Preparedness

Humans don't rise to the occasion.

Instead, we fall to our level of training

and experience.

                                                                   Archilochus, a Greek soldier–poet,

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Inspiring Quotes by Ernest Holmes

Here are ten inspiring quotes by Ernest Holmes:

1. Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

2. The most destructive force you and I have – and the most constructive – is our own unconscious emotional and thinking and feeling state.

3. Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.

4. There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.

5. You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality.

6. The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.

7. It is done to you as you believe.

8. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.

9. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear.

10. God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.

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Ten most inspiring travel quotes

Summer marks the heaviest travelling season worldwide; thus, herewith ten of the most inspiring quotes on this popular activity by humankind:

1. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

2. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

3.  “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

4. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson 

5. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

6. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert  D. Runes

7. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

8. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

9.  “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

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Life 101: Idleness

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, 

or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

                                                                               Thomas a Kempis (1380 – 1471)

Thomas à Kempis was a late Medieval Catholic monk and the probable author of The Imitation of Christ, which is one of the best known Christian books on devotion. His name means, "Thomas of Kempen", his home town and in German he is known as Thomas von Kempen. He also is known by various spellings of his family name: Thomas Haemerkken; Thomas Hammerlein; Thomas Hemerken, and Thomas Hämerken.

In 1392 he followed his brother, Jan, to Deventer, Netherlands in order to attend the city school. While attending school in Deventer, Thomas encountered the Brethren of the Common Life, followers of Gerard Groote's Modern Devotion. He attended school in Deventer from 1392 to 1399.

After leaving school, Thomas traveled to Zwolle, Netherlands to visit his brother again, after Jan had become the prior of the Mount St. Agnes monastery. Thereafter, Thomas was invested at the Mount St. Agnes monastery in 1406. He did not become ordained as a priest, however, until almost a decade later. He became a prolific copyist and writer. Thomas received priest's orders in 1413 and was made sub-prior of the monastery in 1429.

Kempis was born at the Lower Rhine region in Kempen, Germany, County of Cleves ca. 1380.  He died in 1471 near Zwolle in the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht, seventy-five miles north of his birthplace.

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Relationship 101: A Dozen Quotes

Don't rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other.

            Russ Von Hoelscher

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

            Friedrich Nietzsche

An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.

            Patricia Fry

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

            Arthur Schopenhauer

I like her because she smiles at me and means it.

            Tas Soft Wind

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

            Unknown

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

            Leo Buscaglia

Be the kind of person you would like to be with. Some people come into our lives, make footprints on our hearts and we are never the same. People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

            Joseph F. Newton

People change and forget to tell each other.

            Lillian Hellman

Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.

            Lenny Bruce

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.

            Wayne Dyer

Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

            Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859

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