lets have an inspirational quotes thread ~~~~~

spider


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Message Posted:
04/02/2012 00:17

How about quotes of inspiration each day to give us all a thought to ponder over ! Please join in with your poems or quotes of inspiration. Yes why not have a few copy and pasted.from a quotes page or wherever you might find them,some may even have a little book that inspires them. My first few tonight.



“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis

To every journey in life, how you begin matters much but who and what the journey makes you become in the end matters much more...-Jacobs A.



First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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Spider,X Enjoy and keep the coming

Marion


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Message Posted:
04/02/2012 00:21

wow, Spider. I could give you hundreds. i used to do a church magazine and had books of these quotes which I used to put at the bottom of the pages.



But for now, in view of some of the recent postings on here, I think a good one for me to share is

"Do not let me judge my brother until I have walked a mile in his moccasins."

Clarissa2


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Message Posted:
04/02/2012 00:37

Re: "lets have an inspirational quotes thread "



Let us not!

Have a break, have a Kit Kat, spider!

Marion


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Message Posted:
04/02/2012 00:42

What is wrong with it clarissa. I think there has been so much doom and gloom since the beginning of the year that we could (well, many of us) do with a lot of inspiration, and what better than to get it from each other.

philbailey


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Message Posted:
04/02/2012 01:28

This is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time.’

British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, September 30th, 1938.

philbailey


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Message Posted:
04/02/2012 01:33

English language weekly Cyprus Today, AGA Development Construction Limited and Amaranta Estates, who are currently undertaking what they describe of as



“the biggest housing development project in north Cyprus” in the village of Klepini, claim their clients will be free from worry if they buy one of their newly-built luxury villas – because they will cover all compensation costs due to Greek Cypriots who lost homes and properties in 1974.



inspired a few.

mollycorbin


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Posts: 390

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 02:03

"I love you, Mom. When I think of your love for me, it makes me feel warm all over."

(My ten years old son - yesterday)

Jovial_John


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Posts: 1024

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 07:47

Honour and integrity are a man's gift to himself - nobody can give them to him and only he can throw them away.

waddo


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Posts: 1966

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 07:54

"You're never beaten until you admit it." - Gen George Patton.



"We will either find a way or make one." - Hannibal.



"There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't." - Anon.

spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 08:14

Morning all. thanks for the postings keep the coming !



Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery today is a gift.



Are you awake ~~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y3Q7H2urto



I am happy and content as always,have a nice day.



Spider,X

Supersnooper


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Message Posted:
04/02/2012 08:46

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting" ~ Paulo Coelho

mrsgee


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Posts: 396

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 08:51

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars - Oscar Wilde.....



My favourite quote of all time.



Mollycorbin........yours is just lovely.......what a lovely son you must have! - How lucky you are!!

oldshep


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Posts: 609

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 08:56

The more places i visit the more people i meet ,the more I love my dog

BoTanica


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Posts: 714

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 09:05

"I wish I was as good a person as my dog thinks I am" (?)



"No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child" (Abraham lincoln)



"Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt" (Abraham Lincoln)

stockiefan


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Posts: 574

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 09:15

Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Oscar Wilde

mollycorbin


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Posts: 390

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 09:29

I am the master of my fate; the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley



Thank you, mrsgee. I am blessed.

pollymarples


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Posts: 1778

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 09:34

Never give in, never give up - I got this from John Cena WWE RAW but I guess it has another origin.



If you care, be there.

Giles


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Posts: 256

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 10:07

Do not underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.

Jonesy299


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Posts: 367

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 12:33

If at first you don't succeed.. give up (Homer Simpson)

stockiefan


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Posts: 574

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 12:41

As one door closes, another one shuts!! Well it does here! (Steve Jones)

stockiefan


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Message Posted:
04/02/2012 12:42

Sometimes I wake up grumpy, sometimes I leave her in bed!

shrimp


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Posts: 939

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 13:39

Retirement - twice the husband, half the moneyx

suehowlittle


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Message Posted:
04/02/2012 14:59

Msg 2: Liked yours, I learned another one :



Felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes until a saw a boy with no feet!

hattikins


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Message Posted:
04/02/2012 15:42

A hollow drum makes the most noise

Woodspeckie


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Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 15:45

If you see someone without a smile give them one of yours.

kavenkoy


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Posts: 1787

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 15:51

Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.....chairman Mao



Hurry up the Indians are coming....general custard



Kav

posher


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Posts: 55

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 15:52

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, place them in the best light. Lady Spencer Churchill.

selpak


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Posts: 281

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 15:57

“True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense”

pollymarples


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Posts: 1778

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 16:26

Everyone is beautiful when they smile, so make someone beautiful.

blade


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Message Posted:
04/02/2012 19:45

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

Sun-tzu

Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC)

mollycorbin


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Posts: 390

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 19:53

Having just returned from seeing the new Muppets movie, I quote Miss Piggy:



This, you see, is my ultimate ambition – to live a simple life with the frog I love.

spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
04/02/2012 19:55

‎"Every thought we think is creating our future." -Louise Hay

Where are you are now is a result of your past thoughts. And you decide where you go from here.



♥ No other love is like a Mothers love ♥ ‎"Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds." Jewish Proverb.



‎"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -Benjamin Franklin.



‎"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

Nelson Mandela



My Mother used to say never be afraid of the big bad wolf I used to always love that one.lol.



Spider,X

Marion


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Message Posted:
04/02/2012 20:09

Talking of mothers and their quotes, one my mother often said (source unknown). 'Never trouble trouble til trouble troubles you!'

magicart


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Message Posted:
04/02/2012 20:21

The man with nothing to lose is the most powerful man in the world.

pollymarples


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Message Posted:
05/02/2012 08:29

margicart, I like your quote, can we apply it to women too?

magicart


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Message Posted:
05/02/2012 08:45

Yes-if you have nothing to lose.



Sorry for the discrimination it wasn't intentional.



Art.

ImnEr


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Posts: 76

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 12:28

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. - Oscar Wilde



There but to the grace of god go I - John Bradford (his actual quotation was " There to the grace of god goes John Bradford")

dizzycows


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Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 13:12

Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a light on others ........



John Mason Brown....









A window to my soul, or for those that really care to know! ...................



She wasn't dumb just clueless ...........





(just every day quotes ...)

slatnumber7


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Posts: 299

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 14:20

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. (Theodor Seuss Geisel.)

stockiefan


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Posts: 574

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 14:38

A pessimist says the glass is half empty and an optimist says the glass is half full.

A physicist knows the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 14:38

I don’t have time to hate the people who hate me, because I’m too busy loving the people that love me.



“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. IT WAS NEVER BETWEEN YOU AND THEM ANYWAY."

~Mother Teresa



Spider,X

Ed1957


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Message Posted:
05/02/2012 15:05

so it is 'a man with a woman to lose is the most powerful man in the world'?

Brinsley


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Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 15:34

Only one sincere person ever entered the House's of Parliament and that was Guy Fawkes!



Richard

cyprusairsoft



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Posts: 2066

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 16:13

never name your newdog after the first thing you see when stepping out the house



mines called 2 dogs a f*cking

suehowlittle


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Posts: 1202

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 16:27

Spider, I love the Mother Teresa quote.



Thanks

AlsancakJack



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Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 16:52

I don't take inspiration from from the written word, I take inspiration from peoples actions.

AJ 2012

parkview



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Posts: 1123

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 17:08

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value" Albert Einstein

pc4854


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Posts: 243

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 17:13

If they are all normal, then I don't want to be! (My Dad)

viper


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Posts: 119

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 18:36

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant







sounds about right to me ...



viper

slatnumber7


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Posts: 299

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 19:32

My all time favourite, framed and given to me by a former colleague.



"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows great enthusiasm, great devotion, and the triumph of achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails at least fails whilst daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those odd and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have had to fight for it life has truly a flavour the protected shall never know."



Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt

viper


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Posts: 119

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 23:20

msg 50

a simpler quote

'better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep'







viper

pollymarples


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Posts: 1778

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 07:37

love your sentiment viper in your quote viper but it hasn't done me much good. Bahh, move over I am rejoining the fold.



Every cloud has a silver lining.

slatnumber7


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Posts: 299

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 09:07

Msg 51 viper, nice one perhaps Roosevelt was inspired by Tibetan Proverbs.

astro941


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Message Posted:
06/02/2012 09:16

When Adam delved and Eve span, who then was the gentleman?

magicart


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Posts: 985

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 09:23

Dream high and Dare to achieve!!

Giles


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Posts: 256

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 09:53

If it were not for double standards the TRNC would have no standards at all!

booitsme


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Posts: 667

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 10:51

Life, believe is not a dream, so dark as sages say. Oft a little morning rain, foretells a pleasant day - Charlotte Bronte

SWCathy


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Posts: 292

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 10:59

How do you know what you are thinking until you write it down.

Amon......

Have checked it out - it is true

SWCathy


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Posts: 292

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 11:02

Magicoat: The man with nothing to lose is the most powerful man in the world.



At one time (before I was born) my family were very rich. I once asked my Mam, did she miss having all that money and posh tihings, her answer was



People who have money have one great worry - who is going to take it off them.

I think Magicoat's statement, sums up Mam's sentiment.

cavalryman


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Posts: 314

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 13:03

Every woman should know her mans favourite meal and whick restaurant serves it .Nubar Gulbenkian.

shrimp


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Posts: 939

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 13:53

A stranger is a friend you havent met yet........

spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 16:40

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

Dylan Thomas



To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Margaret Fairless Barber





Sometimes...you just need to walk on the beach with a friend.



Spider,X

mikelapta



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Posts: 2186

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 16:57

"I told you I was ill"



Put it on my epitaph



Spike Milligan

bobbieh


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Posts: 1

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 18:17

If your feeling down remember How the dark clouds in the sky

never stay forever and soon go passing by so

Try to think of springtime flowers and the beauty they display

Yet somehow they have survived even the coldest winters day

So when the clouds have gone, every day you ll come to see

How the sun is shining brightly just as it always used to be

Brinsley


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Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 23:39

TRNC is a family with the wrong members in control!

(Plagiarised from George Orwell)





Richard

gloox


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Posts: 4

Message Posted:
07/02/2012 05:08

he who laughs last laughs longist.

spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
07/02/2012 08:48

Don't change to please someone else, change because it makes you a better person...

Jerose Yap Bautista.



Lord please give me patience, cos if you give me strength I'm gonna use it to choke someone!



Patience is our backbone.



Spider,X

cutie


Joined: 10/03/2009
Posts: 16

Message Posted:
07/02/2012 12:51

Better to remain silent and let people think

Your an idiot

Than speak and prove it

mikelapta



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Posts: 2186

Message Posted:
07/02/2012 13:28

Turk atasozleri:Turkish proverb:-



Havlayon kopek isirmaz



The dog that barks does not bite..........Literally:

cutie


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Posts: 16

Message Posted:
07/02/2012 14:35

I never knew there was so many things in this world that i didn't need

pollymarples


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Posts: 1778

Message Posted:
07/02/2012 14:45

Money talks - I know - I wish mine would learn to say something other than goodbye.

timaloy


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Posts: 171

Message Posted:
07/02/2012 21:28

never eat yellow snow

spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
07/02/2012 22:36

‎"Be that contented person who looks beyond circumstances and see better days rather than the discontented who looks at circumstances and see no other way."--John C. Maxwell.







Spider,X

mikelapta



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Posts: 2186

Message Posted:
08/02/2012 12:43

For those of you who have been here a long time,and not learnt this beautiful Turkish language:



Those who know no foreign language

Know nothing of their mother tongue



Roger Bacon



"Yabanci bir dil bilmeyen kendi dilini de bilemez"



Mike...learning Turkish

TopTen


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Posts: 1246

Message Posted:
08/02/2012 14:18

Tint in Tin ( Geoff Boycott maybe )

Calvinhobbes


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Posts: 18

Message Posted:
08/02/2012 15:12

'The fool has said in his heart there is no God' (Psalms)

yrret


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Posts: 761

Message Posted:
08/02/2012 15:29

A fool and his money are easily parted ............... most appropriate I thought.



It's only water ....... full speed ahead! ........... Captain of the Titanic.



What the f##k was that!!!! ..................... Mayor of Hiroshima.

Marvo


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Posts: 194

Message Posted:
08/02/2012 16:07

'Give me not the man who can be cheerful when things are rolling along, but if you can smile, laugh and crack a joke when things are going wrong, you're the man for me'



Adolf Hitler, 1945 the bunker

spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
08/02/2012 22:59

Take insults with a pinch of salt because they are given by people who are envious of you.









Spider,X

MsGarnet


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Posts: 989

Message Posted:
09/02/2012 04:01

hehehehehehehehehe



am laughing so much, I can hardly type...



hehehehehehe



Anyway - I'll see the made up, stamping of the feet, sulky tantrum, nonsensical words of Msg 79 and raise it (with a REAL Italian proverb) thus:-



“Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it”

spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
09/02/2012 08:35

True Happiness is felt only by being aware at the present moment with always a smile over your face and love in your heart. Happiness is the exploration in which we find various things which will give us calm and peace mind. Happiness is something we carry in our hearts. Happiness is to be grateful for all that you have and not expecting anything from anyone. Happiness lasts longer as compared with appreciations. Once we know how to be happy, what makes you be happy then you will accept yourself the way you are and you will be more happy with your life then before. ~ Tejas Patel



Morning all, I am happy and content this morning, remain positive thinking it always helps



Spider.X

spider


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Message Posted:
09/02/2012 08:53

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Spider,X