1. Thoughts for every day: Menu 1: Select the date
January: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
February: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
March: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
April: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
May: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
June: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
July to December

2. Thoughts for every day: Menu 2: Select the date
July: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
August: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
September: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
October: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
November: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
December: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
January to June

3. PEACE OF MIND
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

4. HAPPINESS
There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson

5. ACCEPTANCE
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr

6. FORGIVENESS
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky

7. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
Aughey

8. THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Jean Vanier

9. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. FRIENDSHIP
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry

11. OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.
Anon

12. FAITH AND BELIEF
Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.
Guideposts

13. PRAYER
Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.
John Aikman Wallace

14. SELF-ACCEPTANCE
You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don’t believe in yourself.
William J.H. Boetcker

15. SELF-CONTROL
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
George Bernard Shaw

16. SELF-CONFIDENCE
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Stan Smith

17. SIMPLICITY
What I do, I do very well, and what I don’t do well, I don’t do at all.
Anon

18. ONE DAY
Nothing in business is so valuable as time.
John H. Patterson

19. YESTERDAY: THE PAST
Enjoy yourself. These are the “good old days” you’re going to miss in the years ahead.
Anon

20. TODAY: THE PRESENT
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Elbert Hubbard

21. THIS MOMENT If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.
Anon

22. MORNINGS
Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
Edgar Watson Howe

23. EVENINGS
Sum up at night what thou has done by day.
Lord Herbert

24. TOMORROW: THE FUTURE Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

25. AVERAGE, “BORING” DAYS
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire

26. DIFFICULT DAYS
The secret of patience … to do something else in the meantime.
Anon

27. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.
Madeline Bridges

28. ENTHUSIASM
Give me a man who sings at his work.
Thomas Carlyle

29. HOPE
Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
Anon

30. VISUALIZATION
We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer

31. ROLE MODELS
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Burke

32. CHANGE
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw

33. DECISIONS
Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker

34. INSTINCTS
Systems die; instincts remain.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

35. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
Skills vary. We must … strive by that which is born in us.
Pindar

36. MOTIVATION
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Baruch Spinoza

37. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
Lin Yutang

38. GOALS The one thing worth living for is to keep one’s soul pure.
Marcus Aurelius

39. FEAR Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid.
Ron Meyer

40. WORRY
Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there’s no room left for worry thoughts.
Howard Chandler Christy

41. DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
George Eliot

42. SECURITY There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur

43. RISKS
No one reaches a high position without daring.
Publilius Syrus

44. COURAGE To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius

45. WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US
The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.
Anon

46. COMMITMENT If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
Michael Evans

47. GETTING GOING
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
Brendan Francis

48. SUCCESS
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Sir William Osler

49. LUCK
The one who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B.C. Forbes

50. OPPORTUNITY
The successful person is one who had the chance and took it.
Roger Babson

51. COMMITMENT
Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.
Isaac Barrow

52. CONCENTRATION
Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.
Colonel Michael Friedsman

53. WORK
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant

54. PERFECTION
The person with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann von Goethe

55. JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO
God tests His real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
Katheryn Hulme

56. TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield

57. PERSEVERANCE
They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
Samuel Smiles

58. PROBLEMS
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
Corrie ten Bloom

59. FAILURES AND MISTAKES
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht

60. THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY
Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind.
Frank Harris

61. REACTING TO EVENTS
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
George Levinger

62. SELF-PITY
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller

63. PEACE OF MIND
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang

64. HAPPINESS
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou

65. ACCEPTANCE
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

66. FORGIVENESS The angry people are those people who are most afraid.
Dr. Robert Anthony

67. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth

68. THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.
Foe Ancis

69. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
Vauvenargues

70. FRIENDSHIP
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen.
Bob Lemon

71. ACCEPTANCE Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
G.K. Chesterton

72. OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD
Some people talk about finding God, as if He could get lost.
Anon

73. FAITH AND BELIEF
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Erich Fromm

74. PRAYER Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard

75. SELF-ACCEPTANCE I’m not OK, you’re not OK - and that’s OK.
William Sloane Coffin

76. SELF-CONTROL
When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.
Robert Browning

77. SELF-RELIANCE Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
Frank Tyger

78. SIMPLICITY What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius

79. ONE DAY
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Johann von Goethe

80. YESTERDAY: THE PAST
Some folks never exaggerate - they just remember big.
Audrey Snead

81. TODAY: THE PRESENT
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
Jim Bishop

82. THIS MOMENT
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin

83. MORNINGS
With each sunrise, we start anew.
Anon

84. EVENINGS Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.
Scottish proverb

85. TOMORROW: THE FUTURE
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
Isak Dinesen

86. AVERAGE, “BORING” DAYS Being bored is an insult to oneself.
Jules Renard

87. DIFFICULT DAYS
Pain is never permanent.
Saint Teresa of Avila

88. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.
Herbert Samuels

89. ENTHUSIASM You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Colette

90. HOPE Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do without.
LeRoy Douglas

91. VISUALIZATION
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it.
Anon

92. ROLE MODELS
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.
Tyron Edwards

93. CHANGE
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
Arthur Christopher Benson

94. DECISIONS
Full maturity … is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.
Angela Barron McBride

95. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live.
Joan Baez

96. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Euripides

97. MOTIVATION
Don’t let other people tell you what you want.
Pat Riley

98. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin

99. GOALS
If you don’t know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?
Basil S. Walsh

100. FEAR
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca

101. WORRY
If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
Krishnamurti

102. DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything, or nothing, about it.
Olin Miller

103. SECURITY To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca

104. RISKS
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
Erica Jong

105. COURAGE It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
James A. Michener

106. WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Sir Winston Churchill

107. “IGNORANCE”
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas

108. GETTING GOING
We will not know unless we begin.
Howard Zinn

109. SUCCESS Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.
Helen Hayes

110. LUCK
You don’t just luck into things … You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush

111. OPPORTUNITY
Opportunity knocks but once.
Anon

112. COMMITMENT
He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
George P. Schultz

113. CONCENTRATION
One arrow does not bring down two birds.
Turkish proverb

114. WORK
To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
Katharine Graham

115. PERFECTION
If the best man’s faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.
Gaelic proverb

116. JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Friedrich Engels

117. TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
The distance doesn’t matter; only the first step is difficult.
Madame Marquise du Deffand

118. PERSEVERANCE
It isn’t hard to be good from time to time … What’s tough is being good every day.
Willie Mays

119. PROBLEMS
Every path has its puddle.
English proverb

120. FAILURES AND MISTAKES
Our mistakes won’t irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.
James E. Sweaney

121. THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY
Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.
Robert R. Updegraff

122. REACTING TO EVENTS
When things go wrong, don’t go with them.
Anon

123. THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington

124. SELF-PITY The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
Og Guinness

125. PEACE OF MIND
If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Paula A. Bendry

126. HAPPINESS It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
Agnes Repplier

127. ACCEPTANCE
Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

128. FORGIVENESS
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Ghandi

129. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
Ruth Ann Schabacker

130. THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.
R.H. Stoddard

131. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot

132. FRIENDSHIP
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

133. OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD
Let God love you through others and let God love others through you.
D.M. Street

134. FAITH AND BELIEF
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
2 Tm. 4:7

135. CHANGE
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
Sir Winston Churchill

136. SELF-KNOWLEDGE
When a man begins to understand himself, he begins to live.
Norvin G. McGranahan

137. SELF-ACCEPTANCE Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
Saint Francis de Sales

138. SELF-CONFIDENCE
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann von Goethe

139. SELF-RELIANCE
The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
Swedish proverb

140. SIMPLICITY
There is only one meaning of life, the act of living itself.
Erich Fromm

141. ONE DAY We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
George MacDonald

142. YESTERDAY: THE PAST
Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.
Anon

143. TODAY: THE PRESENT
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Horace

144. MORNINGS
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca

145. EVENINGS
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
Eph. 14:26

146. TOMORROW: THE FUTURE
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

147. DIFFICULT DAYS
God grant us patience!
William Shakespeare

148. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

149. ENTHUSIASM The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
William McFee

150. CHANGE
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
Eric Hoffer

151. VISUALIZATION
We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer

152. ROLE MODELS
A good example is the best sermon.
Anon

153. CHANGE
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht

154. FORGIVENESS One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

155. INSTINCTS The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
Soren Kierkegaard

156. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
He who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints.
Joan L. Brannon

157. MOTIVATION We talk on principle, but we act on interest.
Walter Savage Landor

158. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
Jean Vanier

159. GOALS You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Billy Wilder

160. FEAR
Do not think of all your anxieties, you will only make yourself ill.
Shih King

161. WORRY
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
Swedish proverb

162. DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny, the Elder

163. SECURITY
No one can build her security upon the nobleness of another person.
Willa Cather

164. RISKS Unless you enter the tiger’s den, you cannot take the cubs.
Japanese proverb

165. COURAGE
Confidence … is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
John Dewey

166. WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo

167. “IGNORANCE” No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Publilius Syrus

168. GETTING GOING
If we really want to live, we’d better start at once to try.
W.H. Auden

169. SUCCESS
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford

170. OPPORTUNITY
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain

171. COMMITMENT If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
Michael Evans

172. WORK
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.
David Bly

173. PERFECTION Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.
Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs

174. JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO
God doesn’t make orange juice, God makes oranges.
Jesse Jackson

175. TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
The distance doesn’t matter; only the first step is difficult.
Madame Marquise du Deffand

176. PERSEVERANCE
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
Confucius

177. PERSEVERANCE
It isn’t hard to be good from time to time … What’s tough is being good every day.
Willie Mays

178. FAILURES AND MISTAKES
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Eleanor Roosevelt

179. REACTING TO EVENTS
Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
Abraham Lincoln

180. SELF-PITY Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
André Gide

181. PEACE OF MIND
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.
Anon

182. HAPPINESS
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

183. ACCEPTANCE
One cannot get through life without pain … What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.
Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.

184. FORGIVENESS
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Mt. 7:1

185. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
The mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson

186. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE Charity begins at home, and usually stays there.
Elbert Hubbard

187. HAPPINESS
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain

188. FRIENDSHIP When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing.
Anon

189. HAPPINESS Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy?
A Course In Miracles

190. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang

191. PRAYER The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
Oswald Chambers

192. PERSEVERANCE
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

193. SELF-ACCEPTANCE Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
Saint Francis de Sales

194. HAPPINESS
Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.
John Barrymore

195. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it.
Malcolm Forbes

196. HAPPINESS
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
Anon

197. ONE DAY We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
George MacDonald

198. ACCEPTANCE Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.
Margaret Mitchell

199. FORGIVENESS
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
Harriet Uts Nelson

200. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.
Thomas Fuller

201. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
William Hazlitt

202. TOMORROW: THE FUTURE
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

203. FRIENDSHIP
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides

204. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
You can promote your healing by your thinking.
James E. Sweeney

205. PRAYER
When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.
Anon

206. HOPE All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas

207. ACCEPTANCE Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!
J.C.F. von Schiller

208. CHANGE There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
Rollo May

209. DECISIONS
Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.
Harry A. Hopf

210. FORGIVENESS
They may not deserve forgiveness, but I do.
Anon

211. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.
George Burns

212. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

213. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
Jean Vanier

214. GOALS
Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.
Chinese proverb

215. FEAR
Fear is the absence of faith.
Paul Tillich

216. WORRY
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
Swedish proverb

217. ACCEPTANCE
If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job.
Malcolm Forbes

218. FORGIVENESS It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
Madame Dorothee Deluzy

219. RISKS Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
General George S. Patton

220. COURAGE
Confidence … is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
John Dewey

221. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.
Ken Keyes, Jr.

222. TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
Dante Alighieri

223. ACCEPTANCE
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Anon

224. SUCCESS
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
William Hazlitt

225. OPPORTUNITY
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain

226. FORGIVENESS
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale

227. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
English proverb

228. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.
Luther Burbank

229. JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO
With us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.
2 Chr.

230. TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese proverb

231. FRIENDSHIP It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.
Chinese proverb

232. PEACE OF MIND
There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better, but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better.
L. Thomas Holdcroft

233. HAPPINESS
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

234. ACCEPTANCE
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
George Bernard Shaw

235. FORGIVENESS
Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.
Arthur J. Rehrat

236. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don’t make.
Bill Veeck

237. THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can’t cure.
Ogden Nash

238. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa

239. FRIENDSHIP
One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.
William E. Holler

240. OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD
Talking about God is not at all the same thing as experiencing God, or acting out God through our lives.
Phillip Hewett

241. PRAYER When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can.
Edward M. Goulburn

242. SELF-ACCEPTANCE
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

243. SELF-CONFIDENCE
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
Thomas Merton

244. SELF-RELIANCE The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Sophocles

245. SIMPLICITY To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa

246. ONE DAY
The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.
Anon

247. YESTERDAY: THE PAST Never let yesterday use up today.
Richard H. Nelson

248. PRAYER Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige

249. MORNINGS
When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
Sydney Smith

250. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
Most of the time we think we’re sick it’s all in the mind.
Thomas Wolfe

251. ENTHUSIASM Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

252. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
I’d rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city.
William A. Hulbert

253. VISUALIZATION
Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.
Solomon

254. ACCEPTANCE
If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail Van Buren

255. CHANGE
Nothing in this world is permanent.
German proverb

256. INSTINCTS It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle

257. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

258. MOTIVATION
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon Bonaparte

259. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
We cannot all be masters.
William Shakespeare

260. GOALS
Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven’t even begun to live.
William P. Merrill

261. FEAR If you are afraid for your future, you don’t have a present.
James Petersen

262. WORRY
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
A.J. Cronin

263. DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES
If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca

264. RISKS In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.
Dennis Dugan

265. COURAGE Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca

266. GETTING GOING
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.
Janet Erskine Stuart

267. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.
Susan L. Lenzkes

268. GOALS It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Johann von Goethe

269. RISKS
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain

270. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
He has enough who is contented with little.
Anon

271. ACCEPTANCE
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust.
C.M. Ward

272. PERSEVERANCE
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

273. FAILURES AND MISTAKES
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Eleanor Roosevelt

274. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
Estonian proverb

275. FRIENDSHIP Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
Turkish proverb

276. HAPPINESS
No one gives joy or sorrow … We gather the consequences of our own deeds.
Garuda Purana

277. ACCEPTANCE
The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is, who find the least fault.
Charles Dudley Warner

278. FORGIVENESS
Revenge could steal a man’s life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
Louis L’Amour

279. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche

280. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is.
Frank A. Clark

281. ONE DAY
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir

282. FRIENDSHIP
Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.
Anon

283. MORNINGS
Day’s sweetest moments are at dawn.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

284. PRAYER
Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.
The Desert Fathers

285. SELF-ACCEPTANCE
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Anon

286. SELF-RELIANCE A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

287. SIMPLICITY
If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?
Joe Namath

288. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
More than enough is too much.
Anon

289. YESTERDAY: THE PAST
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Max Beerbohm

290. TODAY: THE PRESENT
So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by today’s economies.
John Mason Brown

291. MORNINGS
With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.
Anon

292. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang

293. ENTHUSIASM The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch

294. HOPE
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
Anon

295. CHANGE
When you’re through changing, you’re through.
Bruce Barton

296. INSTINCTS Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw

297. FRIENDSHIP
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

298. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca

299. PRAYER
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Martin Luther

300. FEAR
The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard

301. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
Henry L. Stimson

302. ENTHUSIASM
The difference between one man and another is not mere ability … it is energy.
Thomas Arnold

303. RISKS
And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong

304. COURAGE
You’re only as sick as your secrets.
Anon

305. GETTING GOING
Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
Alonzo Newton Benn

306. SUCCESS
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill

307. COMMITMENT
Whether you are really right or not doesn’t matter, it’s the belief that counts.
Robertson Davies

308. FEAR
Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.
Anon

309. RISKS The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere

310. PRAYER
Amazing things start happening when we start praying!
Anon

311. SUCCESS
Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
Anon

312. FEAR
Humor acts to relieve fear.
Dr. William F. Fry, Jr.

313. HAPPINESS
Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

314. ACCEPTANCE
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
David Hume

315. FORGIVENESS
Revenge could steal a man’s life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
Louis L’Amour

316. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.
Maurice Setter

317. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
George Santayana

318. FRIENDSHIP
They are rich who have true friends.
Thomas Fuller

319. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet.
Ancient Persian saying

320. PRAYER
Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.
The Desert Fathers

321. SELF-ACCEPTANCE
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore

322. SELF-RELIANCE
God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.
Josiah Holland

323. COURAGE What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh

324. RISKS
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

325. FRIENDSHIP Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler

326. TODAY: THE PRESENT
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.
Morris West

327. PRAYER Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
Thomas B. Brooks

328. ONE DAY
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

329. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions.
André Godin

330. GOALS
He who begins many things finishes but few.
Italian proverb

331. COURAGE
No great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.
German proverb

332. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
We are betrayed by what is false within.
George Meredith

333. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.
Anon

334. GOALS The soul that has no established aim loses itself.
Michel de Montaigne

335. FEAR
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King

336. FRIENDSHIP
The best mirror is an old friend.
Anon

337. PRAYER
I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
Dwight L. Moody

338. ONE DAY
Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions to actual deeds.
Grenville Kleiser

339. COURAGE
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

340. FRIENDSHIP
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
Nigerian proverb

341. ONE DAY
Every day is a messenger of God.
Russian proverb

342. COURAGE
To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
John Cage

343. GOALS
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
William J. Locke

344. CHANGE If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson

345. FRIENDSHIP
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca

346. HAPPINESS How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus

347. CHANGE
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
Arthur Christopher Benson

348. FORGIVENESS
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
Isaac Friedmann

349. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.
Robert Quillen

350. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Acts 20:35

351. FRIENDSHIP
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.
Arnold H. Glasow

352. PRAYER We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
Oswald Chambers

353. GOALS
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?
J.C.F. von Schiller

354. FRIENDSHIP
Have but few friends, though many acquaintances.
Anon

355. GOALS
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you.
John F. Kennedy

356. FRIENDSHIP
A man is known by the company he keeps.
Anon

357. GOALS A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
John Powell

358. MORNINGS
With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.
Anon

359. ACCEPTANCE
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust.
C.M. Ward

360. ENTHUSIASM It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
General Douglas MacArthur

361. CHANGE Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde

362. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca

363. GOALS
Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.
Colonel Michael Friedman

364. FEAR The habit of doing one’s duty drives away fear.
Charles Baudelaire

365. WORRY Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
William Ralph Inge

366. DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
Tehyi Hsieh

367. THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can’t cure.
Ogden Nash