Quote Tuesday! Featuring Corrie ten Boom

“If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.” 

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“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” 

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“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, 

it empties today of its strength.” 

(Quotes by Corrie ten Boom)

Quote Tuesday! Featuring Helen Keller

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”

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“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” 

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“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.” 

(Quotes by Helen Keller) 

Quote Tuesday!

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” -Mark Twain

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“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there.” -George Harrison

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“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.” -Bill Cosby

Quote Tuesday!

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” -Groucho Marx

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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill

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“Anyone who has never made a mistake 

has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein

Quote Tuesday

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” -Mother Teresa

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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” 

-Theodore Roosevelt

Quote Tuesday!

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.” -Maurice Switzer 

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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” -Mark Twain 

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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” 

-Mother Teresa

Quote Tuesday!

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou 

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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. 

Most people exist, that is all.” -Oscar Wilde

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“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” -Albert Einstein 

Quote Tuesday!

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” 

-Oscar Wilde

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” 

-Mae West

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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” 

-Mark Twain

Quote Tuesday!

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”

 -Woodrow Wilson

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“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

 -Marie Curie

Quote Tuesday! Featuring Abraham Lincoln Part Two

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” 

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“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” 

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“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.” 

(Quotes by Abraham Lincoln) 

Quote Tuesday! Featuring Abraham Lincoln

“Folks are usually about as happy as they

 make their minds up to be.” 

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“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” 

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“Whatever you are, be a good one.” 

(Quotes by Abraham Lincoln) 

Quote Tuesday!

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” -Henry Ford

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“Formal education will make you a living; 

self-education will make you a fortune.”  -Jim Rohn

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“All I have learned, I learned from books.” -Abraham Lincoln

Quote Tuesday!

“Leaders live by choice, not by accident.” -Mark Gorman

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“Begin somewhere. 

You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.”

 -Liz Smith

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“Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.” 

-Theodore Roosevelt

Olivia and Opportunity

Welcome! My name is Olivia Hall and today I get to tell you why Opportunity is one of my favorite words. 

The definition of opportunity is: A set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something. 

I used to think opportunities were just for adults. You know, like having the opportunity to get a better job or a bigger house. 

Then I learned that we all have opportunities. I have the opportunity to study and get good grades in school. My brother has the opportunity to practice football and make the team. We both have the opportunity to be part of a really cool club. 

The problem is that sometimes an opportunity is disguised as a bad thing; like when we had to move and I didn't want to. I didn't understand at the time that even though moving is hard, I would find so many opportunities and be able to do some amazing things. 

Winston Churchill said, "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." 

I want to make sure I'm an optimist who grabs ahold of opportunities and does great things with my life!