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• By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

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  Challenges, Stronger, Overcoming

  John Templeton (1994). “Discovering Laws Of Life: Tfp”, p.14, Templeton Foundation Press

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• Three of my children are medical doctors; they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

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  Children, Optimistic, Doctors

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• A flower is a miracle, but it does not have the sight or speech to describe us. And our own ability is no greater than that flower when we try to describe God. His infinity covers not only one planet, but the entire solar system and 100 billion suns. That doesn't mean he is limited in his ability to be part of you.

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  Flower, Optimistic, Mean

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• Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.

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  Wisdom, Encouragement, Humility

  "In his own words". Interview with Eric Kirzner, www.theglobeandmail.com. 2004.

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• Taking responsibility nurtures self-confidence, and self-confidence can help you to be a more interesting and attractive person. And best of all, the more you believe in yourself, the more power you possess to attract your good. . . . Those who speak constantly of their right to freedom must understand that an irresponsible act does not bring greater freedom but only greater bondage to the action. One law of life says, "If we are to enjoy freedom, we must accept responsibility." A great awareness is expressed in this statement.

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  Believe, Responsibility, Self Confidence

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• The parable of the talents is a good analogy of what happens when we give. When we merely try to hold on to what is given or entrusted to us, life may seem to take away even that. But when we choose to use what life has given us, the return of abundance can include friendship, companionship, financial blessings, homes, transportation, and security in wonderful ways. The universe holds nothing back from the one who lovingly and sincerely gives.

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  Home, Blessing, Giving

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• A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.

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  Optimistic, Army, Doctors

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• Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.

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  Optimistic, Use It Or Lose It, Mind

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• Usually God favours the people who try to do good. So, when you find that the crowd is desperately trying to sell, help them and buy. When you find that the crowd is overenthusiastically trying to buy, help them and sell. It usually works out.

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  Business, People, Work Out

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• No matter how poorly our lives seem to be going, we can become part of a greater flow of good and increase our awareness by doing something more than we have to do-by giving of ourselves. One of the keys to prosperity is realizing that prosperity doesn't come by getting more-it comes by giving more! We can prosper by emphasizing what we are giving rather than concentrating on what we are getting.

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  Keys, Giving, Matter

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• While there are many problems, if one focuses on the bigger picture there are numerous reasons to be thankful for living in a time of remarkable progress and wonderful possibilities for the future.

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  Gratitude, Being Thankful, Progress

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• If we have not developed a reservoir of spiritual wealth, no amount of money is likely to make us happy. Spiritual wealth provides faith. It gives us love. It brings and expands wisdom. Spiritual wealth leads to happiness because it guides us into useful or loving relationships.

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  Spiritual, Money, Giving

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• Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.

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  Optimistic, Divinity, Worship

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• Diversify your investments.

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  Money, Optimistic, Investing

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• Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.

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  Spiritual, Reality, Opposites

  John Templeton (1998). “The Humble Approach: Scientists Discover God”, p.115, Templeton Foundation Press

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• How about no income tax at all on people over 65? People would continue working, remain healthier, not be an economic and social drain on society. Then the elderly would also have more disposable income to help charitable activities.

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  Optimistic, Elderly, People

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• Kindness comes back like a boomerang to those who are kind. Perhaps, its return takes years. Perhaps, the kindness returns from a different direction than that which we sent out kindness. But it will return. It is never lost.

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  Kindness, Positive Thinking, Years

  John Templeton (1994). “Discovering Laws Of Life: Tfp”, p.182, Templeton Foundation Press

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• The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.

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  Optimistic, Littles, Bits

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• Hate, like prayer, changes the person involved in the activity, not the person the activity is aimed at.

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  Prayer, Hate, Persons

  John Templeton (1994). “Discovering Laws Of Life: Tfp”, p.32, Templeton Foundation Press

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• Suppose you went to your priest and asked for help; he would refer you to the Bible. But if you went the next day to your medical doctor and he referred you to the book of Hippocrates, which was written at about the same time as the Bible, you would think that was old-fashioned.

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  Book, Optimistic, Thinking

  "Sir John's Divine Gamble" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 1, 1999.

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• The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

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  Optimistic, Thinking, Self

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• As we learn to share and give and care, love increases. A person who knows how to love does not seem to feel lonely or alone. In this sense, the power of love can become a true weapon against harm.

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  Love, Lonely, Giving

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• Be very careful. Giving because we think we will get something back will not work. You must be 100 percent willing to give and never experience any return, or it will not work.

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  Thinking, Giving, Return

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• If you reflect on your life, you may recall times when you couldn't see the value of some person and were tempted to brush him or her off. It takes hindsight to recognize that the very situation you may have seen as an irritating bother turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Wouldn't life be a much more enjoyable and meaningful experience if we decided to look at the difficult people and irritating situations as blessings in disguise? If we look deeply enough, we might see how these experiences as situations that motivate us to grow and change for the better.

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  Meaningful, Adversity, Blessing

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• As we begin to praise ourselves and our world, we begin to blossom in ways that are beautiful to behold.

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  Beautiful, Our World, Way

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