Today, I keep your fears to myself but share my courage with others. Some how I think panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it. Do you agree with me?

Personally I think many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. This is because there is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

So, to fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

As for me, I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change…. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

Just as in you will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend. Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

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• At Wednesday, November 19, 2008, Lisa wrote:

  I really love your template!! Did you design it yourself?

• At Sunday, November 23, 2008, mahesh nimbre wrote:

  What is My Life ?

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Still, too often your sacrifices go unnoticed. Aunt, please know just how much you are loved. Your life is a gift from God. How wonderful of Him to share such a beautiful gift with our family. Wishing you all the blessings.

When I think about you, I get happy thoughts inside and my heart feels very cheerful and my mouth smiles really wide. So you’ll feel real good all over. just the way I do with you.

Because you’re so special, because you’re so sweet, and because of the nice things you do, you’re loved a lot.

You’re thoughtful, you’re pretty, you’re HIP and wise and witty. You’re the best, there’s no debate…

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I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with that I am nobody but myself.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.

Today, I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. I’m learning too… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.

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• At Friday, November 21, 2008, sam wrote:

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There are going to be times when you feel like you can’t take another second of being with your partner.

And, there are going to be times when you feel like you couldn’t imagine being a single second apart. Hopefully, with the following rules for marriage you’ll find yourself loving every minute!

The longer you let a rift occur in your marriage the more each partner will begin to separate and disassociate with the other. This is even, and sometimes especially, true for unspoken problems as well.

Do not let a problem go unspoken. If you’re the type of person that holds things in, don’t. How can you and your partner handle the problem if they don’t even know about it?

If you’re the type of person that needs to feel right about every argument, don’t. How can it be more important for only one person to be right than the couple as a whole?

By handling a problem and coming up with a solution together you gain as a couple, and individually.

When you first met you probably thought your partner was capable of doing anything, including roping the moon. As time goes on you realize that they are fallible, just like the rest of us.

Realizing that your partner is human shouldn’t be a cause to nag, change or treat your partner differently. They are still the same person, just as you are.

The next time you’re thinking of what you don’t like, think about how you might have changed in your partner’s eyes and work on that instead.

Trust me, I’m one of them!

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