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When you're tempted to be upset, ask yourself 'Is this worth giving up my joy?'

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.

Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to writing, stories would just be working in my head for so long that when I started to write I was deep into them. Now, I do that work by filling notebooks.

Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.

You can give a great and wonderful Christmas if you remember the gifts God has given you and, as best you can, offer them to others as He would. That is the spirit of Christmas and of true happiness every day.

None are so poor that they have nothing to give...and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.

It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving . . . help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow . . . from small but deliberate deeds!

True giving is a thoroughly joyous thing to do. We experience happiness when we form the intention to give, in the actual act of giving, and in the recollection of the fact that we have given. Generosity is a celebration. When we give something to someone we feel connected to them, and our commitment to the path of peace and awareness deepens.

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.

It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

When you find your spiritual gift, God will give you an opportunity to use it.

People wait until late in their career to give back. But why wait when there is so much to be done?

The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.

We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.

You give your power away when you make someone or something outside of you more important than what is inside of you.

There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.

I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of _x000D_ good, my true being. This alone gives me the forces of _x000D_ God wherewith to overcome all error.

God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.