“Joy and hope are never separate. I have never met a hopeful person who was depressed or a joyful person who had lost hope...It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have the opportunity to choose joy. It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love.”

Henri Nouwen Catholic priest, author

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Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you! #<Author:0x00005606180f2160>
OPTIMISM
Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong. #<Author:0x00005606180dc310>
PRACTICE
We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself. #<Author:0x00005606180b6098>
JOY
Creative people do not see things for what they are; they see them for what they can be. #<Author:0x000056061811fca0>
CREATIVITY
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work. #<Author:0x000056061810a0f8>
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. #<Author:0x000056061817c040>
OPTIMISM
We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. #<Author:0x0000560618159ef0>
UNITY
Victory is remembered for at most two decades; an act of good sportsmanship is remembered for a lifetime. #<Author:0x00005606181c3d28>
SPORTSMANSHIP
Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine. #<Author:0x00005606181a45e0>
CONNECTION
Never dull your shine for somebody else. #<Author:0x0000560618186108>
CONFIDENCE
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible. #<Author:0x0000560618202280>
CARING
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. #<Author:0x00005606181deab0>
LOVE
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. #<Author:0x000056061826fec0>
RESILIENCE
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one!" #<Author:0x00005606174277f0>
FRIENDSHIP
You can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness! #<Author:0x00005606182ed6e0>
KINDNESS
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