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  • #1
    Toba Beta
    “Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses.
    It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger.”
    Toba Beta

  • #2
    Emma Goldman
    “Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.”
    Emma Goldman

  • #3
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

  • #4
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

  • #5
    Judith Viorst
    “Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
    Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

  • #6
    George Washington
    “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
    George Washington

  • #7
    Benjamin Franklin
    “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #8
    Bernard Kelvin Clive
    “Don't use your past as an excuse, excuse your excuses and take action now!!!”
    Bernard Kelvin Clive

  • #9
    George S. Patton Jr.
    “Do not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not.”
    George Patton

  • #10
    John Wooden
    “Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.”
    John Wooden, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

  • #11
    Nicolas Chamfort
    “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
    Nicolas Chamfort

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    “Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    tags: god, joy

  • #14
    Tom Bodett
    “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
    Tom Bodett

  • #15
    Pablo Picasso
    “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #16
    “A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
    Karen Lamb

  • #17
    Charles Dickens
    “My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!”
    Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

  • #18
    Augustine of Hippo
    “God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.”
    St. Augustine of Hippo

  • #19
    Jane Green
    “... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.”
    Jane Green, Bookends

  • #20
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #21
    Lisa Wingate
    “Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.”
    Lisa Wingate

  • #22
    Gary   Hopkins
    “An apology can be a wonderful thing so long as it is infrequent and from the heart. However, beware of the person who justifies bad behavior with apologies. For them it is a means to an end, and quite often at your expense.”
    Gary Hopkins

  • #23
    Dan Pearce
    “Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.”
    Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

  • #24
    Dan Pearce
    “Dads. Do you not realize that a child is what you tell them they are? That people almost always become what they are labeled? Was whatever your child just did really the “dumbest thing you’ve ever seen somebody do”? Was it really the “most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo.”
    Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

  • #25
    Dan Pearce
    “Do you not realize that your kids are going to make mistakes, and a lot of them? Do you not realize the damage you do when you push your son’s nose into his mishaps or make your daughter feel worthless because she bumped or spilled something? Do you have any idea how easy it is to make your child feel abject? It’s as simple as letting out the words, “why would you do that!?” or “how many times have I told you…”
    Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One



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