Steps To Happiness

March 9, 2009

Everybody Knows: You can’t be all things to all people.   You can’t do all things at once.   You can’t do all things equally well.   You can’t do all things better than everyone else.   Your humanity is showing just like everyone else’s.   So:   You have to find out who you [...]

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Praying Hands

March 9, 2009

Back in the fifteenth century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, lived a family with eighteen children. Eighteen! In order merely to keep food on the table for this mob, the father and head of the household, a goldsmith by profession, worked almost eighteen hours a day at his trade and any other paying chore [...]

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The Power Of Perspective

March 9, 2009

One day a father and his rich family took his young son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose to show him how poor people can be. They spent a day and a night in the farm of a very poor family. When they got back from their trip the father asked [...]

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The Power Of A Friend

March 9, 2009

One day, when I was a freshman in high school, I saw a kid from my class was walking home from school. His name was Kyle. It looked like he was carrying all of his books. I thought to myself, “Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday? He must really be [...]

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A Picture of Peace

March 9, 2009

There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The King looked at all the pictures, but there were only two he really liked and he had to choose between them.   One picture was of a calm lake. The lake [...]

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On Parenting By Kahlil Gilbran

March 9, 2009

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.   They come through you but not from you,   And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.   You may give them your love but not your thoughts.   For they have their [...]

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On the Subject of Money

March 9, 2009

Money will buy a bed, but not sleep;   Books, but not brains;   Food, but not appetite;   Finery, but not beauty;   A house, but not a home;   Medicine, but not health;   Luxuries, but not culture;   Amusement, but not happiness;   Religion, but not salvation;   A passport to everywhere [...]

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People By Mother Theresa (Originally By Kent M Keith)

March 9, 2009

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centred;   Forgive them anyway.   If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;   Be kind anyway.   If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;   Succeed anyway.   If you are honest and frank, people may [...]

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Memo To Jesus

March 9, 2009

TO: Jesus, Son of Joseph COMPANY: The Woodcrafter’s Carpenter Shop, Nazareth FROM: Jordon Management Consultants, Jerusalem SUBJECT: Management Report   Thank you for submitting the resumes of the twelve men you have picked for managerial positions in your new organization.   All of them have now taken our battery of tests, and we have not [...]

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I Am Me And I’m OK

March 9, 2009

I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it – I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself.   I [...]

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