We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city … - Richard Paul Evans

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The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

Richard Paul Evans

We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours.

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Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.

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. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.

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Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.

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Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

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You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

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