Each Day Quotes - Page 32

• Lord, help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunities to grow as people and become more like you.

  Mother Teresa

  Pain, Opportunity, People

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• Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Lying, Fall

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is with you and helping you. This is one of the simplest teachings in religion, namely, that Almighty God will be your companion, will stand by you, help you, and see you through. No other idea is so powerful in developing self-confidence as this simple belief when practiced. To practice it simply affirm "God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day visualizing his presence. Then practice believing that affirmation.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  God, Powerful, Teaching

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• I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragraph—each sentence, even—as I go along.

  William Styron

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

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• One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.

  Matthew Arnold

  Thinking, Men, Stills

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism”, p.9

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• Make bold moves toward your dreams each day, refuse to stop and nothing can stop you.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Apr 02, 2017

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• The #2 cause of mediocrity and unfulfilled potential is that 'most people' never dedicate time each day to learning, growing, and developing themselves into who they need to create the life they want. DON'T BE LIKE 'MOST PEOPLE.'

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, People, Needs

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• How we start our day determines how we create our life. Are you snoozing through your morning... snoozing through your life... and snoozing through your unlimited potential... Or are YOU committed to waking up each day with passion, purpose, and a plan so you can create the life you truly want & deserve?

  Hal Elrod

  Morning, Passion, Unlimited Potential

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 17, 2011

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• It takes a number of years to learn to hold the mind perfectly in one place. But each day we do it a little better, and in the doing we're releasing energy that is taking our mind in higher diffuse planes of attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Years, Numbers, Mind

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• Everybody is gonna die from something. And so the deal is how to use each day to move things forward for both you and the people you love and the country you love.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Moving, People

  "Sen. Tom Coburn: A proud contrarian". "60 minutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 21, 2014.

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• Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

  Alexander Pope

  Past, Errors, Needs

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1757). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.148

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• The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play.

  Heinrich Heine

  Fall, Play, Apples

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

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• It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the evil of each day increases as far as worldly things go, if it is not strengthened and comforted by faith. And in Christ all worldly things may become better, and, as it were, sanctified. Theo, woe is me if I do not preach the Gospel; if I did not aim at that and possess faith and hope in Christ, it would be bad for me indeed, but no I have some courage.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Woe Is Me, Evil, Would Be

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• If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.

  Teresa of Avila

  Flower, Thinking, Hoe

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.372, A&C Black

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• For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house.

  Pablo Casals

  Past, Years, Play

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• It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He's so big, we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't miss him.

  Dale E. Turner

  Wise, Perspective, Missing

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• In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn, Look forward with hope for to-morrow.

  John Churton Collins

  Sea, Sorrow, Ponies

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• Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.

  John F. Kerry

  Kings, Moving, School

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• Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times.

  Max Ehrmann

  Despair, Overcoming, May

  Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.11, Souvenir Press Ltd

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• Now you know that you can't go wrong... If you start each day with a song.

  Jimmy Durante

  Song, Knows, Ifs

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• Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Writing, Sparks, Strikes

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• It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.

  Morris Graves

  Prayer, Dedication, Wind

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• I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; even the clouds are inert. It makes me feel a little better. But I do have a faith that it is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.

  Philip Guston

  Country, Nature, Real

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.54, Univ of California Press

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• When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.

  Steven Pressfield

  Power, Ideas, Insight

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.11, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Moving, Understanding, Shapes

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