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12/9 "BUild upon strengths, and weaknesses will gradually take care of themselves." ---Joyce C. Lock

12/9 "When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out." ---David Weatherford

13/9 "You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." ---Mary Pickford

13/9 "The difference between holding on to a hurt or releasing it with forgiveness is like the difference between laying your head down at night on a pillow filled with thorns or a pillow filled with rose petals." ---Loren Fischer

14/9 "It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had." ---Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

15/9 "Sometimes you cannot believe what you see. You have to believe what you feel." ---Morrie Schwartz

15/9 "Don't look down on anyone unless you are helping them up." ---Jesse Jackson

16/9 "It's faith that really takes the courage. The belief in things unseen." ---The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard

16/9 "There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." ---Douglas Everett

17/9 "You can't win the raffle if you don't buy the ticket." ---Ally McBeal

17/9 "The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it." ---Morrie Schwartz

18/9 "It's not where you're from; it's where you're going. It's not what you drive; it's what drives you. It's not what's on you; it's what's in you. It's not what you think; it's what you know." ---Gatorade commercial

19/9 "Things will happen in your life that you can't stop, but that's no reason to shut out the world. There's a purpose for the good and for the bad."

19/9 "Forgiveness means letting go of a hurtful situation and moving on with your own happiness." ---Amanda Ford

20/9 "If you can't laugh, the days are just too long." ---Lauren Anderson

21/9 "Do not think of your fault; still less of others' faults. Look for what is good and strong and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes." ---John Ruskin

22/9 "Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?" ---Fanny Brice

23/9 "Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." ---Eddie Rickenbacker

23/9 "One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go." ---Sheila Murray Bethel

24/9 "One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered." ---Michael J. Fox

24/9 "The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on." ---Julia Alvarez

25/9 "No one will ever see me quit, because I simply won't. If I start something, I will finish it
and do it well." ---Steve Belmarsh

25/9 "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." ---Dr. Seuss

26/9 "Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do."

27/9 "For every person who doubts you, tell you you will fail, try twice as hard to prove them wrong."

27/9 "Always concentrate on how far you have come, rather than how far you have left to go. The difference in how easy it seems will amaze you." ---Heidi Johnson

28/9 "Having a role model in life is a great thing to have; one who provides us with direction and inspiration..

28/9 ..Be influenced, but set your own standards and develop your own principals, if you are ever to live beyond someone else's dreams." ---Jason Shahan

29/9 "Aim not for what you are, but for what you could be." ---Lucas Hellmer

29/9 "A man's word and his intestinal fortitude are two of the most honorable virtues known to mankind." ---Jim Nantz

30/9 "Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish." ---Cecile Springer

30/9 "I just try to be the best I can be and hope that is the best ever." ---Tiger Woods