Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.
- Topic: Goals, Gratitude, Work
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?
Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.
How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.
What we do now echoes in eternity.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
I did not seek greatness. I only sought to fulfill my duties.
It matters not what goal you seek It's secret here reposes; You've got to dig from week to week To get Results and Roses.
Who works with all the strength he can Shall never die in debt to man.
