Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out.
Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.
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