Take full responsibility for your life. Stop blaming others. See yourself as the cause of what happens to you. Do things you like to do. Don’t stay in a job you don’t like. Participate in life at the highest level you can. Stop terrorising yourself with your thoughts. Be gentle and kind and patient with [...]

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BLESSINGS WE MAY NOT RECOGNIZE Author Unknown 1. If you own a Bible, you are abundantly blessed – about 1/3 of the world does not have access to one. 2. If you wake up each morning with more health than illness, you are blessed to rise and shine, to live and to serve in a [...]

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Author Unknown Little girl and her father were crossing a bridge. The father was kind of scared so he asked his little daughter, “Sweetheart, please hold my hand so that you don’t fall into the river.” The little girl said, “No, Dad. You hold my hand.” “What’s the difference?” Asked the puzzled father. “There’s a [...]

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An emperor in the Far East was growing old and knew it was time to choose his successor. Instead of choosing one of his assistants or his children, he decided something different. He called young people in the kingdom together one day. He said, “It is time for me to step down and choose the [...]

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World famous purveyor of plastic footwear, Melissa has recently put on a good show outside the front of their ‘Galeria Melissa’ in São Paulo Brazil. Photographed step by step and performed by 25 animators in five months, the U-shaped foyer to the building was covered with about 350 thousand Post-It Notes and filmed in stop [...]

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NOTE: It is interesting how stories get passed around and undergo changes along the way until you no longer know if this really happened or just a writer’s creative imagination. Another email very similar to this story has also been around in circulation for a long time now. We published it in December 2008. We [...]

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Once upon a time two brothers who lived on adjoining farms fell into conflict. It was the first serious rift in 40 years of farming side by side, sharing machinery, and trading labor and goods as needed without a hitch. Then the long collaboration fell apart. It began with a small misunderstanding and it grew [...]

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Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room’s only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. [...]

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I LOVE THIS MAN No one falls in love by choice, it is by CHANCE. No one stays in love by chance, it is by WORK. And no one falls out of love by chance, it is by CHOICE.

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One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down. It took the remainder [...]

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The following is the philosophy of Charles Schultz, the creator of the ‘Peanuts’ comic strip. Name the five wealthiest people in the world. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners. Name the last five winners of the Miss America Contest. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize. Name the last half [...]

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(Religious content) Just wanna share this message…. This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering that I have seen… A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked [...]

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