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Showing posts with label foundation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foundation. Show all posts

Monday, July 5, 2010

People in our lives


Whether we as individuals realize it or not, who we become as individuals is largely influenced by the people in our lives. People we have come into contact with, however brief or not, can certainly shape us as human beings.



Other people can have such a huge impact on us, creating us, shaping us and always changing us.



None of us want to think about the "bad" people we've come into contact with, or worse yet, have influenced our lives in some sort of way.



Yet, we have to take into consideration that even those bad things or bad people had to have shaped our lives in some sort of a way.



We as individuals may have learned from those bad experiences and made something good out of them.



We should all extend a grateful hand out to those who have shaped us. Both for the bad as well as the good. After all, it is us, as individuals who have to draw from both the bad and good to sort it out and learn from both.



It is us that can forgive the bad, learning from it and not mimicking it. We can grasp the good and use it as a foundation to build on. It is up to us to separate and sort out what we need in order to be better ourselves.



Be grateful to these people in our lives.

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Friday, May 21, 2010

Change your thoughts, and you change your world.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.



Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.



Nevertheless, it is not too late to start building this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Always remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and you have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint.




When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.



Difficulties are opportunities to better things. They are stepping stones to greater experience. Perhaps someday you will be thankful for some temporary failure in a particular direction. When one door closes, another always opens.

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