Positive Thoughts

[Fishmanpa]

"The best inheritance you can leave your kids is an example of how to live a full and meaningful life."

- Dan Zadra (B - 1984)
Austrian politician and lawyer

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[Fishmanpa]

Good one!

"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."

- James Allen (1864 - 1912)
British philosophical writer

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[Fishmanpa]

"To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about."

- James Clavell (1924 - 1994)
British novelist, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war, in his novel Shogun

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[Carnation]

Your positive thoughts are not wasted fishman

[Fishmanpa]

Thanks Carnation. The views alone affirm it. Much has changed in the years and participation has dwindled to a mere trickle but to know so many read the posts makes it worth while doing.

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[Fishmanpa]

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

- Julie Andrews (B - 1935)
English film and stage actress

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[Fishmanpa]

"As the body needs physical exercise in order to remain in fit condition, man's spirit also requires the spiritual exercise derived when he confronts his problems and combats life's vicissitudes."

- William and Mabel Sahakian (1922 - 1986)
describing the philosophy of Epictetus

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[kateSZ]

Great info, thanks. Wish you all a great day!

[Fishmanpa]

"Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect."

- Alain De Botton (B - 1969)
British-based author and television presenter

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[Fishmanpa]

"I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you."

- J. Kenfield Morley (1838 - 1923)
a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor

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