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It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.

- Nichiren Daishonen

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Wishing all BW-ers a Wonderful Lunar New Year & Best of Health, Wealth n Luck in the Rabbit Year!

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

- Anonymous

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

- Anwar El-Sadat

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What's Your Shelf Life?

Louise Hay tells us that all relationships are temporary. In fact, most things on the planet are temporary, or at the least, always evolving and shifting. As humans, we're on our glorious planet for mere blips in time, yet we observe the brevity of our environment.

Recognizing a natural deterioration, food processing companies stamp an expected longevity on the packaging, instructing us that we'd better consume the food quickly before it spoils. In turn, we can look inward and ponder the vitality of our spirit and consume life itself with gusto and delectable fulfillment before our time, too, runs out.

Attitude

One of the few things we control about our lives is our attitude. While good and bad things happen to all of us, our outlook on every situation determines our level of contentment and happiness. We learn we cannot always prevent negative things in our lives, but our ability to approach them with a sunnier disposition offers us the benefits of more smiles, lower blood pressure and relaxed relationships.

When we lose sight of our positive approach, we grow cynical and angry. How long can you genuinely sustain your optimism? Take a closer look and understand that when your automatic response to any situation is positive and loving, it's no longer a struggle to remember to see the glass half full. A long shelf-life of empowered thinking may sustain you for the duration of your life.

Life-Force

We all know someone who defied science and outlived other family members or a physician's prognosis. We also know of people who smoke several packs a day or consumed great amounts of alcohol who lived healthy lives well into their 80s and 90s. Then, we see others die at childbirth, in youth or in their productive prime of life. We share stories of people in hospice announcing their final days then requesting the company of loved ones. At some time, does your spirit subconsciously know it's time to leave?

Many of us eat healthily, exercise regularly and follow the "rules" for living a long life. In spite of all that, none of us gets off the planet alive. The health advocate may die in an accident, or someone who took fastidious caution against disease may succumb to an airborne virus, demonstrating over and over that life's ironies are never lost. At some point perhaps we agree that our time is limited and we've accomplished all we could. The shelf-life of our years on earth is but only one expression of the essence of our being.

Ideas

Everything begins with an idea. From the first wheel to the light bulb, to space exploration, original ideas propelled mankind from darkness and isolation to light and connectedness. When in relationship with one another, we use ideas to springboard into other ideas and so the domino effect of creative thought and progress beings.

Looking internally, we examine our own ideas, no to be confused with opinions. As beings with insight and understanding, we can either build upon the good ideas of others or create our own patterns of forward movement. Examine the shelf life of your ideas - are they tired and worn out, or simply mirror someone else's? Or do your ideas burst from the inkwell of who you are and of what you are capable? The ideas which endure from generation to generation rank equally with the ideas than transform the here and now.

Spirit

From sports to passion, the term spirit connotes an embrace of, and enthusiasm for something outside of oneself. We hear stories of people with a fighting spirit to continue overcoming obstacles that repel others. "... in the spirit of... " terminology indicates that one acts in the manner of, or likeness of, another. Keeping enthusiasm for something outside of ourselves eternal, we perpetuate that which we admire, or whom we admire.

Our true spirit lives within us, and not as objects separate from us. We base our spirit, our nature, our soul-recognition, on that which we are, not that which we represent or imitate. How sustainable is your spirit in this context? Do you love and admire yourself enough to maintain the fire within to aspire to even greater life experiences?

Passion

A gift that cannot be given or received, passion for life begins in the core of our being. We can share our passion for people, activities, and even our work and play, yet true butterfly-in-your-tummy type of passion cannot be induced. Identifying passion allows us to enjoy life with temporary blinders on, ignoring all around us to focus on that one thing. Passion reminds us that we're alive.

Some of us, as we age, grow complacent and resigned to our state of affairs. That which once thrilled us with the excitement of a child, now bores us with drudgery and familiarity. At some point, we may wake up to notice this change and attempt to discover when the flame of passion extinguished, or not. What is the shelf-life of your passion? Do you trade one passion for another - in spouses, sports, activities, foods, etc.?

We come to the planet to learn and to grow, through the context of relationships. In the human form, our time is a mere blip on the grand expanse of universal existence. When Henry David Thoreau noticed that most people "live quite lives of desperation" he saw the flame within many of us snuffed out long before our earthly bodies ceased to exist. Some of us live life to the fullest and our shelf-life endures exactly as long as the body. Others among us lost our zeal long ago yet continue to play out the game of life with someone else's chess pieces.

Today is it. You get to choose. Enjoy your attitude, your life-force, your ideas, your spirit and your passion every day of your life! Live every day not in desperation, but in determination to express the true character of your beautiful soul, shining forth beyond your expiration date!

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"The past is a tool used in the present to prepare yourself for a better future."

This is something I read and it makes me a better person. It shows that we all make mistakes but learn from them and allow ourselves to forgive ourselves and strive for better in our future. It helps us realize that we are human after all.

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.Walt Emerson

May the sun always shine on your windowpane; May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain; May the hand of a friend always be near you; May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Irish Blessing

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"Past, present, and future: Three words that cause great pain or great pride, great moments or bad ones. All that matters in the end is what you choose to be, your motivation for change, even when you can't see where you're going. It doesn't hurt to take the first step into the unknown to pursue happiness."

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"When you start to abandoning your old beliefs or values... you may be stuck at the threshold for two or three years. Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs."

Dick Raymond

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Jim Rohn

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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

- William Feather

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity." Mark Twain

"Integrity can be difficult to maintain in a world that demands you change with the wind." Byron Pulsifer

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"Happiness is a state of mind not what's in your wallet."

Byron Pulsifer

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." Marcel Proust

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No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Alfred North Whitehead

You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.

- Bruce Springsteen, twentieth-century American singer

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.

- Voltaire

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Peace isn't accomplished in one swoop but is determined by the will of many defeating the powers that seek to disrupt and cause turmoil." Byron Pulsifer

"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." William Ewart Gladstone

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"We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."

Barck Obama

"Once you choose hope, anything's possible."

Christopher Reeve

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

Dale Carnegie

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What you see depends on what you're looking for. Source Unknown

Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. John Maxwell

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.Richard L. Evans

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

- Elie Wiesel

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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

- Joan Lunden

When you feel "dog tired" at night, it may be because you growled all day.

- Anonymous

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When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people. - Abraham Joshua Heschel

You have achieved success if you have loved well, laughed often and love much. - Bessie A. Stanley

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It's not the tragedies that kill us. It's the messes.

- Dorothy Parker

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Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life

around it.

- Brian Tracy

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Nothing is worth more than this day.

- Goethe

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"Don't give up! As long as you don't give up, everything will work out somehow."

Alata, Tensou Sentai Goseiger

"The only thing you can do is your best to protect that little bit of happiness in front of you."

Hino Eiji, Kamen Rider OOO

"The most important thing is not to do anything that would make yourself cry."

Akira Date, Kamen Rider OOO

"The great genius Thomas Edison once said, "1% Inspiration, 99% Perspiration". But he really meant was, For that 1% of Insight, 99% of Hard Work is needed."

Kivat, Kamen Rider Kiva

"But we smash everything that we don't like, that's what being a Pirate is about."

Captain Marvelous, Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger

 

 

"The two of us are living in the same era, believing in the same future

Yesterday’s tears and today’s smiles will stay true

We’ve experienced the same pain, we’ve gathered the same kindness

And we’ll turn them into the strength to live on tomorrow"

 

 

progress - ayumi hamasaki

 

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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible"! - Audrey Hepburn

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. - David Brinkley

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He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sess. - Benjamin Franklin

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

Albert Einstein

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.

Now put foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousness, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. - Glenn Clark

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain

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Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. - sam ewing

No one is perfect - that's why pencils have erasers. - author unknown

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. - john barrymore

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Anthony Robbins

If you never make a person responsible for their own actions by offering excuses and no accountability, you will never help to encourage personal development.

Byron Pulsifer

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. Broderick Crawford

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It does not matter what nybody else thinks, wants or does - it is what you do that matters. - richard denny

You donn't have to get it right, you just have to get it going. - mike litman

The only way to enjoy anything in this life isto earn it first. - ginger rogers

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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. - Og Mandino

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. - Charles P. Kettering

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Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

- Confucius

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

- Cullen Hightower

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

- James Anthony Froude

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

- Anonymous

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.

- Bill Blackman

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Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

- Theodore Isaac Rubin

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

- George Washington Carver

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The world is OK

Nothing is wrong here – the world is okay – its our vision of it that’s off sometimes.

That's why we say that it is all in our mind.

Most important is not to make decisions when you’re unhappy or depressed;

remember, the whole world is your mind !

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Fix your mind; Confusion is not an option.

Actually the point is more simple: All we need is one person, he or she, who is able to free our deluded mind.If the personal connection with that person can fix our mind, whether he or she is a Buddhist or Christian,religious or secular, that person who can really fix our mind is the buddha !

No colors, no big temples, no ceremonies; just person to person.

If you want to fall into more confusion there are many masters who will mess you up easily, for sure it will work,but for me confusion is not an option.

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Appreciation

Whatever you do in your life do it with appreciation. Appreciation is our best friend.

If we lose the capacity for appreciation we lose everything. I’m happy with my life and

I appreciate that. I hope you are happy and appreciate your life.

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