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• Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her.

• Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

• Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. " An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.

• Enjoy the simple things.

• Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

• The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

• Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

• Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

• Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

• Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

• Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

• True power doesn't show off - but it is the subtle mover behind everything! You can recognize powerful people by their sense of humour, kindness and simplicity.

• Many things will catch your eye; few things catch your heart.

• Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.

• We are moving toward a light that embraces the darkness.

• You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.

• Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.

• As one individual changes, the system changes.

• Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.

  We understand why children are afraid of darkness, but why are men afraid of light?

• Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

• "We're so kind to other people, why are we so mean to ourselves?"

• "We can not undo the past, we can only change the future. If we can embrace our oneness with all things, then we can close the gap of separation which is the basis for all pain."

• "AKITA MANI YO .. Observe all things as you walk."

• "Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments."

• "Life is a mirror, it reflects back whatever image we present to it."

• "Observation is the key to transformation."

• "There is nothing kept from you that you have not kept from yourself."

• "The only thing you have no choice about is making choices."

• "There are no barriers, no doors that are not open, you need only walk through. So open the door to your heart and you open your world within and without."

• "You see that we are all the same in our expansiveness. It is only our perception that changes. It is only our perception that prevents our progression. Change your perception and you know your purpose. Know your purpose and you change your perception."

• An Old Chicago saying, "Looking down the street don’t make the bus come faster".

• Until you make peace with who you are, you will never be content with what you have.

• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all it’s pupils.

• Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.

• Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson after.

• Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

• God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December.

• The greatest quality on earth is the willingness to become.

• If you were arrested for kindness…would they find enough evidence to convict you?

• The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.

• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

• A turtle makes progress when it sticks it’s neck out.

• Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

• If the eyes had no tears, the soul would have no rainbow.

• We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

• Find something worth living for instead of something worth dying for.

• The only truth in war is that people die

• The future isn’t what it used to be.

• When you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy.

• All beings are defined by their capacity and need for love.

• Sometimes the act of searching is more important than what you’re searching for.

• What we hold sacred gives our lives meaning.

• We create the future with our words, with our thoughts, with our deeds, and with our beliefs.

• If you don’t understand the song, then listen to the music.

• Whatever you choose to focus on, intensifies.

• If you always give...You will always have.

• It takes only one person to change your life...you.

• Some people make things happen.

• Some people watch things happen.

• Some people wonder what happened.

• Between falling and flying lies hesitation. Leap with confidence, and you will find your wings.

• Life only gives us time and space, it is up to us to fill it with joy and meaning.

• A friend is one who dances with you in the sunshine and walks with you in the shadows

• If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance

• The best way to predict your future is to create it

• Noone worth posessing can be quite posessed

• Your tongue is to speak with when you know what to say and how to say it.

• Your teeth are to keep your tongue in your mouth until you figure it out.

• Many people will walk in and out of your life,
  but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
  

• To handle yourself, use your head.
  To handle others, use your heart.
  

• Anger is only one letter short of danger.
  

• If someone betrays once, it is his fault.
  If he betrays you twice, it is your fault
  

• Great minds discuss ideas.
  Average minds discuss events.
  Small minds discuss people.
  

• He, who loses money, loses much.
  He, who loses a friend, loses much more.
  He, who loses faith, loses all.
  

• Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
  but beautiful old people are works of art.
  

• Learn from the mistakes of others
  You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
  

• Friends, you and me...You brought another friend....
  and we started our group.... our circle of friends...
  and like a circle..... there is no beginning or end......
  

• Yesterday is history. Tomorrow
  is mystery. Today is a gift.