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Striving and Struggling
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state, but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. ~ Victor Frankl
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Gratitude Is Similar To Electricity
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity; It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. ~ William Faulkner
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Happy Thoughts
Happy Thought #3
The feeling of ultimate comfort and softness when you first wake up in the morning.
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Everything Begins With Belief
Everything begins with belief.
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Happy Thoughts
Happy Thought #2
The Summer breeze and sounds of birds singing drifting through my window.
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Podcast
Ep 15. Strength For Today
On particularly rough days when I’m sure I can’t possibly endure, I like to remind myself that my track record for getting through bad rough days so far…
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Words Are Events
Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth […]
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Happy Thoughts
Happy Thought #1
Sitting in the sunshine, eating lunch in the park, and watching the ducks with my brother, Shane.
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A Problem To Be Solved
Never let a problem to be solved, become more important than a person to be loved. ~ Thomas S. Monson
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Out with Lanterns
I am out with lanterns, looking for myself. ~ Emily Dickinson
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Step Forward Into Growth
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety. ~ Abraham Maslow
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It Doesn’t Pay To Get Discouraged
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore…
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