The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.
Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny.
I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.
My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day...I guarded them like precious pearls....It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.
Each day is a new opportunity. Yesterday is over and done. Today is the first day of my future.
Make each day a masterpiece. Don't think your best days are out there somewhere. Why not today? Why can't today be a great day? It can if you believe it will.
Each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves
Mary joins us, she fights at our side. She supports Christians in the fight against the forces of evil. Especially through prayer, through the rosary. Hear me out, the rosary... Do you pray the Rosary each day?
Each day of my life I am sowing seeds that one day I will harvest.
If you are clear where you are going and you take several steps in that direction every day, you eventually have to get there. If I head north out of Santa Barbara and take five steps a day, eventually I have to end up in San Francisco. So decide what you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.
Begin each day with the expectation that it will bring something new, something to which you can say yes.
Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.
The problem is that you don't just choose recovery. You have to keep choosing recovery, over and over and over again. You have to make that choice 5-6 times each day. You have to make that choice even when you really don't want to. It's not a single choice, and it's not easy.
Life is a creation, not a discovery. You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
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