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Never Give Up

Pure Thoughts Admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:13:32 +0000

Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.

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Giving Up

Pure Thoughts Admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:32:07 +0000

Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go

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Perspective

Pure Thoughts Admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:04:19 +0000

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. -Henry David Thoreau

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Have Patience

Pure Thoughts Admin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:07:56 +0000

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them — every day begin the task anew.” – Saint Francis de Sales

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Chase Your Dreams

Pure Thoughts Admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:30:33 +0000

Don’t follow your dreams; chase them. – Richard Dumb

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To Do is to Get

Pure Thoughts Admin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:58:44 +0000

‘To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.’ – Contributed by Susan Lowry Floyd

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Hercules and the Wagoner

Pure Thoughts Admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:44:35 +0000

A carter was driving a wagon along a country lane, when the wheels sank down deep into a rut. The rustic driver, stupefied and aghast, stood looking at the wagon, and did nothing but utter loud cries to Hercules to come and help him. Hercules, it is said, appeared and thus addressed him: “Put your shoulders to the wheels, my man. Goad on your bullocks, and never more pray to me for help, until you have done your best to help yourself, or depend upon it you will henceforth pray in vain.”

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Law of Compensation

Pure Thoughts Admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:02:37 +0000

Raymond Holliwell

Crowd out all inferior thoughts by superior thoughts, evil thoughts by good thoughts, ugly thoughts by beautiful thoughts, distressing thoughts by pleasant thoughts, and you will begin to overcome the growth of all negative and confused states of wrong and discord. In other words, learn to think constructively of all persons, all things, all events, and all circumstances. Appraise them from the ideal point of view. As you do this you will gradually transform your whole existence for the better. These are the means whereby you may steadily promote your welfare and advancement.

As you train yourself to mentally look for the good, you will move towards the good; and, as you form higher and larger conceptions of the good, these elements will begin to find expression in your words, acts, character, person, talents, powers, attainments, and achievements; that is, all things in your life will commence to improve as the direct result of your improved thinking.
This process does not imply, however, that you are to ignore the wrongs of life, the empty places, and the undeveloped states of being; but that you are to think right through and beyond them towards the hidden good or the principle within that is ever seeking a higher and fuller expression. You will, therefore, cease to condemn and to criticize in a destructive manner; instead you will seek to bring out the good in yourself and in others, and to discover and develop the greater possibilities everywhere.

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This is the Truth

Pure Thoughts Admin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:52:46 +0000

We can turn things around with our optimism. When things seem to go wrong, relax, wait till the whole situation’s picture becomes clearer and you’ll see that His plans are always what’s best for us.

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“Want to!”, The

Pure Thoughts Admin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:56:37 +0000

by: Neil Eskelin

I remember the night in Miami when our son, Ian, was just five years old. We were staying with relatives and it was his bedtime. When I looked at the living room floor, I knew we had a problem. Toys were all over the place. “Ian,” I said, “you need to pick up all those toys before you go to bed.”

“Daddy,” he said, “I’m too tired to pick up my toys.”

My immediate inclination was to force him to clean up the room. Instead, I went into the bedroom, laid down, and said, “Ian, come here. Let’s play Humpty Dumpty.”

He climbed up on my knees and I said, “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.” And he fell. Ian laughed and said, “Let’s do it again.” Well, after the third “fall,” I said, “Okay, but first go pick up those toys.”

Without thinking, he ran into the living room and in ninety seconds he finished a job that could have taken half an hour. Then he jumped back on my knees and repeated, “Daddy, let’s do it again.”

“Ian, I thought you were too tired to pick up those toys.” He answered, “I was, daddy, but I just wanted to do this!”

We can finish any job when we have the “Want to!”

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