. Moody (Dwight Lyman Moody (1837 - 1899))
 
“The better person you become, the better people you will attract.” -Author Unknown
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“None will improve your lot if you yourself do not.” -Bertolt Brecht (Eugen Berthold Friedrich ‘Bertolt’ Brecht (1898 - 1956)) (1933)
 
“For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn’t look like the person he or she most wants to become.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
 
“Be yourself, everyone else is taken.” -Author Unknown
 
“Be the kind of person you want to meet.” -Author Unknown
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“You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person.” -Scott Sorrell
 
“Do not think of your faults; still less of others’ faults: in every person who comes near you, look for what is good and strong: honour that; rejoice in it; and, as you can, try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.” -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900): “The Ethics of the Dust” (1875), Lecture V: Crystal Virtues, section 57
 
“Commit yourself to constant self-improvement.” -H. Jackson Brown (Horace Jackson Brown, Junior (1940 - 2021)): “Life’s Little Instruction Book” (1991)
 
“Let’s build a better you . . . we will need some glue, pop-sickle sticks, pipe cleaners, glitter, crayons, yarn, construction paper . . . what, you say you are not made out of any of those things?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“There’s only one corner of the Universe you can be certain of improving and that’s your own self . . . You have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you’ve worked on your own corner.” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963)): “Time Must Have a Stop” (1944)
 
“To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.” -Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
 
“Every day is a day you can be a better person than you were yesterday.” -Author Unknown
 
“In the long term the most important question . . . is not what you are but what you are becoming.” -Gary Hamel
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“No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself.” -Conrado I. Generoso (Conrado Isabedra ‘Ding’ Generoso (born 1960))
 
“Think of what others ought to be like, then start being like that yourself.” -Author Unknown
 
“If you are still searching for that one person who will change your life, take a look in the mirror.” -Author Unknown
 
“Everyone planning to make something worthwhile out of himself must be a self-remade man, and should be an intelligent remodeling job going on all the time.” -Sterling W. Sill (Sterling Welling Sill (1903 - 1994))
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“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.” -Jean-Paul Sartre (Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (1905 - 1980))
 
“Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.” -William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
 
“Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.” -George W. Crane (George Washington Crane III (1901 - 1995))
 
“Build upon strengths, and weaknesses will gradually take care of themselves.” -Joyce C. Lock
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“What we shall be, we are becoming.” -Author Unknown
 
“How can there be self-help ‘groups’?” -Author Unknown
 
“People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.” -Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774)
 
“Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you’re doing it wrong.” -James Leo Herlihy (1927 - 1993)
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“I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.” -Vincent van Gogh (Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 - 1890))

“Seeing ourselves as we want to be is a key to personal growth. To successfully bring about change in our lives we need to implement a system of change that is built upon three assumptions. First Assumption: We change our lives by changing the attitudes of our minds. Second Assumption: We become what we think about all day long. Third Assumption: Our mind is naturally goal seeking. Please remember these assumptions. Our mind is always trying to accomplish something. We have a powerful machine wanting to achieve goals. It will set the goals that we allow it to.” -Hyrum W. Smith
 
“Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com
 
“In that worthiest of all struggles, the struggle for self-mastery and goodness, we are far less patient with ourselves than God is with us.” -J. G. Holland (Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819 - 1881))
 
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” -Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
 
“A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement.” -Marvin J. Ashton (Marvin Jeremy Ashton (1915 - 1994))
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“Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from Heaven one has to help oneself.” -Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (1896 - 1995)

“Chiefly the mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.” -Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626): “Essays” (1625), ‘Of Fortune’
 
“Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.” -Julius Charles Hare (1795 - 1855)
 
“It doesn’t happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.” -Margery Williams (Margery Williams Bianco (1881 - 1944)): “The Velveteen Rabbit” (1922)
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“It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.” -Jackie Stewart (John Young ‘Jackie’ Stewart (born 1939))
 
“Help thyself.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.” -Alan Watts (Alan Wilson Watts (1915 - 1973))
 
“If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness; if you want a peaceful world, make peace within.” -Dan Millman (born 1946)
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“The better I get, the more I realize how much better I can get.” -Martina Navratilova (born 1956)
 
“That’s the risk you take if you change: that people you’ve been involved with won’t like the new you. But other people who do will come along.” -Lisa Alther (born 1944)
 
September of each year is Self-Improvement Month. Why wait - let’s get started now!
 
“The simple part is, every thought we think and every word we speak is creating our future. If you change your thinking, you can change your life.” -Louise L. Hay (Louise Lynn Hay (1926 - 2017))
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“Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.” -Author Unknown
 
“There is no shame in having fallen. Nor any shame in being born into a lowly estate. There is only shame in not struggling to rise. And also shame for not wishing to attain the better. Or not dreaming about it and praying for it.” -Samuel Amalu
 
“Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
 
“It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.” -James Mackintosh (1765 - 1832): as attributed in “The True Briton” (7 July 1853) magazine
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“The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.” -Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894): as quoted in Tryon Edwards, editor: “A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern” (1891), page 517
 
“Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.” -Zig Ziglar-Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
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“Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.” -Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
 
“Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.” -Mademoiselle Du Deffand (Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand (1697 - 1780))
 
“Try a little harder to be a little better.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))
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“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” -Judy Garland (Frances Gumm (1922 - 1969)): as quoted in ”The Reader’s Digest” (1998)
 
“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the ‘as if’ technique.” -William James (1842 - 1910)
 
“You don’t get better by chance; you get better by change.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in Kit Summers and Robert Schwarz: “Juggling with Finesse” (1987), page 19
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“People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.” -Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894): as quoted in Tryon Edwards, editor: “A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern” (1891), page 156
 
“You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.” -David Viscott (David Steven Viscott (1938 - 1996))
 
“The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, ‘If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.’ Now I say, ‘I will take care of me for you if you will take care of you for me.’” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com
 
“I went to a bookstore today and asked the manager where the self-help section was. She said, ‘If I told you, that would defeat the whole purpose.’” -Brian Kiley (born 1962)
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“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)
 
“Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek. Be the patience you seek. Be the tolerance you seek. Be the compassion you seek.” -Bryant McGill (Bryant Harrison McGill (born 1969)) at https://bryantmcgill.com/
 
“The Bible is the best self-help book - if you haven’t read it you should take a look. It is full of life stories that we all can see that life is, at times, not so easy.” -Catherine Pulsifer (born 1927): “Take A Look”
 
“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” -William Faulkner (William Cuthbert ‘Will’ Faulkner (1897 - 1962))
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“It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.” -Queen Christina of Sweden (born Kristina Augusta Wasa, known later as Christina Alexandra (1626 - 1689))
 
“I am that which must ever surpass itself.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900))
 
“If you want to attract happy, positive things . . . become a happy, positive person! Work from the inside out!” -Mandy Hale (born 1978)
 
“You are more likely to be successful at attempting to be better than yourself than to be better than someone else.” -Author Unknown
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“I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace of God, I am what I am.” -John Newton (1725 - 1807)
 
“Take each new day you are given to better yourself.” -Amy Temple
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“Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.” -William J. H. Boetcker (William John Henry Boetcker (1873 - 1962))
 
“There are times when a man should be content with what he has, but never with what he is.” -William George Jordan (1864 - 1928): “The Majesty of Calmness: Individual Problems and Possibilities” (1900)
 
“To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.” -John Tillotson (1630 - 1694): as attributed in “The Ladies’ Companion; or, Peoples’ Annual” (August 1842)
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“I have come to discover through earnest personal experience and dedicated learning that ultimately the greatest help is self-help; that there is no other help but self-help - doing one’s best, dedicating one’s self wholeheartedly to a given task, which happens to have no end but is an ongoing process.” -Bruce Lee (pseudonym of Lee Jun-fan (1940 - 1973)): “The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee” (1996), page 133
 
“There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. True nobility comes from being superior to your previous self.” -Author Unknown: Hindustani proverb: as quoted in George Derby, compiler: “A Conspectus of American Biography” (1906), page 726
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“When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don’t look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That’s the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts.” -John Wooden (John Robert Wooden (1910 - 2010))
 
“Be the best version of you.” -Author Unknown
 
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Competitions And Competing

“Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best.” -Nancy Pearcy (Nancy Randolph Pearcey (born 1952))
 
“Your toughest competition in life is anyone who is willing to work harder than you.” -Casey Coleman
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“If your competition does 50 push-ups, you do 51. If they go the extra mile, you go the extra 10. If they are fast, be faster. If they are smart, be brilliant. If they have the bigger hammer, you have the sharper nail.” -Author Unknown
 
​“Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it.” -Charles Sheldon (Charles Monroe Sheldon (1857 - 1946))
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“Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve ever done before.” -Bonnie Blair
 
“You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things - to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. The intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got, is a very pleasant bonus.” -Edmund Hillary (Edmund Percival Hillary (1919 - 2008))
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Girl: What did you get the little trophy for?
Boy: For singing.
Girl: What did you get the big trophy for?
Boy: For stopping!
 
“Winners need to have strategies that go beyond simply competing at every available opportunity. For example, people will lose interest in you if you win all the time, so you have to lose occasionally. That way, you keep them guessing and they have to think to themselves, ‘Will that guy or gal win or lose this time - I’ll just have to keep watching so I can find out!’” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“It is the contest that delights us, not the victory.” -Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
 
Millie: I just won an apple-pie eating contest!
Sally: What did you receive as the winner?
Millie: All-you-can-eat apple-pie!
 
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” -George Herman ‘Babe’ Ruth (1895 - 1948))
 
“No competition, no progress.” -Author Unknown
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“The only competition you will ever have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind.” -James A. Ray
 
“Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.” -Bill Bradley (born 1943)
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“Two sketch artists had an art contest. It ended in a draw.” -Author Unknown
 
“Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.” -George Ade
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​“The race of life has become intense; the runners are treading upon each others’ heels. Woe be to him who stops to tie his shoe-strings!” -Carlyle
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“The race is long but in the end it is only with yourself.” -Author Unknown: “Everybody’s Free” (song)
 
“You don’t wish for success - you compete for it. You intentionally take action every day toward what you want.” -Jake Thompson
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“Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.” -Arthur Ashe (1943 - 1993)
 
“Competition is not about tearing others down, but about building yourself up.” -Jennifer Lynn Barnes: “The Long Game” (2016)
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“It is not enough to run, one must start in time.” -Author Unknown: French proverb
 
“Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.” -Friedrich August von Hayek
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“Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.” -George S. Patton (George Smith Patton, Junior (1885 - 1945))
 
“There is a tendency among some businesses to criticize and belittle their competitors. This is a bad procedure. Praise them. Learn from them. There are times when you can co-operate with them to their advantage and to yours! Speak well of them and they will speak well of you. You can’t destroy good ideas. Take advantage of them.” -George Adams (George Matthew Adams (1878 - 1962))
 
“The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.” -Steve Young
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Jacob: I just entered an arm-wresting competition.
Bradly: What is the prize?
Jacob: I don’t know and I don’t care - I just want to compete!
 
“Two Dogs fight for a Bone, and a third runs away with it.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 5324
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“Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.” -Jimmy Spithill
 
“It’s okay to feel nervous before a competition because it means you care about doing well.” -Author Unknown
 
“Life is a competition, not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair a mistake; each day to surpass ourselves.” -David B. Haight (born 1906)
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“Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far. The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.” -Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
 
“Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.” -Sam Altman (Samuel Harris Gibstine Altman (born 1985))

​“When you compete, you gain more than you lose, even when you lose.” -Aaron Lauritsen
 
“There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.” -Dejan Stojanovic
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“The problem with keeping up with the Jones is that it creates a world full of Jones.” -Julian Barton
 
“Competitors have doubts. Competitors have fears. Competitors have worries. But competitors don’t let these feelings stop them.” -Author Unknown
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“The only competition that matters the most in life, is the one between you and your old self.” -Edmond Mbiaka
 
“It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.” -Gianni Versace
 
“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.” -Stewart B. Johnson
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“You can neither win nor lose if you don’t run the race.” -David Bowie (pseudonym of David Robert Jones (1947 - 2016))
 
“In all the pursuits and callings of life the competition is so keen and the need of a variety of accomplishments so great that no success in any undertaking is attainable without a large outlay of physical and mental resources. In order to be able to achieve much today in his chosen career, a man must be alert, discerning, prudent, sagacious, judicious, and persistent.” -Author Unknown
 
“The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.” -Washington Allston (1779 - 1843)
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“Don’t knock your competitors. By boosting others, you will boost yourself.” -Jacob Kindleberger (1875 - 1947)
 
“Pater ipse colendi haud facilem esse viam voluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.” -Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797): “Reflections on the Revolution in France” (1790), Volume iii, page 453
 
“The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you’ve been in the race.” -Nellie Hershey Smith
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“The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage.” -Arie de Geus (1930 - 2019)
 
“I looked at my competitors and I thought that, if they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them.” -Tommy Hilfiger (Thomas Jacob ‘Tommy’ Hilfiger (born 1951)
 
“All strategy depends on competition.” -Bruce D. Henderson
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“You have to be in it to win it.” -Author Unknown
 
“The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can’t hope for a fairer match.” -Todd Ruthman
 
“Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.” -Conor McGregor
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“Compete against yourself, not others, for that is who is truly your best competition.” -Peggy Fleming (Peggy Gale Fleming Jenkins (born 1948)) at www.PeggyFleming.com
 
“Being the best is rarely within our reach. Doing our best is always within our reach.” -Charles F. Glassman: “Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life” (2009)
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“Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted and encouraged - because last time you came in fifth.” -Denis Waitley (Denis Edwin Waitley, Senior (born 1933)) at https://deniswaitley.com/
 
“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential - these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” -Author Unknown
 
“The only person I must be better than is the person I was yesterday.” -Author Unknown
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“Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.” -Eddy Cue
 
“Life is always a competition.” -James Marquess
 
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Self-Esteem And Self-Confidence

“There isn’t a ruler, a yard stick, or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.” -Paul J. Meyer (Paul James Meyer, Senior (1928 - 2009)) at https://PaulJMeyer.com/
 
“Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt as though you’d rather hide in bed all day than face the people that make you feel small or powerless.” -Diana Agron (Dianna Elise Agron (born 1986))
 
“It doesn’t matter what other people think of you. All that matters is what you think of you.” -Author Unknown
 
“You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self-worth comes from only one place: Self.” -Karen Salmansohn
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“When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.” (Joseph William ‘Joe’ Namath (born 1943))
 
“Every achiever I have ever met says, ‘My life turned around when I began to believe in me.’” -Robert H. Schuller (Robert Harold Schuller (1926 - 2015))
 
I’m Not Good Enough
 
I don’t speak well enough.
I’m not attractive enough.
I don’t dress well enough.
I’m not confident enough.
I’m not educated enough.
I’m not talented enough.
I’m not creative enough.
I’m not smart enough.
I’m not good enough.
Sound familiar?
 
By Author Unknown

“You are as good as any.” -Author Unknown
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“Confidence is not something that comes out of nowhere. It is the result of months and years of practice, constant work, effort, and determination.” -Anurag Prakash Ray
 
“Listen to your heart above all other voices.” -Marta Kagan
 
“You’ve no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it.” -W. S. Gilbert (William Schwenck Gilbert (1836 - 1911)): “Ruddigore” (1887), act I
 
“The myth is that you get your confidence first and then you live your dream. The truth is that you do your dream, feeling scared, becoming it all the time. And through it you become your dream, you become the you, out loud, that you’ve always been hiding from, and hiding from others.” -Lucy H. Pearce
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Atelophobia (a-tel-o-pho-bia) is a persistent fear of never being good enough or a fear of an insurmountable personal imperfection. Often this fear can be rooted in the experience and upbringing we have had by others, such as families, neighborhoods, schools, relationships, friendships, and initial work experience. We may have to counter this effect by doing our own upbringing of ourselves and not allow other people to be the sole source of our own upbringing. We must raise ourselves.
 
“Millions of people would love to be you.” -Author Unknown
 
“Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.” -Nathaniel Branden (born Nathan Blumenthal (1930 - 2014))
 
“Champions believe in themselves even if no one else does.” -Author Unknown
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“Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com/
 
“I have a problem with low self-esteem, which is really ridiculous when you consider how amazing I am.” -Author Unknown
 
“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.” -Ann Landers (pseudonym of Esther Pauline ‘Eppie’ Lederer (1918 - 2002))
 
“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993): “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year” (1993), ‘April 13’
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“Is it any coincidence then that the most incredibly successful people have the most confident and positive attitudes? Many people think that positive attitude is a by-product of having achieved wealth and success. In my experience, I have found that this attitude was more often the reason for, and not the result of, success.” -Mark A. Crouch: “Bouncing Off Paper Walls” (1 April 2002)
 
Overheard: I am really good at stuff until I find myself in a situation in which people are watching me do that stuff.
 
Overhead: I compare myself to every person I ever see . . . and I lose every time.
 
“Do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.” -Author Unknown
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“The only person you should ever compare yourself to is the person you were yesterday and the person you will be tomorrow.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
One way to improve your self-esteem is to tell clean funny jokes to people . . . no kidding, it really works! Practice until you can tell the jokes without making mistakes, even if you stutter or forget how the jokes go at first. And, on the Make Fun Of Life! Website, there are zillions of jokes and other funny stuff for you to tell to other people - but you cannot just post them on social media websites - you have to tell jokes in person to real people, face to face.
 
“Love not what you are, but what you may become.” -Miguel de Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 - 1616))

“Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.” -Robert J. Collier (Robert Joseph Collier (1876 - 1918))
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“Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don’t let anyone take it away from you ever.” -Holly Marie Combs (born 1973)
 
“Don’t listen to those who say, “It’s not done that way.” Maybe it’s not, but maybe you will. Don’t listen to those who say, “You’re taking too big a chance.” Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most importantly, don’t listen when the little voice of fear inside of you rears its ugly head and says, “They’re all smarter than you out there. They’re more talented, they’re taller . . . prettier, luckier, and have connections . . .” I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you’ll be a person worthy of your own respect.” -Neil Simon (born 1927)
 
“The best way to improve your self-esteem: Get your body in shape. It won’t fix everything, but the effort needed to get yourself lean and healthy is something that you can always look back on and be proud of.” -Dan Go
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“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” -Helen Keller (Helen Adams Keller (1880 - 1968))
 
“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.” -William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925): as quoted in Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955))): “How to Win Friends and Influence People” (October 1936)
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“Avoid negative people, for they are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem. Surround yourself with people who bring out the best in you.” -Author Unknown
 
“The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self-esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com/
 
“To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.” -Denis Waitley (Denis Edwin Waitley, Senior (born 1933))
 
“Dear Lord, when feelings of insecurity and self-doubt creep into my heart, help me to see myself the way you do.” -Author Unknown
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“Believe in yourself and you can do unbelievable things.” -Author Unknown
 
Ofttimes nothing profits more
Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right
Well manag’d.
-John Milton (1608 - 1674): “Paradise Lost” (1667; 1674), Book VIII, line 571
 
Also known in the paraphrased form:
“Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.” -John Milton (1608 - 1674)
 
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” -E. E. cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings (1894 - 1962))
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“Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered - just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better.” -Barrie Davenport at https://LiveBoldAndBloom.com/
 
“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): “Lives of the English Poets” (1779 -1781), ‘The Life of Pope’
 
“If you believe in yourself, things are possible.” -Shannon MacMillan (Shannon Ann MacMillan (born 1974))
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“Our self-image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.” -Maxwell Maltz (1899 - 1975)
 
“Don’t compare your chapter 1 to someone else’s chapter 20.” -Tom Bilyeu
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“One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents and gifts. When, in disgust or discouragement, we allow ourselves to reach depressive levels of despair because of our demeaning self-appraisal, it is a sad day for us and a sad day in the eyes of God. For us to conclude that we have no gifts when we judge ourselves by stature, intelligence, grade-point average, wealth, power, position, or external appearance is not only unfair but unreasonable.” -Marvin J. Ashton (Marvin Jeremy Ashton (1915 - 1994)): ‘There are Many Gifts’ published in “Ensign” (November 1987) magazine, page 20
 
“Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this: instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.” -Alan Loy McGinnis (1933 - 2005)
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“I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895 - 1983))
 
Overheard: You can now worry less about what kind of person you are, because somewhere out there is a dog who thinks you are wonderful!
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“Nothing builds Self-Esteem And Self-Confidence like accomplishment.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
 
“Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too.” -David Storey (David Malcolm Storey (1933 - 2017))
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“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” -Ted Rubin
 
“Put your future in good hands - your own.” -Author Unknown
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“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero (also known as Tully or simply Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)): “Rhetorical Invention”
 
“I am going to make it.” -You
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“All things splendid have been achieved by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.” -Bruce Barton (Bruce Fairchild Barton (1886 - 1967))
 
“Why should we worry about what others think of us - do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?” -Brigham Young (1801 - 1877)
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“What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger or simply Seneca (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
 
“We should teach, particularly ourselves, that nobody is a nobody. We are someone, and with God’s help we can accomplish all things.” -Marvin. J. Ashton (1915 - 1994): ‘It’s No Fun Being Poor,’ in “Ensign” (September 1982) magazine, page 74
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“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt (Anna Eleanor ‘Eleanor’ Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)): “This is My Story” (1937)
 
“Don’t define yourself by negatives.” -Author Unknown
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Our doubts are traitors
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
-William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Measure for Measure” (1604) , Act I, scene 4, lines 434 through 436
 
“Believe in yourself a little more.” -Author Unknown
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“Confidence comes from being prepared.” -John Wooden (John Robert Wooden (1910 - 2010))
 
“You are officially the world’s okayest person.” -Author Unknown
 
“The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” -Author Unknown
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“Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.” -Lydia M. Child (Lydia Maria Child (born Lydia Maria Francis (1802 - 1880)))
 
“Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.” -Nathaniel Branden (born Nathan Blumenthal (1930 - 2014)): “The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem” (1994)
 
“You can’t let other people tell you who you are. You have to decide that for yourself.” -Author Unknown
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Overheard: I am going to be more assertive . . . if that’s okay with you?
 
“Self-assurance reassures others.” -Garry Willis
 
“Confident people are able to laugh at themselves.” -Author Unknown
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“The self-esteem to which I refer is something different. It is not blind, arrogant, vain love of self, but is self-respecting, unconceited, honest esteem of ourselves. It is born of inner peace and strength.” -James E. Faust (James Esdras Faust (1920 - 2007)): “Reach Up for the Light” (1 January 1990), page 31
 
Given the state of the world today, just about every neighborhood needs a Self-Esteem Shop. Website: www.SelfEsteemShop.com.
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“Good self-esteem does not happen overnight. You have to work at it. And that is completely okay.” -Author Unknown
 
“The only way to feel better about yourself is to do things worth feeling good about.” -Mark Manson
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“What you think of me is unimportant. What I think of myself is what matters.” -Robert T. Kiyosaki (Robert Toru Kiyosaki (born 1947))
 
“High above the noise and fear-mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.” -Mollie Marti
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“To have an incredible increase in self-esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don’t have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self-esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.jimrohn.com/
 
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” -Michael Jordan (born 1963)
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“Real people aren’t perfect. Perfect people aren’t real.” -Author Unknown
 
“Low self-esteem can leave us afraid to try new things because we fear that we will fail. However, the challenge of self-esteem building is to embrace new things and to give yourself the opportunity to enjoy them, just because you deserve it. Taking up a new hobby can be a fantastic step towards overcoming low self-esteem. Spending time with like-minded people and enjoying an activity purely for fun, with no pressure, is a good way to feel better about yourself. You may even discover a hidden talent into the bargain!” -Author Unknown
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“There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.” -Nathaniel Branden (born Nathan Blumenthal (1930 - 2014))
 
“There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.” -Charles D. Gill
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“All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do . . . Build, therefore, your own world.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882): “Nature” (1836)
 
“Don’t worry that you’re too much of one thing or not enough of another. You’re just the right amount of what you are, to be able to get started on all the things you want to do in life.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” -Anna Freud (1895 - 1982)
 
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The Written Word And Writing

“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
 
A four-year-old girl was diligently pounding away on her daddy’s laptop computer. She informed him that she was writing a story. “What is your story about?” he asked. “I don’t know,” she answered. “I can’t read.”
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Not like Homer would I write,
     Not like Dante if I might,
Not like Shakespeare at his best,
     Not like Goethe or the rest,
Like myself, however small,
     Like myself, or not at all.
-William Allingham (1824 - 1889)
 
“When I left home, my mum said, ‘Don’t forget to write.’ I thought, ‘That’s unlikely . . . It’s a basic skill, isn’t it . . .’” -Timothy Mark ‘Tim’ Vine (born 1967)
 
“I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” -Anne Frank (Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank (1929 - 1945)): “Diary of a Young Girl” (1952), ‘4 April 1944’
 
“If my books didn’t sell, I think I’d be a bear trainer. I like to wrestle with bears.” -Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 - 1961)): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
 
“When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.” -Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
 
“Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.” -Olin Miller (Olin James Miller (1918 - 2002))
 
“Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.” -John Steinbeck (John Ernst Steinbeck, Junior (1902 - 1968)): as attributed in “Quote” (18 June 1961) magazine
 
“Words are an inexpensive, and an extremely fun, plaything.” -Author Unknown
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“A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return.” -Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626): as attributed in E. Bridgewater: “Extracts from Ancient and Modern Authors” (1828)
 
“I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done, so now I just have to fill in the rest.” -Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955))
 
“For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket, and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure that the ink had not faded.” -James Matthew Barrie (1860 - 1937): speech (26 May 1922) at the Critics’ Circle in London, England
 
“It took me 15 years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.” -Robert Benchley (Robert Charles Benchley (1889 - 1945)): as quoted in “Reader’s Digest” (September 1949) magazine
 
Hugh: Hey, did you hear Stu’s writing a book?
Lou: Why doesn’t he just buy one? It’s faster.
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“Unprovided with original learning, unfound in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved - to write a book.” -Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
 
“Editing is a rewording activity.” -Author Unknown
 
“Anyone who can think clearly can write clearly. But neither is easy.” -William A. Feather (William Arthur Feather (1889 - 1981)): “The Business of Life” (1949)
 
“I shall be but a shrimp of an author.” -Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771): letter (25 February 1768) to Horace Walpole
 
“While the spoken word stands for something, the written word stands for something that stands for something.” -Author Unknown
 
“The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn’t require any.” -Russell Baker (Russell Wayne Baker (1925 - 2019)): “Growing Up” (1982), chapter 9
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
-George Gordon Noel Byron (also known as Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)): “Don Juan” (1818 - 1824), stanza 88
Often paraphrased as, “A drop of ink may make a million think.”

If you could write something to change the world, what would it be?
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Helga: What are you doing?
Glenn: I’m writing a book.
Helga: What is it about?
Glenn: Everything!
 
“Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn’t fit for society; I didn’t fit into the system.” -Brian Wilson Aldiss (1925 - 2017)
 
“I have tried simply to write the best I can; sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.” -Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 - 1961))
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel,
     Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.
-John Sheffield (1648 - 1721): “Essay on Poetry”
 
“The Pythagorean Theorem employed 24 words, the Lord’s Prayer has 66 words, Archimedes Principle has 67 words, the 10 Commandments have 179 words, the Gettysburg Address has 286 words, the Declaration of Independence has 1,300 words, and finally the European Commission’s regulation on the sale of cabbage: 26,911 words.” -Author Unknown
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“I may write in silence, but my words will always be heard.” -Marie Summers
 
“The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): as attributed in ‘A Review of Soame Jenyns’ ‘A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil’’ published in “Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces” (1774), volume 1, page 23
 
“Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.” -John LeCarre
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“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” -Flannery O’Connor (Mary ‘Flannery’ O’Connor (1925 - 1964))
 
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” -Toni Morrison (born 1931)
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“I have very little of Mr. Blake’s company; he is always in ‘Paradise.’” -Mrs. William Blake
 
“Writing isn’t hard, no harder than ditchdigging.” -Patrick Dennis
 
“A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.” -Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
 
“The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.” -George Henry Lewes (1817 - 1878)
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“I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.” -Frank Harris (born James Thomas Harris (1855 - 1931)): as quoted in George Jean Nathan: “The World of George Jean Nathan” (1952), page 252
 
“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.” -A. J. Liebling (Abbott Joseph ‘A. J.’ Liebling (1904 - 1963))
 
“The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.” -Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719): as quoted in “The Spectator,” No. 166 (10 September 1711)
 
“Every writer I know has trouble writing.” -Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999)
 
“To write well is to think well, feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.” -Georges-Louis Leclerc (also known by the title Comte de Buffon (1707 - 1788))
 
“I write to discover what I think.” -Joan Didion (1934 - 2021) at https://www.joandidion.org/
 
“Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.” -William Golding (1911 - 1993): “Rough Magic” (16 February 1977) lecture
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“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.” -Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)): “Paul Clifford” (1830), Book I, Chapter I
 
Ernest Vincent Wright was born in 1872. He is known as the author of the 50,000-word book, “Gadsby” (1939), which does not contain the letter ‘e,’ except in the introduction and in a note at the end of the book. Ernest Vincent Wright passed on at about 67 years of age on 7 October 1939.
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“Le Train de Nulle Part” (English: “The Train from Nowhere”) (2004) is a 233-page novel by a Frenchman named Michel Dansel, published under the pseudonym Michel Thaler. Set on a train, it features a series of caustic cameos of fellow passengers who, while not doing much, somehow bring out the vitriol in Thaler’s pen. It contains lengthy passages of flowery prose, but not a lot of action. A notable example of constrained writing, the novel does not contain a single verb. Thaler says he loves words, but not verbs. “The verb is like a weed in a field of flowers. You have to get rid of it to allow the flowers to grow and flourish. Take away the verbs and the language speaks for itself.”
 
“Imaging sending a message across hundreds or thousands of years. That’s what writing can do. It’s as simple as carving words into clay tablets or stone slabs, and then burying them in the ground, like ancient people did.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“I write when I’m inspired, and I see to it that I’m inspired at nine o’clock every morning.” -Peter DeVries
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“A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.” -Samuel Johnson: as quoted in James Boswell: “The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.” (1785), ‘August 16, 1773’

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” -Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
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“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.” -Vladimir Nabakov
 
Writer: A word-dispensing machine.
 
“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.” -Jules Renard (Pierre-Jules Renard (1864 - 1910))
 
“Altogether, the style of a writer is a faithful representative of his mind; therefore, if any man wish to write a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) (14 April 1824): as quoted in “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret” (1850)
 
“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.” -William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863): “The History of Henry Esmond” (1852): Book II, chapter 1
 
“If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing.” -Kingsley Amis (Kingsley William Amis (1922 - 1995))
 
“That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))
 
“Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.” -Ray Bradbury
 
“I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.” -Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
 
“He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.” -Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
 
“Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job like laying pipe.” -John Gregory Dunne
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“Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.” -John Updike (John Hoyer Updike (1932 - 2009))
 
Writer: A wordsmith.
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“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965))
 
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790))
 
“Oliver Herford once dropped a remark in a little group of writers who were telling how much trouble they took with their work. One said he sometimes took weeks working over a single chapter. Another said, ‘That’s nothing, I sometimes spend days struggling with a single paragraph.’ ‘And I,’ said Oliver in his faraway voice, ‘frequently spend months polishing a single word.’” -Curtis Brown
 
“The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.” -Maria Lenhart
 
“I take the view and always have that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes, you ought to go away and write a book about it.” -Reginald Lord Brabazon
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What is a ‘nom de plume’? The French phrase ‘nom de plume’ (pronounced as näm də ˈplo͞om) meaning ‘pen name,’ is a type of pseudonym. Pseudonyms are names people use for their professional work, typically that of a creative or entertainment nature. For example, singers and actors may use stage names, and writers may use ‘noms de plume.’
 
“A man named Samuel Langhorne Clemens named his pen ‘Mark Twain,’ and then he took the credit for all of the things his pen used his hand to write.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“To write a book is a task needing only pen ink and paper; to print a book is rather more difficult because genius often expresses itself illegibly; to read a book is more difficult still for one has to struggle with sleep; but to sell a book is the most difficult task of all.” -Frank Mumny
 
“The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.” -Evan Esar (born Esar Levine (1899 - 1995))
 
“I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.” -Sandra Cisneros
 
“I never understand anything until I have written about it.” -Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
 
“Write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers within three years the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))
 
“The pen is mightier than the sword.” -Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)): “Richelieu,” II, ii (1839)
 
“When I want to read a book, I write one.” -attributed to Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881): review of Lothair published in “Blackwood’s Magazine”
 
“My subject grows as I write.” [translation to English]
“Materia mihi crescit.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“‘Harry Potter’ author J.K. Rowling says she might not stop at 7 books and might make an 8th book about Harry as an adult. When asked why, she said, ‘There’s still money in the world that I don’t have yet’.” -Conan O’Brien
 
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.” -Beatrix Potter (Helen Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943))
 
“You can make anything by writing.” -C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963))
 
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Opportunities And Possibilities

Your golden opportunity awaits . . . right this way, please . . .
 
“I dwell in possibility.” -Emily Dickinson (Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830 - 1886))
 
“Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish.” -Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley (1799 - 1869)
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“Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.” -Doris Lessing (Doris May Lessing (born Doris May Tayler (1919 - 2013)))
 
“If you miss an opportunity, that is not the end. Another one will come. Just prepare yourself as best you can so that you do not miss the next one.” -Author Unknown
 
“Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can’t do. They don’t know what they want because they don’t know what’s available for them.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
 
“No man can tell what the future may bring forth, and small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” -Demosthenes (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.): “Ad Leptinem,” 162: as quoted in Thomas Benfield Harbottle: “Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)” (1897), page 511
 
“When opportunity knocks, don’t be the one to say, ‘Hey, can you get that?’” -Author Unknown
 
“Opportunity is often dressed up in work clothes.” -Croft M. Pentz (1931 - 2008)
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“If you’re looking for a big opportunity, seek out a big problem.” -H. Jackson Brown (Horace Jackson Brown, Junior (1940 - 2021))
 
“The bigger the challenge, the greater the opportunity.” -Author Unknown
 
“Make Hay, while the Sun shines.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 3314
 
“I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.” -Audrey Hepburn (Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston (1929 - 1993))
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“Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn’t come before.” -Shelby Steele
 
“A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.” -Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626): “Essays” (1625), ‘Of Ceremonies and Respect’
 
“Be ready when opportunity comes . . . Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.” -Roy D. Chapin, Junior (Roy Dikeman Chapin, Junior (1915 - 2001))
 
“Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.” -Author Unknown
 
“Be a can-do, will-try person. Focus on what you have and not what you don’t have, what you can do rather than what you cannot do.” -Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939)
 
“Opportunity does not come and knock on our doors. We must ourselves go knocking on doors to find opportunity, persistently knocking until we have an answer, either yes or no, and then we go on to the next ten thousand doors, one at a time, without pausing between them, smiling as best we are able, and speaking our carefully prepared and memorized introductions in a polite conversational style.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.” -Walter E. Cole, Junior (1926 - 2018)
 
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” -Sun-Tzu: “The Art of War” (3rd century B.C.E.)
 
“Your aspirations are your possibilities.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
 
“You may miss all of the good opportunities if you are willing to try only what you are fairly certain you can succeed at. You have to try many things that might, or might not, work out.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“If you don’t hear opportunity knocking, find another door.” -Author Unknown
 
“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” -John J. Ingalls (John James Ingalls (1833 - 1900))
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“The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination.” -Charles F. Kettering (Charles Franklin Kettering (1876 - 1958))
 
Knock, knock!
Who’s there?
Opportunity.
Opportunity, who?
Fooled you - opportunity only knocks once!
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“Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it.” -Louis L’Amour (born Louis Dearborn LaMoore (1908 - 1988))
 
“If you’re looking for a big opportunity, seek out a big problem.” -H. Jackson Brown, Junior (Harriett Jackson Brown, Junior (born 1940))
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“Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.” -Robert Brault (born 1938) at https://RBrault.blogspot.com/
 
“It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.” -Frederick Phillips
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“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.” -John W. Gardner (John William Gardner (1912 2002))
 
“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” -Chris Grosser
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“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)): “Tales of the Jazz Age” (1922), ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’
 
“Thou hast only to follow the wall far enough and there will be a door in it.” -Marguerite de Angeli (1889 - 1987): “The Door in the Wall” (1949)
 
“Opportunity seems to have an uncanny habit of favoring those who have paid the price of years of preparation.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “Highways of Happiness” magazine
 
“Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.” -Bayard Taylor (1825 - 1878)
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“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” -John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
 
“Opportunity is sometimes hard to recognize if you’re only looking for a lucky break.” -Monta Crane (Monta Mildred (Henrichs) Crane (1911 - 2009))
 
“Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.” -Author Unknown

“Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1848 - 1924))
 
“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))
 
“A wise man doesn’t just wait for the right opportunity, he creates the right opportunity.” -Author Unknown
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“Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.” -Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.))
 
“Opportunities are seldom labeled.” -John A. Shedd (John Augustus Shedd (1859 - 1928))
 
“Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.” -William James (1842 - 1910): as quoted in Henry James, editor: “The Letters of William James” (1920): letter to W. Lutoslawski (6 May 1906)
 
“You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.” -Author Unknown
 
“Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.” -Sue Ebaugh (Sue Atchley Ebaugh)
 
“Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not lie ready to their hand, they will make them.” -Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904): “Self-Help” (1856), Chapter 5: ‘Helps and Opportunities: Scientific Pursuits’
 
“It is one of life’s laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.” -André Gide (André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869 - 1951))
 
“Opportunity seekers do not sit at home waiting by the telephone or the computer, nor do they hang out in familiar haunts and with the same old crowd. Opportunity seekers go out and knock on unfamiliar doors and enter intimidating buildings and go up and down on elevators and stairs. They do a lot of walking, dressed and groomed as best they can, doing best what they can with what they have until they have more and know more. They meet people who are better than they are, who outclass them in every way, and they continue on.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.” -Russell H. Conwell (Russell Herman Conwell (1843 - 1945)): “Acres of Diamonds” (1890)
 
“Opportunity . . . often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))
 
“Don’t wait for the right opportunity; create it.” -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
 
“Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
 
“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” -Ann Landers (pseudonym of Esther Pauline Friedman ‘Eppie’ Lederer (1918 - 2002))
 
“Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.” -Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove, taking the C. J. from Charles Joseph Walker (1867 - 1919)) at https://madamcjwalker.com/
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“Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1848 - 1924))
 
“Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.” -Doug Larson (Douglas Lincoln ‘Doug’ Larson (1926 - 2017))
 
“Are you missing opportunities because you are too focused on obstacles?” -Jeffrey Gitomer (born 1946)
 
Awake! arise! the hour is late!
     Angels are knocking at thy door!
They are in haste and cannot wait,
     And once departed come no more.
Awake! arise! the athlete’s arm
     Loses its strength by too much rest;
The fallow land, the untilled farm
     Produces only weeds at best.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
 
“It’s hard to hear when opportunity is knocking if you are too busy knocking the opportunity.” -Author Unknown
 
“What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.” -Maxwell Maltz (1899 - 1975)
 
“Opportunity knocks once at every man’s door and then keeps on knocking.” -George Ade (1866 - 1944)
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“Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))
 
“Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.” -Mignon McLaughlin (1913 - 1983)
 
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” -Thomas A. Edison (Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931)): as quoted in John L. Mason: “An Enemy Called Average” (1990), page 55
 
“Determine your future now by taking hold of every opportunity.” -Debbye Turner (Debbye Turner Bell (born 1965))
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“Look for opportunity. You can’t wait for it to knock on the door . . . You might not be home.” -Jinger Heath (Jinger L. Heath (born 1952))
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“Opportunity is more valuable than money.” -Grant Cardone (born 1958) at https://grantcardone.com/
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“Great minds must be ready not only to take the opportunities, but to make them.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))
 
“In a world full of opportunities, we have only to choose a starting point, such as here and now, and a direction of travel. Go to your opportunities.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Opportunities . . . fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.” -Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)
 
“People wait for opportunity to come along . . . yet it is there every morning.” -Author Unknown: “Dennis the Menace”
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“Small opportunities are often the beginnings of great achievements.” -Calvin Coolidge (John Calvin Coolidge, Junior (1872 - 1933))
 
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
 
“Opportunity is always knocking. The problem is that most people have the self-doubt station in their head turned up way too loud to hear it.” -Brian Vaszily (Brian William Vaszily (born 1970))
 
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.” -Jesus of Nazareth: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Book of Matthew,’ chapter 7, verses 7 and 8 (see also verses 9 through 12)
 
“The activity you’re most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.” -Robin Sharma (born 1965)
 
“When opportunity knocks, you can’t say, ‘Come back later.’” -Leonard Turkel (1930 - 2011)
 
“Learn to ask for what you want . . . The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for - which is precisely where you were before you asked.” -Peter McWilliams (Peter Alexander McWilliams (1949 - 2000))
 
“Little opportunities should be improved.” -François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (1651 - 1715)
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“We have the power within, but the secret of success is to employ our power and talents and be prepared for opportunity when it comes.” -Walter Matthews (1926 - 2012)
 
“That old saying about opportunity only knocking once is as archaic as the flat-Earth theory and as patently untrue. Opportunity knocks all the time - and it rings your doorbell, calls you up, and sends you e-mails.” -Victoria Moran (born 1950) at https://mainstreetvegan.net/
 
“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924))
 
“Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.” -Hugh Allen (Hugh Percy Allen (1869 - 1946))
 
“Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.” -Bruce Barton (Bruce Fairchild Barton (1886 - 1967))
 
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” -Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger (1908 - 2002))
 
“Opportunities are often things you haven’t noticed the first time around.” -Catherine Deneuve (pseudonym of Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 1943))
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“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.” -Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virginia ‘Virginia’ Woolf (born Adeline Virginia Stephen (1882 - 1941)))
 
“Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.” -Helen Schucman (Helen Cohn Schucman (born Helen Dora Cohn (1909 - 1981)))
 
“Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.” -H. Jackson Brown (Horace Jackson Brown, Junior (1940 - 2021))
 
“With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” -Thomas Buxton (Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786 - 1845)): as quoted in Frank Leslie: “Sunday Magazine” (January - June 1886), Volume XIX, page 89
 
“When opportunity knocks, don’t question your ability based on your shortcomings. Know your strengths and start your journey!” -Author Unknown
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“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” -Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (1858 - 1919))
 
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New Beginnings And Second Chances

“It’s never too late for a new beginning in your life.” -Joyce Meyer (born 1943 as Pauline Joyce Hutchison)
 
“Don’t be afraid to start over. It’s a chance to build something better this time.” -Author Unknown
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“Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” -Mary Pickford (born Gladys Louise Smith, also known as Gladys Marie Pickford (1893 - 1979)): as quoted in Carolyn Warner: “The Last Word - A Treasury of Women’s Quotes” (1992)
 
“Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.” -Marsha Petrie Sue
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“Whatever problems we had back then don’t exist anymore. It’s why we have this second chance, and we can’t throw it away.” -Michelle Maddow
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“Big journeys begin with small steps.” -Author Unknown
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“Today I close the door to the past, open the door to the future, take a deep breath, step on through the door, and start a new chapter in my life.” -Author Unknown
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“Starting over in any aspect of life requires courage. It may not be easy, but it will surely be worth the work we put into it.” -Author Unknown
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​“For a brief moment, forget everyone else and everything else, and know that all it takes is you - you alone - to grant yourself a second chance in life. The realization of this is the surest way to attain what you seek. It will be a years’ long process and it will be the hardest work you will ever do.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“The best time for new beginnings is now.” -Author Unknown
 
“Forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.” -Doris Lessing (Doris May Lessing (1919 - 2013))
 
“Every day is a second chance.” -Author Unknown
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“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.” -L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942))
 
“It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.” -George Adams (George Matthew Adams (1878 - 1962))
 
“Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.” -William Bridges (born 1934)
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“Where should I start? I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote back this: 現在地で始まるべき. You should start where you are.” -Ruth Ozeki (born 1956): “A Tale for the Time Being” (7 March 2013) novel
 
“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.” -Flavia Weedn (Flavia Marie Register Weedn (1929 - 2015)): “Flavia and the Dream Maker” (1988) at flaviastore.archivea.com
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“Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.” -Bikram Choudhury

Overheard: Any time is the right time for beginning anew.
 
“Second chances do come your way. Like trains, they arrive and depart regularly. Recognizing the ones that matter is the trick.” -Jill A. Davis
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“Dear God of New Beginnings And Second Chances - here I am again!” -Nancy Spielberg
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“The best time to start over is today. Keep your dreams and wishes alive by working a bit toward them each and every day.” -Author Unknown
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“Life always offers you a second chance . . . it’s called tomorrow.” -Nicholas Sparks
 
“There is no such thing as ‘going back to square one.’ Even if you feel like you’re having to start over, you are trying again with more knowledge, strength, and power than you had before. Your journey was never over, it was just waiting for you to find it again.” -Author Unknown
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“Every ending is creating the space and opening for an amazing new beginning.” -Bryant McGill (Bryant Harrison McGill (born 1969)) at https://bryantmcgill.com/
 
“It’s never too late to start something new.” -Author Unknown
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“Every single moment of a person’s life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.” -Emanuel Swedenborg
 
“We’re given second chances every day of our life. We don’t usually take them, but they’re there for the taking.” -Andrew M. Greeley (Andrew Moran Greeley (1928 - 2013))
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“Every moment is a new beginning.” -Elie Wiesel (Eliezer ‘Elie’ Wiesel (1928 - 2016))
 
“If you have found yourself thinking, ‘I have tried so many times in so many places with so many different people in so many different ways, and here I am again - will I make it this time?’ know that your success will be as a result of your having attained the strength of mind and of will and applying everything you have learned along the way up to this point and every new discovery you can grab onto, that this is all about your ability to endure and persist, and that you will find or reach that point at which you can make it. You will arrive at your place and your time and you will soar to unimagined heights.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.” -Kristin Armstrong
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“One of the hardest lessons to learn in life is that good people deserve second chances, but bad people must not be given second chances by us, because they will continue to do wrong and harm others. We really do need to know people’s history and the character they have displayed throughout their lifetimes, evaluate them, and treat them accordingly. People exist who leave a trail of wreckage as they go from person to person and place to place, their whole lives long, and commonly these people express the mantra, ‘But I have changed, but I can change, but I will change,’ yet they change only for a moment, and then they soon change right back again into the destructive pattern which is at the permanent core of their personalities. Giving second chances to bad people will produce bad results and will cause the lives of innocent people to be ruined. Don’t let them ruin you, don’t do it for them, and don’t forget that you need to keep your life free from destruction by others. Some people we have to leave alone to find their own way in life, and if they ever tire of themselves, they can find someone else with the willingness, the means, and the know-how to guide them into becoming disciplined, morally upright persons; still, it is more likely that they will go on to the end of their days as wreckers, and we will separate ourselves from them in all ways if we are wise.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don’t know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don’t know.” -Pema Chödrön (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936)
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​“The best thing you can give someone is a chance.” -Author Unknown
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“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940))

New Beginnings
 
It’s only the beginning now
     . . . a pathway yet unknown
At times the sound of other steps
     . . . sometimes we walk alone.
 
The best beginnings of our lives
     May sometimes end in sorrow
But even on our darkest days
     The Sun will shine tomorrow.
 
So we must do our very best
     Whatever life may bring
And look beyond the Winter chill
     To smell the breath of Spring.
 
Into each life will always come
     A time to start anew
A new beginning for each heart
     As fresh as morning dew.
 
Although the cares of life are great
     And hands are bowed so low
The storms of life will leave behind
     The wonder of a rainbow.
 
The years will never take away
     Our chance to start anew
It’s only the beginning now
     So dreams can still come true.
 
By Gertrude B. Mcclain
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​“I think I finally understand life - it is an endeavor, a path, a road, a journey, that starts anew with each step . . . every golden moment is a new beginning, every golden moment is another chance to begin again.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Every day is another chance to change your life.” -Author Unknown

A New Chance
 
When doubts and fears are growing,
     It’s hard to keep on going
From day to day not knowing
     Just what the end will be.
 
Take each day as you find it,
     If things go wrong, don’t mind it,
For each day leaves behind it
     A chance to start anew.
 
By Gertrude Ellgas (Gertrude M. Ellgas (1896 - 1994))
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​“It is never too late to change your life for the better. You don’t have to take huge steps to change your life. Making even the smallest changes to your daily routine can make a big difference in your life.” -Roy T. Bennett
 
“A fresh start isn’t a new place, it’s a new mindset.” -Author Unknown
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So take a deep breath,
     Pick yourself up,
Dust yourself off,
     Start all over again.
-Frank Sinatra (Francis Albert ‘Frank’ Sinatra (1915 - 1998))
 
“Then Peter came and said to him, ‘Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I ought to still forgive him? As many as seven times?’ Jesus said to him, ‘I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.’” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Gospel of Matthew,’ chapter 18, verse 22
 
By way of further explanation, Peter desired to go beyond what the religious leaders of the time and place did, for they would only forgive a person as many as three times. Peter thought he could do more, so he asked Jesus if he ought to forgive his brother, “as many as seven times.” Jesus replied, “seventy times seven,” meaning we are to forgive our brothers and sisters in Christ as often as they need to be forgiven. Second chances are not something we seek for ourselves alone, but which we also are to give lovingly to others.
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“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” -Germany Kent (born 1975 as Evelyn LaShawn Palmer)
 
“Good people deserves chances to try again.” -Author Unknown
 
“I’m not giving up, I’m just starting over.” -Author Unknown
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Should life include more do-overs and second chances, for good people? What is a ‘second chance’? Is it a miracle? Is it an example of love? Is it someone taking a risk? Are there times when you can afford to take the risk, and times when you cannot?
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“. . . forgetting those things which are behind . . . I press toward the mark . . .” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Philippians,’ chapter 3, verses 13 and 14
 
“The first step of your journey might be scary, but it is also full of so much possibility and wonder. It is full of excitement at all that could happen and faith that whatever is meant to happen, will happen. It might be hard to take that first step - to put your pen to paper, to move to the new city, to lace up your shoes - but don’t let that fear keep you from starting. Don’t let the fear keep you from feeling the excitement and wonder at everything in front of you, because I promise that once you take that first step, you’ll never look back.” -Nikki Banas at https://nikkibanas.com/
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“So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.” -Freeman Dyson
 
“You can start over as many times as you need.” -Author Unknown
 
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