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I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay me no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just employer He gives you just what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid. I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. - William Penn When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. - Robert Brault Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness. no laziness. no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. - Lord Chesterfield It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strongman stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to he man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt - 1 - For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been!" Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. - James Russell Lowell Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. - Doug Larson Someone asked a famous conductor of a great symphony orchestra which instrument he considered the most difficult to play. The conductor thought a moment, then said: "Second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists. But to find one who can play second fiddle with enthusiasm - that's a problem. And if we have no second fiddles, we have no harmony." What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. - Thomas Paine In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt A smile costs nothing but creates much. It enriches those who receive without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich they can get along without it and none so poor but both are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business and is the countersign of friends. It is rest to the weary, daylight to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad and nature's best antidote for trouble. Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed or stolen, for it is something that is no earthly good to anybody until it is given away. Nobody needs a smile so much as those who have none left to give. If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It wasn't reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. - Sydney Smith Prosperity is a time when our friends know us. Adversity is a time when we know our friends. - Churton Collins We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. - 2 - Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. - James Russell Lowell Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't. - Eleanor Roosevelt Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt You cannot teach a man anything.; you can only help him to find it for himself. - Galileo We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove- lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. - Mark Twain Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many SERENITY PRAYER GOD, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living ONE DAY AT A TIME; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace. Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it. Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen - Reinhold Niebuhr - 3 - The Rules For Being Human 1. YOU WILL RECEIVE A BODY You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period of this time around. 2. YOU WILL LEARN LESSONS You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid. 3. THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, ONLY LESSONS. Growth is a process of trial and error: Experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works". 4. A LESSON IS REPEATED UNTIL LEARNED A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson. 5. LEARNING LESSONS DOES NOT END There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned. 6. "THERE" IS NO BETTER THAN "HERE" When your "there" has become "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here." 7. OTHERS ARE MERELY MIRRORS OF YOU You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself. 8. WHAT YOU MAKE OF YOUR LIFE IS UP TO YOU You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours. 9. YOUR ANSWERS LIES INSIDE YOU The answers to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust 10. YOU WILL (PROBABLY) FORGET ALL THIS Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer. - Thomas J. Watson A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep its eye on the spot where the crack was. - 4 - We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness. - Bern Williams The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Second Chances -- We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances `til the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is, how he takes hold of and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it scored against him.