Congratulations! You're not perfect! It's ridiculous to want to be perfect anyway. But then, everybody's ridiculous sometimes, except perfect people. You know what perfect is? Perfect is not eating or drinking or talking or moving a muscle or making even the teensiest mistake. Perfect is never doing anything wrong - which means never doing anything at all. Perfect is boring! So you're not perfect! Wonderful! Have fun! Eat things that give you bad breath! Trip over your own shoelaces! Laugh! Let somebody else laugh at you! Perfect people never do any of those things. All they do is sit around and sip weak tea and think about how perfect they are. But they're really not one-hundred-percent perfect anyway. You should see them when they get the hiccups! Phooey! Who needs 'em? You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week.
~Stephen Manes, (Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!)
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For if you forgive others for their transgressions,
your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
~Jesus, (Matthew 6:14)
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To forgive is to set a prisoner free
and discover that the prisoner was you.
~Lewis B. Smedes
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Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.
~Mark Twain
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When you hold resentment toward another,
you are bound to that person or condition
by an emotional link that is stronger than steel.
Forgiveness is the only way
to dissolve that link and get free.
~Catherine Ponder
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Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.
~Lewis B. Smedes
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Hope is like a road in the country;
there was never a road,
but when many people walk on it,
the road comes into existence.
~Lin Yutang
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Your world is a garden
from which you remove weeds of doubt
and replace them with seeds of hope.
~Innerspace
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Hope is the companion of power,
and mother of success;
for who so hopes strongly
has within him the gift of miracles.
~Samuel Smiles
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Practice hope.
As hopefulness becomes a habit,
you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
~Norman Vincent Peale
Humility
is the embarrassment you feel
when you tell people how wonderful you are.
~Laurence J. Peter
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Anger is weakness.
Tolerance is bravery.
Humility makes you strong.
~Innerspace
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Humility dismisses nothing, rather, it takes even small things into consideration. It recognises that whatever life presents, needs to be respected. Small things are easily found in something big, but inside little things there is often greatness.
~Innerspace
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Humility means to understand the self and through that to understand others as well. Humility is the attitude where a person is not attached to his or her opinion and feelings. Humility is the most natural expression of truth. It helps in better understanding of truth. Humility is the basis for maintaining self-respect. Humility does not mean bowing down and being subservient to others. Humility allows you to see benefit in everything. Developing humility brings a lot of comfort and ease into your life.
~Innerspace