Some 'short thoughts' taken from "The Irish Get Up and Go Diary - 2015":

"He who can give thanks for little will always find he has enough."

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"Humility is not thinking less of yourself,

it's thinking of yourself less."

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"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."

~ Mark Twain

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"Good community spirit is essential to our individual well being."

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"Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance when in reality it is the opposite. When we can recognize all our good qualities as well as our faults with neutrality, we can start to appreciate ourselves as we would a dear friend and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect."

~ Osho

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"It's hard to accept the truth when lies were exactly what we wanted to hear."

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"When something bad happens to you, you have three choices:

~ let it define you;

~ let it destroy you,

~ let it strengthen you."

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