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Lane Kirkland- "Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?" Joseph Lane Kirkland (March 12, 1922 – August 14, 1999) was a US labor union leader who served as President of the AFL-CIO for over sixteen years.

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Susan Polis Schutz- This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
Susan Polis Schutz is an American poet and producer of greeting cards. She was born in Peekskill, NY, in 1944.

A longtime activist for women's rights and antiwar causes, she initially worked as a freelance writer. In 1971, she turned her hobby of writing poetry into a commercial venture by founding (with husband Stephen Schutz) the greeting card and poster company Blue Mountain Arts.
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"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." --Henri Nouwen

Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen, (Nijkerk, January 24, 1932 - Hilversum, September 21, 1996) was a Dutch Catholic priest and writer who authored 40 books on the spiritual life.
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Stand For Something

TRIALS WILL NOT GET ME DOWN!

what do you do when you feel like you cannot go any further? when you feel like life has beat you down and you cannot get up. . . when you deep down in the bottom of your soul you are confused and lost. . . who do you turn to? where do you go? where do you run?
TRIALS!

i have noticed that when i cannot go any further somehow, some way someone gives me strength to go another second, another minute, another day. . . thankful for the strength and counting my blessings! when i feel like i cannot go another second i remind myself of all that i have been given and i cannot let what i am going through at this moment get me down. i will not let this get the best of me. . . if i open my eyes in the morning then i know that i have one more day to make a difference! i have 24 more hours to take and make my life count. are you making your life count? are you determined to stand for something? are you focused enough to not let the trials and tribulations deter you from your purpose? because we all have one and i cannot affect the world the way that you are suppose to. we all have been given a torch to carry and pass on, will you pass it on?

i am writing this because we are all faced with struggles in this journey called "life" and if i can get through it then i know that you can too! i will continue to praise my creator because like in the poem "footsteps" i know that he will carry me through! i know that the battle is already won, and i refuse to see it any other way!

be the blessing that you are suppose to be!

STAND FOR SOMETHING!

-HERE TO BRING "JOI"
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Eternal Being

I AM AN ETERNAL BEING WITH UNLIMITED POSSIBLITIES!

I WAS CREATED FOR A GREAT PURPOSE AND I HAVE A GREAT DESTINY!

I'LL LIVE THIS DAY FILLED WITH POSITIVE THOUGHTS ABOUT MYSELF, I'LL FLOW FROM WHO I REALLY AM ON THE INSIDE. EVERYTHING GOD GREATED IS GOOD!

I'M FILLED WITH PURPOSE, STRENGTH, CREATIVITY, VERSATILITY AND ABILITY. WHEN I HAVE GONE AS FAR AS I THINK THAT I CAN GO, GOD WILL TAKE ME THE REST OF THE WAY.

EVERYDAY I WILL CONTINUE TO BELIEVE IN MYSELF, MY FAMILY AND MY FRIENDS.

I WILL LOOK FORWARD TO THE FUTURE BUT WILL NEVER TAKE THE PRESENT FOR GRANTED!

I'LL LET THE PAST GO AND I WILL NOT HOLD ONTO THE THINGS THAT I CANNOT CHANGE!

MY FUTURE IS BRIGHT AND THERE IS NO NEED TO LET WHAT I CANNOT CONTROL DETOUR ME OR BLOCK MY BLESSINGS!

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