Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

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Be happy. Talk happiness._ Helen Keller

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If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse. ― Jim Rohn

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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come. ― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined. — Henry David Thoreau

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All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.

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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. — Josh Billings

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